Title & Author:

California design, 1930-1965 : living in a modern way / Wendy Kaplan, editor ; Wendy Kaplan, Bobbye Tigerman, curators ; with contributions by Glenn Adamson [and others].

Publication:

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011.

Description:

359 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 1, 2011-Mar. 25, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "Living in a modern way" / Wendy Kaplan -- The rise of California modern design, 1930-41 / Christopher Long -- Fusing old and new : émigré designers in California / Bobbye Tigerman -- Open world : California architects and the modern home / Nicholas Olsberg -- At home with California modern, 1945-65 / Pat Kirkham -- War and peace : unexpected dividends / Bill Stern -- Serious business : the "designer-craftsman" in postwar California / Glenn Adamson -- Distinctly Californian : modernism in textiles and fashion / Melissa Leventon -- Developing a language of vision : graphic design in California / Jeremy Aynsley -- "It has to be sold" : the dissemination of California design, 1945-65 / Wendy Kaplan and Staci Steinberger.

Summary:

"The first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design, generously illustrated. In 1951, designer Greta Magnusson Grossman observed that California design was “not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions.... It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way.” California design influenced the material culture of the entire country, in everything from architecture to fashion. This generously illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design. It begins by tracing the origins of a distinctively California modernism in the 1930s by such European émigrés as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, and Kem Weber; it finds other specific design influences and innovations in solid-color commercial ceramics, inspirations from Mexico and Asia, new schools for design training, new concepts about leisure, and the conversion of wartime technologies to peacetime use (exemplified by Charles and Ray Eames's plywood and fiberglass furniture). The heart of California Design is the modern California home, famously characterized by open plans conducive to outdoor living. The layouts of modernist homes by Pierre Koenig, Craig Ellwood, and Raphael Soriano, for example, were intended to blur the distinction between indoors and out. Homes were furnished with products from Heath Ceramics, Van Keppel-Green, and Architectural Pottery as well as other, previously unheralded companies and designers. Many objects were designed to be multifunctional: pool and patio furniture that was equally suitable indoors, lighting that was both task and ambient, bookshelves that served as room dividers, and bathing suits that would turn into ensembles appropriate for indoor entertainment. California Design includes 350 images, most in color, of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, architecture, graphic and industrial design, film, textiles, and fashion, and ten incisive essays that trace the rise of the California design aesthetic."--Publisher,

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262016070 (hardcover)
0262016079 (hardcover)

Subject:

Decorative arts California History 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Aesthetics) California Exhibitions.
Arts décoratifs Californie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Californie Expositions.
Decorative arts California History Exhibitions. 20th century.
Decorative arts
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Design
Architektur
Innenarchitektur
Möbel
Kunsthandwerk
Moderne
Konsthantverk historia Förenta staterna 1900-talet.
California
Kalifornien

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Kaplan, Wendy.
Tigerman, Bobbye, 1978-
Adamson, Glenn.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275023
Call No.: BIB 209017
Status: Available