EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 20
A Guide To Well Designed Products
Meg Torbert [Editor]
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Fall 1951. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo-illustrated stapled wrappers. 16 pp. 50 black and white images. Advertisements. Uncommon thus: a fine, fresh copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 16 pages and 50 black and white images. This issue of EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY is devoted to Contemporary Chairs (aren't we all?). 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.
- Contemporary Chairs includes the Eames molded plastic chair; Bartolucci-Waldheim's Barwa; Knoll chairs by Odelberg-Olson, George Nakashima, Eero Saarinen, Andre Dupres; Herman Miller Chairs by Charles Eames, George Nelson, and Peter Hvidt and O. M. Nielsen; chairs by Alvar Aalto, Dorothy Schindele, Jens Risom, Milo Baughman, Van-Keppel-Green, Irving Sabo, Bruno Mathsson, Ilmori Tapiovaara, Georg Jensen, Karl Lightfoot, Enrico Delmonte, Paul McCobb, and Palmer Eide.
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.