OCTOBER 24, 2008-MAY 17, 2009

American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow, organized by The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design, Montreal, presents 150 examples of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, plastics, graphic design, and archival design books. Although it focuses on the 1930s and ’40s, the period in which streamlined design developed, the exhibition also presents streamlined designs of today. Curated by David A. Hanks, Curator of the Stewart Program for Modern Design, American Streamlined Design is the most comprehensive survey ever mounted on the subject. American Streamlined Design offers a fresh appraisal of the aesthetic of streamlined design, placing the achievements of its best-known exponents—among them Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Raymond Loewy and Walter Dorwin Teague—squarely beside the contributions of other lesser-known but significant designers such as Lurelle Guild, Clifford Brooks Stevens, Harold Van Doren and newly discovered practitioners like John R. Morgan, William B. Petzold and Louis Vavrik. This exhibition also makes a case for the vigor of streamlining in today's design.

FEATURED IMAGE
Robert Heller Airflow Table Fan
Designed c. 1937
Eric Brill Collection, B029

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