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Modern | April 22, 2025

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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale.
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Lot 52

George Nelson for Herman Miller Sectional Sofa With Record Storage Cabinet

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Starting Bid
$600

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

four piece sectional sofa with ebonized birch legs, walnut record/magazine storage cabinet, label in cabinet reads "George Nelson Design, Herman Miller, Zeeland, Michigan", two sectionals, 32 x 35 x 30 in.; two sectionals, 32 x 35 x 24 in.; storage cabinet, 22 x 34 x 34 in.; overall length for each side when configured, 89 in.

Provenance: Village Antiques at Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina, June 14, 2012, (accompanied by copy of receipt for $5,200 for sofa and $1,250 for Hi Fi cabinet); Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee

Note: With packet of information containing original receipt and a copy of a page from a Herman Miller catalog showing sectional.

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Village Antiques at Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina, June 14, 2012, (accompanied by copy of receipt for $5,200 for sofa and $1,250 for Hi Fi cabinet); Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee

reupholstered in 2012, slight wear to fabric, a few small dents to cabinet with some slight surface scratching but in overall good presentable condition