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- Description:
- This Executive Desk, in the collection of The Henry Ford, is constructed of a walnut veneer case on four metal legs with metal glides. The front is made of all walnut with cane panels and metal drawer pulls. On the dexter side is a two-drawer storage compartment and a three-drawer stage unit is on the sinister side. A lock and key finishes off this piece.
Price History: Privacy screen: PN 604 $96. 00 (woven cane in frame of walnut or oil walnut available in 4 sizes)
1959: PN 8956: $642. 00 approximately. depending on finishHerman Miller Trade Name: Double Pedestal Desk with Privacy Screen Herman Miller Series: Executive Office Group Product Number: 8956 Desk ; 604 Privacy Screen
- Date Issued:
- [1959 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This End Table, in the collection of the Newark Museum, consists of a round wooden top which is supported by wooden legs. The top is veneered with Acacia burl paldao while the legs are wrapped in leather and finished with brass tacks. Herman Miller Trade Name: End Table Product Number: 4123
- Date Issued:
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Newark Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Desk, in the collection of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, consists of a sandstone painted front, back, sides, and steel frame while the top is grey plastic laminate. There are six drawers in the desk with polished, chrome-plated drawer pulls as well as a pull out work surface. The desk sits on square, satin, chrome-plated legs. Price History: Price varies with finish of top from $438. 00 to $468. 00 according to a 1958 Trade Catalogue. Herman Miller Trade Name: Double Pedestal Desk Herman Miller Series: Modern Management Group Product Number: M 3342
- Date Issued:
- [1958 TO 1963]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Grand Rapids Public Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This dress was worn by Elizabeth Virginia Palmer Bradfield.It is a lovely, loose fitting dress of "reform movement" styling. Elizabeth Virginia Palmer Bradfield was born in to one of Michigan's oldest mining families in 1875 in Port Huron, MI.Her grandfather, Charles Henry Palmer, was a pioneer investor and developer of mines and railroads in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her father, Charles Henry Palmer, Jr. continued to run his father's businesses and expanded them, with mines in Montana, Colorado, and Mexico.In 1896, she married Thomas Parks Bradfield. They lived in Grand Rapids, MI until 1904 and later settled in Pontiac, MI, where she lived until her death in 1954. They had two children, Virginia Palmer Bradfield Ward and Thomas Palmer Bradfield. Elizabeth Virginia Palmer Bradfield studied sculpture in Paris, and went on to be an accomplished sculptress. Her work was shown at the Scarab Club in Detroit, in their annual Exhibition of Michigan Artists from 1914-1933. In 1914, the Scarab Club honored her sculpture "Myra" with their first presentation of the annual Scarab Hopkin Prize for Sculpture.
- Date Issued:
- [1917 TO 1919]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and The Henry Ford
- Collection:
- Digital Dress Collection
- Description:
- This Chair, in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art, consists of a molded, yellow, fiberglass shell that is padded. The shell is covered with black and white tweed, hopsak upholstery with charcoal grey vinyl edging. The four legs are steel plated. The chair is completed with stacking hardware. Herman Miller Trade Name: Stacking Shell Chair Herman Miller Series: Molded Plastic Stacking Chairs Product Number: DSS-N
- Date Issued:
- [1955 TO 1975]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Dallas Museum of Art
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Table, in the collection of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, is constructed with a triangular plate glass top supported by a two part walnut base. There is a metal dowel that connect the top and bottom. Herman Miller Trade Name: Noguchi Table Herman Miller Series: Occasional Tables Product Number: IN 50
- Date Issued:
- [1948 TO 1959]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Grand Rapids Public Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Stool, in the collection of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, is constructed with a pronged aluminum pedestal base with three extended feet. The base supports a padded seat which is upholstered with leather. This is stool is the prototype for those made for the LaFonda del Sol restaurant in New York City. Herman Miller Trade Name: prototype
- Date Issued:
- [1945 TO 1960]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Grand Rapids Art Museum
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Arm Chair, in the collection of The Henry Ford, consists of an off-white molded fiberglass backrest with gray molded fiberglass seat and arm unit. The unit comes with an dark gray, oval, padded vinyl seat cushion and sits on a chrome frame with black rubber shock mounts, black painted metal seat support on a four-blade metal base, and black plastic glides. This piece is also known as the Nelson Swaged leg chair and has a label on the seat bottom with the Herman Miller patent information.
Price History: 1958: $95. 00 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 701); 1963: $59. 00 (Trade Catalog 89. 177. 709)Herman Miller Trade Name: Plastic Chair ~ Flexible Back Product Number: DAA 5
- Date Issued:
- [1958 TO 1963]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Molded Wood Chair, in the collection of the San Fancisco Museum of Modern Art, has a wood seat. The seat, back, frame, and legs are red veneer over molded plywood. This product was first manufactured by Evans Products in 1945. Herman Miller, Inc. became the distributor in 1946, and in 1949 the manufacturer. Herman Miller Trade Name: Molded Plywood Dining Chair Product Number: DCW
- Date Issued:
- [1947 TO 1953]
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection
- Description:
- This Product Literature, in the collection of The Henry Ford, contains information related to Herman Miller Product Number 3319 in the "Modern Series". This series was designed by Gilbert Rohde for the "Design for Living" house at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, A Century of Progress.
The literature states:
"This furniture, which emphasizes the beauty of the materials by simplicity of design, is of straight striped American Ash dyed grey with just a line of dark brown stained Mahogany on top and base. The wood in the fronts is laid in a herringbone pattern. The pulls are of brush finished chromium, blending into the grey monotone of the case. "
This product literature also includes information relating to the following furniture series:
biedermeier: No. 2131 1/2 Suite
Modern (Design by Gilbert Rohde): No. 2185, No. 3305, No. 3317, No. 3319, No. 3321, No. 3323.
18th Century French: No. 3311, No. 3312, No. 3314.
Louis XVI: No. 3383.
Georgian: No. 3389, No. 3393.
Hepplewhite: No. 3391. Product Number: 3319
- Date Issued:
- 1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Henry Ford (Organization)
- Collection:
- Herman Miller Consortium Collection