Main entry:

Albrecht, Donald.

Title & Author:

Russel Wright : creating American lifestyle / Donald Albrecht, Robert Schonfeld, Lindsay Stamm Shapiro.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 2001.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171) and index.
Foreword / Paul Warwick Thompson -- Introduction / Donald Albrecht and Robert Schonfeld -- A Man and His Manners: Resetting the American Table / Lindsay Stamm Shapiro -- From Hollywood to Walden Pond: Stage Sets for American Living / Donald Albrecht -- Manitoga: A Modern Landscape in the Hudson River Valley / Robert Schonfeld -- Marketing Easier Living: The Commodification of Russel Wright / Robert Schonfeld.

Summary:

This first major retrospective of one of the country's greatest industrial designers explores the products and ideas developed and marketed by Russel Wright, inventor of a gracious, informal and contemporary approach to the middle-class, mid-century American home. Wright's inexpensive and mass-produced dinnerware, appliances, textiles and furniture made modern design accessible to millions of people and married new industrial methods with time-honored traditions of craftsmanship. Visually and technically innovative, his designs combined bold, abstract shapes with unusual colors, resulting in household objects that were often molded to the user's hand and warm to the touch. Working with his wife, Mary, an expert promoter, Wright taught Americans how to live in ways that were practical, elegant and free from drudgery, helping to shape a new aesthetic and championing the democratic ideal of high-quality modern design for all.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0810932784
9780810932784

Subject:

Wright, Russel, 1904-1976 Exhibitions.
Wright, Russel Exhibitions.
Wright, Russel, 1904-1976 Expositions.
Wright, Russel, 1904-1976
Bestek (eetgerei)
Meubels.
Industriële vormgeving.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Schonfeld, Robert.
Shapiro, Lindsay Stamm.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219377
Call No.: NK44.W953 A5 2001
Status: Available