If only all design “failures” were so successful. The inspiration for the Nelson Marshmallow Sofa (1956) was launched when an inventor approached George Nelson and Irving Harper with a planned “self-skinned” injection plastic disc that would be inexpensive to produce and unerringly durable. As the proposed cushions had a maximum diameter of 12″, the designers perched 18 of them atop a steel frame. Sadly, the inventor’s vision for high-resiliency, low-cost cushions never came to fruition, but the design was…read more