Sorry I've been so MIA! School has been a bit crazy with finals and now moving into the new classrooms, but I'm back! So we have a local art museum here in
Bellevue and being a bit of a museum junkie, I just had to go! Especially when I found out they had an exhibit on architect/designer George Nelson. George Nelson was born in 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut. He received a BA from Yale University, a
BFA from Yale School of Fine Arts, and performed his graduate studies at Catholic University in Washington DC. Nelson also studied at the American Academy in Rome where he worked with many renowned European architects like Le
Corbusier,
Mies van
der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. While studying there he also learned Italian and traveled all over Europe collecting information from these architects. Back in the U.S., he became a co-editor of
Architectural Forum and Fortune magazines. A year later he started his own architectural firm with William
Hamby. Nelson went on to create some of the most
innovational pieces of furniture ever seen:
Eye Clock
Marshmallow Sofa
Coconut Chair
Nelson also published and co-published books about different aspects of his design aesthetic, including Tomorrow's House and Problems of Design: How to Kill. Nelson also lead many conferences and conventions about design and his company as his new innovations continually began to surface.
George Nelson died in New York on March 5, 1986 at the age of 77. Mr. Nelson left behind a new look at the world of design and his creations have inspired the likes of architects and interior designers all over the world.
xoxo
Sabrina
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