<img width="548" height="1024" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/45398_dc547b091624d807_b.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Textile, 1930–31, USA, designed by Donald Deskey (American, 1894–1989), screen printed linen, Museum purchase through bequest of Ida C. McNeil in memory of Lincoln C. McNeil and Catherine McNeil, 1989-86-1" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;" />Industrial designer Donald Deskey, along with his contemporaries, Norman Bel Geddes and Gilbert Rohde, adapted austere European Modernism to be palatable for the American taste. Deskey introduced novel ideas with the use of new materials such as Bakelite, aluminum, Permatex, and rayon. He was sensitive to budget constraints of the 1930s consumer, an offered a...
