Gaudi of Game Shows: Ed Flesh

"Mr. Flesh, an art director who brought garish set design to game shows and created the horizontal spinner that revolves at the center of “Wheel of Fortune,” died Friday in Mission Hills, Calif. He was 79... Mr. Flesh used eye-catching details like enormous light bulbs, Mylar surfaces, pastel color schemes and shag carpeting in his game-show décor of the 1960s and 1970s. His large, bright sets lent shows a sense of luxury that the utilitarian designs of the 1950s and early 1960s lacked. " (via NYTimes)

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