INTERIORS
December 1954
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 114, no. 5, December 1954. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 144 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Aldo Giurgola. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled with chipping to spine heel, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- 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.
- Four Scandinavians: an exploration of the influential Nordic style
- Hans Wegner, Denmark [6 pages with 19 black and white illustrations]
- Ilmari Tapiovaara, Finland [4 pages with 10 black and white illustrations]
- Astrid Sampe, Sweden [2 pages with 6 black and white illustrations]
- Arne Jacobsen, Denmark [2 pages with 5 black and white illustrations]
- Storage: excerpts from a book by George Nelson [6 pages with 13 black and white illustrations]
- New interiors for the Philadelphia Museum by Paul McCobb [4 pages with 8 black and white illustrations]
- Makers of Tradition -- 24: Michelangelo Pergolesi
- Paris preserved: Napoleonic Hotel de Bourrienne
- The change in tapestries: a portfolio [4 pages with a fold out and 10 illustrations, 3 in color with work by Leger, Mariska Karasz, Saul Borisov, C. Coggeshall, Jean List, Gloria Finn, Sue Fuller and Jack Lenor Larsen]
- Erwin-Lambeth, Inc.: the showroom that acts like a house
- What's in a name? Outdoor furniture thrives indoors too [6 pages with 16 black and white illustrations with work by Maurizio Tempestino for John B. Salterini, Tropi-Cal, Otto Gerdau, Lee L. Woodard Sons, Ficks Reed Co., Willow and Reed, Gallo Original Iron Works and The McGuire Company among others.]
- Vintage advertisements for Herman Miller, Paul McCobb for Directional, Jens Risom Design, Hansen-Mills, George Tanier, The McGuire Company, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Tropi-Cal, Century Lighting and Swedish Modern 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]