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Book, Futurama
This is a Book. It was designed by Norman Bel Geddes and made for (as the client) General Motors.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility.
Since the dominance of streets by cars at the beginning of the 20th century, American designers have persistently envisioned a future of better-designed cities navigated by futuristic vehicles.
The Futurama exhibit was one of the most popular pavilions in the 1939 World’s Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the huge diorama presented a section of the U.S. revitalized with improved and expanded highways. The miniature streets, towns, homes, and vehicles imagined a future designed for a continually improving automobile that would be increasingly important to daily life.
It is credited Smithsonian Libraries, T785 K1G32 1939.
- Design Fictions
- digital print.
- New York World’s Fair, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York....
- MOBILITY.038
- Book, Your World of Tomorrow
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, T785.B1 Y58 1939.
- 113.2018.1
- Medal Commemorating the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of General Motors, 1908-1933...
- silver-plated brass.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-27
Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Harold S. Anderson House: Desk
- graphite, blue and red colored pencil on tracing paper.
- Gift of Donald Deskey.
- 1975-11-934
- Handkerchief (USA)
- silk.
- Gift of Anonymous Donor.
- 1939-18-1
- Drawing, Concept Car
- brush and gouache on paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Paul Herzan and from General Acquisitions....
- 2017-18-11
Its dimensions are
18 × 41.5 cm (7 1/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility.