FURNITURE FORUM Volume 12
CONTEMPORARY DESIGN SOURCE REFERENCE
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]
Phillip L. Pritchard [Editor], Edgar Bartolucci [Art Director]: FURNITURE FORUM. CONTEMPORARY DESIGN SOURCE REFERENCE. Sarasota: Furniture Forum, Inc., Volume 12 [1962]. Quarto. Orange cloth deocrated in black. 148 pp. Fully illustrated in black and white. Backstrip lightly sunned and minor wear overall. Issued without dust jacket. Curatorial information includes designer, materials, and measurements. A nearly fine copy.
8.5 x 11.25 hardcover book with 148 pages and many black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, lighting, and fabric, circa 1962. This volume is a goldmine of reference material for identifying early-sixties contemporary furniture and home fixtures, but you probably already knew that, didn't you?
Contents:
Personalities: short illustrated profiles of Poul Cadovius, Gerald Luss, Elsiha Prouty, William Paul Taylor, Malcolm Leland, Albert Herbert, Danny Ho Fong, Grete Korsmo, and Jack Stewart.
Norweigan Furniture Fair—Stavanger: Hans Brattrud, Sven Dysthe, Torbjorn Afdal, Rastad & Relling, and Gerhard Berg.
If Design is Logic, then Tomorrow’s Chair will be Oriental: Jaap Penraat
Furniture: Dunbar Furniture: Edward Wormley; Jens Risom Design;Helikon Furniture: Robert Benham Becker, Hans Kriek & A. Der Marderosian; Edgewood Furniture; Edward Axel Roffman Associates: Gerald Luss; O.D.I.; Harvey Probber; Hanseatic Furniture: W. Papst, Georg Leowald, Hartmut Lohmeyer; Brendan Reilly Associates: Allan Gould; Howe Folding Furniture; Richard Draper; J. G. Furniture; Moselle Meals: Burton Tysinger; Imperial Desk Company; Cumberland Furniture: Jacob Epstein; Marshall Studios: Jane Martz; Thonet Industries; Selected Designs: William Paul Taylor; Ficks Reed Company: John B. Wisner; Design International: John Yellen, Foster—McDavid: Herbert Saiger; Tropi-Cal: Danny Ho Fong; Thayer Coggin: Milo Baughman; Robert Barber Company; Dux Inc.: Sven Dysthe, Folke Ohlsson, Sylve Stenquist; Scandiline Furniture: Inge Anderson, Hans Olsen, A. Bender, Illum Wikkelso; Mills-Denmark: Erik Kirkegaard, Hans Olsen, Erling Torvits; Peter Wessel: Gerhard Berg, Arne Halvorsen, Peter Wessel; George Tanier, Inc.: G. Steiner, Kai Kristiansen, Arne Vodder; All World Import & Trading Co.; S. Christian Of Copenhagen: A. Hovmand-Olsen, N. O. Moller; Dansk Form [USA]: Harbo Solvsten; Selig Manufacturing Co.: Sven Ellekjaer, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Illum Wikkels, Finn Andersen, Knud & Erik Christensen, Nanna & Jorgen Ditzel; Frederick Lunning: Torbjorn Afdal, Karl Ekselius, F. Kayser, Poul Kjaerholm, Mogens Koch, Hans Wegner; Royal System: Poul Cadovius; and Scandia Craft Import: Ib Juul Christiansen.
Lighting: Nessen Studio: Elizabeth Kaufer; Altamira; Frederick Lunning: Yko Nummi; Architectural Lighting Corp.; Luxo Lamp Corporation; The Heifetz Company: Yasha Heifetz; Marshall Studios, Inc.: Jane & Gordon Martz; M. G. Wheeler Company, Inc.; and George Tanier Lighting.
Fabrics — Wall Treatments: Rowen, Inc.: Albert Herman, Arthur Hopkins, Roger Jensen; Leib-Meyer Corporation: Roland Carter, Sara Provan, William Weckesser; Greef Fabrics, Inc.; Thaibok Fabrics; Far Eastern Fabrics; Isabel Scott Fabrics Corp.: Elisha Prouty; and Ben Rose.
The Furniture Forum Advisory Board for 1962 included Robert Alexander, Pietro Belluschi, Serge Chermayeff, Alexander Girard, Charles Granger, Greta Grossman, Walter Gropius, Victor Gruen, Karl Kamrath, Carl Koch, Ernest Kump, Dorothy Liebes, Paul Mayen, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Hugh Stubbins, and others.