INTERIORS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN June 1947
Volume 106, no. 11
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 106, no. 11. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 162 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Augustus Mino. Wrappers lightly rubbed and creased with wear to spine tips, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 162 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1947 -- 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:
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- Profile of cover artists: Le Corbusier, Susanne Wasson-Tucker and Augustus Mino.
- Full-page, 2-color advertisement for the Herman Miller Furniture Company
announcing a new group of household furniture designed by George Nelson, one of the leading U. S. exponents of modern design.
- For Your Information: Good Design exhibition in Buffalo; George Nemeny, etc.
- Youth Will Be Served: Retail Desgns By Weston Anderson, Edward Stolarz, Paul Canin, Koline Ruth Hager, Helmut G. Tietje, Fitzsimmons And Hannenstein, Stanford Vaccaro, John Geist, Etc.
- Three Ideas For The Design Of Retail Stores By Louis Parnes
- "Midway" Leads Customers Througha Carpet Mart: Herman Siegel
- Midwestern Emporium [Kansas City] By Antonin Raymond And Ladislav Rado
- Let's Beuatify The Selling Machine By Morris Lapidus
- McCreery's Furniture: Lester Tichy
- Interiors Paint Pot [Yellow]: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Carpet Showroom; Robert Heller
- Crystal From Europe And Crystal From Home: Lobmeyer, Orrefors, Moretti, Venini, Moser, Steuben, Kosta, Viking Glass, Heisey And Co. Cambridge Glass, Leerdam, Hovmantorp, Powell And Sone, Ekenas, Webb, Gunderson, Fostoria Val St. Lambert, Eda, etc. 8 pages and 20 images.
- The Lamp Wrestlers: Bateman And Priddey
- Rugs, Carpets You Can Buy Now: Edward Fields, V'socke, Cabin Crafts, Mohawk, Karagheusian, Doria, Etc.
- Industrial Design: the designer looks to the kitchen: Francis Blod,
- Advertisements for Knoll by Herbert Matter, Laverne Originals, Lightolier, Dunbar, Century Lighting, etc.
- And much more.
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 during its peak in the 1950s was the most beautfully designed and printed American Interiors magazine I have seen. An amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.