INTERIORS
August 1956
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 115, no. 8] August 1956. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 164 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by Aldo Giurgola and Rolf Strub. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 164 pages of examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1956 -- 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.
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- Letters to the editors
- For your information
- Interiors' bookshelf
- Interiors' editorial: Year's work
- The Year's Work: 16th Annual Collection
- Contents and biographies of the contributors
- The Projects: 29 pages with 92 b/w illustrations including work by Andersen and Jensen, Eugene Tarnawa, Harold Jaffe, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Ralph Bettelheim, Meyer Katzman, Peter Fraser, Jr., T. H. M. Partners, Bain & Overturf, Guy Charles, Eliot Robinson, Victor Gruen, Albert Herbert, Bard Henriksen, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Wendell Lovett, Vladimir Kagan, Irina Klepper, Paul Bedward Stone, Otto Kolb, Bamberger Associates, Tibbais, Crumley, Musson and Claire Casler Saunders & Associates among many others
- Russel Wright's U. S. Government-sponsored report on East Asia: 8 pages with 27 b/w photographs by Henri Gilles Huet
- New Context for Williamsburg: Dinnerware and fabrics coordinated
- Interiors' Contract Series '56: Transportation
- Two new trains by the Budd Company
- S. S. President Coolidge by Anshen and Allen, Michael Taylor [3 pages with 7 b/w illustrations]
- Report on new furniture: Part II [8 pages with 30 b/w illustrations including work by Hugh Acton, Mueller, Contemporary Imports, Glenn, Arch Gordon, Romweber, Bertha Schaefer, Borsani and Gio Ponti for M. Singer, Dux, Advance design, Dessign-Technics, Richards Morgenthau, John Widdicomb, Harvey Probber, Kagan-Dreyfeuss, Erwin Lambeth, Sligh, Ficks Reed and McGuire among others]
- In the showrooms [includes lighting and textiles], people, address book
- America's Great Sources: Index to advertisers in this issue
and much, much more!
Includes advertising (many full-page and/or color) from the following manufacturers and companies: Boris Kroll, John Stuart, Erwin-Lambeth, Herman Miller and Knoll 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]