INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
September 1952
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 170 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by Suzanne Sekey. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 170 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.
- For Your Information: Playground Sculpture; Kelly & Gruzen; Monorail In Los Angeles; etc.
- The Contradicotry Integrity Of Mogens Lassen: Gorm Hansen. 10 Well Illustrated Pages.
- Readers Digest Building, Tokyo By Antonin Raymond And Ladislav Rado, Henry Robert Kann, Furniture Designer And Isamu Noguchi, Landscape Designer.
- In Defense Of Hosts: Twitchell & Rudolph Design A Guest House In Naples, Florida.
- Makers Of Tradition 15, Hepplewhite And Two Other Fellows: Francis De N. Schroeder
- Some Enchanted Walnuts: Work By Edward Wormley, Warren Rindge, Philip West, etc.
- Hillside House By Greta Magnusson Grossman
- Jurg Bally's Mechanically Inclined Furniture
- Market Report On Furniture: Finn Juhl, Baker, Beacon Hill, Bodart, Dunbar, Edward Wormley, Robert Irwin, Paul McCobb, John Salterini, Maurizio Temestini, John Stuart, Widdicomb, Bertha Schaefer, Charles Allen, Regil De Yucatan, Jens Risom, Ficks Reed, Walter Baerman, Harold Schultz, Romweber, Swanson Associates, Industria Mueblera, Edmund Spence, Unaugusta, Mengel, Raymond Loewy, Milo Baughman, etc.
- Pahlmann In Grand Rapids: Hastings Square Collection.
- Merchandise Cues: Paul Heinley; Fabry Associates; Kolb Associates; Beth Weissman; etc.
- Advertisements For Raymor, Paul McCobb For Directional, Herman Miller, Knoll Associates By Herbert Matter, Dunbar, Heifetz, Abacus By Paul Rand,A Fabric For L. Anton Maix!, 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_2019]