INTERIORS
September 1960
Olga Grueft [Editor]
Olga Grueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 120, No. 2] September 1960. Original edition. Slim quarto. Side stitched perfect bound wrappers. 220 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisments. Wrappers lightly rubbed with a tiny abrasion to front panel. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Cover by Arnold Saks with a photograph by Ferruzzi Venezia. A nearly fine copy.
9 x 12 magazine with approximately 220 pages of color and b/w examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1960 -- 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.
Contents include:
- Report from the 12th Triennale by Inger Tanier: includes work by Paolo Venini, Roberto Menghi, Anna Castelli and Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Franco Albini, Vittoriano Vigano, Enrico Peressutti and Ernest N. Rogers, Poul Kjaerholm, Rene Herbst and Hans Asplund among many others
- Marco Polo Club by Donald Deskey Associates
- Interiors' Contract Series '60: Transportation
- American Airlines Terminal by Kahn & Jacobs
- The Leonardo da Vinci, Italy's Newest Luxury Liner
- Japan Airlines Office, Seattle by Terry & Moore
- Air India Office, New York by George Bielich
- Furniture Report, Part III
- Habitat's New Lighting Showroom by Paul Mayen
- Merchandise Cues
Includes advertising [many full page and/or color] from the following manufacturers and companies: Herman Miller [full page ad], Knoll [full page ad], Laverne, Thonet, Van Keppel-Green, Steelcase, Dux, V'Soske, Frederick Lunning and Directional.
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."