Bridget Bartal

A wide-ranging celebration of mid-century modernism in America through the movement's people, objects, and ideas. This illuminating tour of mid-century modernism in the United states features hundreds of photographs drawings, and pieces of ephemera organized by Cranbrook Art Museum, where the movement began. Including key figures such as Cranbrook Academy of Art alumni Charles end Ray Eames Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, and Rem Saarinen, alongside other designers who have historically been eclipsed, the book offers a hash perspective on ais highly Influential movement.
A brand-new survey of mid-century modernism m Amer., compiled by Andrew Setake Blauvelt, the director of the Cranbrook Art Museum, featuring contributions by more than 25 of the field's leading scholars of the movement from around the world. The book highlights numerous ideas, objects, and designers, including many who have been omitted from the fadiaonel narrative of mid-century modernism in the US.
With a multitude of unusual end rarely seen images, this book creates a remarkable, surprising, and joyful visual arse narrative journey through a movement that remains a powerful touchstone in contemporary life.