The Man Who Designed The Future: Norman Bel Geddes And The Invention Of Twentieth-century America
by B. Alexandra Szerlip /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.
Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes.
A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds
of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes
designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to
Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient
1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the
not-too-distant 60s.
A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds
of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes
designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to
Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient
1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the
not-too-distant 60s.
In
InThe Man Who Designed the Future
The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip
reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of
American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater
became immersive, function merged with form, and people became
consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’
visionary career would launch him into social circles with the
Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans
of industry.
, B. Alexandra Szerlip
reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of
American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater
became immersive, function merged with form, and people became
consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’
visionary career would launch him into social circles with the
Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans
of industry.
Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major
biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came
to look the way it did.
Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major
biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came
to look the way it did.
