George Nelson was born 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and died 1986 in New York at the age of seventy eight. George Nelson is one of the factors in the modern era to the Americans Charles and Ray Eames considered. George Nelson is known as the creator of beautiful things and practice.

George Nelson is a graduate of Yale University in 1928, where he was studying architecture. In 1931 George Nelson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1932 George Nelson winning the Prix de Rome, during the preparation for the Prix de Paris.

George Nelson was able to find a large number of architectural projects, so he decided to turn over the design and product design and graphics inside.

George Nelson spent several years traveling throughout Europe, while his in Rome. During this time he learned some of the modern pioneers. After several years of travel, George Nelson returned to America, where he began to devote himself to writing.

In 1935, George Nelson was the first editor of Architectural Forum, which he do this to continue until 1943, when he was a consultant editor.

George Nelson was in 1940, much attention to his work, several innovative concepts. In a book of the George Nelson said the house was called tomorrow, he introduces the concept of family rooms. Another of the concepts of George Nelson storage wall. “This concept has generated great interest from Herman Miller, so that in 1945 he turned to George Nelson’s design director. Herman Miller himself was himself a watch designer and fine.

The role of design manager was the start of many collaborations between the great George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Berthois and many others.

One of the designs of George Nelson Ball Clock was. The iconic Ball Clock was developed after a night with friends, but it is still unknown to this day originated with the concept.

George Nelson had a talent for business and for the design. George Nelson has these talents are used to a high success rate, which was awarded for his life’s work to create. On 26 October 1955 by Nelson George Nelson began Throat and Associates.

Herman Miller George Nelson offered a lot of money to be its creative designers. From the beginning of the company, there was money from a wide range of projects. The first office of the company was 251 South Park Avenue in New York. George Nelson rented office space with this Howard Miller and Herman Miller. The office was a young Italian student who was looking for so by the work in the office he was impressed and ready to work received a visa to study in Italy. The student called his Ettore Sottsass, and later he began a renowned designer in his own right.

On the first day of the company George Nelson Associates Inc. for the day when it closed in the mid-1980s, she developed many close relationships, and many of them were with Fortune 500 companies.


George Nelson