Memory: Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism, CJM

I found my old blog last week and have decided to update and restore some posts I had about interesting exhibits of the past before they are lost forever. Today’s entry is about an exhibit called Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism, which was on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco over the summer of 2014. It was a show about how European Jewish emigres networked together around a core of design institutions across the US, inspiring a new look for architecture, furniture, textiles, dinnerware & utensils, Judaica, and graphic design.  The institutions singled out in the show were MoMA, Walker Art Center, Institute of Design (Chicago), Black Mountain College (NC), Case Study House/Art + Architecture magazine (LA), and Pond Farm (Guerneville, CA). There were many artists included in this survey and about 200 works on display; I took a few photos of graphic design elements I found inspiring. The CJM has a page on its site with videos, press releases, and short essays.