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Hace 2 días · Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes’s chrome cocktail sets in a vitrine will grab some as vintage art deco-cool, but as it converses with John Sloan’s adjacent sooty, social activist etching on the wall nearby, they will recall the churning changes that were up for grabs in Americans’ minds at the time.
Hace 2 días · by JESSICA S. MCDONALD. A superior volume of early photographs by the celebrated Scottish partnership of Hill & Adamson (active 1843–1847) is the subject of an unprecedented exhibition this spring. Formally titled 100 Calotypes by D. O. Hill, R.S.A., and R. Adamson, the volume is better known as the Clarkson Stanfield Album.
Hace 2 días · Norman Bel Geddes is this industrial designer who came up with this exhibit called Futurama, and it basically sold the future of car-centric cities when cars were still very new. And so he like came up with this massive model showing how we could connect far-flung hamlets with urban areas and those urban areas would be cleaner and more technologically oriented as we had these like wide ribbons ...
Hace 2 días · Aux États-Unis, Norman Bel Geddes a influencé le mouvement industriel avec son approche futuriste du design de produit. Designer industriel de renom, il a créé tout, des appareils ménagers aux meubles, qui caractérisent l’esthétique industrielle par des formes simplifiées et des matériaux durables.
Hace 2 días · The documentary L’Algerie Vue du Ciel is a beautiful portrait of Algeria with slow motion sweeping panoramas of many cities and regions. The ever present voice-over commentary keep the feeling closer to a travelogue or nature documentary than an experimental documentary like Koyaanisqatsi.There is a strange and voyeuristic quality to much of the footage, but this effect is largely diffused ...
Hace 3 días · But you flesh out a little bit more detail about the discussion also about what people were sold by folks like Norman Bel Geddes. And so I wanna hear more about you diving into the history and what you were learning and and kind of that untold part of the discussion, which is maybe they weren’t a good idea at the time and they’re still not a good idea now.
Hace 1 día · Rare + Bright lapis-lazuli blue Art Deco 1941 Emerson EP-375 '5+1' Catalin radio with handle and no rivets. This is the rarest model + color combination made for the "5+1". The beautiful rich blue is accentuated by the streaks of white and tones of blue that run throughout the cabinet adding depth to a great radio. This is a really great example of a rare radio! The catalin case has ...
