CONTEMPORARY SHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES
Emrich Nicholson, George Nelson [foreword]
Emrich Nicholson, George Nelson [foreword]: CONTEMPORARY SHOPS IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1945. Fourth, expanded printing from 1948. Quarto. Black fabricoid decorated in yellow. Printed dust jacket. 216 pp. Fully illustrated studies of 112 shops by 70 designers. Jacket mildly rubbed and edgeworn. Textblock lightly thumbed. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
8.5 x 11 hardcover book with 216 pages presenting 112 shops and exhibitions by 70 designers. Excellent vintage snapshot of the immediate postwar design scene in America, with modern interior and storefront designs, shops and exhibitions, all beautifully photographed. Nice overview of American Interior Design up till the end of World War II, with the International and streamlined moderne styles holding sway over the inevitable organic onslaughts from Cranbook and Los Angeles.
Contributors include Alfons Bach, Herbert Bayer, Dorothy Draper, Paul Frankl, Alexander Girard, Victor Gruen, Frederick Kiesler, Morris Lapidus, Paul Laszlo, Raymond Loewy, Samuel Marx, Elliot Noyes, Gilbert Rhode, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Russel, Morris Sanders, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Walter Dorwin Teague, Kem Weber, Joseph Weiss, Russel and Mary Wright, Otto Zenke,Felix Augenfeld, Freda Diamond, Virginia Hamill, Robert Carson, Earl Lundin, Gruen & Krummeck, Sumner Spaulding, Francis Tucci, Eleanor Le Maire, Vinicio Paldini, and many others.
Includes profiles ( photos, descriptive text and some plans) of Alain-Richie Perfume Shop New York, America House New York, Armstrong Cork Showroom New York, Art Of This Century Gallery New York (Kiesler), Artek Furniture Shop (picturing Aalto furnishings), L. S. Ayres Indianapolis, Circle Tea Room Chicago, Cosmetic Shop R.H. Macy & Co., Paul Flato Jewelers Los Angeles, Ford Showroom New York, Herman Miller Furniture Showroom Chicago, Garden Center San Francisco, Gift Shop Everett Washington, Grayson's (Pasadena, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle), Gumps, Halle Bros. Cleveland, Huyler's Candy Store Hempstead N.Y., Julius Garfinkel & Co. Washington DC, Junior League Shop Grosse Pointe Michigan (Girard), Kaufman's Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, Laszlo Showroom, Lord and Taylor's, Mangel's (Jacksonville, Memphis, Montgomery, Philadelphia), May Company Wilshire, Museum of Modern Art Exhibition, Nieman-Marcus Sport Department, Old Denmark Delicatessan New York, Organic Design in Home Furnishings Show (picturing important furniture prototypes by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen), Paris Decorators New York, Peck & Peck New York, S.S. Pierce Co. Boston, Rabson's New York, Radio and Record Shop New York, Zacho's Los Angeles (Weber), more.