INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN December 1947
Volume 107, no. 5
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications, December 1947 [Volume 107, no. 5]. Original edition. Side stitched and perfect bound wrappers. 174 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Photogram cover by Robert N. Riger. Wrappers lightly worn and rubbed with spine crown chipped, but a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 174 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1947 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II. A very desirable, vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction make this a spectacular addition to a midcentury design collection. Highly recommended.
Contents include:
- For Your Information: NYC's Avenue of the Americas, Frank Lloyd Wright, Steuben Glass, etc.
- Washington Irving's Sunnyside
- Woodland Retreat: Alexander Girard. 6 Pages And 14 Photographs And Diagrams.
- Itay Revisited By Constantino Nivola
- Mens' Wear Store by Alvin Lustig and Sam Reisbord [Julius Shulman Photographs]
- Industrial Design -- Good Design For 1948: 26 Pages And 64 Photographs Of Work By Thomas Lamb, Dave Chapman, Earl Tupper, Belle Kogan, Michael Saphier Associates, Henry Dreyfuss, Van Doren Nowland & Schadermundt, Gerald Johnson Associates, Richard Neagle, David Wurster, Raymond Loewy Associates, Barnes & Reinicke, Morris Sanders, Egmont Arens, Kenneth Alexander, Wayne Porter, Walter Dorwin Teague, Michael Hallward, Turbuleyr Products, Karl Peter Koch, Hal Zamboni, Joseph B. Platt, Gordon Florian, Frederic S. Grover, Walter Bach, Harper Richards, etc.
- The Swing To Chandeliers
- Merchandise Cues: Kurt Versen, etc.
- Advertisements for Knoll Associates 2-color FPA by Herbert Matter, Dunbar, Widdicomb, Lightolier, Laverne Originals, Lehigh, Thonet, Kurt Versen, Ben Rose, etc.
- And much more.
George Nelson famously served as Editorial contributor to Interiors, where he used the magazine as his bully pulpit for bringing modernism to middle-class America. Interiors was a hard-core interior design publication, as shown by their publishing credo: "Published for the Interior Designers Group which includes: interior designers, architects who do interior work, industrial designers who specialize in interior furnishings, the interior decorating departments of retail stores, and all concerned with the creation and production of interiors-- both residential and commercial."
Interiors during its peak in the 1950s was the most beautfully designed and printed American Interiors magazine I have seen. An amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.