A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles, Wallpapers and Containers & Packaging, 1951-54
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By Virginia Gardner Troy (Text by), Charles Gute, Greg Castillo (Text by), Margaret Re (Editor), Margaret Re (Preface by), Margaret Re (Text by), Symmes Gardner (Foreword by), Stuart W. Leslie (Text by), Jan Logemann (Text by), Emily A. Margolis (Text by)
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The all-American spirit of midcentury modernism, in three US State Department-sponsored exhibitions
This revelatory volume recovers and presents the history of three exhibitions organized by the US State Department’s Traveling Exhibition Service almost 70 years ago: Contemporary American Textiles, curated by Florence Knoll, Contemporary American Wallpapers, curated by Tom Lee, and Containers & Packaging, curated by Will Burtin.
These exhibitions were made for presentation in West German scho...












