The Experiential Design Index

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism — Contemporary Jewish Museum

"Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism" opened April 4, 2014 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California, guest curated by Donald Albrecht, with exhibition and catalogue design by Pure+Applied.

VenueContemporary Jewish Museum
Project typeNew Exhibition
StatusCompleted
Year completed2014

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Pure+Applied Exhibit Design Also designed and art-directed the accompanying catalogue

Description

The first exhibition to examine Jewish designers', architects', patrons', and merchants' contributions to modern American domestic design, featuring work by Anni Albers, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Alvin Lustig, and Saul Bass, among others; the exhibition later traveled to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York (through January 2016).

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