Visionary Thinking

An America filled with possibility was the motivating factor behind the work of theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes.

During the 1920s and ’30s, Bel Geddes gave new meaning to the word “modern,” culminating in his famed “Futurama” exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. “I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” on view at the Museum of the City of New York beginning October 16, features 200 never-before-seen models, photographs, drawings, and films from Bel Geddes’s archives, revealing telling clues to the 21st-century America we know today. For more information, go to mcny.org.