Nelson Pendant / Story
Designed by George Nelson in 1947, the Nelson Bubble Pendant Lamp series comprises a range of pendant lighting solutions with varying spherical silhouettes. Inspired by a set of silk-covered Swedish hanging lamps, the lamps’ organic shapes appear to delicately float overhead, offering a soft and atmospheric light. Available in Ball, Pear, Apple, Cigar, Saucer, Lantern and Propeller variants in different sizes.
“Design is a response to social change.”— George Nelson.
Born in Connecticut, USA, George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most influential figures in the crucial early period of modern design. Trained at Yale as an architect and a fine artist, he believed that a designer’s job was to better the world, using the perfection of nature’s creations as his guide. Two formative years in Rome following his receipt of the prestigious Rome Prize brought him into contact with the world’s leading modernists, including Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Gio Ponti, and many others, and helped shape his career as a writer and industrial designer, who would change the
course of history. For HAY, George Nelson has designed the Nelson Collection.