EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY No. 13
A Guide To Well Designed Products
Hilde Reiss [Editor], John Szarkowski [Staff Photographer]
Hilde Reiss [Editor], John Szarkowski [Staff Photographer]: EVERYDAY ART QUARTERLY [A Guide To Well Designed Products]. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, Winter 1949/1950, Number 13. Original edition. Slim quarto. Thick photo illustrated stapled wrappers. 20 pp. 45 black and white images. Illustrated articles and advertisements. A very influential publication and quite uncommon. White wrappers rubbed and vertically creased [from mailing?]. Typed address to rear panel, but a very good copy.
8.5 x 11 softcover magazine with 20 pages and 45 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.
- WHERE TO SEE EVERYDAY ART: Art Program and exhibitions from MoMA, the Walker Art Center, the Newark Museum, Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston and Washington, Yale University, San Francisco Museum of Art, etc. Exhibition design focusing on Glassware, Ceramics, Lamps and Lighting, Furniture, Kitchen Equipment, Outdoor Equipment, Industrial Design and more.
- AN EXHIBITION FOR MODERN LIVING: Illustrated review of the Landmark postwar exhibition from September 11 to November 20, 1949. This exhibition has achieved legendary status in the pantheon of American modernism, due to Girard's stewardship and the site-specific custom room installations by Alvar Aalto, Bruno Mathsson, Jens Risom, Florence Knoll (ably assisted by Eero Saarinen, Franco Albini, Pierre Jeanneret, Abel Sorensen, Andre Dupres and Hans Bellmann), Van-Keppel Green, George Nelson, Charles and Ray Eames and others. “"It is very important for an art museum to show the work of modern designers. It enables us to see what is being done today in relation to what has been done, and to realize that the application of artistic intelligence and technical skill to solve the living problems of an age has always been characteristic of the arts in their best periods. “
- Product Review: Folding Chair from Japan and Easel Seat by Harry Sternberg.
- Everyday Art in the Magazines: articles about modern design published in such magazines as Arts & Architecture, Interiors, Progressive Architecture and others.
- MUSEUMS AND SCHOOLS: Contact information for Where to See Everyday Art.
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.