Norman Bel Geddes - American Design Visionary

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the ''founder'' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design.Nicolas P. Maffei''s magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes'' work within the fast-changing cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Maffei shows how Bel Geddes'' futuristic but pragmatic style - his notion of ''practical vision'' - was central to his work, and highly influential on the professional practice of American industrial design in general.>

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• Authors: Nicolas Maffei, Nicolas (Norwich University College of the Maffei, Nicolas (Norwich University College of the Arts Maffei, Nicolas P Maffei, Nicolas P. Maffei, Nicolas P. (Norwich University College of Maffei, Nicolas P. (Norwich University College of the Arts Maffei, Nicolas P Maffei
• Assisted by: Kjetil Fallan (Editor), Grace Lees-Maffei (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781474284615
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8461-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 244 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Cultural Histories of Design; Cultural Histories of Design
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / General, DESIGN / Industrial, DESIGN / History & Criticism, History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Individual designers, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Individual designers or design groups