INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
January 1952
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, January 1952 [Volume 111, no. 6]. Original edition. A very good magazine with lightly worn and soiled wrappers and chipped spine crown. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Cover by Robert Mango.
9 x 12 magazine with 156 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1952 -- 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.
- For Your Information: Matisse Chapel; Vikto Schreckengost Reliefs At The Zoological Park In Cleveland; Good Design 1952; Gyorgy Kepes; etc.
- Steps Toward Mechanization In Milan: Chairs By Franco Albini, Luigi Colombini, And Ezio Sgrelli; Work By Carlo Pagani; Rita Bravi & Luisa Castiglioni. 8 Well Illustrated Pages.
- Interiors To Come: Work By The Architects Collaborative [Hua Tung Christian University W/ Fold-Out], Ulric Franzen, Henry N. Cobb, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Warner-Leeds, Robert Mango, Aldo Giurgola, James Lamantia, and Marion Dorn & Edward Fields.
- Merchandise Cues: Yasha Heifitz; Lief Associates; Swift & Monell; Pacific Iron Works; Fabry; Grosfeld House; Murals, Inc.; etc.
- Advertisements For Herman Miller ESUs, Heifitz, Harvey Probber, Lightolier, Paul McCobb For Directional, Dunbar, Raymor, 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."