rado(llovich) RSS

Archive

Sep
4th
Thu
permalink
Il Vitra Design Museum di Weil am Rhein celebra il centenario della nascita di George Nelson, l’inventore dell’open space “Open-plan offices apart, Nelson is best known for jokey 1950s objects like the Coconut Chair, Marshmallow Sofa and the Ball Clock, which tells the time with colorful balls rather than numbers. Their comic-book symbolism presaged the visual puns created by 1980s postmodernist designers, like Philippe Starck. They still sell well, but like most jokes they have grown flimsier with age” iht

Il Vitra Design Museum di Weil am Rhein celebra il centenario della nascita di George Nelson, l’inventore dell’open space

“Open-plan offices apart, Nelson is best known for jokey 1950s objects like the Coconut Chair, Marshmallow Sofa and the Ball Clock, which tells the time with colorful balls rather than numbers. Their comic-book symbolism presaged the visual puns created by 1980s postmodernist designers, like Philippe Starck. They still sell well, but like most jokes they have grown flimsier with age”

iht