EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 22
A Guide To Well Designed Products
Meg Torbert [Editor]
Meg Torbert [Editor]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY [A Guide To Well Designed Products]. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Spring 1952, Number 22. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. 16 pp. 17 black and white images. Advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn, subscriber label to rear panel, but a nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 16 pages and 17 black and white illustrations. "This issue of EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY is devoted to the Architects' Workshop, a recent exhibition in the Everyday Art Gallery." 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, with high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction.
- The City and the Architect: A Study of Minneapolis by Donald Torbert
- Comments on Contemporary Architecture
- Oppenheimer House: Norman C. Nagle
- Architect's House: Gerald Buetow
- Architect's House: Carl Graffunder
- House and Publication References
Donald Torbert authored "A Century of Art and Architecture, A Century of Minnesota Architecture" (1958), and "Significant Architecture in the History of Minneapolis (1969). He served as a member of the Committee on the Urban Environment in Minneapolis (1968-78), the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission (1972-78), and the Minnesota State Review Board for the National Register of Historic Places (1970-78).
Carl Graffunder (1919 - 2013) was a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota in 1942 and Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1948. Graffunder was the chief draftsman for Antonin Raymond in New York City from 1946 to 1947. Graffunder taught for the University of Minnesota School of Architecture from 1948 until his retirement in the 1980s.
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.