EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 12
A Guide To Well Designed Products
Hilde Reiss [Editor], John Szarkowski [Staff Photographer]
Hilde Reiss [Editor], John Szarkowski [Staff Photographer]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY [A Guide To Well Designed Products]. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Fall 1949, Number 12. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo illustrated stapled wrappers. 20 pp. 50 black and white images. Illustrated articles and advertisements. A very influential publication and quite uncommon. White wrappers well rubbed and vertically creased [from mailing?]. Typed address to rear panel, but a nearly very good copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 50 black and white images. This issue of Everyday Art Quarterly offers a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II. A very desirable, truly amazing vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction make this a spectacular addition to a midcentury design collection.
- LAMPS AND LIGHTING: by John Vassos, Walter von Nessen, Baldwin Kingrey, Harry Weese, Nessen Studio, Egli, William Armbruster, Edgewood Furniture, George Nelson for General Lighting, Paavo Tynell, Arvid Bohlmarks, Oliver Lundquist, Century Lighting, David Wurster, Richards Morgenthau, Knoll Associates, Isamu Noguchi, Philip Johnson, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Kurt Versen Company, Gotham Lighting, Zahara Schatz, Harry Gitlin, Ledlin Light Designers and more.
- MADE IN MINNESOTA: designs by Eva Zeisel and others.
- Product Review: Tea Cart by Kurt Fetz and Traytable by Charles T. DePuy.
- Everyday Art in the Magazines: articles about modern design published in such magazines as Arts & Architecture, Interiors, Progressive Architecture and others.
- Addresses: Contact information for all of the designers and manufacturers profiled in this issue.
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.