INTERIORS
May 1960
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 119, No. 10] May 1960. Original edition. Slim quarto. Side stitched perfect bound wrappers. 182 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisments. Wrappers lightly rubbed with a tiny abrasion to front panel. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Cover by Arnold Saks. A nearly fine copy.
9 x 12 magazine with approximately 182 pages of color and b/w examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1960 -- 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.
Contents include:
- Interiors' Contract Series '60: Hotels and Motels
- Ballroom at Hotel Pierre, New York by Henry Stojowksi with Alice Fenner and Leslie Wheel
- Hotels Coast to Coast by Henry End
- The Royal York, Toronto by Ernest Rex
- Barberry Room at the Berkshire, New York by Chandler Cudlipp
- The Berkshire Lobby and Guest Rooms by Braswell-Cook
- Skyline Motor Inn, New York by Frederick Fox
- Manhattan Penthouse with Memories by David Whitcomb
- Loeb Student Center, New York by Harrison & Abramovitz, interiors by George Nelson
- NYU Graduate School by Charles Gelber
- American Victoriana: Brooklyn Museum's Appreciative Exhibit
- Regal Moire: Fabritate's Plush New Vinyl Wall Covering
- Merchandise Cues
Includes advertising [many full page and/or color] from the following manufacturers and companies: Thonet, Dunbar, Herman Miller [full page ad], Helikon, Knoll [full page color ad], Jens Risom Design, Heifetz Design Gallery, Van Keppel-Green, Howard Miller Clock Co., Frederick Lunning, BSA, CHF and Design-Technics.
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]