Futurama
by Norman Bel Geddes
£87.00
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Geddes's celebrated exhibit Futurama: Metropolis of Tomorrow mesmerised over five million (!) visitors at the New York World's Fair. The General Motors display showcased its creator's startlingly forward-looking plan for a utopian automobile-based national traffic system, complete with teardrop-shaped cars, cities of Art Deco glass and steel skyscrapers and open parklands intersected by seven-lane highways.
The influence Futurama left on visitors and commentators at the time was monumental and it earned General Motors, who had commissioned the exhibit, lasting kudos. Decades later the project received a reverential nod from Matt Groening, in the title of his undeservedly shortlived Sci-fi follow-up to The Simpsons.
Here we have two original, unused postcards and a super rare printed aluminium badge from the exhibit. The postcards measure approx. 140 mm x 90 mm and are in excellent unused condition. The rectangular section of the badge is about 40 mm x 20 mm. Its condition as very good - unused but with minimal signs of agewear.
At the time of writing I have Bel Geddes's seminal book, Magic Motorways, which recorded and expanded upon his Futurama ideas, available in a separate listing. Also Horizons, his 1932 manifesto on modernising architecture, transport, interior design and town planning.
ROOM 606 HAS MOVED. PLEASE GO TO ROOM-606.COM FOR THE EXCITING NEW INVENTORY OF ITEMS
Geddes's celebrated exhibit Futurama: Metropolis of Tomorrow mesmerised over five million (!) visitors at the New York World's Fair. The General Motors display showcased its creator's startlingly forward-looking plan for a utopian automobile-based national traffic system, complete with teardrop-shaped cars, cities of Art Deco glass and steel skyscrapers and open parklands intersected by seven-lane highways.
The influence Futurama left on visitors and commentators at the time was monumental and it earned General Motors, who had commissioned the exhibit, lasting kudos. Decades later the project received a reverential nod from Matt Groening, in the title of his undeservedly shortlived Sci-fi follow-up to The Simpsons.
Here we have two original, unused postcards and a super rare printed aluminium badge from the exhibit. The postcards measure approx. 140 mm x 90 mm and are in excellent unused condition. The rectangular section of the badge is about 40 mm x 20 mm. Its condition as very good - unused but with minimal signs of agewear.
At the time of writing I have Bel Geddes's seminal book, Magic Motorways, which recorded and expanded upon his Futurama ideas, available in a separate listing. Also Horizons, his 1932 manifesto on modernising architecture, transport, interior design and town planning.