The Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America Szerlip, Barbara creator text bibliography biography nyu 2017 monographic eng xvii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm 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-- 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 B. Alexandra Szerlip. Includes bibliographical references. n-us--- Geddes, Norman Bel 1893-1958 Designers United States Biography Diseñadores Estados Unidos Biografía Design United States History 20th century Diseño Historia Estados Unidos Siglo XX NK 1412 G295S 2017 745.092 BIO001000 HIS036060 TEC016000 Szerlip, Barbara, author. Brooklyn : Melville House, 2017 (DLC) 2016051081 9781612195629 (hardback) 1612195628 (hardback) 2016050576 DLC 161102 20251030172845.0 19361193 eng