GEORGE NELSON ON DESIGN
George Nelson
George Nelson: GEORGE NELSON ON DESIGN. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1979. First edition. Square quarto. Embossed black cloth. Printed dust jacket. 192 pp. 100 black and white illustrations. Jacket very slightly nicked and edgeworn. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design by Pentagram. A nearly fine copy.9.5 x 10.25 hardcover book with 192 pages and 100 black and white illustrations. Compilation of 19 bold & thoughtful essays by George Nelson, on such topics as "Scenarios for the Post-Modern City", "The Future of Packaging", "The Office Revolution", "Design and Human Needs", & more. George Nelson's treatise on the post-Expulsion from the Garden of Eden visual ecosystem that we inhabit. Well illustrated with photographs of Architecture, Art, Industrial, Product and Graphic Design, the Urban landscape, etc., it presents the Design director of The Herman Miller Company & Nelson and Chadwick's thoughts on all of these subjects, and many more.
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"George Nelson was an outstanding designer. We all know that. But my hunch is that, in a hundred years, he’ll be even better remembered for his thinking and writing about design." -- Stanley Abercrombie, architect and writer
Even if he had never designed a single piece of furniture or a wall clock, George Nelson (1908 1986) would be remembered as one of the founding fathers of American Modernism. The Hartford native’s writing celebrated American Design with messianic zeal and pedagogical insight. Every book Nelson authored is a true classic in every sense of the word.
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