A biography of Eliot Noyes who was the force behind the idea of making design functional. The film charts Noyes work at the Museum of Modern Art before the Second World War where his ideas influenced furniture design, during the war, where he was influential in the use of gliders for transporting men and equipment and post war where his ideas a influenced how we do everything.
This is a very good bio. It’s a film that clearly explains how Noyes is greatly responsible for the way the world looks today. I love that this is a look at history from a completely unexpected direction.
At the same time as much as I liked the film, there is, like so much of Modernism, a coldness that I don’t much care for. Yes the film is informative, much like Modernism deigns are functional, but at the same time I was kept at arm’s length.
Reservations aside, it’s worth a look.
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