The panel is one of five from a narrative series whose whereabouts have been unknown to scholars for nearly sixty years
Editor’s Letter, January/February 2017
Not long ago I came across a graphic novel by the talented artist and illustrator Leanne Shapton entitled Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry. The book tells a love story in the form of an auction catalogue.
Folk art: Modern design’s secret pleasure
August 2009 | The Eames House in Pacific Palisades, California, is one of the icons of mid-twentieth-century modernism. Set in a grove of eucalyptus trees, the building comprises two simple rectilinear volumes—one a living space, the other a working studio—framed in steel with walls formed of a grid of clear glass casement windows peppered with colorful painted wooden panels (Fig.2). …
What modern was
Mid Century masters of luxury
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a city of great character and great contrasts: blue-blooded and blue collar; home of the beaux arts and the Broad Street Bullies; as steeped in history as it is in Tastee Cakes. In today’s Philadelphia, au courant fashion shops nestle next to dealers in exquisite art and antiques. In April the City of Brotherly Love celebrates its long …
American studio ceramics at mid century
Adherents to the studio craft movement championed the handmade object, the idiosyncratic form, and the individual eye
Bold, bright, and underappreciated: British furniture at mid-century
On one of the greatest modern design talents in Britain—Gerald Summers
Showmanship and fantasy: the designs of James Mont
On the mid-century designer and interior decorator
The lost generation of Danish design
Danish design deserves a moment in the sun
Seeing through modernism at Corning
The Corning Museum of Glass is a hedgehog among foxes, doing one big thing exceptionally well
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