03337cam a2200517 i 4500 19361193 BJBSDDR 20251030172845.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 161102s2017 nyua rb 000 0beng 2016050576 9781612195629 (hardback) 1612195628 (hardback) 9781612195551 (ebook) 19361193 DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc n-us--- NK 1412 G295S 2017 745.092 BIO001000 HIS036060 TEC016000 bisacsh Szerlip, Barbara 44203 The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America / B. Alexandra Szerlip. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017 xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. The boy from Adrian (1893-1912) Chicago/Detroit (1913-1916) Hollywood (1916-1917) Manhattan (1917-1919) From Dante to Gershwin (1919-1922) Prelude to a miracle (1923-1924) Hollywood/Paris (1925) Colossal in scale, appalling in complexity (1926-1935) Goods into roses (1920s) Skyscrapers/Streamlining (1931-1933) The democratization of design (1930s) What geniuses worry about (1930s) Too good to succeed: the Chrysler Airflow (1933-1937) Fickle mistress (1929-1937) Birth of a classic, death of a beauty (January 1938) Too goddamned Waldorf Astoria: the exhibit that nearly wasn't (1936-1940) Crystal Lassies, or, The future will be topless (1938-1940) Elephants in tutus (1940-1942) "...that stinking dirty, filthy piece about me in the New Yorker" (1941) All the wonders that would be (1940-1945) Quantity trumps quality (1945-1950) Prodigal daughter (1950s) Edith (1950-1958) Epilogue 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-- Editor Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 45610 Designers United States Biography. Diseñadores Estados Unidos Biografía 45611 Design United States History 20th century. Diseño Historia Estados Unidos Siglo XX 34796 Online version: Szerlip, Barbara, author. Man who designed the future Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017 9781612195551 (DLC) 2016051081 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 124718 124718 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-08-12 0 NK 1412 G295S 2017 00000193725 2025-08-12 23:27:00 1 2025-08-12 BK