INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
January 1948
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 107, no. 6] January 1948. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 182 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Warren Nardin. A very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 182 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1948 -- 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.
- Profiles Of Cover Artists Ray Johnson, Robert Nelson Riger And Warren Nardin.
- For Your Information: Mies Van Der Rohe's Campus Design For ITT; Henry Dreyfuss; etc.
- Interiors Abroad: Domus, The Architectural Review, Art Et Decoration, etc.
- Problems Of Design: Packaging The Human Body
- A Query: Roundtable Fashion Discussion With T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Elizabeth Mock, Alexander Girard, And George Nelson. Full-Page Illustration By Saul Steinberg.
- Interiors To Come: 17 Projects By Felix Augenfeld, Richard Neutra, Hugh Stubbins [Fold-Out], Art Brenner, William Schorn, Harper Richards, Paul Laszlo, Constantino Nivola [Color Fold-Out], Seymour Joseph, Paul Thiry, Robert Mckean, Hoffman & Heidrich, Carl Frederick Bauer, Ernst Payer, Paul Bry, Robert Gruen Associates, And Joseph J. Robert.
- Industrial Design: Plastic Bowls By James Prestini [!], And Good Design For 1948: Peter Muller-Munk, Harold Darr, Dave Chapman, Etc.
- Industrial Design Standards By Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. : Profile Of England's Council Of Industrial Design
- Merchandise Cues: Laverne Originals, Ascher Silk Scarves By Henry Moore, Arpad Rosti Stoneware, James Teague Andirons, Maurice Martine For The Lania Shop, Hille Of London, Harvey Probber Sofas, etc.
- Advertisements for Herman Miller, Dunbar, Widdicomb, General Lighting George Nelson announcement, Lightolier, Jens Risom, Ben Rose, Thonet, Kurt Versen, 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."