FURNITURE FORUM Spring 1957
[Handbook of Contemporary Design]
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]: FURNITURE FORUM [Handbook of Contemporary Design]. Sarasota, FL: Phillip L. Pritchard, Spring 1957 [Volume 8, Number 1]. Quarto. Printed pebbled yapped wrappers bound with brads [as issued]. 44 pp. 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 44 pages of black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, lighting, and fabric, circa 1957. 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 Folke Ohlsson; Robert Alan Martin; Clifton Cook; Donald K. Soderlund; John R. Denst; Clarence Hawking; and Ted Ramsay.
- Furniture: Baker Furniture: Finn Juhl; The Widdicomb Furniture Company: T. H. Robgjohn-Gibbings; Dunbar Furniture Corpration of Indiana: Edward Wormley; Janey Rosenblum Inc.; Dux Incorporated: Arne Jacobsen; Design International; Edgewood Furniture Company, Inc.: William Armbruster; Mills – Denmark: Emil Knudsen, Robert Alan Martin, James E. Mills (from the Arkitekt Collection); Zacho: Hans J. Wegner; Arch Gordon Company Inc.: Milo Baughman; Frederick Lunning, Inc.: Hans J. Wegner, J. Andersen; Westcort Company: Warren L. Doering; George Tanier: Verner Panton; Ficks Reed Company: John B. Wisner gets funky with the Mindoro Group; Robert Barber, Inc.: Paul Buehler Associates Manufacturing; Altamira: Ignazio Gardella, Zoncada, Marco Zanuso, Giuseppe Pagani; The Orsenigo Company, Inc: Walter Dorwin Teague; Lee L. Woodard Sons: selections from the Sculptura Group; B. L. Marble Chair Company; The troy Sunshade Company; Lehigh Furniture Corporation: Gerald Luss; Berge-Norman, Inc.; Willow & Reed, Inc.
- Lighting: Nessen Studio, Inc.: Beverley Pick; The Liteline Corporation: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, A. F. Gangkofner.
- Fabrics – Wallcoverings: Ben Rose; Angelo Testa & Company; W. B. Quaintance Company; Denst & Sonderland, Inc.: Ted Ramsay, John R. Denst, Donald K. Soderlund, Clarence Hawking; Greeff Fabrics, Inc.
- Accessories: Architectural Pottery: La Gardo Tackett; Harris G. Strong.
The Furniture Forum Advisory Board for 1957 included Robert Alexander, Pietro Belluschi, Serge Chermayeff, Anne Franke, Paul Frankl, William M. Friedman, Alexander Girard, Charles Granger, Greta Grossman, Walter Gropius, Victor Gruen, Patricia Harvey, Marion L. Heuer, Karl Kamrath, Carl Koch, Ernest Kump, Dorothy Liebes, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, and Hugh Stubbins.