INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
October 1952
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 112, no. 3] October 1952. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 202 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Aldo Giurgola. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 202 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1952 -- 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.
- Profile Of Cover Artists Henry Haberman, Suzanne Sekey and Aldo Giurgola.
- For Your Information: Isamu Noguchi Bridges; Jose De Rivera Sculpture; Carol Summers Pots; etc.
- Lighting: Its Service and Its Spell [Part One Of A Two-Part Lighting Study]: John Anderson. Work By Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra [Julius Shulman], Hebbeln & Diedrich, Paul Rudolph, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Kelley, Roberto Mango, etc.
- Lucia Fontana
- Ward Bennett's Rebuttal: Two Living Room Remodels
- Harry Bertoia: His Sculpture, His Kind Of Wire Chair. 4 Pages Illustrated With Herbert Matter Photographs.
- Camer-Shaped Studio In Photographer's Yard: George Lewis and Allan Gould
- Fabrics '52: Alexander Girard For Hermsan Miller, Olga Baughman, Schumachers, Ben Rose, Ruth Adler, Elsie Mcneil, Morton Sundour, Russel Wright, Pacific Iron, Greef, etc.
- The Clash Of Symbols -- 4: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Merchandise Cues: Irving Richards; Russel Wright; Edward Wormley; Allan Gould; etc.
- Advertisements For Dunbar, Raymor, Harvey Probber, Herman Miller By Irving Harper, Heifetz, Knoll Associates, Paul Mccobb For Directional, Howard Miller, Dot Fantasy By Paul Rand, A Fabric For L. Anton Maix!, Angelo Testa, Nessen Studio, Finn Juhl For Baker, 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."