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Review: George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher

2012; University of California Press; Volume: 71; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2012.71.4.577

2150-5926

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner,

Architecture, Modernity, and Design

Review Article| December 01 2012 Review: George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany 12 September 2008–3 May 2009Fundacion Pedro Barrie de la Maza, A Coruna, Spain 15 June–29 November 2009Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma 2 February–1 May 2011McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas 6 June–29 September 2011Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington 29 October 2011–12 February 2012Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 16 June–14 October 2012Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 8 November 2012–26 January 2013 Jeffrey Karl Ochsner Jeffrey Karl Ochsner 1University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2012) 71 (4): 577–579. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.4.577 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jeffrey Karl Ochsner; Review: George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 2012; 71 (4): 577–579. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.4.577 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In 1946 D. J. De Pree, director of the furniture company Herman Miller, hired George Nelson (1908–1986) as a furniture designer, and a year later he created the position of design director especially for Nelson. Later on, Nelson liked to remark that he took on his first assignment as a complete beginner, having never actually designed furniture before. Yet, by the end of the 1940s, Nelson was a leading American designer, shaping products for home and office and accepting commissions for architecture, graphic design, corporate communications, exhibitions, and interiors. To mark the one hundredth anniversary of Nelson’s birth, the Vitra Design Museum, which acquired the archives of Nelson’s office from his estate, created the traveling exhibition George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. The exhibit presented Nelson, whose life and career have received relatively little attention in comparison with other postwar designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, as a... You do not currently have access to this content.