Philip McConnell typescripts, [ca. 1957]

McConnell, Philip, b. 1900 d. 1958
Author, Industrial designer
Millstone, N.J.

Collection size: 357 p. (partially microfilmed on 2 reels)

Collection Summary: Manuscripts on form and the aesthetics of mass production.

REEL 8: An unpublished typescript "The Bridge of Form," 137 p., a study of the way in which shape and form provide connections between otherwise dissimilar people.

REEL 5124: An unpublished typescript, "The Bulldozer and the Paradox: An Essay on the Aesthetics of Mass Production," 220 p.

Biographical/Historical Note: Writer, industrial designer; Millstone, N.J. Director, Society of Industrial Designers.

The "Bridge of Form" was donated by McConnell, 1958; "The Bulldozer and the Paradox" by his widow, Barbara B. McConnell, 1990.

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