In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museumof Modern Art in NewYork City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
As evidence of its place in design history, the PRADA phone by LG 1.0 is part of the permanent collection in NewYork City's Museumof Modern Art (MoMA) and the MuseumofContemporaryArt (MOCA) in Shanghai.