FURNITURE FORUM
June 1953
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]: FURNITURE FORUM [Handbook of Contemporary Design]. Englewood, NJ: Phillip L. Pritchard, June 1953 [Volume 4, Number 2]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. 38 pp. bound with brads [as issued]. Fully illustrated in black and white. Curatorial information includes designer, materials, and measurements. Uncoated wrappers worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
8.75 x 11 softcover edition with 38 pages of black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, lighting, and fabric, circa 1953. This volume is a goldmine of reference material for identifying early-fifties contemporary furniture and home fixtures, but you probably already knew that, didn't you?
- Publisher’s Notes
- Personalities: short illustrated profiles of Sigvard Bernadotte, Isabel Scott, Roy P. Harrover, Margot & Jack Stewart, and Bobo Leydenfrost.
- Furniture: Aalto Design-Finsven: Alvar Aalto; George Martin: Paul Volther; Swedish Modern; Jens Risom Design: Jens Risom; Konwiser, Inc.: Roy P. Harrover; John Stuart: Count Bernadotte; Cumberland Furniture Co.: Elroy Webber; The Inco Company; Klaus Grabe, Inc.: Klaus Grabe; Smilow-Thielle: Smilow-Thielle [Duh]; Allan Gould Designs Inc.: Allan Gould; Lehigh Furniture: Harold Bartos; Stewart Studio: Bobo Leydenfrost, Jack Stewart, Margo Stewart; Seabon: Grocery Cabinets.
- Lighting: Finland House: Paavo Tynell; Paul Mayen Designs: Paul Mayen.
- Fabrics:Functional Textiles; Isabel Scott Fabrics: Isabel Scott, Jacqueline Groag, Julian Brazelton, Felix Augenfeld; Jack Lenor Larsen Inc.: Jack Lenor Larsen.
The Furniture Forum Advisory Board for 1953 included Robert Alexander, Pietro Belluschi, Serge Chermayeff, Paul Frankl, Alexander Girard, Charles Granger, Greta Grossman, Walter Gropius, Victor Gruen, Karl Kamrath, Carl Koch, Ernest Kump, Dorothy Wright Liebes, Alvin Lustig, George Nelson, Hugh Stubbins, and others.