The furniture, jewellery, recreational objects, ceramics, fabric arts, and other designs that emerged from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s in California would come to identify its outdoorsy, eccentric, sometimes entirely funky persona. And the best of these were exhibited, sometimes idolised, through a series of popular shows at the Pasadena Art Museum.
California Design is a detailed retrospective of these exhibitions and the West Coast style they epitomised, replete with hundreds of innovative photographs showcasing the works in all their original glory.
Signature works from Charles & Ray Eames, Tropi-Cal, Don Chadwick (cocreator of the Aeron chair), and many other designers and studios illustrate twenty years of style that was as diverse as it was pioneering.
