INTERIORS
September 1959
Olga Grueft [Editor]
Olga Grueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 119, No. 2 ] September 1959. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 224 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled. Interior unmarked and clean. Cover by Lou Klein and Arnold Saks. A very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with approximately 224 pages of color and b/w examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1959 -- with beautiful graphic design and production throughout. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.
- Interiors Bookshelf
- Welton Becket and Associates: huge section featuring multiple case studies
- The Celanese House by Edward Durell Stone
- Interiors Contract Series ’59 Transportation
- Willow Run Airport Terminal: Minoru Yamasaki
- LAV Terminal At Idlewild: Marvin B. Affrime
- Aerolineas Argentinas Ticket Office: Michael Saphier
- Quantas Office: Skidmore Owings And Merrill
- Navy Transport Ship: Eleanor Lemaire
- Art In Interiors Exhibition At Midtown Galleries
- The Moscow 1959 Fair: George Nelson, Charles Eames and Buckminster Fuller go to Moscow. What ever happened to the United States Information Agency?
- New Furniture Part II
- Lighting by Hansen, Horizon, etc.
Includes advertising (many full-page and/or color) from the following manufacturers and companies: Herman Miller full-page ad, Dunbar Furniture Corp. Heifetz, Lightolier, Howard Miller Clock Company, Nessen Studios, Thonet and many 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]