America Goes Modern

$45.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

America Goes Modern: The Rise of the Industrial Designer by Nonie Gadsden with Kate Lanford Joy How design made America modern: masterpieces of furniture, metal ware and plastics from the early 20th century. During 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…