INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
August 1947
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 103, no. 1] August 1947. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 168 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled with splitting spine ends. A few leaves creased from dogears. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Art Brenner. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 168 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.
- For Your Information: Joseph Aronson; Monoug Exergian; Micahel Reese Hospital project [Chicago] by Gropius and Isaacs; Leo Amino
- Interiors Abroad: Domus, Werk, the Architectural Review, Art et Decoration, Art & Industry, Graphis, etc.
- Display Oasis: Warren Nardin And Albert Radoczy
- The Years Work: 31 projects by Campbell & Wong, Charles Eames, Architects Collaborative, Carl Koch, R. M. Schindler [Julius Shulman images], Marcel Breuer, Art Brenner, Hans G. Knoll, Robert Law Weed, J. R. Davidson, Morris Lapidus, Raymond Loewy Associates, Joseph B. Platt, Paul Bry, Harper Richards, Seymour Joseph, Saltonsall & Morton, Henry P. Glass, Gruen & Krummeck Associates, Bolton White, Paul Laszlo, Kenneth Wing, Sheehan & Kreck, Donald Deskey Associates, Eaton W. Tarbell, Alyne White, Muller-Barringer, Beeston-Stott-Patterson, A. Quincy Jones, Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, And Ross-Frankel.
- Sunset On Murray Hill: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Furniture By Art Brenner
- Good Cover For Walls
- Merchandise Cues: Felix Augenfeld, Noran Bel Geddes, Edward Wormley, Olga Ritchie, etc.
- Advertisements for Laverne Originals, Widdicomb, Lightolier, Knoll Associates by Florence Knoll, Dunbar, Royalchrome, Ben Rose, Ross frankel, General Lighting Co., Thonet, 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.