INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
December 1952
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, December 1952 [Volume 112, no. 4]. Original edition. A very good magazine with lightly worn and soiled wrappers. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Cover by Roberto Mango.
9 x 12 magazine with 178 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1952 -- 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.
- For Your Information: Ceramic National Winners; Tokyo's Industrial Arts Institute; Golden Griffin Book Store; etc.
- A Portfolio from Italy Collected by Robert Mango
- Ascetic and Sybarite: The Masks Of Gio Ponti. 4 Pages
- The Spiral and The Acrobat: Milan Apartment By Lodovico Belgioioso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Rogers.
- On Displaying Without Displays: Marco Zanuso Design Filiales.
- Ideas For A Shelving System: Angelo Mangiarotti.
- The Baroque Spirit In A Modern House: Carlo Mollino In Turin.
- Harlequinade For A Small Cinema: Mario Righini In Milan.
- Office In A Well Organized Pentagon: Vito & Gustavo Latis In Milan.
- House By The Sea: Mario Tedeschi In Santa Margherita.
- Olivetti Of Ivrea: Deborah Allen. Marcello Nizzoli, Fiocchi, Renato Guttuso, Gian Antonio Bernasconi, Giovanni Pintoru, Leo Lionni, etc.
- Knoll's Kaleidoscopic Knock-Down: Smithsonian Institution Shows American Textiles In Germany, Designed By The Knoll Planning Unit.
- The Word On Design: Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Excerpted Essays By Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius.
- Jens Risom Initials His New Showroom.
- Revisions and Removals: Thaibok, Konwiser
- Lighting Goves Quaintance Its Quota Of Drama
- Willow & Reed Get A Blithe Re-Do
- Summer Furniture, '52 Crop: Work By Peter Rooke-Ley, Kenneth Uyemura, C. F. Legler, Paul McCobb, Swanson Associates', John Wisner, Troy Sunshade, Milo Baughman, Pacific Iron, etc.
- Mechandise Cues: Ernst Lichtbau, etc.
- Advertisements For Herman Miller, Knoll Associates By Eszter Haraszty, Konwiser, Paul McCobb For Directional, Widdicomb By T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Heifetz, Harvey Probber, Lightolier, Dunbar, Allan Gould, 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."
Interiors during its peak in the 1950s was the most beautfully designed and printed American Interiors magazine I have seen. An amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.