Coconut Chair

Architecture and Design

1955

George Mulhauser (American, 1922-2002)
George Nelson Associates (American, 1955–mid 1980s)
Manufactured by Herman Miller Furniture Co. (American, founded 1905)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Architecture and Design

Artist: George Nelson
Title: Coconut Chair
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1955
Medium: Fiberglass, aluminum, and nylon and chlorofiber upholstery
Dimensions: 85.1 × 40 × 86.4 cm (33 1/2 × 40 × 34 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Malcolm, Kay, Kim, and Kyle Kamin
Reference Number: 1986.35

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 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, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 175.

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