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Design Show: Christmas 1949

November 15, 1949 – January 08, 1950 54 days 11 installation images
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1 Curator

Alexander Girard
American, 1907–1993

88 Artists

A.E. Carpenter AB Strömbergshyttan, Hovmantorp, Sweden Alex J. Ettl Alexander Giampietro Alfred E. Knobler & Co. Allan Adler Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company Alvar Aalto Andries Dirk Copier Antoinette Webster Arzberg Porcelain Mfg. Co., Arzberg, Germany Beatrice Albert Benjamin Baldwin Bernard Rudofsky Bob Stocksdale Bretton Fabrics Corp. Carl Molin Charles Wiliam Doepke Mfg. Co. Columbus Plastic Products, Inc. Coors Porcelain Co., Golden, CO Corning Glass Works, Corning, NY D.D. Tillet Design Unit New York, New York, NY Dirilyte Co. of America Inc. Ed. Lane & Co., Inc. Edith Heath Ekco Products Co., Chicago, IL Eliot Noyes Ernst Lichtblau Espenet Fine Woods Franco Scalamandre G.F. Stocker Gerda Strömberg Greta Franke Gunnel Nyman Henry Cassen Hermann Gretsch Hungerford Plastics Corp. International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY Isamu Noguchi J. Gistl J.B. Miller Co., Inc. J.H. Thorp & Co., Inc., New York, NY Joseph Franken Decorative Accessories, New York, NY Jud Williams, Inc. K.E. Porter Kaj Franck Karhula Glassworks, Finland Keyes Fibre Co. Knoll Associates, New York, NY Kro Flies Kites Kromex Sales Co., Cleveland, OH Krystallglasmanufaktur Theresienthal Gmbh, Zweisel, Germany L.J. Denmire Leslie Tillet M. Ziskin Marcello Nizzoli McKay, Davis and McLane Menlo Textiles, Menlo Park, CA Mil-Art Co., Inc. Montici Artisans N.W. Roop Olivetti, Milan Oy Arabia AB P. Rigatti, Empoli, Italy Patterson Fabrics, Inc. Paul Bonhop, Inc. Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Playskool Plymouth Colony Farms R.S. Radcliffe Richard Blow Richard L. Hopkins Robert Budlong Saul Steinberg Scalamandre Silks, Inc. Sculpture House, New York, NY Stocker & Yale Taddei & Co. The Buckeye Aluminum Company United States Glass Co., Tiffin, OH Villich-Franke Studios Vittorio Necchi, Pavia, Italy Vollrath Co., Sheboygan, WI W. T. Gossard Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., NY William Machado Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, IL

Resonant Works

Artworks semantically connected to this exhibition's themes and artists

16 works
Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings

Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Ho...

Charles Eames

1940

Herman Miller Collection, Möbel unserer Zeit

Herman Miller Collection, Möbel unserer Zeit

Armin Hofmann

1962

Advertising cards for Lindenmeyr Schlosser

Advertising cards for Lindenmeyr Schlosser

Elaine Lustig Cohen

c.1961

Ontwerp en Produktie Voorwerpen van Angelo Mangiarotti, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari

Ontwerp en Produktie Voorwerpen van Angelo Mangiarotti, E...

Enzo Mari

1966

The New York Collection for Stockholm

The New York Collection for Stockholm

Lee Bontecou

1973

Exhibition of Modern Silverwork

Exhibition of Modern Silverwork

E. McKnight Kauffer

1938

Coffee Table (Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organic Design in Home Furnishings)

Coffee Table (Entry Panel for MoMA Competition for Organi...

Charles Eames

1940

Entry Panel for MoMA International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design (7990a)

Entry Panel for MoMA International Competition for Low-Co...

Charles Eames

1949

Entry Panel for MoMA International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design (7990g)

Entry Panel for MoMA International Competition for Low-Co...

Charles Eames

1949

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