George Nelson Furniture Design
July 1st, 2011
George Nelson was born in 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA and he died in 1986 in New York at the age of seventy eight. George Nelson is seen as one of the factors in Americans modernism along with Charles and Ray Eames. George Nelson is remembered as being the inventor of beautiful and practical things.
George Nelson graduated from Yale University in 1928 where he had been studying architecture. In 1931 George Nelson graduated with a bachelor degree in fine arts. In 1932 George Nelson won the Rome Prize whilst preparing for the Paris Prize competition.
George Nelson was unable to find a lot of architecture projects, so he decided to turn to interior designing and product designing and graphics.
George Nelson spent a couple of years travelling through Europe whilst being based in Rome. It was in this time that he met some of the modern pioneers. After a couple of years of traveling, George Nelson returned to America where he started to devote himself to writing.
In 1935 George Nelson became the first associate editor of the Architectural Forum, which he continued to do until 1943 when he became a consultant editor.