INTERIORS & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
August 1946
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 106, no. 1, August 1946. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 148 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Bernard Rudofsky. Wrappers lightly worn, creased and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 148 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1946 -- 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:
- Molded Plywood for Radio Cabinets: One page article with 3 photographs of Charles Eames' radio cabinets. Appears shortly after the Eames Show at the Barclay Hotel / Architectural League/MoMA in January - March 1946. Reading this short article, you will understand the abrupt departure of Herbert Matter, Gregory Ain, Harry Bertoia et al. from the Eames office stable in September 1946. See John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart and Ray Eames: EAMES DESIGN: THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES. NYC: Abrams 1989, page 69 for the understated, bloodless details. This article makes it sound like the plywood furniture was an immaculate conception, with Charles as the pround, single parent.
- Lester Tichy Designs For The Penn Railroad
- THE COLLECTION: 28-page article with Projects by Pietro Belluschi, Hans R. Wormann, Calvin Coggeshall, Paul Bry, Joseph Aronson, Arthur L. Finn, Joseph Platt, R. M. Schindler, Reisner & Urbahn, Robert Gruen Associates, Hal Zamboni, Pomerance & Breiens, Carl Conrad Braun, Gruen & Krummeck, Raymond Loewy Associates, Seymour Joseph, Morris Lapidus, Virginia Connor Dick, Ross-Frankl Inc., Franklin Hughes, W. & J. Sloane, Edward Wormley, Hilde Reiss, Bertell, Inc, and George Cooper Rudolp & Associates.
- Stage Design
- Alexey Brodovitch vs. Bernard Rudofsky
- Industrial Design: recent work by Peter Muller-Munk
- Newsreel: Morris Sander's new Module Furniture, Edward Wormley for Drexel, Jacob Angmann, Guldsmedes Aktiebolaget, tableware, accessories, lamps, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, etc.
- Advertisements for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Century Lighting, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Paul Hanson, John Stuart, Baker Furniture, Ben Rose, Laverne Originals, and many 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 from this period remain an amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.