That is the creative artist — a penalty of the creative artist — wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us plain people just accept disorder (if we even recognize it) and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.Ursula Nordstrom (February 2, 1910–October 11, 1988) in a letter to young Maurice Sendak, found in Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
Song: “Into the Chaos” by Howling Bells
TRUTH.
The Vignellis designed the Knoll au Louvre exhibition which was held at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the Pavillion de Marsan in 1972. The Vignellis also designed the catalog for the exhibition and Herbert Matter did the photography.
Sketches for Knoll au Louvre exhibition catalog
Pencil and ink on paper
Box 570, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Pierre Junod “The Halo” watch brochure
4 3/4” x 4 3/4”
Box 120, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
"At first we kept saying: ‘We’re going to beat it. We’re going to beat it.’ Then after awhile we began to realize that we might not beat it. Then toward the end, it became clear that we definitely weren’t going to beat it. That’s when she started telling me that she wanted me to move on and find happiness with somebody else. But I’m not quite there yet. Not long ago a noise woke me up in the middle of the night, and I rolled over to ask if she needed anything."
The Cone of Silence. (Get Smart, 1960s)
Never-ending fascination 4
Thinking. Not thinking. Happens every time.
—Dorn
TRUTH.
Evening commute
—Dorn
"It makes you feel that you’re having a party whenever you eat."
Product information sheet for Heller Dinnerware, 1978
8 1/2” x 11”
Box 519, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
The gang’s all here! 👋 (at Studio 12B)
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809–October 7, 1849) in Eleonora
Song: “Dreamer” by Jenn Grant
Yes.
The Rotunda Chair was designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli with David Law for Sunar-Hauserman in 1979.
Rotunda chair drawing
pencil on paper
8.5” x 11”
Box 505, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Brochure for 1979 Vignelli exhibition at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA
7” x 7”
Box 566, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Beuys R US
Gray morning
—Dorn
