Livable Modernism

Question 1

Answer 1

Showroom for the Montalbano-Majestic Wood Carving Company, Chicago, c. 1929.

Question 2

Answer 2

Eero Saarinen, Auditorium Armchair, Kingswood School, Cranbrook Academy, tubular steel and wood with green woven upholstery, 1929-31. Collection of Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum.

Question 3

Answer 3

Gilbert Rohde, designer, Bookcase-Cabinet (no. 3448), Herman Miller Furniture Company, manufacturer, East Indian laurel and chrome-plated steel, 1934.

Question 4

Answer 4

Russel Wright, designer, American Modern Armchair, Conant Bell Furniture Company, manufacturer, maple, cotton, and wool, 1935. Collection of Yale University Art Gallery.

Question 5

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Gilbert Rohde, designer, Vanity Table and Ottoman (no. 3323), Herman Miller Furniture Company, manufacturer, white holly, red English elm, yellow poplar, cream-colored paint, mirror glass, Bakelite, wool and cotton rose-colored fabric. Collection of Yale University Art Gallery. 1934

Question 6

Answer 6

Russel Wright, American Modern dinnerware, glazed earthenware, 1937. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Question 7

Answer 7

Russel Wright, designer, Rendering of American Modern Trestle Shelves, Conant Bell Furniture Company, manufacturer, watercolor and graphite, c. 1935. Collection of Syracuse University Library.

Question 8

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Gilbert Rohde, designer, molded plastic chair, stainless steel and Plexiglas, 1939. Collection of MoMA.

Question 9

Answer 9

Gilbert Rohde, designer, Occasional Table (no. 3945), Herman Miller Furniture Company, manufacturer, glass, Lucite, and brass, 1939.

Question 10

Answer 10

Alvar Aalto, architect, Finnish Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, 1939. Photograph by Ezra Stoller.

Donald Deskey, designer, Dining Room, exhibit in Contemporary Industrial Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940.