INTERIORS
January 1954
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 113, no. 6, January 1954. Original edition. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 142 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Hubert Leckie. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, with a faint diagonal crease, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 142 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- 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.
- Uriane at St. Tropez: Loewy's new villa [6 pages with 13 b/w illustrations]
- Greetings in color from a card shop: The Architects Associated
- Interiors to come [14th annual collection]: Introduction
- Wells and Canfield: A house divided high on Lake Cayuga
- Ico Parisi: Interior implications of reinforced concrete
- Paul Rudolph: Baroque formality in a tourist attraction [4 pages with 5 b/w illustrations]
- Felix Augenfeld: Compression without oppression on Fire Island
- Pierre Kleykamp: Triangular studio attached to a trailer
- The clash of symbols – 6: Plants and faces vigilant on capitals
- George Nelson's colorful cases in steel surroundings [2 pages with 6 b/w illustrations with spot color]
- Trios of chairs in an airport: chairs by James Lamantia for the Shreveport, Louisiana municipal airport
- C. H. Masland's showroom in the round
- Some showroom solutions – mid and far west [2 pages with 12 b/w illustrations]: includes Ben Rose and Allan Gould's space in Chicago's Merchandise Mart and Herman Miller's redesigned showrooms in Chicago's Merchandise Mart and San Francisco's Design Center by George Nelson and Assoc.
- Merchandise cues includes work by Joe Adkinson, George Nelson, Robin Day, Bertha Schaefer, Gio Ponti, Carlo di Carli and Bill Lam
- Vintage advertisements for Herman Miller, Boris Kroll Fabrics, Jens Risom Design, Paul McCobb for Directional, Harvey Probber, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Howard Miller Clock [George Nelson bubble lamps], Avard Furniture, Stamford, Kneedler Fauchere, Vakassian and Sons, Ficks Reed, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbins for Widdicomb, Thonet and Janet Rosenblum 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." [interiors_2019]