INTERIORS
February 1957
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 116, no. 2, February 1957. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 154 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Genichiro Inokuma. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 154 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1957 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II. 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.
- Pause at midnight
- Hospitals: includes photography by Hedrich-Blessing and work by Basil Yurchenco, Vincent Kling and Isadore Rosenfield
- Breezeway vistas in a Montego Bay house: Robert law Weed, architect
- Art for the office lobby: mosaic elevator shaft by William Lescaze, architect and Hans Hoffmann, artist
- The Italian style, and Mario Gottardi's ingenious ideas and details
- 224 Avenue Louise by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- Paul McCobb exploits freedom of space
- Harvey Probber resettled
- Larsen's latest showroom: Jack Lenor Larsen's new showroom
- Speaking of tradition—3: Henry James' Washington Square by Marian Page
- Market report: includes furniture by Paul McCobb for Directional, John Widdicomb, Edward Wormley, Berge-Norman, John Stuart, Johannes Andersen for Bengt and Ellen Rickberg, Svend Madsen for Hagen & Strandgaard, Allan Gould, Primavera Design Group, Granick Furniture Co., and Molla among others
- Solid geometry in an accessory assortment: includes Peter Pepper Products, Saw Co. and Gift Craft Leather Co.
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." [interiors_2019]