EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 16
A Guide To Well Designed Products
D. S. Defenbacher [Editor],
John Szarkowski [Staff photographer]
D. S. Defenbacher [Editor], John Szarkowski [Staff photographer]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY [A Guide To Well Designed Products]. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Fall 1950, Issue No. 16. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. 20 pp. 36 black and white images. Advertisements. White wrappers lightly worn and rubbed, subscriber address typed to rear panel, with forwarding rubber stamp and pencil notations, but a very good copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 36 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. Highly recommended.
- THE TRADITION IN GOOD DESIGN: 1940 - 1950: includes work by Charles Eames, Florence Knoll, Edwin and Mary Scheier, Andre Dupres, John May, Gerber, Ralph Rapson, John Hedu, George Nelson, Juliette and Gyorgy Kepes, Bartolucci-Waldheim, Carl Koch, Ray Komai, Odelberg-Olson, Eero Saarinen, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Isamu Noguchi, Knoll Associates, The Herman Miller Furniture Company, Freda Diamond, Folke Arstrom, Richard Stein, Hawk House, magnet Master by Arthur Carrara, and others.
- Product Review: Lamps by Ralph Rapson and Kurt Versen; Coffee Table by Henry Robert Kann; Paramount Chair by Alvin Lustig.
- 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.