« Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Director of Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, in the 1940s and 1950s, had issued a stark warning in the Architectural Review of August 1948. He drew attention to what he described as ‘Borax or the Chromium Plated Calf’, castigating what he saw as a prevalent and spreading American tendency of ‘style follows sales’. Kaufmann pursued such views through the curation of a series of Good Design exhibitions at MOMA from 1950 to 1955 that contained many objects that endorsed the European Modernist aesthetic and built upon the design tendencies that had been apparent since the establishment of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Art at the Museum in 1932. The MOMA Design Collection was inaugurated with the 1934 Machine Art exhibition curated by the arch‐Modernist Philip Johnson. »Good Design in A Dictionary of Modern Design.
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