INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
July 1948
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 107, no. 12] July 1948. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 164 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn, soiled and edge worn. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Constantino Nivoli. A very good copy.
8.125 x 11.25 magazine with 164 pages of 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.
Contents
- Fifty pages of Postwar Furniture and Interiors from Italy: Compiled and Edited by Bernard Rudofsky
- Blessed are the Poor . . . an introduction by George Nelson
- Includes work by Albertini, Franco Albini, Albricci, Banfi, Becker, Belgioso, Bursi, Bussi, Canella, Castelli-Ferrieri, Achille Castiglioni, Luisa Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Paola Chessa, Cristiani, Carlo De Carli, Fratino, Fontana, Ignazio Gardella, Eugenio Gentili, Luigi Ghidini, Latis, Gino Levi-Montalcini, Carlo Mollino, Mozzoni, Gabriele Mucchi, Peressutti, Lucia Ponti Bonicalzi, Radici, Ernesto Rogers, A. Romano, Giovanni Romano, Sola, Ettore Sottsass, Mario Tedeschi, Vianini, V. Vigano, Marco Zanuso, and Zuccoli
- Full page two color ad for the Herman Miller Furniture Company featuring the designs of George Nelson and Charles Eames.
- Departments include Letters to the editors, For your information, A sampling of magazines from abroad, Interiors' editorial: Peace—and comfort by Francis de N. Schroeder, Newsreel: merchandise cues, people, address book, Interior sources
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.