America's Response to the 1925 Paris Exposition Video Event
About the Program:
In this recorded video presentation—which you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home at a time that best fits your schedule—design historian and author, Marilyn F. Friedman, explores early efforts by designers in America to develop a unique response to the modern design featured at the 1925 Paris Exposition.
This video event gives an in-depth look at how, although the United States did not participate in the 1925 Paris L’ Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the Exhibition was still a catalyst for the development of modern design in America.
Through the use of exceptional archival images that bring to life the modern interior design of the period, Friedman shares the many ways that Americans were exposed to the European modern design shown at the Exposition, including:
- An exhibition of objects from the Exposition that traveled to museums around the country
- Portfolios of French modern design that were available to designers in the U.S.
- How department stores brought objects from Europe to encourage experimentation
- A commission appointed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover to visit and report upon the Exposition issued a report that was widely circulated
Don't miss this online recorded event that shows how all of these efforts encouraged designers in America to develop their own iterations of modern design, which were showcased in a variety of venues in the late 1920s and found their way into the homes of adventuresome Americans!
This recorded video event includes the original PowerPoint—with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device.
About the Speaker:
Marilyn F. Friedman is a design historian. A graduate of the Masters program at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, she lectures widely on twentieth century modern interiors and decorative arts. She is the author of Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior and Making America Modern; Interior Design in the 1930s, as well as several articles in journals and exhibition catalogs relating to American design between the wars.
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