Cut and Paste: Paper Was Passion for Designer Irving Harper

March 18, 2013  by in UnCategorized   

By Aggregated Content in Business Strategy on March 19, 2013 from http://www.interiordesign.net/article/561088-Cut_and_Paste_Paper_Became_a_Passion_for_Designer_Irving_Harper.php?rssid=21028 In 1963, Irving Harper, director of design at George Nelson Associates and author of several of the 20th century's most evocative household artifacts, including the atomlike Ball clock (1948) and festive Marshmallow sofa (1956), was a nervous wreck. He had been put in charge of the team designing the Chrysler Pavilion for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and he was coping with an ambitious program, a tight schedule, and high expectations.

Harper was looking for an activity to take his mind off the stress-something repetitive and soothing he could do at home in the evening. 

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