EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 4
A Guide To Well Designed Products
Hilde Reiss [Editor]
Hilde Reiss [Editor]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY [A Guide To Well Designed Products]. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Summer 1947, Number 4. Original edition. Slim quarto. Stapled photo illustrated thick wrappers. 20 pp. 39 black and white images. Articles and advertisements. A very influential publication, quite uncommon. White wrappers rubbed and worn, the center signature loosening from the staples, but a very good copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 39 black and white images. A magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II, and a desirable vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction. Highly recommended.
- Sectional Furniture A 4 page illustrated essay featuring the Mengel Module by Morris Sanders, George Nelson and Charles Eames for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Leslie Diamond for Conant-Ball, and Edward Wormley for Dunbar and Drexel.
- Good Design Is Your Business A 2 page illustrated review of the exhibition at the Albright Art Gallery sponsored by The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, with work by Egmont Arens, Pitt Petri, Raymond Loewy, and others.
- From Northern Europe A 3 page illustrated review of a Scandinavian Design show at the Everyday Art Gallery at the Walker Art Center, with work by Bruno Mathsson, Astrid Sampe, and others.
- Product Review:Town and Country Ware by Eva Zeisel.
- Everyday Art in the Magazines: articles about modern design published in such magazines as Arts & Architecture, Interiors, Progressive Architecture and others.
- Everyday Art on Exhibition
- Books
- Addresses: Designers and Manufacturers.
Everyday Art Quarterly was published by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis starting in 1946. The editorial focus aimed to bring modern design to the masses through thoughtful examination of household objects and their designers. Everyday Art Quarterly was a vocal proponent of the Good Design movement (as represented by MoMA and Chicago's Merchandise Mart) and spotlighted the best in industrial and handcrafted design. When the magazine became Design Quarterly in 1954, the editors assumed a more international flair in their selection of material to spotlight.