INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
March 1948
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 170 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled with chewed lower spine. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover based on a drawing by George Nelson. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 170 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.
- For Your Information
- Designer at Play: George Nelson Hits on a Oversized Tinker Toy for Grownups
- New Showrooms For The Trade: Harper Richards, Ben Rose, Helen Stern, Walter Mccobb, Richards-Morgenthau, etc.
- KLM: Dutch Royal Airlines, Louis Shulman
- Silverware: Alan Adler, Etc.
- Stage Design: Beauty For The Beast
- A Survey of Furniture from 40-Odd Sources: Hans Knoll, William Armbruster, Jens Risom, Hans Belman, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
- Advertisements for Knoll by Herbert Matter, Drexel, Widdicomb, Lightolier, Dunbar, Ben Rose, Lehigh, 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."