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Promises of Paradise
| August 08, 2008


The Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville FL will host a design show — Promises of Paradise — running October 11, 2008 until January 25, 2009. The focus is mid-century modern design with an emphasis on Florida. Something they call Tropical Modernism or Miami Modernism


Pictured is an end table by designer George Farkas produced in 1949. The show includes furniture, fashion items, interior reconstructions, photographs, printed ephemera and architectural renderings. Featured architects and designers include: Morris Lapidus, George Farkas, Alfred Browning Parker, Kenneth Treister, Igor Polevitzky, Frederick Rank.

You can read an article written when the show was previously on view at the Bass Museum of Art


Link:  Harn Museum Show Schedule

Tags:  harn museum, modernism

Topic: Exhibitions

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