An expansive account of the ever-popular mid-century movement, from the place where it all began
Embark on a surprising and joyful visual tour of American mid-century modernism through hundreds of photographs, drawings, and pieces of ephemera organized by the art museum at Cranbrook, where the movement began. Essential figures such as Charles and Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen are represented alongside other women and designers of color that have been historically eclipsed, including Joel Robinson, Ray Komai, Ruth Adler Schnee, Olga Lee, Miller Yee Fong, Lucia DeRespinis, Dorothy Liebes, and many others. The book offers a fresh perspective on this beloved and influential movement.
Andrew Satake Blauvelt is Director of Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan. His career has spanned the worlds of academia and arts and culture in a variety of roles at leading art museums and collegiate design programs, including designer, curator, critic, historian, educator, and administrator. His design work has received numerous awards, and his curatorial projects have been extensively featured in international media.
Bridget Bartal is the MillerKnoll Curatorial Fellow at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
