INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
August 1943
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 103, no. 1] August 1943. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 78 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers edgeworn and soiled with splitting spine ends. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Constantino Nivola. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 78 pages of black and white examples of the best modern American Interior and Industrial Design, circa 1943 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement during World War II. Excellent contemporary Art Direction from Constantino Nivola.
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 or moderne design collection. Due to wartime paper drives, issues of Interiors from the war years [1941 - 1945] are much less common than postwar copies.
- Planks and Pegs: Low-Cost, Knock-Down Furniture Designed By Ferdinand Kramer and F. V. Gerstel.
- The Year's Work: Ernst Payer, Eggers & Higgins, Frederick Kiesler [Art of this Century Gallery], George Farkas, Joseph Platt, Harrison Fouilhoux & Abramovitz, Moris Ketchum, Paladini & Valentino, Joseph Aronson, Richard Neutra [Julius Shulman], Paul Bry, Albert Kahn Associated, Roy Blass, Maurice Sands, Ladislav Rado [Design, Inc.], Thedlow, Inc., Rudi Blesh, Leonard Hutton, Morris Lapidus, Mario Corbett, Virginia Conner, Paul Laszlo, Dorothy Draper, Ernst Schwadron, Nancy McClelland, Barlow-Schneider, Dora Brahms, Peter Graham Harnden, Mackie & Kamrath, Paul Frankl, Town and Country Shop, Eleanor Lemaire, Alden B. Dow, Hamby & George Nelson, Dan Cooper, Alexander Tristam Yelin, Samuel Marx, Paul Thiry, Pietro Belluschi, and Carl Koch.
- Interior's Principles Of Commercial Design 2. The Retail Shop: Morris Ketchum, Jr.
- Newsreel: Dora Kaminsky; Goodall Decorative Fabrics; etc.
- Assorted of vintage trade advertisements that espouse the depression moderne streamline aesthetic quite nicely.
- And 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.