INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
March 1949
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor],
György and Juliet Kepes [Cover Designers]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, March 1949 [Volume 108, no. 8]. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 198 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers worn and soiled with splitting and chipping spine. Tape remnants and removed label to rear panel. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by György and Juliet Kepes. A nearly very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 198 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1949 -- 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:
- Letters From George Nelson, Peter Blake
- For Your Information: Low-Cost Furniture Competition Picture From Brenner, Speyer And Prestini.
- Magazines From Abroad: Domus, Werk, Bonytt, Form, Etc.
- The Importance Of Being Indolent: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Cinema In Rome Designed By Goffredo Lizzani
- Cinema In New York Designed By Warner-Leeds
- Cinema In The Suburbs Designed By Lippincott & Margulies
- Paladino And The 18th-Century: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Aland Dick’s, A Restarant Designed By Nemeny & Geller
- The Purple Tree, A Lounge Designed By Lippincott & Margulies
- Isamu Noguchi On The Expanding Potential Of Sculpture: 6-Page Illustrated Essay.
- The Dining Room —1: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Carson Pirie Scott’s Designer-Designed Windows: Window Displays By Eero Saarinen, Florence Knoll, Herbert Matter; George Nelson; Edward Wormley; Charles Eames
- In The Showrooms: The New Furniture By Isamu Noguchi, George Nelson For Herman Miller, Allan Gould, Clifford Pascoe, etc.
- Merchandise Cues: Lighting From Gotham, Lightolier, etc.
- Advertisements For Herman Miller, Knoll Associates, Laverne, Heifitz, 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."