About This Artwork

Designed by George Nelson
American, 1908-1986
Manufactured by Herman Miller, Inc.
American, 20th century

Coconut Chair, 1955

Fiberglass, aluminum, and nylon and chlorofiber upholstery
85.1 x 40 x 86.4 cm (33 1/2 x 40 x 34 in.)
Gift of Malcolm, Kay, Kim, and Kyle Kamin, 1986.35

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 70 (ill.), 94-96, cat. 28.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 175.