Timeline

California Pottery: Mission to Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

Evelyn and Jerome are among a select group of artists and designers honored as Legends of Design during West Week, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles.

In response to the renewed interest in modernism, Jerome produces select Jenev ceramic pieces in porcelain using the original molds.

Jerome, semiretired, hand throws one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces that are sold in galleries and shown in numerous southern California exhibitions.

Evelyn spends a year and a half creating a 40-piece series of cloisonné enamels, Stories from the Bible. The series is now in the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

After many successful years on Beverly Boulevard, the Ackermans, in association with Forms+Surfaces, move the ERA showroom to the Pacific Design Center, across the street from the location of their second Los Angeles showroom in the 50s. They are on the “contract” floor with Herman Miller, Knoll, and other important showrooms.

Evelyn designs four pairs of carved oak doors for the sanctuary at Congregation Ahavas Israel, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in memory of her twin sister, Roslyn.