George Nelson

A new edition of George Nelson's classic guide to visual appreciation, released on the fortieth anniversary of its original publication Originally published in 1977 by iconic American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, George Nelson's critically acclaimed manifesto on how to recognize, evaluate, and understand the objects and landscape of the man-made world has influenced generations of design professionals, students, and aficionados. Forty years later, this cult book has been brought back to life with a fresh, new look and feel. At a time when our collective fascination with design has gone global, by one of the 20th century's most important design thinkers and will continue to educate and inspire readers everywhere.

Visual Adventures in a World God Never Made

How to See

Henry Wright

Henry Niccolls Wright

How to Plan Your Post-war Home Now

Tomorrow's House

How to see : visual adventures in a world god never made

George Nelson on Design

Architect, designer, and architectural critic, Nelson was a young and impressionable architect when he wrote a series of articles in 1935 and 1936 that introduced buildings and personalities from across the Atlantic to wider American audiences. This book presents this important collection of writings.

Portraits of Modern Architects : Essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936

Building a New Europe

With this book, Interiors, a monthly periodical published for professionals in all branches of interior design, answers the demand for a popular and comprehensive book on contemporary interiors. The book's editor, architect and designer George Nelson, ties its 232 illustrations together with an introduction and running commentary that points out the problems faced by each of the 81 designers involved, as well as their solutions. This survey of the best of today's living spaces is one that graphically presents the contemporary feeling in the elements of space, volume, texture, light, color, and form--Excerpted and adapted from the dust jacket.

Living Spaces

The respected architect and designer whose credits include the development of the pedestrian mall poses questions and offers his views on topics concerning art, architecture, city planning, design, housing, and the decoration of interiors

Problems of Design

Michael Webb

Marisa Bartolucci

"The Nelson office worked on the cutting edge of design and put to practical use their work in the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow - a triumph of technology and enlightened public relations at the height of the Cold War. Nelson himself pioneered the pedestrian shopping mall, developed a revolutionary concept of storage, and pushed the envelope on residential design. He collaborated with some of the foremost designers of his era, including Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Isamu Noguchi, and Buckminster Fuller. With an abundance of images and an insightful essay by design critic Michael Webb, Compact Design Portfolio: George Nelson celebrates this inclusive genius of classic mid-twentieth century design."--BOOK JACKET.

Compact Design Portfolio

Industrial Architecture of Albert Kahn, Inc

Laura Peers

Theresa Schenck

Captivated by tales of adventure, fifteen-year-old George Nelson left his family in Quebec in 1802 and headed to the Northwest Territory to work for Sir Alexander Mackenzie's XY Company, one of the major fur trade companies of the time. Required to keep a daily log as a fur trade clerk, his growth from homesick lad to experienced fur trader forms the heart of this unique and fascinating journal. He recorded his feelings and thoughts, and was a vital witness to all that went on around him. Nelson's journals are particularly valuable for their candid observations on the customs and culture of the Ojibwa people and provide some of the most detailed descriptions available of Ojibwa spiritual practices. Long treasured by fur trade historians, the early journals of George Nelson are published here in their entirety for the first time. Careful editing and annotation by Laura Peers and Theresa Schenck explain references to people and Ojibwa culture and provide context on the North American fur trade.

The Journals of 1802-1804

My First Years in the Fur Trade

Catalog of an exhibition held September 13, 2008-March 1, 2009.

Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher

Robynne Nelson

A Yorta Yorta man’s seventy-three-year search for the story of his Aboriginal and Indian ancestors including his Indian Grampa who, as a real mystery man, came to Yorta Yorta country in Australia, from Mauritius, in 1881 and went on to leave an incredible legacy for Aboriginal Australia. This story is written through George Nelson’s eyes, life and experiences, from the time of his earliest memory, to his marriage to his sweetheart Brenda, through to his journey to Mauritius at the age of seventy-three, to the production of this wonderful story in the present.

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