INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
February 1946
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 105, no. 7] February 1946. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 130 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by Bernard Rudofsky. A very good copy.
8.125 x 11.25 magazine with 130 pages of 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:
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- Lester Tichy Designs Contemporary Furniture
- Hillside Houses by Richard Neutra: 3 houses well represented with photographs and plans.
- Interiors To Come: 6 Projects by Henry Ray, Ernst Payer, Kim Hoffmann & Stephen Heirrich, Joseph Aronson, and J. Gordon Lippincott.
- Stage Design For The G. I. 'Hamlet.'
- Abbott Laboratories by Harper Richards
- Sweden Is Shipping Orrefors Glass Again: Nils Landberg, Sven Palmquist, Simon Gate, Edward Hald, Edvin Ohrstrom, Etc.
- Industrial Design: Quonset Huts, Plywood, Converting Army Bombers, Raymond Loewy, Kaiser Automobiles, etc.
- Merchandise Cues
- Advertisements for Hans Knoll Asociates, Laverne Originals, Ross Frankel, 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."