EXHIBITION OF 20TH CENTURY DESIGN IN EUROPE
AND AMERICA
Selections From The Collection Of The Museum
Of Modern Art, New York
Nagakage Okabe and Nagatake Murayama [forewords]
Nagakage Okabe and Nagatake Murayama [forewords]: EXHIBITION OF 20TH CENTURY DESIGN IN EUROPE AND AMERICA [Selections From The Collection Of The Museum Of Modern Art, New York]. Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and The Asahi Shimbun, 1957. Text in English and Japanese. First edition. Oblong quarto. Thick printed wrappers. Brick endpapers. 84 [viii] pp. Black and white gravure plates. Multiple paper stocks. Wrappers worn and creased. Textblock thumbed with a bit of ink offsetting, but a good copy of an uncommon catalog.
10 x 7.25 softcover catalog with 92 pages fully illustrated with gorgeous gravure plates. Catalog for an exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and The Asahi Shimbun from 1957 coordinated by the Museum of Modern Art— essentially an export version of the Good Design shows from 1950 – 1955, with earlier 20th-century pieces from Europe and America rounding out the presentation.
Includes photos of furniture, tableware, kitchenware, pottery, etc. designed by Hector Guimard, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emil Gallé, René Lalique, Josef Hoffmann, Richard Riemerschmid, Adolf Loos, Theo van Doesburg & Cornelis Van Eesteren, Marcel Breuer, Gerrit Rietveld, Gebrüder Thonet, Marianne Brandt, Anni Albers, Mies van der Rohe, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Man Ray, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Coors Porcelain, Corning Glass Works, W. Archibald Welden, Peter Schlumbohm, Walter Dorwin Teague, Rex Stevens, Lurelle Guild, Earl S. Tupper, H. C. Markle, Charles H. McCrea, M. Schimmel, Emilio Cerri, Siemens und Halske A. G., Max Bill, Ezio Pirali, Marcello Nizzoli, Eva Ziesel, P. E. Camerer, Elizabeth McLennan, Gross & Esther Wood, Gershen of Newark, Hans Wegner, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Arne Jacobsen, Ray Komai, Bruno Mathsson, Ray & Charles Eames, Darrel Landrum, Kurt Versen, Walter Van Nessen, Peter Pfisterer, Floris Meydam, Trude Petri-Raben, L. Caccia Dominioni & P. C. Castiglioni, Dean Pollock, Scott Wilson & Fritz Foord, Lucie Rie, Blenko Glass, A. L. Hirsch & Company, Karl Krehan, Paolo Venini, Vera Liskova, Aalar Aalto, Don Wallance, Carl-Henry Stalhane, Frank Holmes, James Prestini, Reynold Dennis, Tapio Wirkkala, and Magnus Stephensen.