INTERIORS
April 1957
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 116, no. 4, April 1957. Original edition. Printed wrappers. 184 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Cover by Carl Smith. Wrappers lightly worn and rubbed, but a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 184 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1957 -- 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.
- For your information: Anni Albers, Mariska Karasz, George Nakashima, Third California Design Exhibition, etc.
- Finn Juhl's Honor System Setting for Georg Jensen
- Laverne's Sheer Chicago Space
- Bertha Schaefer: A Study in Ambidexterity
- Interiors Contract Series '57
- Introduction
- The Americana by Morris Lapidus; The Seville by Henry End and Melvin Grossman; Hamilton House by Abreu and Robeson; Top Notch by Raymond Hood, Jr.; Aspen Health Center by Herbert Bayer and Fritz Benedict; Mark Thomas Inn by John Warnecke and James Aldrich; Caneel Bay Plantation by LaFarge, Lynch and Hatfield; The Waikikian by Wimberly and Cook; La Rada by Henry Klumb and Jose Alegria
- William H. Sullivan's flexible office system for Standard
- Departments include Letters to the editors, Interiors' bookshelf, Interiors' editorial, In the showrooms, people, address book
- America's Great Sources: an index to advertisers in this issue
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]