20TH CENTURY DESIGN: U.S.A.
William Friedman [Editor], John Szarkowski [Photographer]
[A Survey Exhibition During 1959 - 1960 Co-Sponsored By Eight Museums]. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts/Albright 1960. First edition. Slim quarto. Thick printed wrappers. 96 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Exhibition checklist. Wrappers lightly rubbed with circular sticker shadow to front panel. Former owners signature to front free endpaper, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. A very good copy or better copy.
8.5 x 11 catalogue with 96 pages of the best of American postwar Modern design (circa 1959), including furniture, fabrics, household products, typewriters, cutlery, appliances, toys, interiors, glass etc. The index includes full listings for all 1,096 items exhibited. All pieces are identified by designer and manufacturer. I suspect this information could be useful to some people out there.
All black and white photography by John Szarkowski. An exceptional document that organically grew out of the Good Design movement of the early 1950s. Recommended.
- Foreward
- Illustrations
- Sources: North American, European, Near and Far Eastern, Aboriginal
- Housewares and Accessories: glass, ceramics, plastics, wood, metal ware, and cutlery
- Appliances and Equipment for Domestic and Marine Use: small and large appliances, miscellaneous equipment and accessories
- Kitchen wares including cook-and-serve ware
- Furniture and Lamps
- Fabrics and Floor Coverings
- Building and Boat Components
- Garden Tools, Equipment and Accessories
- Outdoor Equipment
- Sports and Pet Equipment
- Games and Toys; Recreation and Playground Equipment
- Personal Articles: articles, implements, containers for personal use or adornment; smoking articles, toilet and dresser goods, fine and costume jewelry, etc.
- Leather Goods and Luggage
- Clocks and Watches
- Communications Equipment: cameras, binoculars, photography and projection equipment; radio and television, telephone; recording and hearing devices
- Business Machines and Office Equipment
- Scientific, Laboratory, Medical, Industrial Articles: equipment, apparatus, instruments; measuring and counting devices; optical goods; wares of glass, ceramics, metal, and other materials
- Tools and Precision Instruments: hand and power tools and equipment for woodworking, metal working, machine shop, and other crafts
- Index: designers, designer-craftsmen, manufacturers
- Addenda and Errata
- Acknowledgements
- Co-sponsoring Museums
Black and white photos of design work by Frederick Carder, Charles Bins, Eva Zeisel, Russell Wright, Edith Heath, Jane and Gordon Martz, John Hedu, Raymond Loewy, George Nelson, Harley Earl, Charles McCrea, Freda Diamond, Paul Gardener, Philipp Camerer, Raymond Spilman, Frank Stratton, Don Wallace, Richard Hudson, John Van Koert, Esther & Gross Wood, Sam Farber, Nord Bowlen, Peter Schlumbohm, Lurelle Guild, W. Archibald Welden, Betty Cooke, Kurt Versen, Bob Stocksdale, James Prestini, House of Myrtle Wood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, Gilbert Rohde, Charles Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen, William Armbruster, Florence Knoll, Gret Magnusson Grossman, Edward Wormley, Richard Stein, Harry Bertoia, Harold Cohen & Davis Pratt, Allan Gould, Arnold Arnold, Richard T. James, Arthur & Reno Carrara, Nathan Lazar, Marshall Larrabee, Walter Dorwin Teague, Eliot Noyes, L. Garth Huxtable, Paul Hoogesteger, and Peter Muller-Munk.
The index includes references for Alvar Aalto, Elizabeth Arden, William Armbruster, Eddie Bauer, Harry Bertoia, Charles Binns, Marcel Breuer, Freda Diamond, Charles Eames, Harley Earl, Paul Gardner, Alexander Girard, Greta Magnusson Grossman, John Hedu, Florence Knoll, Carl Koch & Assocs., Raymond Loewy, Judith McCann, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Eliot Noyes, Oscar Reidner, Jens Risom, Gilbert Rohde, Eero Saarinen, Ben Seibel, Gustav Stickley, Walter Dorwin Teague, Walter Van Nessen, Edward J. Wormley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Russel Wright, Eva Zeisel, Amelia Earhart Luggage, Architectural Pottery, Bennington Potters, Blenko Glass Co., Chicago Roller Skate Co., Corning Glass Works, Dunbar Furniture Corp. and many many others.