EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 6
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, Winter 1947/1948, Number 6. Original edition. Slim quarto. Stapled photo illustrated thick wrappers. 20 pp. 35 black and white images. Articles and advertisements. A very influential publication, quite uncommon. White wrappers lightly rubbed and worn, but a nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 35 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.
- What Are Plastics
- There Are Two Groups Of Plastics
- Design In Plastics
- Fabrication Of Plastics
- Thermo-Setting Materials
- Thermo-Plastic Materials
- Idea House II: Single page article with additional details. Idea Houses I and II, two houses built by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1941 and 1947, were the first functional modern homes built by an American museum. The houses were conceived and built during an extreme housing shortage brought on by the Great Depression and exacerbated by the Second World War. Unlike commercial model homes of this period, these houses were designed by architects retained by the Walker, with furnishings and home products selected by the curatorial staff. Rather than product placement, the purpose of the exhibitions was to promote awareness and appreciation of modern home design by presenting the houses as source material for visitors' own potential building projects: literal houses of ideas.
- Excellent early full-page Herman Miller advertisement featuring designs by George Nelson and Charles Eames, with the Eames LCM referenced as manufactured by Evans Products Co.
- 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
- Addresses: Designers and Manufacturers.
Features work by Jon Hedu, Russel Wright, Peter Muller-Munk, David Wurster, Morris Sanders, Fredo Koblick, Inez Wood Crimmins, László Moholy-Nagy, Dorothea Marlor, Eva Zeisel, Leo Amino, and other anonymous 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.