Thanks so much for posting this. I am familiar with a bunch of names on the list but one that I didn't know was William Steinmetz of Baltimore, where I've lived most of my adult life. I looked him up and turns out he was married to Betty Cooke, a well known jewelry designer who owns The Store, Ltd. where I've shopped many times! Small world. Great store--they have always sold beautiful art objects, housewares, jewelry and clothing.
Kate Kaplan, curious to see what the correction was on the Martzs' names/ info...great that it was corrected.
There was a similar misspelled name I noticed in Girard's An Exhibition for Modern Living for the Detroit Institute of the Arts in1949. One of the designer's name was credited in the main part of the book as Roland Smith and in the index in the back it was the correct name Ronald Smith but the Girard archives and Detroit Institute of the Arts said there was no error and now every time that lamp shows up, it is credited with the misspelled first name.
You inherited something from your father that is beyond monetary value...congratulations.
Spanky, that's so interesting -- I've enjoyed looking for more info on these designers - seems like Akron/Young Homemakers had a good eye.
Minimoma, thanks for your kind words. I'm a poor historian, though. I should have posted the corrections sheet with the rest of it, if only because it confirms my notion that at least some of the designers met. It also tells me that Living for Young Homemakers was edited by Edith Brazwell Evans --
http://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/20/edith-evans-magazine-editor-and-home-d...
sounds like such an interesting woman.
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