- Image ID
- HB-05554-O
- Headline
- Interior view of Herman Miller Showroom with perforated room divider
- Date Depicted
- November 27, 1939
- Date Created
- November 27, 1939
- Creator
- Hedrich-Blessing
- Creator Role
- photographer
- Artwork/Object Depicted
- black-and-white negatives
- Copyright Notice
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved
- Credit Line
- HB-05554-O, Chicago History Museum, Hedrich-Blessing Collection
- Inventory Number
- 1991.505
- Storage Location
- Hedrich-Blessing Collection
- Horizon Bib. No.
- 6208
- Max Pixels - Height
- 6000
- Max Pixels - Width
- 4705
- KEYWORDS
- (n.p.)
built environment
architecture
interior views
Hedrich-Blessing
Herman Miller Furniture Company
furniture
showrooms
mid-century modern
Rohde, Gilbert
dining rooms
Formal Dining Group No. 3622
model homes
interior décor
Merchandise Mart (Chicago, Ill.)
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm)
1991.505
Chicago (Ill.)
hb05554o

Interior view of various furniture displays, including a dining room display with a table, chairs, buffet, and china cabinet, near a perforated room divider in the Herman Miller Showroom, probably located at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, November 27, 1939. The dining room display may depict pieces from the company's 1939 Formal Dining Group No. 3622, a collection of walnut furniture with birch legs designed by Gilbert Rhode. Photographed for Gilbert Rohde.