![Three Nelson Coconut Lounge chairs facing forward and placed side by side. The left chair is dark grey, the middle black and white checkerboard and right is yellow. Three Nelson Coconut Lounge chairs facing forward and placed side by side. The left chair is dark grey, the middle black and white checkerboard and right is yellow.](/content/dam/hmicom/page_assets/products/nelson_coconut_lounge_chair/uw_prd_dgn_nelson_coconut_lounge_chair_01.jpg.rendition.480.480.jpg)
Coconut is just one of a number of eye-catching designs that came out of the studio while he was Herman Miller’s director of design. Alongside the Marshmallow Sofa and the first L-shaped desk (what we’d call a workstation today), the Coconut Chair stands out as a modern classic, plain and simple.
![A vintage advertisement for the Nelson Coconut Lounge Chair featuring a black an white image of the chair with an overlay of energetic orange graphics. A vintage advertisement for the Nelson Coconut Lounge Chair featuring a black an white image of the chair with an overlay of energetic orange graphics.](/content/dam/hmicom/page_assets/products/nelson_coconut_lounge_chair/it_prd_dgn_nelson_coconut_lounge_chair_01.jpg.rendition.480.480.jpg)
Advertisement designed by Irving Harper and Don Ervin for George Nelson Associates, 1956.