1601 DECORATING IDEAS FOR MODERN LIVING
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HOME FURNISHING
AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar: 1601 DECORATING IDEAS FOR MODERN LIVING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HOME FURNISHING AND INTERIOR DESIGN. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973. First edition. Quarto. Mustard cloth titled in blue. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 300 pp. 445 illustrations, including 316 color plates. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Jacket lightly rubbed, thus a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 300 pages and 445 illustrations, including 316 plates in full color. From the book: "In nine ample chapters, the home is scrutinized section by section. The entrance, the living room,...the house as a whole are all examined in the total context of modern living."
One of the best books for interior design of the mid to late sixties, showing the transition from the organic modernism of the 1950s to the Op-art and post-modern ideologies of the 1960s and 1970s. Whenever you find a book authored by Gerd Hatje you can rest assured you are getting the good stuff: a finely curated selection of contemporary goods, excellent photo reproduction, clean modern design and typography.
- Introduction
- The Entrance
- The Living Room
- Dining Room and Dining Area
- The Kitchen
- The Bedroom
- Childrens Room
- The Teenagers Room
- Studies and hobby Rooms
- The House as a Whole
- Index of Architects and Designers
Contains work by the following designers, artists, and manufacturers: Charles And Ray Eames, George Nelson, Florence Knoll, Franco Albini, Marcel Breuer, Benjamin Baldwin, Piero Catellini, Achille Castiglione, Elaine Lustig Cohen And Richard Meier, Joe Colombo, Karl Lagerfeld, Vico Magistretti, Elliot Noyes, Eero Saarinen, Hans Wegner, Gio Ponti, Harry Bertoia, Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Edward Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Vladimir Kagan, Estelle Laverne,Italo Lupi, Terence Conran and many others.
Gerd Hatje (1915 - 2007) was born in Hamburg in 1915 and apprenticed as a typesetter in Stuttgart, where he started the Humanitas Verlag in 1945. The publishing house was renamed Verlag Gerd Hatje in 1947. His varied interests were reflected in his publishing program, where he concentrated on publishing art books of the highest quality. Among the books he published are some of the best designed art, design, and architecture books of the twentieth century. Hatje was always concerned with quality, both in books and art. He once said, "For me, there is neither a past nor a future in art. A work of art that cannot always exist in the present is not worth talking about." In his words, publishing is the process by which "intellectual spaces are made accessible."