America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer Sale Size: 2'8x7'9

Size: 2'8x7'9

The piece features two brass columns which support an oblong glass shade wrapped in black mesh

Age: Circa 1940

and the objects they chose to live with

America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer Sale Size: 2'8x7'9During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by advances in transportation, communication, technology and advertising, changed how people lived their lives, and the objects they chose to live with. A new profession emerged to help American manufacturers and consumers navigate the overwhelming transitions of the era. Through the power of design form, color, ornament and materials the earliest industrial