First major exhibition on Jewish architects and designers on view in San Francisco
By Bustler Editors|
Friday, May 9, 2014
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Happy Friday! Just in time for any weekend plans in the Bay Area, the "Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism" exhibition at The Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco is open now until Oct. 6, 2014.
Organized by nationally notable architecture and design curator Donald Albrecht, "Designing Home" is the first major exhibition that celebrates the works and roles of Jewish architects, designers, and patrons in shaping post-war American modernism in the mid-20th century.
Get a glimpse of some exhibited works and more details below.
"The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) presents Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism, the first major exhibition to explore the role of Jewish architects, designers, and patrons in the formation of a new American domestic landscape during the post WW II decades of the twentieth century.
Brimming with a dazzling array of vintage furnishings, textiles, wallpapers, ceramics, posters, dinnerware, photographs, and more, Designing Home will feature the work of over thirty-five creative professionals who helped spark America’s embrace of midcentury modernism, a bold new direction in design and thought.
The exhibition will highlight the essential contributions of both well-known designers and architects, among them Anni Albers, George Nelson, and Richard Neutra; as well as others whose fascinating life stories and important contribution have received much less critical attention, such as Ruth Adler Schnee, Marguerite Wildenhain, and Alex Steinweiss. Designing Home will also examine significant patrons, merchants, and media figures who helped disseminate the midcentury modern aesthetic and worldview to a broad audience."
"Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism is accompanied by a full color comprehensive exhibition catalog published by The CJM that includes an essay by Guest Curator Donald Albrecht, a fully illustrated exhibition checklist, biographies on all of the designers, and a reader featuring four key texts published by distinguished authors and historians—“Home means Haym,” by Jenna Weissman Joselit, “Acceptance and Assimilation: Jews in 1950s American Popular Culture,” and “The ‘Christianization’ of Israel and Jews in 1950s America,” by Michelle Mart, and “Di Toyre Fun Skhoyre, or, I Shop, Therefore I Am: The Consumer Cultures of American Jews,” by Jeffrey Shandler. The catalog will be available in The CJM’s Museum Store and online."
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