George Nelson, the spiritual ancestor of us manhole cover fans

BEYOND THE BEYOND readers, who have patiently suffered through extensive photographic coverage of manhole covers, can

find consolation now. The late George Nelson, a doyen of

modernist design, was a devotee of the urban infrastructure.

Here, lookah.

http://www.dwr.com/search.cfm?Ntx=mode+matchpartialmax&Ntk=all&N=0&Ntt=George+Nelson+how+to+see&x=6&y=5

Furniture retailer turned book publisher, hey, I'm all for this encouraging trend

http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Designer/0,,a10-c80-b11,00.html

George Nelson, huh, who?