December 2009
‘Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living’ is a book compilation of the works of Gilbert Rohde.
The pioneering modernist was an innovative designer of furniture and interiors who attained near celebrity status across the United States in the 1930s and early '40s.
Yet his reputation languished after the war until rekindled in the 1970s by new interest in mid-century modernism-whose forms his work anticipated.
In March of 2009, the first comprehensive appraisal of the designer's achievements reaches bookstores nationwide.
In ‘Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living’, published by Yale University Press, author Phyllis Ross provides a detailed account of Rohde's work and life in the context of the social, economic, and cultural circumstances of the first half of the 20th century.
Some 190 photographs document Rohde's interiors and furniture-including prototypes-and an array of never-before-seen archival materials.
These include advertisements, publicity shots, magazine spreads, and trade publications.
Many have been drawn from previously untapped sources, including the Gilbert Rohde archive held by the designer's most important manufacturing client, the Herman Miller Company.
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