"George Nelson: Architect | Designer | Writer | Teacher" will be on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum until October 14 before making its final stop in the U.S. at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Director of the Cranbrook Art Museum, Gregg Wittkopp cites pieces like Nelson's wall clocks as strong representations of the thought and consideration of context that went into George Nelson's designs.
Nelson's clocks resulted from a change in the way Americans told time after WWII. "No one used wall clocks and they were no longer critical to map the course of a day," explains Greg Wittkopp, director of the Cranbrook Art Museum. Based on this observation, he found the numbers were not the telling element of reading time, but rather it is the position of the clock's hands, and so designed wall clocks with dashes or symbols to note placement.
A featured piece in the exhibition is the Storage Wall, which was originally profiled in his best-selling book Tomorrow's House, coauthored with Henry Wright.
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