FURNITURE FORUM
September 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, September 1953 [Volume 4, Number 3]. Quarto. Printed wrappers. 52 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 52 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?
Contents:
- Publisher’s Notes
- Personalities: short illustrated profiles of Edward Durell Stone, Hans J. Wegner, Erno Fabry, George Masselman, Lila Swift Monell & Donald Monell, and Jack Lenor Larsen.
- Furniture: Aalto Design-Finsven: Alvar Aalto; Baker Furniture: Finn Juhl; Dart Associates: Otto Kolb; Directional Showroom: Paul McCobb; Berge-Norman Associates: Marc Berge; The Inco Company; Swedish Modern: Nisse Strinning, William Watting, M. Singer & Sons: Gio Ponti, Carlo De Carli, Bertha Schaefer; Widdicomb: T. H. Robgjohn-Gibbings [In Color!]; Thonet Industries: Joe Adkinson; Herman Miller Furniture Company: Charles Eames; Ficks Reed Co.; Jens Risom Design: Jens Risom; Richards Morgenthau Co.: Fritz Hansen, Hans Wegner, Guy Barker, Arne Jacobsen; Jerry Shea Inc.: Edward Hicks, Jerry Shea; Fabry Associates: E. Elermann; Swift & Monell: Donald Monell, Lila Swift Monell; Selig Manufacturing: Ib Kofod-Larsen; New Dimensions Furniture Inc.: Archie Kaplan; George Tanier: H. Bender Madsen, Ejner Larsen, Helge Sibast, Scope Incorporated: Mel Abitz.
- Lighting: Lightolier; Nessen Studio: Greta Von Nessen; George Tanier; Paul Mayen Designs: Paul Mayen.
- Accessories:Howard Miller Clock Company: George Nelson, Irving Harper [Unc.]; Masselman Designs: George Masselman; Marshall Studios, Inc.: Jane & Gordon Martz; Brad Jernigan Mobiles.
- Floor Coverings:Edward Fields: Joseph B. Platt, Marion V. Dorn, Raymond Loewy; Klearflax Linen Looms, Inc.; Waite Carpet Co.: John Gerald, Katharine Kinnane; Floor Fashions.
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.