George Nelson Furniture Design

George Nelson was born in 1908 in Hartford,director. Herman Miller himself was a fine designer
Connecticut, USA and he died in 1986 in Newand clockmaker.
York at the age of seventy eight. George NelsonThe role of design director saw the start of a lot
is seen as one of the factors in Americansof excellent collaborations between George Nelson
modernism along with Charles and Ray Eames.and Ray and Charles Eames, Harry Bertois and
George Nelson is remembered as being themany others.
inventor of beautiful and practical things.One of George Nelson's designs was the Ball
George Nelson graduated from Yale University inClock. The Ball clock was iconically designed after
1928 where he had been studying architecture. Ina night of drinking with friends, although it is still
1931 George Nelson graduated with a bachelorunknown to this day who originally came up with
degree in fine arts. In 1932 George Nelson wonthe concept.
the Rome Prize whilst preparing for the Paris PrizeGeorge Nelson had a talent for commercial
competition.business as well as for designing. George Nelson
George Nelson was unable to find a lot ofused these two strong talents to create a
architecture projects, so he decided to turn tosuccess that rewarded him for his life. On the
interior designing and product designing and26th October 1955 George Nelson started Gorge
graphics.Nelson and Associates.
George Nelson spent a couple of years travellingHerman Miller offered George Nelson a lot of
through Europe whilst being based in Rome. Itmoney to become his creative designer. From the
was in this time that he met some of thestart of the business there was money coming in
modern pioneers. After a couple of years offrom a wide range of projects. The first office of
traveling, George Nelson returned to Americathe company was on 251 Park Avenue South in
where he started to devote himself to writing.New York. George Nelson rented this office space
In 1935 George Nelson became the first associatetogether with Howard Miller and Herman Miller. The
editor of the Architectural Forum, which heoffice took on a young Italian student who was
continued to do until 1943 when he became aso impressed with the work being carried out in
consultant editor.the office that he applied and received a student
George Nelson had by 1940 drawn a lot ofvisa to work in Italy. The student's name was
attention to his work by the innovation of severalEttore Sottsass, and he later went on to be a
concepts. In a book, which George Nelson wroterenowned designer within his own right.
called Tomorrow's House, he introduced theFrom the first day of the George Nelson
concept of a family room. Another of GeorgeAssociates Inc business to the day that it closed
Nelson's concepts was the "storagewall". Thisin the mid 1980's it developed a lot of close
concept attracted a great deal of interestrelationships, and many of these were with the
especially from Herman Miller, so much so that inFortune 500 companies.
1945 he asked George Nelson to be his design