How to make the Herman Miller picnic poster salad
An iconic Midwestern recipe was immortalized in this 1982 Herman Miller poster. | All images courtesy Herman Miller
Designer Steve Frykholm shares the story behind Seven Layered Salad Since 1970, Steve Frykholm?s posters for Herman Miller?s annual company picnic have featured a mouthwatering spread of summer potluck staples.
Frykholm has whipped up pies oozing bright red cherries, chicken thighs searing over white-hot briquets, bacon snaking through a trough of baked beans. His very first poster, two rows of teeth sunk deep into a cob of corn, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.
On my first visit to Herman Miller?s headquarters a few years ago, it was thrilling to peek inside the archives of the iconic midcentury furniture manufacturer. But I was most excited to see the original 1982 picnic poster Seven Layered Salad, which looked like it was screenprinted directly from the summers of my childhood.
Seven Layered Salad was one of dozens of picnic posters Steve Frykholm designed.
Seven layer salad is a Midwestern institution, where the preparation is as important as the presentation. It consists of an entire head of chopped iceberg lettuce carefully covered with layers of vegetables?one of which must be frozen peas?all frosted like a cake with a thick coat of mayonnaise. I can taste its cool, tangy crunch in my Missouri backyard, accompanied by the throbbing hum of cicadas, the still-icy peas bursting on my tongue.
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