An edition of The man who designed the future (2017)
The man who designed the future
Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America
By Barbara Szerlip
Publish Date
2017
Publisher
Melville House
Language
eng
Pages
396
Description:
"Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from Broadway sets to Chrysler cars; from the first all-weather stadium to Futurama, the prescient 1939 World's Fair exhibit that would go down as the most popular of all time. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip tells the astonishing story of a 9th grade dropout with a Midwestern twang who presided over a seismic shift in American culture--a moment in which entertainment became immersive, people became consumers, and the country came to look the way it does today"--
subjects: Designers, Design, Biography, History, Design, united states, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General, Histoire, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Artists, Architects, Photographers, HISTORY, 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING, Industrial Design, General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists,Architects,Photographers, ART / Folk & Outsider Art, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Folkcrafts, Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958, Designers -- United States -- Biography
People: Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958)
Places: United States
Times: 20th century