INTERIORS
August 1954
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 114, no. 1, August 1954. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 118 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Bruno Munari. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy. Preserved in Publishers mailing envelope.
9 x 12 magazine with 118 pages of black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming post-WWII modern movement. A very desirable, vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction make this a spectacular addition to a midcentury design collection. Highly recommended.
- The year's work: introduction to the annual collection
- The year's work: the projects [includes work by Richard Neutra (2 pages with 2 b/w photos by Julius Shulman), Harry Seidler (1 page with 2 b/w photos), Bertha Schaefer, Harry Weese (1 page with 4 b/w photos), Norman Cherner, Campbell & Wong (1 page with 1 b/w photo), Joseph Aronson (1 page with 1 b/w photo), William S. Beckett (1 b/w photo), Florence Knoll (1 b/w photo), Dorothy Draper (1 b/w photo), Olindo Grossi, Morris Lapidus (1 b/w photo), Raymond Loewy (1 b/w photo), Ico Parisi and Darrell Landrum among others.]
- Makers of tradition – 22: The Queen Anne Style
- Blue Heaven over Manhattan: the Chatain apartment
- Good Design: the fifth anniversary show [6 pages with 33 b/w illustrations including work by Charles Eames for Herman Miller, Ronald Pearson for Bonniers, Paul Rand for L. Anton Maix, George Nelson Associates for Parker D. Perry, Russel Wright for Northern Industrial Chemical Company, Bruno Matthson for Bonniers, Harry Bertoia for Knoll, Folke Ohlsson for Dux, Sven Markelius for Knoll, Finn Juhl for Baker and Kaj Franck for Wartsila.
- Today in tradition: a liberal translation
- In the showrooms: rugs, fabrics, papers, furniture and more
- Departments include For your information [1 page with 4 b/w illustrations on Bruno Munari], Interiors' editorial and America's Great Sources: index to advertisers in this issue
- Vintage advertisements for Knoll, Telechron, Paul McCobb for Directional, Herman Miller, Boris Kroll, Dunbar, Swedish Modern, Howard Miller Clock Co. and Raymor among others.
George Nelson famously served as Editorial contributor to Interiors, where he used the magazine as his bully pulpit for bringing modernism to middle-class America. Interiors was a hard-core interior design publication, as shown by their publishing credo: "Published for the Interior Designers Group which includes: interior designers, architects who do interior work, industrial designers who specialize in interior furnishings, the interior decorating departments of retail stores, and all concerned with the creation and production of interiors -- both residential and commercial."