INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
September 1951
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, September 1951 [Volume 110, no. 9]. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 200 pages. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Roberto Mango. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 200 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1951 -- 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.
- Letters to the editors
- For your information
- A sampling of magazines from abroad
- Interiors' editorial: After many a summer dies the chief
- The ninth Triennale: a report on Milan's great international exhibition of interior design, architecture, and industrial design, written by Walter Dorwin Teague [30 pages with approx. 65 black and white illustrations including the work of Lucio Fontana, Luciano Baldessari, Marcello Grisotti, Ernesto Rogers, Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Marcello Nizzoli, Stefano Buffoni, Ernesto Carboni, Gio Ponti, Ignazio Gardella, S. Eduardo Poli, Sarfatti, Achille Livio, Angeli, Finn Juhl, Tapio Wirkkala, Alvar Aalto, Henry Prouve, Charlotte Perriand and Robin Day among many others]
- Parking space for 8 automobiles: at the Museum of Modern Art
- Space, sun, air, and luxury called to order: a house by Victor Gruen and R. L. Baumfeld [6 pages with 14 black and white illustrations]
- Good Design: selections for midyear 1951 [3 pages with 14 black and white illustrations including work by Paul McCobb, Finn Juhl, Paul Tuttle, Guy Barker, Tony Paul, Paul Mayen and Charles McCrea]
- In the showrooms: a review of new furniture [5 pages with 20 black and white illustrations including work by Paul McCobb, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, the Eames and Futorian]
- Departments include Merchandise Cues, People, Address Book, Manufacturers' information and Interior sources
- Includes advertisements (many full-page) from the following manufacturers and companies: Knoll (ad by Herbert Matter), Fireplace accessories designed by George Nelson for Howard Miller, Widdicomb mid-century modern, Jens Risom Design Inc., Lightolier, Herman Miller, Futorian, Heifetz, Dunbar, Harvey Probber and Raymor 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." [interiors_2019]