INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
November 1953
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York City: Whitney Publications, November 1953 [Volume 113, no. 4]. Original edition. Printed side-stitched wrappers. 172 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Cover by Aldo Giurgola. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy. Preserved in Publishers mailing envelope.
9 x 12 magazine with 172 pages of black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1953 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming post-WWII modern movement. 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: bertha Schaefer; Walter Dorwin Teague; Elsa hutzler's sculptures; Robert Hose; etc.
- New Adventures Behind a Murray hill Front: Joseph Aronson
- Open plan, Open Door: Huson Jackson builds in Alabama and Connecticut
- Inventions in Furniture:
- Mass-produced hospital modules by Gerald Luss for Carrom Industries
- Office case goods from Lehigh by Luss of Designs for Business, Inc.
- Multiflex modules by Norman Cherner for Konwiser
- Fixed curtain-wall cases by Arthur Umanoff for the Elton Company
- Flexible classroom furniture by Dave Chapman for Brunswick
- Tight packing laminated jigsaws by Marketta Niskala for Oy Stockmann AB
- Sunflower cones and other chairs by Roberto Mango
- Cuddle Bowl by Lina Bo Bardi
- Transparent easy chair by Irena Schawinsky at Janet Rosenblum
- Padded spring chair by David Rowland
- Makers of Tradition 18: thomas Hope, Regency's Designing Dilettante by jean Anne Vincent
- Lighting Review: George Tanier, harry Gitlin, nessen Studios, Lightolier, Paul mayen, Paavo Tynell, Bill Brewer, Koch & Lowy, Philip Johnson & Richard Kelly, Tommi Parzinger, etc.: 8 pages and 76 lamps identified.
- Erwin-lambeth House: southern hospitality in a manhattan oasis.
- Merchandise Cues: Robert Kasindorf, Dick Stambaugh, Wilbut henry Adams, Richards Morgenthau, etc.
- Vintage advertisements for Harvey Probber, Knoll Associates, the Heifetz Company, Jens Risom [photographed by Ricahrd Avedon], Thonet, Paul McCobb for Directional, among others.
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."