This exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum explores the impact of modernist design from the early 1900s through the 1970s. It shows revolutionary print, industrial, and architectural designs that emerged after the Arts and Crafts movement, including the works of designers from the Bauhaus, Swiss Movement, International Style, and late modern advertising eras. Through actual working environments of the time featuring period furniture and architecture, the exhibition analyzes how modernist design influenced daily life and style.

1. MODERN
FRM
and
SPACE
November 7 - December 28, 2014
Cooper - Hewitt National Design Museum
Revolutionary Type Pioneers
& Early Modernist Design
& Architecture
This exhibition explores the philosophy of modernism and the impact
of the modernist design movement within our daily life from the early 1900’s
through the 1970’s. Revolutionary print, industrial and architectural design post
Arts & Crafts is shown and analyzed. Designers from the Bauhaus, the Swiss Move-
ment, the International Style and The Late Modern Advertising Print Age are
contrasted against actual working environments reflecting daily life and style featur-
ing period furniture and architecture.
MAX
BILL
Architecture
Typeface Designer
Artist
Painter
Graphic Designer
SWISS/INTERNATIONAL STYLE Icons
Josef Muller-Brockmann
Armin Hofmann
Emil Rude
Max Huber
Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect,
artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
Bill is widely considered the single most decisive influence on Swiss graphic
design beginning in the 1950s with his theoretical writing and progressive work.
Architecture
Furniture Designer
Lamp Designer
Michele De Lucchi studied architecture at Padua and Florence until 1975.
From 1975 to 1977 he was an academic assistant in the architecture
department at Florence University. In 1973 Michelle De Lucchi joined
forces with other designers and architects to form Cavart, a radical design
group which put on Happenings and held seminars in Padua. In 1978 Michele
De Lucchi moved to Milan, where he worked for Kartell in their proprietary studio,
Centrokappa. For their exhibitions, Michele De Lucchi created several
grotesque and comical design objects. In 1978 Michele De Lucchi designed "Sinerpica",
a table lamp that is practically useless as a lamp. In 1979 Michele De Lucchi also
designed several prototype household appliances
DeLICHI
MICHELLE
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Icons
Raymond Loewy
Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Mariane Brant
Arne Jacobsen
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, NY 10128
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