Edited by Judith Gura, Chris Kennedy, and Larry Weinberg. DESIGNbase®/Lin-Weinberg Gallery. © 1997. 76 pages. Full catalog accompanying 1997 exhibition "Edward Wormley: The Other Face of Modernism" with essays, timeline, and bibliography. Contains over 100 photographs of Edward Wormley's furniture designs, interior settings and product designs, essays on his life and career, an illustrated timeline of his major designs for Dunbar from 1933 to 1961, and a select bibliography.
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Excerpt:
Wormley was an altogether different type of modernist than the others -- he did not view modernism as a one-way street pointing only toward the new. "Modernism means freedom -- freedom to mix, to choose, to change, to embrace the new but to hold fast to what is good." His furniture, which drew from the past to translate classical elements in contemporary vernacular, could be understood and appreciated by consumers raised on traditional design.