INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
January 1947
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, January 1947 [Volume 106, no. 6]. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 166 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers soiled with mild spine wear primarily to the heel. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover from a lithograph by Josef Albers. Housed in the Publishers Mailing Envelope: a nearly very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 166 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:
- For Your Information: Useful Objects Exhibit at MoMA
- Interiors to Come: 50 pages of New projects from Antonin Raymond And Ladislav Rado, Paul Laszlo, Petroff & Clarkson, Felix Augenfeld, Mario Corbett, Richard Bennett, Paul Beidler, Richard Neutra, Peggy Ann Rohde, Ernst Payer, Edward Wormley, Gruen & Krummeck, Vernon Sears, Robert Sydney Dickens, Peter Schladermundt, Howard Ketcham, Seymour Joseph, Leopold Kleiner, George Daub, Morris Lapidus, John Rideout, Paul Thiry, Gordon Obrig, George Cooper Rudolph, Mackie & Kamrath, Ross Frankel And Rits Van Witsen.
- Stage Design: Cecil Beaton
- Industrial Design: profile of recent work from the office of Harley Earl
- Merchandise Cues: Russel Wright
- Advertisements for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Dunbar, Laverne Originals, Ben Rose, 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.