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  • George Nelson Brass Clock for Howard Miller
    By George Nelson, Herman Miller, Howard Miller
    Located in Los Angeles, CA
    George Nelson for Howard Miller brass clock. A round brass clock on a tri-legged brass pedestal with a thick plexiglass face. The clock has b...
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    Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Clocks and Desk Clocks

    Materials

    Metal, Brass

  • Mid-Century Modern Kite Wall Clock by George Nelson, Howard Miller, Vitra Label
    By Howard Miller, George Nelson
    Located in Stamford, CT
    Mid-Century Modern kite wall clock by George Nelson, Howard Miller, Vitra Label George Nelson (American, 1908-1986) Group of Table and Wall Clocks for Howard Miller, Vitra Design Museum, Poland/Germany, designed 1949-1954 Vitra Design Museum labels, With battery-operated mechanisms The Kite clock...
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    Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Wall Clocks

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    Metal, Enamel

  • George Nelson Starburst Clock
    By George Nelson
    Located in West Palm Beach, FL
    Iconic design by George Nelson
    Category

    Vintage 1950s American Wall Clocks

    Materials

    Hardwood

  • George Nelson Mid Century Ball Clock in Brass and Wood
    By George Nelson
    Located in Weesp, NL
    Interestingly, while nearly all of the designs that came out of George’s studio were attributed to him, many were actually designed by him and his team. Some were even designed solely by someone else working at the studio. Nelson famously recounted the story of how the Ball Clock came to life in an interview decades after it’s release: “It was one of the really funny evenings. Noguchi came by, Bucky Fuller came by, and here was Irving, and here was I, and Noguchi - who can’t keep his hands off anything - he saw we were working on clocks and started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, ‘This is a good way to do a clock’ and made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this, pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left – we were suddenly all tired, and we’d had a little bit too much to drink – and the next morning I came back, and here was this roll of paper, and Irving and I looked at it, and somewhere in this roll, there was a ball clock. I don’t know to this day who cooked it up.” Nevertheless, whoever it was that came up with George Nelson’s designs, it’s almost certain that they would never have come to fruition if it wasn’t for George’s vision and forward-thinking approach. Can you tell me more about his clocks? George’s clocks were one of his most impressive bodies of work. In total, he and his team designed over 130 clocks in just three decades. While it is widely accepted that Irving Harper was the lead designer for the Howard Miller Clock Company at George Nelson Associates, the collection arose after two insightful observations from George: one, that people no longer used the numbers to tell the time; and two, that since most people now used their wristwatch to tell the time, interior clocks were now free to become more decorative in nature. The clocks were designed and released in batches of 8 and were initially only given numbers for names. The Sunflower Clock was simply ‘Clock 2261’, the Flock of Butterflies Clock was 'Clock 2226’, and so on. The Ball was the first clock designed by George and his team and it was followed shortly after by the Star, Sunburst, Spindle, Asterisk, Turbine, Flock of Butterflies, Eye and others. The clocks were purposefully abstract and were designed to complement the modernist furniture emerging at the time. As well as wall clocks, George’s studio also produced a series of desk clocks during that time, most notably the bubble-shaped Night Desk...
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    Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Wall Clocks

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    Brass

  • Rare Mosaic Tile Wall Clock in Walnut by George Nelson & Assoc circa 1950s
    By Irving Harper, George Nelson
    Located in Troy, MI
    Rare George Nelson And Associates Mosaic Tile Wall Clock Designed by Irving Harper for George Nelson and Associates and produced by Howard Miller Model 2232 1957 Walnut frame with...
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    20th Century Mid-Century Modern Wall Clocks

    Materials

    Walnut, Glass

  • George Nelson Prototype Domino Clock
    By George Nelson
    Located in Chicago, IL
    Nelson office, designed by Irving Harper for Howard Miller. This is the only clock and was never produced. Purchased from Howard Miller Executive.  
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    Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Clocks

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    Wood

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