INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
October 1947
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 107, no. 3] October 1947 . Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 184 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers soiled with mild spine wear. One advertising page with vintage textblock tape marks, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by Albert Radoczy. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 184 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.
- For Your Information: 100 Useful Objects of Fine Design 1947 at MoMA
- Profiles Of Cover Artists Albert Radoczy, Robert Jay Wolff And Art Brenner.
- Blueprint For Sculpture: Albert Radoczy
- Ruth Gerth And George Kosmak
- Interiors Paint Pot [Green]: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Five Architects Work Together: Sidney Katz, Taina Waisman, Richard Stein, Joseph Blumenkranz and Read Weber.
- Lawyers Office By Raymond Loewy Associates
- Alyne Whalen Designs For Street & Smith
- Gay Deceptions: Sheehan & Kreck
- Simon Zelnik Designs the Englishtown Cutlery Showroom
- Saarinen-Swanson And Johnson: Robert F. Swanson And Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Design For The Johnson Furniture Company.
- Snapshot: Franco Scalamandre
- Come Again, Mr. Chippendale
- Industrial Design: Barwa Chairs, Childrens Toys, Container Corporation Of America's Design Laboratory, etc.
- Advertisements for Herman Miller, Drexel, Knoll Associates by Herbert Matter, Lightolier, John Stuart, Laverne Originals, Greef, General Lighting co., Lehigh, Thonet, Jens Risom, 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.