INTERIORS
December 1953
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York City: Whitney Publications, December 1953 [Volume 113, no. 5]. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 158 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Joan Forrester. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 158 pages of b/w examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1953 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming post-WWII modern movement. 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.
- America's Great Sources: Index to advertisers for Jan - Dec 1953
- Curtain-walled manor: a residence by Lester Tichy [6 pages with 12 b/w illustrations]
- 1000 years of stained glass: from a book by Robert Sowers
- The modern movement in Italy by Ida Louise Huxtable [2 pages with 8 b/w illustrations including work by G. Terragni, Figini, Lingeri, Pollini and Terragni, Brizzi and Gori and Nervi and Bartoli]
- Eric Mendelsohn: 1887-1953 [2 pages with 8 b/w illustrations]
- Sherle Wagner and the better boudoir
- Anonymous American sculpture
- Five Olivetti showrooms with English accents by Gordon Andrews: 4 pages with 8 b/w illustrations
- Melanie Kahane's four-mooded showplace for Peter Pan
- Hartford Insurance Offices by Peter Fraser, Jr.: 3 pages with 7 b/w illustrations
- Woodcraftsmanship in a garment showroom by Glick & Schulke
- Modernization at Wellington Sears
- Bonniers provocative European collection: 4 pages with 12 b/w illustrations including work by Flavio Poli, Piero Fornasetti, Alberto Seguso, Tom Moller, Grete Moller and Luigi Zortea.
- J. H. Thorp's high-ceilinged fabric setting
- Georg Jensen's Royal Copenhagen revelations: 1 page with 8 b/w illustrations including work by Thorkild Olsen, Axel Salto, Gere Bogelund, Jais Nielsen and Nils Thorsson.
- Guildman's holiday: Executive Furniture Guild offices
- Cole of California: a bathing suit showroom
- Departments include For your information, Interiors' bookshelf, Interiors' editorial, Merchandise cues, people and address book
- Vintage advertisements for Knoll, Herman Miller, Erwin-Lambeth, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for The Widdicomb Furniture Company, Howard Miller Clock Company [Nelson Bubble Lamps], Avard, Norman Cherner for Konwiser and Raymor 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]