“I cooked up this model out of a checkers set, and I stuck the checkers disks on a metal frame, and it looked good to me. So I drew it up, brought it in, and that was the birth of it.”
—Irving Harper on the genesis of the Marshmallow sofa, from an oral history of George Nelson’s office, in the June issue of Metropolis (photo courtesy of Herman Miller)
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