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Eloquent, Articulate George Nelson; the Architect with a Story

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Post WWII was characterized by a belief in progress, anything was possible and everybody wanted to be modern.  Enter George Nelson, one of the fathers of the industrial design movement known as American Modernism. 
Nelson studied at Yale in 1924; he said he had no idea what he wanted to be.  During a rainstorm he entered [...]