George Nelson

George Nelson, American architect and designer, was born in 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied architecture at Yale University. He was soon appointed design director at Herman Miller and became a key figure in American design, convincing designers such as Charles and Ray Eames and Isamu Noguchi to work for Herman Miller. From 1947, he ran his own design agency, creating many products that are now icons of mid-twentieth-century modernism. He died in New York in 1986.