Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism EXHIBITION OPENS

Through a showcase of vintage furnishings, housewares and graphics, this exhibition explores how Jewish émigré and American-born designers and architects that helped spark America's embrace of midcentury modernism—forging a bold new direction in design and thought.

On view are creations by Anni Albers, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Alvin Lustig, Saul Bass, Ernest Sohn, Ruth Adler, Harry Rosenthal and more than 25 other individuals who developed this creative movement.

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism was created and organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, with guest curator Donald Albrecht.