Mid Century Design 1930-1965
The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts have an exhibition
‘California Design 1930-1965:Living in a modern way’ running until March 2012.
Displayed in the opening section is this rather wonderful, absolutely gleaming 1936 Wally Byam Airstream known as the ‘Clipper’ with it’s super polished and sleek lines.
The show covers the whole range, photography, film, fashion, furniture, graphic and industrial design, ceramics and jewellery. It looks at the incredible evolution of mid century design across all the arts during that period, not just conceptually, but designs put into production… all this was fuelled by the booming economy post war, and the social impetus created from the California modern lifestyle.
The designs strike a chord with modern sensibilities.. they are stunningly modern and fresh including the life size re-creation of Charles & Ray Eames living room case study house #8 , to Raymond Loewy’s Avanti sports car, and notice too the art direction of the displays… gorgeous, balanced, art themselves in the mid century style. Very clever.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Arts have an exhibition
‘California Design 1930-1965:Living in a modern way’ running until March 2012.
Displayed in the opening section is this rather wonderful, absolutely gleaming 1936 Wally Byam Airstream known as the ‘Clipper’ with it’s super polished and sleek lines.
The show covers the whole gambit, photography, film, fashion, furniture, graphic and industrial design, ceramics and jewellery. It looks at the incredible evolution of mid century design across all the arts during that period, fuelled by the booming post war economy, and the social impetus created from the California modern lifestyle.
The designs strike a chord with modern sensibilities.. they are stunningly modern and fresh including the life size re-creation of Charles & Ray Eames living room case study house #8 , to Raymond Loewy’s Avanti sports car, and notice too the art direction of the displays… gorgeous, balanced, art themselves in the mid century style. Very clever.
Read more here:
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/seeing-things-california-design-1930-1965/?src=tmcolum
The exhibition catalogue is available from here, as is digital version is.
http://shop.lacma.org/products/california-design
Highly Recommend.