INTERIORS
July 1959
Olga Gueft [Editor]
Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 118, no. 12] July 1959. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 124 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover by Arnold Saks and Lou Klein. A very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with 124 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1959 -- 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.
- Restoration of Italy's Treasures by J. D. Ratcliff
- Maintenance as the Responsibility of the Interior Designer
- The Battle of Materials
- Data File of Materials and Methods
- Inside 717 Fifth Avenue
- Owens-Corning Fiberglas Offices by Designs for Business
- Corning Glass Works Offices by Designs for Business
- Café Louis XIV by Chandler Cudlipp Assoc.
- 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]