Industrial Design America Bel Geddes Streamline Futurama Architecture 1st Ed HC

by Donald Albrecht

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } NORMAN BEL GEDDES DESIGNS AMERICA ABRAMS art book, Harry Ransom Center, Museum of the City of New York Editor: Donald Albrecht Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2012. First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Tight binding, solid spine, minor shelf wear, clean unmarked text. Large format 4to, extensively illustrated with photographs, sketches, and design drawings, 399 pages. Norman Bel Geddes was described by The New York Times in 2012 as "a brilliant craftsman and draftsman, a master of style, the 20th century's Leonardo da Vinci". This definitive monograph emerged from the landmark exhibition "I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America" which opened in September 2012 at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and traveled to the Museum of the City of New York. Regina Lee Blaszczyk, the leading historian of American consumer culture, and Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, assembled twenty-one scholars to chronicle the career of America's most visionary designer. Bel Geddes opened his industrial design studio in 1927 and designed everything from cocktail shakers to commemorative medallions to radio cabinets, but his true genius lay in reimagining the American landscape itself. His Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair, sponsored by General Motors, presented visitors with a model of the world twenty ye

• Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
• Year: 2012
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781419702990
• Condition: Very Good

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