ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
April 1964
David Travers [Editor]
David Travers [Editor]: ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: Arts and Architecture, Volume 81, number 4, April 1964. Slim quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. 40 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Mailing label to rear cover. Wrappers scuffed and worn. Textblock well thumbed. Interior clean and well-preserved, but a good copy.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 40 pages of editorial content and advertisements from leading purveyors of West Coast mid-century modernism, circa 1964. In terms of decor, there is none of that Chippendale jive here-- every residential interior is decked out in full midcentury glory.
Layout credited to John Follis, Ken Chapman & Frederick A. Usher, Jr.
- Movement And Light In Today’s Art: Frank Popper
- House: Kitchen & Hunt, Architects
- House: Samuelson & Acott, Architects
- House: Marcel Sedletzky, Architect
- House: Jacques Couelle, Architect
- A Plan For a Sector Of Paris: Victor Serfaty
- Two Projects By Tigerman & Koglin, Architects
- Suspended Exhibition Structure: Frei Otto, Hans Habermann, Christop Hertling, John Koch & Hans Wehrhahn
- Sculpture: Ruth Asawa Lanier
- Scandinavian Imports
- Et Cetera
- Art
- Books
- Notes In Passing
- Reader Service— Product Literature and Information
- Advertisments for George Nelson’s Howard Miller clocks, Beatrice Wood, Brown-Saltman, etc.
Editorial Associates for Arts and Architecture circa 1962 included Herbert Matter and Dore Ashton. Julius Shulman was the staff photographer. The Editorial Advisory Board included William Wilson Wurster, Richard Neutra, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen, Gardner Dailey, Sumner Spaulding, Mario Corbett, Esther Mccoy, John Funk, Gregory Ain, George Nelson, Gyorgy Kepes, Marcel Breuer, Raphael Soriano, Ray Eames, Garret Eckbo, Edgar Kaufman, Jr. and others luminaries of the mid-century modern movement.
In 1938, John Entenza joined California Arts and Architecture magazine as editor. By 1943, Entenza and his art director Alvin Lustig had completely overhauled the magazine and renamed it Arts and Architecture. Arts and Architecture championed all that was new in the arts, with special emphasis on emerging modernist architecture in Southern California.
One of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California, Entenza's most lasting contribution was his sponsorship of the Case Study Houses project, which featured the works of architects Thornton Abell, Conrad Buff, Calvin Straub, Donald Hensman, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, J. R. Davidson, A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Emmons, Don Knorr, Edward Killinsworth, Jules Brady, Waugh Smith, Pierre Koenig, Kemper Nomland, Kemper Nomland Jr., Richard Neutra, Ralph Rapson, Raphael Soriano, Whitney Smith, Sumner Spaulding, John Rex, Rodney Walker, William Wilson Wurster, Theodore Bernardi and Craig Ellwood. Arts and Architecture also ran articles and interviews on artists and designers such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, George Nakashima, George Nelson and many other groundbreakers.