ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
March 1954
John Entenza [Editor]
John Entenza [Editor]: ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: John D. Entenza, Volume 71, No. 3, March 1954. Slim folio. Saddle-stitched printed wrappers. 42 pp. Illustrated articles and advertisments. Subscriber mailing label to rear panel. Rear panel neatly detached and present. Lightly soiled wrappers and dogears to lower corner of textblock. A good copy.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 42 pages of editorial content and advertisements from leading purveyors of West Coast mid-century modernism, circa 1954. Staff photography by Julius Shulman. In terms of decor, there is none of that Chippendale jive here-- every residential interior is decked out in full midcentury glory.
- The Sao Paulo Biennial Exhibition: Walter Gropius, Jose Luis Sert, Le Corbusier, Craig Ellwood, Jorge Machado Moreira, Arne Jacobsen, Zvonomir Pozgay, Donald Barthelme, Paul Rudolph, Roberto Burle Marx, etc.
- Boston Center: Pietro Belluschi, Walter Bognar, Carl Koch & Associates, Hugh Stubbins, and The Architects Collaborative.
- Research Village: The Research Village in Barrington, Illinois was a building project of United States Gypsum, which sponsored six architects and builders to each design and build a single-family residence. Features work by Hugh Stubbins, A. Quincy Jones and Jospeh Eichler, Gilbert Coddington, Francis Lethbridge, Harris Armstron, and O'Neil Ford.
- Restaurant: Daniel L. Dworsky, Architect
- Prefabricated Fireplaces: Wendell Lovett, Kipp Stewart, Geroge Kosmak, Carl Koch.
- Experimental Fabric Designs: Emmy Zweybruck and the The American Crayon Company.
- The American Furniture Market: Lazette Van Houten: George Nelson, Paul Mccobb, Milo Baughman, Allan Gould, Sanford Wallack, Greta Grossman, Kurt Nordstrom, Roberto Mango, etc.
- Music
- Art
- Notes In Passing
- J. O. B. Opportunity Bulletin
- Currently Available Product Literature And Information
- And more.
Editorial Associates for Arts and Architecture included Charles Eames and Benjamin Baldwin. Julius Shulman was the staff photographer. The Editorial Advisory Board included William Wilson Wurster, Richard Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Sumner Spaulding, Gregory Ain, Ray Eames, Garrett Eckbo, Herbert Matter and others luminaries of the midcentury modern movement.
In 1938, John Entenza joined California Arts and Architecture magazine as editor. By 1943, Entenza and his art director Alvin Lustig had completely overhauled the magazine and renamed it Arts and Architecture. Arts and Architecture championed all that was new in the arts, with special emphasis on emerging modernist architecture in Southern California.
One of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California, Entenza's most lasting contribution was his sponsorship of the Case Study Houses project, which featured the works of architects Thornton Abell, Conrad Buff, Calvin Straub, Donald Hensman, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, J. R. Davidson, A. Quincy Jones, frederick Emmons, Don Knorr, Edward killinsworth, Jules Brady, Waugh Smith, pierre Koenig, Kemper Nomland, Kemper Nomland Jr., Richard neutra, Ralph Rapson, Raphale Soriano, Whitney Smith, Sumner Sapulding, John Rex, Rodney Walker, William Wilson Wurster, Theordore Bernardi and Craig Ellwood. Arts and Architecture also ran articles and interviews on artists and designers such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, George Nakashima, George Nelson and many other ground-breakers.