INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
September 1953
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 113, no. 2, September 1953. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 174 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Aldo Giurgola. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. A very good or better copy. Housed in Publishers mailing envelope.
9 x 12 magazine with 174 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1953 -- 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.
- Shades of English gentility in Loewy's Rogers Peet store: 6 pages with 11 b/w illustrations
- Stronghold on the Hudson: a house by Walker Field
- The Thonet exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art: designed by Enrico Peressutti of Belgiojoso, Perressutti and Rogers [6 pages with 12 b/w illustrations]
- Makers of Tradition -- 17: the inventors of the Empire Style [Percier and Fontaine: The Little Corporal's Silent Partners]
- Good Design: the summer additions, concluded: includes drapery fabrics, upholstery fabrics, lamps, accessories, tablewares, kitchen and cleaning equipment, household appliances and miscellaneous with work by designers and manufacturers including Raymond Loewy, Paul McCobb, Angelo Testa, Jack Lenor Larsen, Knoll textiles, Samuel J. Aronson, Isabel Scott, Habitat Associates, Bill Lam, Georg Jensen, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Henry Dreyfuss among others.
- Market report on new furniture: includes work by Jacob Kjaer and Edward Wormley for Dunbar, Jens Risom for Jens Risom Design, Paul McCobb for Directional Contemporary Furniture, Charles Eames for Herman Miller, Peter Hvidt, Molgard Nielsen and Count Sigvard Bernadotte for John Stuart and Gio Ponti and Bertha Schaefer for M. Singer and Sons among others.
- Vintage advertisements for John Widdicomb, Paul Hanson Co., Knoll, Lehigh Desks, Greef, Herman Miller, Heifetz Company, Lightolier, Jens Risom Design, Dunbar, Paul McCobb for Directional Contemporary Furniture, Harvey Probber, Thonet, Avard, Finn Juhl for Baker Furniture, Howard Miller Clock Company [Nelson Clocks] and Janet Rosenblum 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]