Walter von Nessen | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Born in Germany, Walter von Nessen pioneered the field of modern residential lighting and was among the first wave of influential immigrant industrial designers who interpreted European modernism for an American audience in the early 1920s. Before World War I, Walter von Nessen studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin when Bruno Paul was the director. One of his early projects included contributing to the design of some of the interiors of the Berlin subway system. He also taught at the Charlottenburg Art School. During World War I, von Nessen left Germany and worked in Lund, Sweden with the cathedral architect Theodore Wåhlin, whose daughter and architect apprentice, Greta, he would later marry.... more.

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This chrome coffee maker is globular with beige accents for its functional elements. The body of the sphere has a lid at the top with a clear plastic handle in the shape of a thimble and sits on a chrome, scalloped platform. The concave, scalloped platform sits on a plastic base, accented in a beige color. The beige color is repeated with two curved handles on the sides of the globe and handle for the nozzle dispenser. The handles flare out in long plastic rectangles curved in the middle for easy hand grip. The dispenser itself is rectangular and juts out from between the bottom of the sphere and the platform and curves outwardly, with straight decorative lines at the top.

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