The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. X, No. 2, December 1942–January 1943. 8vo, stapled pictorial wrappers, 24 pages, illustrated with 25 black-and-white photographs. With the complete official eight-sheet exhibition checklist, approximately 13 inches tall, duplicated typescript, printed rectos only.
Published for Useful Objects in Wartime Under $10, arranged by Alice M. Carson, Acting Director of Industrial Design, as the fifth of MoMA's annual Useful Objects exhibitions. Conceived under wartime restrictions on materials and manufacture, the exhibition presented household goods made from non-priority materials alongside articles developed for the Armed Services and civilian defense, emphasizing function, appropriate materials, manufacturing technique and economy of form. The cover features Peter Schlumbohm's Chemex coffee maker, listed as item 56 at $6.50.
Accompanied by the complete eight-sheet exhibition checklist, officially issued by MoMA for exhibition-related distribution. Its title, introductory text, numbering, descriptions, prices, designers, manufacturers and retailers correspond to the typed state underlying MoMA's surviving archival Master Checklist. The Museum's master subsequently received manuscript additions, cancellations and corrections; the present example preserves a clean, unannotated contemporary issue state as originally duplicated for distribution.
The checklist provides the detailed object record absent from the Bulletin, documenting the commercial networks through which MoMA constructed its survey of wartime design. WorldCat records the checklist separately as an eight-sheet, 33 cm typescript, with a single institutional holding identified at MoMA—strong evidence of the ephemeral nature and scarcity of the separately issued document.
An unusually complete primary document of MoMA's wartime industrial-design program, belonging to the earlier Useful Objects series and anticipating many of the concerns—utility, affordability, industrial production and material economy—that would inform the Museum's later Good Design program inaugurated in 1950. Scarce as a Bulletin; exceptionally difficult to locate with its complete exhibition checklist intact. Mild bumping and rubbing to wrappers. Wrappers split, but contents remain near fine. Light bumping to printout.
The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. X, No. 2, December 1942–January 1943. 8vo, stapled pictorial wrappers, 24 pages, illustrated with 25 black-and-white photographs. With the complete official eight-sheet exhibition checklist, approximately 13 inches tall, duplicated typescript, printed rectos only.
Published for Useful Objects in Wartime Under $10, arranged by Alice M. Carson, Acting Director of Industrial Design, as the fifth of MoMA's annual Useful Objects exhibitions. Conceived under wartime restrictions on materials and manufacture, the exhibition presented household goods made from non-priority materials alongside articles developed for the Armed Services and civilian defense, emphasizing function, appropriate materials, manufacturing technique and economy of form. The cover features Peter Schlumbohm's Chemex coffee maker, listed as item 56 at $6.50.
Accompanied by the complete eight-sheet exhibition checklist, officially issued by MoMA for exhibition-related distribution. Its title, introductory text, numbering, descriptions, prices, designers, manufacturers and retailers correspond to the typed state underlying MoMA's surviving archival Master Checklist. The Museum's master subsequently received manuscript additions, cancellations and corrections; the present example preserves a clean, unannotated contemporary issue state as originally duplicated for distribution.
The checklist provides the detailed object record absent from the Bulletin, documenting the commercial networks through which MoMA constructed its survey of wartime design. WorldCat records the checklist separately as an eight-sheet, 33 cm typescript, with a single institutional holding identified at MoMA—strong evidence of the ephemeral nature and scarcity of the separately issued document.
An unusually complete primary document of MoMA's wartime industrial-design program, belonging to the earlier Useful Objects series and anticipating many of the concerns—utility, affordability, industrial production and material economy—that would inform the Museum's later Good Design program inaugurated in 1950. Scarce as a Bulletin; exceptionally difficult to locate with its complete exhibition checklist intact. Mild bumping and rubbing to wrappers. Wrappers split, but contents remain near fine. Light bumping to printout.
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