NELSON STUDIED ARCHITECTURE AT YALE UNIVERSITY, GRADUATING IN 1931 HE WAS INFLUENTIAL DURING THE POSTWAR YEARS AND IS CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION OF THE INTEGRATED OFFICE SYSTEM AND THE CONCEPT OF THE SHOPPING MALL. HE WAS MAIN DESIGN DIRECTOR OF HERMAN MILLER AND ENCOURAGED CHARLES AND RAY EAMES TO DESIGN FURNITURE FOR THE COMPANY. PRETZEL CHAIR - 1957 MODULAR SEATING SYSTEM - 1956 KANGAROO COCONUT CHAIR - 1955 MARSHMALLOW SLING SOFA PERCH NO 64940 - 1964
ISAMU NOGUCHI - American 1904 - 1988
A NOTABLE 20TH CENTURY ARTIST AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. HIS WORKS WERE NOT LIMITED TO SCULPTURES AND GARDENS. HE DESIGNED STAGE SETS FOR VARIOUS MARTHA GRAHAM PRODUCTIONS; HE DESIGNED SOME MASS-PRODUCED OBJECTS SUCH AS LAMPS AND FURNITURE SOME OF WHICH ARE STILL MANUFACTURED AND SOLD TODAY. AMONG HIS FURNITURE WORK WAS HIS COLLABORATION WITH THE HERMAN MILLER COMPANY IN 1948 WHEN HE JOINED WITH GEORGE NELSON, PAUL László AND CHARLES EAMES TO PRODUCE A CATALOG CONTAINING WHAT IS OFTEN CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BODY OF MODERN FURNITURE. STOOL NO. IN22 -1949 SOFA & OTTOMAN NO. 1N71 1N70 1946 ROCKING STOOL 1954
