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New "Mid-Century Modern Design in the U.S." Book
Phaidon is releasing "Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US," a fresh look at the movement thanks to hundreds of images from the Cranbrook Art Museum. There's plenty of eye candy here: Charles and Ray Eames seated in their living room, Los Angeles, CA, 1958. Photo: Julius Shulman. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (page 168) "Embark on a surprising and joyful visual tour of American mid-century modernism through hundreds of photographs, drawings, and pieces of ephemera organized by the art museum at Cranbrook, where the movement began."Kazumi Adachi, Mudge House, Los Angeles, CA, 1954. Photograph by Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (page 186) Edward J Wormley, Listen-to-Me Chaise Lounge photographed for a Dunbar catalog, c.1948. Courtesy Edward J Wormley Papers, The New School Archives and Special Collection, The New School, New York, N.Y. (page 144) John Lautner, exterior view of the Arthur Elrod House with Tropi-cal Lotus Chairs by the pool, Palm Springs, CA, 1968. Photo: Leland Y. Lee. Courtesy CODA Gallery (page 361) Teacup desk in the lobby of General Motors Technical Center's Styling Building, 1956. (page 275) 1958 Feminine Auto Show in the GM Styling Dome. The vehicles counterclockwise from the bottom: Corvette "Fancy Free," Chevrolet "Martinique," Cadillac "Saxony," Cadillac "Baroness," Buick "Tampico," and Buick "Shalimar." Courtesy General Motors LLC (page 284) Herman Miller Chicago showroom featuring central configuration of Basic Storage Components (BSC) with Basic Cabinet Series (BCS) case goods along the wall, 1948. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved (page 96) Eames chair pyramid featured in Herman Miller's 1964 Binder Catalog, art directed by Tomoko Miho. Courtesy Herman Miller Archives (page 222) "Essential figures such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen are represented alongside other women and designers of color that have been historically eclipsed, including Joel Robinson, Ray Komai, Ruth Adler Schnee, Olga Lee, Miller Yee Fong, Lucia DeRespinis, Dorothy Liebes, and many others. The book offers a fresh perspective on this beloved and influential movement."First Row: Harry Bertoia, Eszter Haraszty, Noémi Raymond; Middle: George Nakashima, Florence Knoll Bassett, Abel Sorensen; Third: Richard Stein, Dorothy Cole, and Isamu Noguchi, 1951. Photo: © Tony Vaccaro. Courtesy Tony Vaccaro Archives (page 14) Florence Knoll seated at desk, c. 1940s. Florence Schust Knoll Bassett Papers (1998-10). Courtesy Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research (page 236) Gere Kavanaugh in a prototype for her Easy Chair, c. mid-1970s. Courtesy Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research (page 287) Portrait of Greta Magnusson Grossman in her home office, 1948-1949. Photo: Julius Shulman. Courtesy the R & Company Library and Archives (page 232) The $90 book, compiled by Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Satake Blauvelt, is up for pre-order now and will ship in July.
Phaidon is releasing "Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US," a fresh look at the movement thanks to hundreds of images from the Cranbrook Art Museum. There's plenty of eye candy here:
Charles and Ray Eames seated in their living room, Los Angeles, CA, 1958. Photo: Julius Shulman. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (page 168)
"Embark on a surprising and joyful visual tour of American mid-century modernism through hundreds of photographs, drawings, and pieces of ephemera organized by the art museum at Cranbrook, where the movement began."
Kazumi Adachi, Mudge House, Los Angeles, CA, 1954. Photograph by Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (page 186)
Edward J Wormley, Listen-to-Me Chaise Lounge photographed for a Dunbar catalog, c.1948. Courtesy Edward J Wormley Papers, The New School Archives and Special Collection, The New School, New York, N.Y. (page 144)
John Lautner, exterior view of the Arthur Elrod House with Tropi-cal Lotus Chairs by the pool, Palm Springs, CA, 1968. Photo: Leland Y. Lee. Courtesy CODA Gallery (page 361)
Teacup desk in the lobby of General Motors Technical Center's Styling Building, 1956. (page 275)
1958 Feminine Auto Show in the GM Styling Dome. The vehicles counterclockwise from the bottom: Corvette "Fancy Free," Chevrolet "Martinique," Cadillac "Saxony," Cadillac "Baroness," Buick "Tampico," and Buick "Shalimar." Courtesy General Motors LLC (page 284)
Herman Miller Chicago showroom featuring central configuration of Basic Storage Components (BSC) with Basic Cabinet Series (BCS) case goods along the wall, 1948. © Eames Office, LLC. All rights reserved (page 96)
Eames chair pyramid featured in Herman Miller's 1964 Binder Catalog, art directed by Tomoko Miho. Courtesy Herman Miller Archives (page 222)
"Essential figures such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen are represented alongside other women and designers of color that have been historically eclipsed, including Joel Robinson, Ray Komai, Ruth Adler Schnee, Olga Lee, Miller Yee Fong, Lucia DeRespinis, Dorothy Liebes, and many others. The book offers a fresh perspective on this beloved and influential movement."
First Row: Harry Bertoia, Eszter Haraszty, Noémi Raymond; Middle: George Nakashima, Florence Knoll Bassett, Abel Sorensen; Third: Richard Stein, Dorothy Cole, and Isamu Noguchi, 1951. Photo: © Tony Vaccaro. Courtesy Tony Vaccaro Archives (page 14)
Florence Knoll seated at desk, c. 1940s. Florence Schust Knoll Bassett Papers (1998-10). Courtesy Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research (page 236)
Gere Kavanaugh in a prototype for her Easy Chair, c. mid-1970s. Courtesy Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research (page 287)
Portrait of Greta Magnusson Grossman in her home office, 1948-1949. Photo: Julius Shulman. Courtesy the R & Company Library and Archives (page 232)
The $90 book, compiled by Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Satake Blauvelt, is up for pre-order now and will ship in July.
