IRVING HARPER MODEL 2213 ‘ASTERISK’ CLOCK FOR HOWARD MILLER (1964) ARCHIVE These innovations achieved great popularity

These innovations achieved great popularity as the post-war German art pottery industry burgeoned

and by 1949 it had taken over that company's operations

He took up the reins of Guido's ceramics studio and devoted himself almost exclusively to pottery

Since then he worked as a freelance industrial designer

Soto worked as a pottery instructor at the San Antonio Art Institute in San Antonio

IRVING HARPER MODEL 2213 ‘ASTERISK’ CLOCK FOR HOWARD MILLER (1964) ARCHIVE These innovations achieved great popularityA model 2213 'Asterisk' clock designed by Irving Harper, working under the auspices of George Nelson Associates, for HOWARD MILLER in 1964. Harper was a prolific, innovative, and creative artist in his own right; indeed much of Nelson's best known work was executed by Harper, including some of its most iconic furniture piecesfor example, the 'Marshmallow' sofa and the 'Coconut' chairin addition to most of the clocks. Nelson began creating clocks for