FURNITURE FORUM Spring 1955
[Handbook of Contemporary Design]
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]
Englewood, NJ: Phillip L. Pritchard, Spring 1955 [Volume 6, Number 1]. Quarto. Printed pebbled yapped wrappers bound with brads [as issued]. 40 pp. Fully illustrated in black and white. Curatorial information includes designer, materials, and measurements. Uncoated wrappers worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
8.75 x 11 softcover edition with 40 pages of black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, lighting, and fabric, circa 1955. This volume is a goldmine of reference material for identifying early-fifties contemporary furniture and home fixtures, but you probably already knew that, didn't you?
Contents:
- Publisher’s Notes
- Good Design, January 1955 by Edgar Kaufman, Jr.: Four pages and four exhibition photos.
- Personalities: short illustrated profiles of Renzo R. Rutili; Maurice Heaton; Peter Pepper and Bruce Hill; and Evelyn Hill.
- Furniture: Aalto Design-Finsven: Alvar Aalto; The Widdicomb Furniture Company: T. H. Robgjohn-Gibbings; Marshall Studios: Jane & Gordon Martz; Baker Furniture: Finn Juhl; Multiflex Corporation; Jens Risom Design, Inc.; Herman Miller Furniture Company: George Nelson; The Holly Line: Van Keppel—Green; Johnson Furniture Co.: Renzo Rutili; Limpus Exclusives: Robert W. Limpus; George Tanier: Ib Kofod-Larsen, H. Bender Madsen & Schubell; D. R. Bradley Company: Samuel R. Ogden, Jr.; Executive Furniture Guild: Giacomo Buzzitta for Stow Davis Furniture; Frederick Lunning, Inc.: Carl Ekselius, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Hans Wegner; Lehigh Furniture Corporation: Von Der Lancken, Harold Bartos, Burton G. Tysinger; Brancusi; Directional Showrooms: Paul McCobb; Fabry Associates: Erno F. Fabry; Dunbar Furniture Corpration of Indiana: Edward Wormley; Ficks Reed Company: John B. Wisner; Edward A. Roffman Associates; Allan Gould Designs, Inc.
- Lighting: Altamira; George Tanier: Osten Kristiansson; Lightolier: Lightolier and Joseph D. Weiss.
- Fabrics: Angelo Testa; Tropicraft of San Francisco; Edwin Raphael Company: Marli Ehrman, Harry Carpenter, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson; Wolfin Associates: Astrid Sampe, Viola Grafsten, Stig Lindberg.
- Accessories: Puget Sound Designs; Howard Miller — Plastics Division: George Nelson, Irving Harper [Unc.]; Peter Pepper Products: Bruce Hill; Maurice Heaton, Craftsman; Nettle Creek Industries of Richmond, Indiana.
The Furniture Forum Advisory Board for 1955 included Robert Alexander, Pietro Belluschi, Serge Chermayeff, Anne Franke, Paul Frankl, William M. Friedman, Alexander Girard, Charles Granger, Greta Grossman, Walter Gropius, Victor Gruen, Karl Kamrath, Carl Koch, Ernest Kump, Dorothy Liebes, Alvin Lustig, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Hans Nieboer, and Hugh Stubbins.