ORGANIC DESIGN IN HOME FURNISHINGS
Eliot Noyes

Eliot Noyes: ORGANIC DESIGN IN HOME FURNISHINGS. NYC: MoMA 1941. First edition. A fine softcover book with a very good dustjacket that is worn to edges and lightly chipped on edges. DJ is very mildly Age-toned as usual for this title.This book is one of the nicest copies I have seen of this notoriously fragile catalogue. Book covers feature the iconic design of E. McKnight Kauffer.

The original Bloomingdale's price-list is laid in, thus making this copy unusually rare. The price list is a single-sheet printed recto and verso with retail prices for all furniture from the competition. A most uncommon and desirable piece of original ephemera from this legendary competition.

7.5 x 10 softcover book with 50 pages and 109 b/w photographs and diagrams of the winning entries in the legendary 1940 MoMA competition which introduced the furniture designs of Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen to the world. In 1940, these two Cranbrook partners stunned the judges at the MoMA competition for Home Furnishings with their Seating and Living Room designs - and the rest is history. Important early document of the partnership that eventually spawned the much-loved designs for Herman Miller and Knoll.

A magnificent snapshot of the way the modern movement was blossoming in the final days before the start of World War II. A very desirable title.

Other artists whose work is presented in this volume include Bernard Rudofsky, Antonin Raymond, Peter Pfisterer, Harry Weese, Benjamin Baldwin, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto,Bruno Mathsson and others.

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