In 1984, Herman Miller asked George Nelson to write an essay on the nature of his design relationship with Herman Miller. This is an edited version the result. Here, he reflects on unfaltering ...

Photo: Courtesy of Design Within Reach (2); Courtesy of Herman Miller Archives (3) AMERICAN FURNITURE was fun in the ’50s, and George Nelson was a major reason why.

George Nelson’s 1952 Bubble lamps are icons of Midcentury Modernism, arguably some of the most enduring designs of the era. But now that famed illumination, so soft and diffuse, finds itself in ...

George Nelson joins Perlick as chief operations officer. A native of Washington state, George brings three decades of quality, continuous improvement, operation excellence and Six Sigma experience ...

If the parade of speakers at the School of Architecture’s recent symposium — “George Nelson: Design for Living, American Mid-Century Design and Its Legacy Today” — is to be believed, it seems that ...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but when it comes to design, it can also be the most insulting form of commerce. Take the classic Ball Clock created by George Nelson, a master of ...

But, as Longinotti puts it, George Nelson “loved ballsy women.” “When I started with him, I had no balls. But over the 20 years, I grew them and grew them and grew them.

In the mid-1980s I had lunch with the legendary Modernist industrial and product designer George Nelson near his Gramercy Park home. We discussed him doing a story for a design journal that I ...

The design of the Ball Clock is often credited to George Nelson, a leading US modernist product designer active from the mid-1930s until his death in 1986.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Herman Miller’s design director George Nelson created some of the most iconic, modernist furniture of the 20th century. Cranbrook Art Museum today opens an exhibition of ...