INTERIORS & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
October 1946
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 106, no. 3, October 1946. Original edition. Quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 178 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by James Lamantia. Wrappers lightly worn, creased and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 178 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1946 -- 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:
- Letter to the editor from Charles Eames [Venice, Ca] with a photograph of the author.
- Profiles Of Cover Artists Bernard Rudofsky, Saul Steinberg and Alvin Lustig.
- How To Display Furniture: Edward Wormley Demonstrates On Behalf Of Dunbar
- The Hotel: Its History, Development And Its Present Design Problems
- Guild Galleries In Grand Rapids Open Their Doors
- Variations On The Theme Of Plywood: Sears, Ottinger And Richards Create A Weldwood Building
- Interiors For A Tycoon's Yacht By George Farkas
- Beverly And Valentine Design Cameo Restaurant In Chicago
- Suggestions Of Three Kings; Chicago Restaurant By Mabel Schamberg
- Fine Stuffs: Fabrics By Graham Sutherland, Hans Tisdall, Saul Steinberg, Ben Rose, Donelda Fazakas, Etc.
- Industrial Design: Cars By Lawrence Webb Yaggi; Francesco Collura; Adler, Stahl and Radcliffe
- Advertisements for Laverne Originals, Dunbar, 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."
Interiors during its peak in the 1950s was the most beautifully designed and printed American Interiors magazine I have seen. An amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, furniture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.