INTERIORS & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
December 1946
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 106, no. 5., December 1946 Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 162 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover detail by Piranesi. Wrappers lightly worn, soiled and creased, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 162 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:
- For Your Information: The New Desoto, etc.
- Laverne Originals Pennsylvania Dutch Wallpaper 2-color full-page ad by Alvin Lustig
- Full-page, 2-color advertisement for the Herman Miller Furniture Company “announces a new group of household furniture designed by George Nelson, one of the leading U. S. exponents of modern design. The furniture will be introduced at the company’s showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York shortly after the beginning of 1947.” This advertisement also served as the first published appearance of the Herman Miller logo designed by Irving Harper via George Nelson.
- Shipboard Design: Comments By Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- Widdicomb Puts Out A Complete Line Of Furniture Designed By T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
- Beau Nash: Grandfather Of The Regency Style
- Ross Frankel Designs And Build Mangel’s In Birmingham, AL
- The Crown Room, Price Matchabelli Inc., Designed By William Pahlmann
- Offices Designed By Harper Richards
- Culinary Souvenir: Robert's American Restaurant, Berlin
- Duplex Apartment Remodelled By Serge Chermayeff: 8 pages.
- Stage Design: Art In Modern Ballet: Eugene Berman, Giorgio De Chirico, Julio De Diego, Boris Aronson, Oliver Smith, Pavel Tchelitchew, Salvador Dali, Jo Mielziner, Joan Junyer And Edward Burra.
- Industrial Design: Samuel H. Rosen's Design Technics, Florence Forst Ceramic Design at the Institute of Design, Chicago.
- Merchandise Cues: Fabrics By Ben Rose, Emile George, etc.
- Newsreel: Moholy-Nagy obituary, fabrics by Ben Rose, lamps, tables by Andrew Szoeke, tableware, accessories, lamps, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, etc.
- And much more.
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."