“Modern in Your Life: The Good Design Phenomenon 1934-1959” at R & Company, New York
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R & Company will feature “Modern in Your Life: The Good Design Phenomenon 1934-1959,” an exhibition exploring the historical significance and reverberations of “Good Design” in mid-century American museums.On view from November 6, the exhibition w“Modern in Your Life: The Good Design Phenomenon 1934-1959” at R & Company, New York
R & Company will feature “Modern in Your Life: The Good Design Phenomenon 1934-1959,” an exhibition exploring the historical significance and reverberations of “Good Design” in mid-century American museums.On view from November 6, the exhibition will feature the iconic and everyday examples of design celebrated for progressive ideals, function, and as objects of taste.Held in collaboration with gallery’s Library & Archives, the exhibition showcases a selection of modern design and complementary collections of printed ephemera first seen in the various outlets of the Good Design phenomenon, ranging from the Museum of Modern Art, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago to the pages of Everyday Art Quarterly and like-minded exhibitions across America.“The exhibition surveys the ways in which MoMA’s outsize international role in classifying and promoting select works of furniture and objects as ‘modern design’ were explored in exhibitions: from Philip Johnson’s 1934 ‘Machine Art’ exhibition through Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.’s annual institutionalized trade shows of ‘Good Design’ in the early 1950s,” the gallery says.The exhibition at R & Company features many examples of the iconic pieces, such as Rietveld’s Red-Blue chair.“Our Red-Blue chair dates to the early 1950s, when Philip Johnson donated an example from his personal collection to MoMA on the occasion of the De Stijl show which he organized,” states James Zemaitis, Director of Museum Relations and organizer of the exhibition.Other furniture highlights include designs by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen that were prize-winners in the 1941 Organic Design Competition at MoMA; “Rudder” forms by Isamu Noguchi; chairs by Donald Knorr, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, Gio Ponti and Finn Juhl; and lighting by Grossman, Lester Geis, Kurt Versen, Walter Von Nessen, and Marion Geller.“In juxtaposition with the iconic and valuable furniture featured in the exhibition,” notes Zemaitis, “we have hunted down multiple mid-century ‘useful forms’ to demonstrate how easy and affordable it is for young collectors to build a museum-quality group of designs, whether it is an Olivetti typewriter or a Russel Wright dinner service.”The exhibition will be on view from November 6 through December 21, 2018 at R & Company, 64 White Street, New York, USA.For details, visit: http://www.r-and-company.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more