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Model No. 5490, ca...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD
Model No. 5490, ca...
George Nelson Associates
Chaise, Model No. 5490, ca. 1960
designed 1956
manufactured by Herman Miller
polished chrome with black upholstery
28 1/4 x 30 x 70 1/2 in. (71.8 x 76.6 x 179.1 cm)
Estimate: $6,000-8,000 <p>PROVENANCE
Form and Function, New York <p>LITERATURE
Leslie Pina, The Herman Miller Collection: The 1955/1956 Catalogue, reprinted, Atglen, PA, 1998, p. F-3<p><p>The following twenty lots are from the Palm Island home of Carlos Cisneros, on the shores of Biscayne Bay. Featured in the forthcoming Taschen book, Miami Interiors, the modest 1950s residence was completely transformed in the last few years by John Keenen of the New York firm Keenen/Riley into a contemplative modernist jewel. Swaying thickets of bamboo brush against the bedroom windows, while the main living space is bathed in the dazzling light of the Bay. The furniture is a carefully chosen palette of mostly American and Italian mid-century designs. Rich in primary colors and exotic woods, yet strongly outlined in rectilinear frames of chromium and steel, the Cisneros collection has been assembled with a curatorial eye and exquisite taste.