California Designed 1955 / Long Beach Museum of Art
CA Designed 1955 at the Long Beach Museum of Art Museums are opening back up and I was happy an exhibition I missed last year was still up at the LBMA . The title wall. Here's the catalog for the original 1955 exhibition. It was a collaboration between the Long Beach Municipal Art Center (now LBMA) and the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco. The exhibitions ran simultaneously. Campbell and Wong designed the exhibition at the de Young. The 1955 Long Beach exhibition was juried by John Entenza, editor of Arts and Architecture Magazine; Greta Grossman, designer; Richard Petterson, ceramist; Samuel Heavenrich. the Long Beach Municipal Art Center director of CALIFORNIA DESIGNED. I did a little post on the original California Designed in 2012 . As you can see in the top photo, there is a Marshmallow Sofa right at the beginning of the exhibition. The exhibition is called California Designed 1955 and George Nelson was an east coaster a...
