Problems Design by Nelson George (11 results)

Condition: acceptable. Significant shelf, storage or usage wear present that does not affect the readability of the book. Creasing and fading of the cover edges is especially visible. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. The pages appear otherwise unmarked. The binding is intact and all pages are present. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd EDITION. 2nd Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Whitney Publications, 1965. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with previous owner name on flyleaf and spotting to page ends.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. First Printing. Purple illustrated DJ with white lettering and illustration; black boards with white lettering; ix, 205 pp.; illustrations. Twenty-six articles on designers and designing, art, architecture, planning, and interiors. Good (Ex-Library from Visual Studies Workshop with small sticker on DJ spine and front cover and on rear pastedown; DJ is sunned/edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly worn and foxed; interior is clean; binding is solid.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ix, 205 pages, illus. Cloth. Previous owner's signature. Tight. In shelfworn, price-clipped, spine-faded dust jacket with numerous chips and short tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Collection of 26 articles written by Nelson over a ten year period from journals about design, architecture, and more. Contains black and white illustrations. Clothbound in black with title on front cover and spine. Patterned dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped in book jacket cover. Very slight wear along bottom edge of covers. Wear along all edges of dust jacket, especially along spine. Dust jacket lightly chipped at head and tail of spine and at corners. 8vo, 205pgs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Whitney Publications Limited, 1957. 4to, 205 p., bound in publisher's black cloth and printed on white blue and grey paper stocks. A collection of 26 essays on architecture and designs, with illustrations and photographs throughout. Book slightly cocked vertically, large (2") dent to rear spine joint; patch of dampstaining to jacket verso, with light wear and chafing to panels, but a VG copy overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 205. b/w illus. cloth. dw (dw worn & rubbed at edges with short tears in spine). First Edition.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 206 pages, very good condition except dustjacket is only good with has small creases, tears and pieces missing along edges, no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. NELSON, George [204] pp. Whitney Publications, Inc. 1957 8 3/4" x 8 3/4" George Nelson: PROBLEMS OF DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, 1957. First edition. Square quarto. Black fabricoid covered boards embossed and titled in white. Printed dust jacket. Multiple paper stocks. 26 essays illustrated in black and white. An uncommon title in hardcover. 8.5 x 8.5 hardcover book with 204 pages and over 100 black and white photographs, illustrations and diagrams. An anthology of 26 essays by the ever-erudite Nelson, culled from a variety of sources, including Interiors, Industrial Design, Holiday, Fortune, Architectural Forum, House and Garden, American Fabrics, the Philips Academy Bulletin and others. Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Book design credited to George Nelson and Company: Carl Ramirez, John Pile, Don Ervin and Herbert Lee. Nelson tackles the problems of design in the following categories: Art, Architecture, Houses, Planning and Interiors. PROBLEMS OF DESIGN Design as Communication Good Design: what is it for? Art X the Georgia Experiment Captive Designer vs. independent Designer Ends and means Obsolescence A new Profession? Structure and Fabric The Enlargement of Vision The Designer in the modern world High time to experiment ART Some notes on relations between the visual arts Venus, persephone and September Morn. ARCHITECTURE Classic holiday house Wright's houses Stylistic trends in contemporary architecture HOUSES Down with housekeeping The Japanese House Prefabrication After the modern house The Second house PLANNING Planning with you Main Street INTERIORS The dead-end room Modern Decoration Notes on the new subscape Contains work by the following designers, artists, photographers: Charles Eames, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Hedrich-Blessing, Julius Shulman, Ezra Stoller and many others. "George Nelson was an outstanding designer. We all know that. But my hunch is that, in a hundred years, he'll be even better remembered for his thinking and writing about design.' -- Stanley Abercrombie, architect and writer Architect, designer, and author George Nelson (USA, 1908-1986) was a central figure in Modern American design; and his thoughts influenced not only the furniture we live with, but also how we live. Nelson came to design via journalism and literature. Upon receiving his bachelor s degree in architecture from Yale in 1931, he won the Prix de Rome fellowship, and spent his time in Europe writing magazine articles that helped bring stateside recognition to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gio Ponti, Le Corbusier and other canonical modernist architects. In the 1940s, Nelson wrote texts that suggested such now-commonplace ideas as open-plan houses, storage walls and family rooms. D.J. Depree, the owner of the Herman Miller Furniture Company was so impressed by Nelson that in 1944 following the sudden death of Gilbert Rohde, who had introduced the firm to modern design in the 1930s he invited Nelson to join the company as its design director. There Nelson s curatorial design talents came to the fore. To Herman Miller he brought such eminent creators as Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and the textile and furniture designer Alexander Girard. Thanks to a clever contract, at the same time as he directed Herman Miller he formed a New York design company, George Nelson & Associates, that sold furniture designs to the Michigan firm, as well as the Howard Miller Clock Company. Nelson s New York team of designers (who were rarely individually credited) would create such iconic pieces as the Marshmallow sofa, the Coconut chair, the Ball clock, the Bubble lamp series and the many cabinets and beds that comprise the sleek Thin-Edge line.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of George Nelson's Problems of Design, published by Whitney Publications in 1957. An important consideration of the topic by one of America's most significant and influential mid-century designers, who was also one of America's most significant and influential editors and writers. 26 essays in all, taken from a variety of magazines and other sources. Featured essays include "Obsolescence," "The Designer in the Modern World," 'Good Design What is it For," "Prefabrication," and "Notes on the New Subscape." Square 8vo, 203 pages, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, replete with black-and-white illustrations. A foundational text for postwar American "Good Design" and a handsome production itself. Light rubbing, bumping and chipping to dj with sun toning to the spine. Contents clean and bright. An overall lovely and collectible copy of this important work. From the library of Denis C. Schmiedeke, architect and architectural historian, with his name neatly written on the FFE.