# George Nelson
**Domain:** Design / Furniture / Corporate Modernism
**Doc Type:** Design-Lineage Node
**Maturity:** Seed
**Related:** [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Human Factors]]
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## Definition
George Nelson (1908–1986) was an American industrial designer and design director whose furniture, storage systems and editorial work helped shape postwar American modernism.
## Corpus Context
His systems-oriented domestic objects belong to the [[Mid-Century Design Grammar]] through which technical order became ordinary interior life.
## See Also
[[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Human Factors]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]