INTERIORS
December 1957
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 117, no. 5, December 1957. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 186 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Jerry Lieberman. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 186 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.
Contents include:
- Contract Interiors: Places Of Worship: Ernst & Walter Heeb; Oscar Nitzchke; Rudolf Schwarz; Giuseppe Vaccaro; James Lamantia In Chalmette, La; George Pace; Victor Lundy; Leandro Locsin; Jules Gregory; Follon Church In Lexington, Ma By The Architects Collaborative; Maynard Lyndon; Sanford Hohauser; etc.
- Puerto Rico Houses By Toro-Ferrer-Alegria
- At Home With Louis Comfort Tiffany By Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- Ward Bennett's Latter-Day Americana For Lehigh
- Heifetz Showroom
- Wasco Products
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]