George Nelson’s 1952 Bubble lamps are icons of Midcentury Modernism, arguably some of the most enduring designs of the era. But now that famed illumination, so soft and diffuse, finds itself in the ...

As enduring a modern icon as an Eames lounge chair, the Bubble Lamp series designed by George Nelson feels as fresh as it did when it was introduced in 1952. Made of a webby plastic over a lightweight ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Herman Miller’s design director George Nelson created some of the most iconic, modernist furniture of the 20th century. Cranbrook Art Museum today opens an exhibition of work by one ...

But then Nelson remembered a newspaper photograph he’d spotted showing a fleet of ships being sprayed with a self-webbing plastic for preservation during storage. “Whammo!” he later wrote of this ...