Format:
Book
Title:
The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America / B. Alexandra Szerlip.
Author:
Szerlip, Barbara, author.
Call Number:
745.092 Geddes
Publisher, Date:
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017]
©2016
Description:
xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958.
Designers -- United States -- Biography.
Design -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Design -- General.
ISBN:
9781612195629
1612195628
* 9781612195551