Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958)

Norman Bel Geddes was a stage designer (student of Henry Dryfuss), architect and a designer who was a major contributer to the streamline ara of the 1930s. His book »Horizons«, published in 1932 shows some of his designs for ships, cars, buses, airliners, airports, theaters, etc that still today seem to be extremely visionary. If you can get your hand on a copy of it don´t let the chance pass by (it was re-issued as a paperback in the 1970s). Unfortunately my first edition copy (with a silver cloths cover!) is still in germany, so I can´t show any pictures from it here.

The pictures on this page were taken in the exhibition »Streamline - Dawn of Tomorrow: US Desing from 1930 to 1950« in the Stedelijke Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in December 2001.

Here are a few links to websites presenting some of Norman Bel Geddes' projects, modells and drawings:

http://sts.stanford.edu/dymaxion/belgeddes.htm
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/belgeddes.hp.html
http://obelix.polito.it/departments/cisda/labs/Hyparc/resolution/nbgeddes.htm