George Nelson Desk for Herman Miller, 1946
A George Nelson model 4658 desk for Herman Miller, 1946, USA. Designed in 1946 for Herman Miller. Made from maple with Primavera veneer, leather, steel, and aluminium. With perforated aluminium file drawer. The desk features a flip-top compartment concealing three shelves, two sliding doors concealing additional shelves and storage. Height 40.75 in., width 54.02 in., depth 27.99 in.
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- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
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