INTERIORS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN February 1948
Volume 107, no. 7
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor],
Albe Steiner [Cover Designer]
New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 107, no. 7] February 1948. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 178 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled with splitting spine heel. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Albe Steiner. A nearly very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 178 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1948 -- 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: Useful Gifts From The Walker Art Center, Useful Objects At The Akron Art Museum, Etc.
- Interiors Bookshelf: Illustrated Review Of Philip Johnson: MIES VAN DER ROHE. New York: The Museum Of Modern Art, 1947.
- Art For Achitecture's Sake: Profile Of The Miller Company's Abstract Art Collection With Images [Some Color] Of Work By Jean Helion, Perle Fine, Ilya Bolotowsky, Irene Rice Pereira, Theo Van Doesburg, and Paul Klee.
- Design Vs. Monkey Business: Angelo Testa. Includes Full-Page Design By Testa.
- Stage Design. Elements Of Stage Design: George Amberg. Work By Nicolo Sabbatini, Howard Bay, Paul Colin, Jo Mielziner, Frantisek Troster, Vlasteslav Hofmann, Robert Edmund Jones, Pablo Picasso, Vladimir & Georgii Stenberg, Donald M. Oenslager, Ferdinand Peroutka, Adolphe Appia, Samuel Leve, Norman Bel Geddes, And Josef Svoboda.
- Ship In Distress S. S. Argentina. Donald Deskey Redesigns An Ocean Liner. Work By Isamu Noguchi, Loren Mac Iver, Attilio Salemme, etc.
- Interiors Paint Pot [Orange]: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Papers '48: Fold-Out Wallpaper Designs From Ben Piazza, Laverne, Remien & Kuhnert, Dwoskin, Albert Van Luit, Bassett & Vollum, James Davis, Sigfrid K. Lonegren, John Whitewell, Ricahrd Thibaut, Inez Croom, Ben Rose, John Morrow, John Kemble Mills, Dan Cooper, Stan Taylor, Jackson Ellis, Lorraine Yerkes, etc.
- Upward And Onward With The A. I. D. Awards For Maurice Martine, Claire Falkenstein, Etc.
- Retail Story: Paul McCobb For Modernage
- Industrial Design: Controlled Light: Lamps and Article Authored By John Vassos; Clayton Lewis By Claywood Design Products In Springfield, Oregon.
- Merchandise Cues: Prest-Glass; Polly D'Ardis Wilson; Dorothy Liebes Blinds; etc.
- Advertisements for Knoll by Herbert Matter, Drexel, Widdicomb, Lightolier, Dunbar, Ben Rose, Lehigh, Thonet, Kurt Versen, 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.