IDEAS: November 1979
A Conversation with George Nelson
Debra Wierenga [Editor]
Debra Wierenga [Editor]: IDEAS. Zeeland, MI: The Herman Miller Furniture Company, Volume 9, Number 1, November 1979. Quarto. Embossed saddle-stitched thick wrappers. 20 pp. 70 black and white photographs and diagrams. Wrappers lightly scuffed and worn. A near fine copy.8.25 x 11.75 house organ with 20 pages illustrated with 70 black and white photographs and diagrams. This issue of IDEAS is devoted to a Conversation with George Nelson and the wraparound cover features an emboss of Nelson's signature. Well illustrated with photographs of Architecture, Art, Industrial, Product and Graphic Design, the Urban landscape, etc., this issue gives the former Herman Miller Design Director room to ponder the design of the office in transition.
"George Nelson was an outstanding designer. We all know that. But my hunch is that, in a hundred years, hešll 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.
Unmarked but from the library of A. Quincy Jones and Elaine K. Sewell Jones. Mrs. Jones worked as a publicist for Herman Miller and handled public relations for T&O, the short-lived Textiles & Objects Shop in New York City. The Shop was a Herman Miller store that showcased Alexander Girard fabrics, as well as objects Girard found on his international travels. Mr. Jones was an architect renowned for his work in the Case Study program, as well as his lengthy association with Joseph Eichler.
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