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FRIEDMAN BENDA - Jennifer Olshin and James Zemaitis

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2016 · Entertainment

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Curator: Jennifer Olshin and James Zemaitis
Exhibition Title: THE GARDEN IN THE MACHINE: ORGANIC DESIGN 1930 TO THE PRESENT
Exhibition Dates: January 21 - February 13, 2016
Gallery Link:  http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/upcoming/the-garden-in-the-machine-organic-design-1930-to-the-present
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Exploring tensions between the schools of modernism and craft, the furniture and objects in the show illustrate the evolution of the term “organic” over the course of the last century.  From being synonymous with “harmony” in the didactic exhibitions organized by Eliot Noyes and Edgar Kauffmann at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s-1950s, to the studio furniture movement of the 1960s-1980s, when it represented nature and living matter as epitomized in the writings on woodworking by George Nakashima and Wendell Castle, organic design was fervently embraced by both sides of the aisle as an essential ingredient to their identity.

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