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By Jeffrey Head & Dan Chavkin & Marilyn Cohen & Brad Dunning
The designers, materials and cultural forces leading the midcentury modern era transformed outdoor furniture into symbols of optimism, leisure, innovation, and California modernism.
Midcentury Modern Design for Outdoor Living celebrates the designers, architects, and manufacturers who transformed patios, gardens, pool sides, and terraces into extensions of modern life. Additionally, it provides a cultural history of postwar America, a visual archive of indoor-outdoor modernism, a design reference for collectors and professionals, and a lifestyle narrative about the invention of modern leisure.
Featuring new photography, archival material, and profiles of iconic designers from Brown Jordan and Walter Lamb to the Eameses and Vladimir Kagan, this is the history of how outdoor spaces became icons of modern American living.
Jeffrey Head writes about art, architecture, and design. He is the author of Paul Evans: Designer & Sculptor, No Nails, No Lumber: The Bubble Houses of Wallace Neff, Regional Landscape Architecture: Northern California, Rooted in Resilience. He co-authored Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape and curated the Stanford University library exhibition Herbert Matter: Modernist Photography and Graphic Design.
Dan Chavkin studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. An avid aficionado of all things modernist, he collects Midcentury Modern furniture, ceramics, and art. He co-authored the book Hand-In-Hand, about midcentury designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman; authored Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern; and co-authored his most recent book, Architectural Pottery, on the 1950s California-based company.
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