INTERIORS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
January 1953
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 112, no. 6, January 1953. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 160 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Pierre Kleykamp. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 160 pages ofcolor and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1953 -- 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.
- Serendipidity in the woods: a house by Alexander Girard [9 pages with 36 black and white illustrations] All photographs by Charles Eames, loving tribute to his friends’ Grosse Pointe residence. Not referenced in Neuhart.
- Casual vices for Girard's house [1 page with 3 black and white illustrations]
- Interiors to Come: Thirteenth Annual Collection
- Introductions and contents
- The projects: includes work by Constantino Nivola, Joan Forrester, Robert Hays Rosenberg, George S. Lewis, James Lamantia, Carl-Axel Acking, Greta Magnusson Grossman [1 pages with 3 black and white illustrations], Joseph Vladeck, Ico and Luisa Parisi, William Beckett, Max Kauten and Glen Gardner.
- De Stijl: backward glance at a revolutionary moment [6 pages with 20 black and white illustrations including work by Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, J. P. P. Oud and Gerrit Rietveld.
- Tanier's Danish entries: imported furniture at a new showroom [2 pages with 14 black and white illustrations including work by Paul Hundevad, Hans J. Wegner, Hans Wegner, Sven Eikjar and Eva and Niels Koppel]
- Nelson's newest at Herman Miller: varied furniture models [2 pages with 10 black and white illustrations]
- Vintage advertisements for Dunbar, Knoll, Herman Miller, Harvey Probber, Paul McCobb for Directional, Thonet, Futorian, Janet Rosenblum, Angelo Testa and Company, Kagan-Dreyfuss and Finn Juhl for Baker Furniture among others.
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_2019]