Catalog for an exhibition conceived as a survey of the modern American domestic environment, and held at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, from March 18-April 22, 1973. Square 8vo (8” x 8”), stapled printed wrappers with extended folding cover, 43 numbered pages. Selected and designed under architect Toby Barnett Baker, it inventories commercially available furniture, lighting, kitchenwares, textiles, and household accessories, recording designers, manufacturers, materials, dimensions, distributors, and contemporary prices—a revealing document of modern design entering the American home. Outside of a small section of “Classic” chair designs (Gerrit Rietveld, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright) the entries skew progressive and post-modern, featuring American designers such as John Mascheroni, Terrence Cashen, Paolo Soleri, Wendell Castle, and Stacy Dukes next to a slate of Italian designers whose avant-garde work was highlighted at the previous year’s seminal New Domestic Landscape show at MoMA—Gae Aulenti, Gaetano Pesce, Vico Magistretti, Joe Colombo, A. and P. Castiglioni, Anna Castelli, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, Studio Tetrarch and Gianfranco Frattini, among others. The catalog’s vivid geometric wrapper extends into a continuous multicolored composition apparently related to Carl C. Regehr’s recorded silkscreen for the exhibition. A visually distinctive and commercially scarce design catalog replete with useful curatorial information. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Catalog for an exhibition conceived as a survey of the modern American domestic environment, and held at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, from March 18-April 22, 1973. Square 8vo (8” x 8”), stapled printed wrappers with extended folding cover, 43 numbered pages. Selected and designed under architect Toby Barnett Baker, it inventories commercially available furniture, lighting, kitchenwares, textiles, and household accessories, recording designers, manufacturers, materials, dimensions, distributors, and contemporary prices—a revealing document of modern design entering the American home. Outside of a small section of “Classic” chair designs (Gerrit Rietveld, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright) the entries skew progressive and post-modern, featuring American designers such as John Mascheroni, Terrence Cashen, Paolo Soleri, Wendell Castle, and Stacy Dukes next to a slate of Italian designers whose avant-garde work was highlighted at the previous year’s seminal New Domestic Landscape show at MoMA—Gae Aulenti, Gaetano Pesce, Vico Magistretti, Joe Colombo, A. and P. Castiglioni, Anna Castelli, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, Studio Tetrarch and Gianfranco Frattini, among others. The catalog’s vivid geometric wrapper extends into a continuous multicolored composition apparently related to Carl C. Regehr’s recorded silkscreen for the exhibition. A visually distinctive and commercially scarce design catalog replete with useful curatorial information. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
