The Modernist #54
200 x 200 mm, 72 pages
Manchester, UK
Quarterly
First published 2011
Editor: Hanna Neate
Founding/lead editors: Jack Hale and Eddy Rhead
Design: Johnson INC and Lily Platt
Published by The Modernist Society, the small-format and currently square-shaped The Modernist (its shape changes regularly) explores 20th century architecture and design via quarterly, themed-issues.
Each year they move to another initial letter: 2025 is ‘O’, and continues with the ‘Outside’ issue. A note from the team at The Modernist: ‘We encourage you to think of this issue of The Modernist as an exercise in armchair fieldwork, in the hope it might inspire you to get OUTSIDE this summer.’
Look back at the ENI Village—a retreat for ENI employees in the Italian Dolomites, heralded as ‘Italy’s economic miracle’— the Cap D’Agde nudist village, Belgian mid-century doorhandles, the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, and discover intricate public murals in the unusual setting of one of the UK’s most popular supermarket chains.