EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 1: Summer 1946
A GUIDE TO WELL DESIGNED PRODUCTS
Hilde Reiss [Editor]
Hilde Reiss [Editor]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY: A GUIDE TO WELL DESIGNED PRODUCTS. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center [No. 1, Summer] 1946. Original edition. Stapled photographically printed stiff wrappers. 16 pp. 28 black and white images. Advertisements. A very influential publication, quite uncommon. White wrappers lightly worn. A nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 28 black and white images. Cover photograph of work by Bruno Mathsson and Angelo Testa, from the Furniture and Fabrics exhibition at the Gallery of Everyday Art. This issue of Everyday Art Quarterly is devoted to the Walker's own Gallery of Everyday Art, and offers a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II.
A very desirable vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction. Highly recommended.
Contents
The Gallery of Everyday Art: the Walker's own Gallery of Everyday Art played an important role in the development of domestic design in the history of architecture and design.
Hand-Made and Machine-Made Art by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. 5 photographs of objects displaying Good Design Characteristics culled from MoMA's annual Useful Objects Under $5.00 [and later $10.00] shows from 1938 and 1939. These exhibitions eventually became known as the Good Design exhibits held jointly at MoMA and the Chicago Merchandise Mart. Features abstract wooden bowl designs by Russel Wright, as well as examples of anonymously-designed domestic products.
Ideas for Better Living: Inaugural exhibition at the Gallery of Everyday Art. 10 photographs of objects displayed includes pieces by Alexander Girard, Kurt Versen, Marguerite Wildenhain, James Prestini, Edith Head, and others.
Furniture and Fabrics: Inaugural exhibition at the Gallery of Everyday Art. 10 photographs includes pieces by Ray and Charles Eames, Ewald Holtkamp, Ralph Rapson, Alvar Aalto, June Groff, Edward Wormley, Dorothy Liebes, Carol Kottke, for Herman Miller, Artek-Pascoe, H. G. Knoll, Dunbar, Goodall and KOL.
The Form of Everyday Things: Permanent exhibit in the Gallery of Everyday Art. 3 photographs.
Everyday Art in the Magazines: The Usual Suspects
Books: Review of George Nelson and Henry Wright: TOMORROW'S HOUSE. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.
Addresses: Designers, Manufacturers and Retailers
Advertisements from KOL, Dunbar Furniture, H. G. Knoll, Alex Anderson, Artek-Pascoe and others.
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.