Win a George Nelson Ball Clock
I came across Lush Pad on Twitter yesterday. Lush Pad is a marketplace for Modernist furniture and furnishings. Got an original Hans Wegner chair lurking in the attic? Or maybe you'd rather buy a couple of original Bertoia stools. You can do both on Lush Pad. If you have a thing for Modernism, check out Lush Pad.
As an added incentive, in a contest sponsored by Modernism Magazine , Lush Pad is giving away a Nelson Ball Clock like the one pictured here. Though this clock's not an original, it's a licensed reproduction by Vitra and it normally sells for $355. All you have to do is tell them your favorite modern designer and you're in.
George Nelson become born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1904. He's taken into consideration to be one of the founders of American Modernism and a number of his iconic portions, like the Ball Clock, are nonetheless in manufacturing many years once they debuted.
I came across this thrilling history of the Ball Clock on Design Within Reach the previous day:
George Nelson frequently collaborated with different designers, and inside the case of the Ball Clock (1948), Nelson become at a night meal with Isamu Noguchi, Irving Harper and Bucky Fuller. As the tale goes, they have been all sketching and "we'd had a bit bit too much to drink," stated Nelson. In the morning, they saw a drawing of the Ball Clock on a roll of drafting paper. "I don?T know to these days who cooked it up," stated Nelson. "I realize it wasn't me. It might have been Irving, but he didn?T assume so. [We] each guessed that Isamu had probably achieved it due to the fact [he] has a genius for doing two silly matters and making some thing extraordinary out of the combination. It could have been an additive aspect, however we by no means knew."
So run on over to Lush Pad and enter for a chance to win this baby.