07. Consumer Preferences, Acceptance, Rejection, Henry Glass.
Henry Glass (1911-2003)
Consumer Preferences, Acceptance, Rejection, lecture notes, n.d.
Glass trained in Vienna and fled to the United States in 1939. Holder of over fifty patents he is best known for this collapsible chair, designed in 1978, and the Swingline children's furniture suite. Glass taught industrial design at the School of the Art Institute for twenty-one years 1945-1967. His lecture notes for his class "Applied Design through the Ages" paint a realistic picture of the paradox of the goals and constraints for the industrial designer: "He [the designer] is responsible for making this world a better place to live in, while keeping the wheels of production spinning and is [sic] cash register ringing."

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