America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer

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Author: Gadsden, NonieDuring the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the US changed the objects people chose to live with. Through the power of design, the earliest indust rial designers created a modern aesthetic that came to represent American fantasies. Each of these exceptional objects offers a window into the world in which they were made and used. The book features sleek furniture, vibrant ceramics, streamlined metalwares and innovative plastics from the leading designers of the era.Designers include: Norman Bel Geddes, Manning Bowman Company, Jules Buoy, Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Earl Harvey, Ianelli Studios, Belle Kogan, William Lescaze, Erik Magnussen, Peter Muller Munk, Gilbert Rhode, RumRill Art Pottery, Victor Schreckengost, Walter Dorwin Teague, The Hall China Company, Harold Van Doren, John Vassos, Kem Weber, Western Coil and Electric Company and Russel Wright. Photographers and painters include: Berenice Abbott, Arthur Dove, Archibald Motley, Alvin Langdon Coburn, M. Murray Lebowitz, Norman Lewis, Max Weber, Margaret Bourke-White, Henry Callahan and Alfred Stieglitz.ISBN 9780878468850. MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. hb. 224 pages. 120 colour ills. 27 x 18 cm.available Show more