EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 27
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 1957, Number 27. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. 32 pp. 37 black and white images. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very good to nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 31 pages and 37 black and white images. This issue of EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY highlights the work of contemporary ceramicists. 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.
- Edwin and Mary Scheier: 6 pages and 7 black and white images and statement from the artisans.
- Bernard Leach: 2 pages and 5 black and white images and statement from the artisan.
- Warren and Alixandria MacKenzie: 4 pages and 3 black and white imagesand statement from the artisans.
- Katherine and Burton Wilson: 4 pages and 7 black and white images and statement from the artisans.
- Leza S. McVey: 7 pages and 10 black and white images and statement from the artisan.
- A Note on the Classical Tradition—includes work by Naum Gabo, Jose de Rivera, Charmion von Wiegand, Michael Loew, Georges Braque, and Charles G. Shaw.
- Book Reviews.
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.