THE MODERN INTERIOR
Robert Harling [Editor] and Alex Kroll [Art Editor]
London: Condé Nast Publications Ltd., 1964. First edition. Quarto. Yellow cloth decorated in black. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 304 pp. Fully illustrated, with 120 pages in color. Interior case studies fully illustrated with color and black and white photography, diagrams, floorplans, etc. Out-of-print. Former owners dated signature to front free endpaper. Jacket with a gargantuan chip to front panel and several vintage tape repairs to versos, so a very good or better copy in a fair to good minus dust jacket. p> 9 x 12 hardcover book with 304 pages—including 120 in color—copiously illustrated in black-and-white and color. A British perspective on Modern Interiors with many examples in the United Kingdom—and some examples in the United States, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy.
Features color coverage of the interior design of the Irwin J. Miller House in Columbus, IN by Alexander Girard, including a two-part color image of the fifty-foot long Picture Wall and the Conversation Pit!
Contents:
- What is Modern?
- Makers of the Modern Movement
- Modern Furniture
- Living Rooms
- Bedrooms
- Bathrooms
- Kitchens
- Dining Rooms
- Nurseries
- Maintenance
- Index
Architects, designers, and Manufacturers include: Alvar Aalto, Aram Designs Phileas Alpers, Alfred Altherr, Artek, John Aspinall, Frank Austin, Edward Bawden, Giorgio Bay, Rudolph Bedar, Michael Bell, Hans Bellmann, Harry Berttoia, Duncam Biggin, Roy Bishop, Charles Blackman, Margaret Bonito, Godfrey Bonsack, Braun, Marcel Breuer, Roger Brockbank, Werner Buchser, Stefan Buzas, George Buzuk, Campbell & Wong, Hugh Casson, A. & P. Castiglioni, Peter Collingwood, Peter Collymore, Terence Conran, Mario Corbett, Le Corbusier, Danasco, Trevor Dannatt, Frankland Dark, Lewis Day, Robin Day, Design Associates, Rudolph Diamant, Nanna & Jørgen Ditzel, Dux Design Group, Charles Eames, Ynge Eckström, Piero Fornasetti, E. Maxwell Fry, R. Buckminster Fuller, Peggy Galloway, Alexander Girard, Alan Gore, James Gowan, Walter Gropius, Peggy Guggenheim, Fritz Hansen, Hans Krieck, Eva Hauser, Robert Haussmann, Birken Haward, Ambrose Heal, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Hille Furniture, Gunther Hoffstead, Kerstin Hörlin-Holmquist, Peter Hoyte, Poul Hundevad, Peter Hvidt, Christopher Hussey, Kirsti Ilvessalo, Alan Irvine, Intercraft, Jadwiga Jacaczska, Arne Jacobsen, Philip Johnson, Henri Jova, Finnn Juhl, Louis Kahn, Vail Kaspar, Howard Keith, Richard Kelly, Kaare Klint, Florence Knoll, Ib Kofoed-Larsen, Arne Korsmo, Greta Prytz Korsmo, Jean Lahor, Jack Lenor Larsen, Joyce Lowrie, Edwin Luytens, Paul McCobb, Charles Rennie Macintosh, Vico Magistretti, Olli Mannermaa, Giacomo Manzu, Bruno Mathsson, Cliff May, David Mellor, Lugwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Børge Mogensen, Piero Monti, Henry Moore, William Morris, George Neelson, Pierre Nervi, Kurt Nordström, Gilda Guillen Nuñez, Frederick Olsen, Hans Olsen, Orrefors, Ragner Östberg, Verner Panton, Ico & Luisa Parisi, Parzinger Originals, Barbara Payze, Gio Ponti, Ernest Race, Raymond & Rado, T H Robsjohn-Gibbings, Kevin Roche, Lloyd Ruocco, Gordon Russell, Eero Saarinen, Eliel Saarinen, Yves St. Laurent, Stanley Salzman, Astrid Sampe, Timo Sarpaneva, Scandia, Scanex, Tobia Scarpa, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ettore Sottsass, Sir John Soane, Basil Spence, Kipp Stewart, James Stirling, Stephen Sykes, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Triva, Unika Vaev, Vatne, Venini, Roger Vivier, Charles Voysey, Hans Wegner, Paul Lester Wiener, Christopher Wren, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wurster Bernardi & Emmons, Dennis Young, Marco Zanuso, among others.