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Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

Friday, Sep 28, 201810 AM — Sunday, Jan 6, 20196 PMCST

Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI, US Milwaukee, WI, US | Milwaukee Art Museum

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America explores the projects of over 40 designers who advocated for playfulness and whimsy within their creations for corporations, domestic interiors, and children. The exhibition presents play as a serious form of inspiration, experimentation, and problem solving. In midcentury America, such playful design occurred against the backdrop of a booming consumer market and as a counterbalance to Cold War–era anxiety. Furniture, toys, textiles, films, posters, ceramics are among the objects featured.

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Ray Eames with the first prototype of The Toy, 1950. © Eames Office LLC (eamesoffice.com)
RELATED NEWS Upcoming exhibition 'Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America' to explore how concept of playfulness influenced postwar American design

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Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America

Friday, Sep 28, 201810 AM — Sunday, Jan 6, 20196 PMCST

Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI, US Milwaukee, WI, US | Milwaukee Art Museum

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Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America explores the projects of over 40 designers who advocated for playfulness and whimsy within their creations for corporations, domestic interiors, and children. The exhibition presents play as a serious form of inspiration, experimentation, and problem solving. In midcentury America, such playful design occurred against the backdrop of a booming consumer market and as a counterbalance to Cold War–era anxiety. Furniture, toys, textiles, films, posters, ceramics are among the objects featured.

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Ray Eames with the first prototype of The Toy, 1950. © Eames Office LLC (eamesoffice.com)
RELATED NEWS Upcoming exhibition 'Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America' to explore how concept of playfulness influenced postwar American design

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