Bio

1924-1931

Studies architecture at Yale University; graduates from Yale School of Fine Arts

1931/32

Graduate school at the Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

1932-34

Wins Rome Prize and spends two years at the American Academy in Rome

1935/36

Publishes twelve portraits of modern European architects in Pencil Points

From 1935

Associate editor at Architectural Forum and Fortune

1941

Sherman Fairchild House in New York (with William Hamby)

1945

Publishes Tomorrow’s House (with Henry Wright)

From 1946

Director of design at the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller

1947

Founds an offce for industrial design in New York

1948-56

Editor of Interiors magazine

1952

Production of his Bubble Lamps commences at Howard Miller, a clock company

1953

Multimedia presentation Art-X with Charles Eames and Alexander Girard; publishes the books Chairs, Living Spaces, Storage, and Display

1955

Launch of the Coconut Chair

1956

Production of the Marshmallow Sofa commences

1957

Publication of Problems of Design

1959

Chief designer of the American National Exhibition in Moscow

1960

Appears on television in A Problem of Design: How to Kill People

1964

Chrysler pavilion at the World’s Fair, New York; market launch of the Action Office line by Herman Miller

1965

Head of programming at the International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado

1968

Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America

1977

Publication of How to See: A Guide to Reading Our Man-Made Environment

1979

Publication of George Nelson on Design