ANNUAL OF AMERICAN DESIGN 1931

American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen
R. L. Leonard, and C. A. Glassgold (editors)

[American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen] R. L. Leonard, and C. A. Glassgold (editors): ANNUAL OF AMERICAN DESIGN 1931. NYC: Ives Washburn, 1930. First edition. A very good to near-fine hardcover book in decorated and embossed (half-cloth) boards. White spine cloth is mildly soiled and boards a trifle dusty with one corner mildly frayed. Former owners signature on FEP, otherwise interior unmarked and very clean. because of the dodgy binding, this book rarely surfaces in collectible condition -- this is an exceptional copy of a very elusive title.

9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 176 pages and 300 b/w photographs. This volume is the most important vintage volume to examine American Industrial Design of the late 1920s into the early 1930s. No other volume comes close; not even the Studio Annuals for these years can hold a candle to this stunning production.

Acanthus Press published a facsimile of this book in 1992 as part of their noble Twentieth Century Landmarks in Design Series. The reprint is a strangely uncommon title that fails to do justice to the halftone engraving and tonal range of the 1930 edition. This book must truly be seen to be believed, from the Art Moderne design of the book and the binding, to the stellar line-up of artisans who contributed original essays. But don't take my word for it, take a peek at the contents:

Original essays published in this volume include:

• Kem Weber: the Modern Shop
• Norman Bel Geddes: Business interiors
• Paul T. Frankl: the Home of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Principles of Design
• Hugh Ferriss: the Real Traditions of Architecture
• M. F. Agha: Moderns and Modernists
• Edward Steichen: Commercial Photography
• Lewis Mumford: Culture and Machine Art
• Lee Simonson: New Methods, New Materials
• Richard Bach: the Resurgence of Quality
• C. Adolph Glassgold: Design in America

Designers and artists represented in the individual sections of this volume:

• THE SHOP: Kem Weber, Holabird and Root, J. R. Davidson, Thompson and Churchill, Howe and Lescaze, W. Reiss, V. Hagopian, Jock D. Peters.
• THE HOME: Paul Frankl, Willis Harrison, Gilbert Rohde, Donald Deskey, Frances Miller, Howe and Lescaze, Hugo Gnam, A. Drexler Jacobson, Paul M. Zimmermann, Eugene Schoen, Leon Carroll and Jacques Darcy, Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann, Kem Weber, Shepard Vogelgesang, Alexander Kachinsky, Lee Simonson, Ellen Kern, Winold Reiss, Lucian Bernhard, Lloyd Wright.
• TEXTILES: Ruth Reeves, Teresa Kilham, Helen Dryden, Ilonka Karasz, Robert Leonard, Jennie Greene, Donald Deskey, Eduard Buk Ulreich, Lydia Rahlson, Henriette Reiss, Gilbert Rohde, Vally Wieselthier, Alice Donaldson, Dorothy Trout, Marguerita Mergentime, Mary Bendelari, Robert Schey, Kneeland Green, Lucian Bernhard.
• NEW MATERIALS: A. D. Jacobsen, Walter Von Nessen, Erik Magnussen, Alexander Kachinsky, Hermann Rosse, Austin Purves, Frank Sohn, Raymond Hood, Frederick Kielser, Egmont Arens, Norman Bel Geddes, Paul Frankl, A. Drexler Jacobson, Alice Donaldson.
• INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann, Gilbert Rohde, Norman Bel Geddes, Thompson and Churchill, Joseph Sinel, Paul Lobel, Walter Kantack, Walter Von Nessen, Donald Deskey, Wlater Dorwin Teague, Julius Mihalik, A. Drexler jacobson, Robert Leonard, Gustav jensen, Walter Von Nessen, Peter Larsen, Erik Magnussen, Robert Locher, paul Lobel, Gus Bundy, Bernard Fischer, Helen Dryden, Alfonso Ianelli, Ellen Kern, Teresa Kilham.
• ARCHITECTURE: Thompson and Churchill, Raymond Hood, Corbett harrison & Macmurray, Norman Bel Geddes, Albert Kahn, Ely Jacques Kahn, Howe and Lescaze, Frederick Kiesler, Lloyd Wright.
• HALLS, WALLS and FITTINGS: Paul Frankl, Eugene Schoen, William Muschenheim, Joseph Urban, Winold Reiss, George Switzer, Ilonka Karasz, Joseph Sinel, Rockwell Kent, kem Weber, Howe and Lescaze.
• GRAPHIC ARTS IN ADVERTISING: George Switzer, Jospeh Sinel, Witold Gordon, Lewis White, Oscar Wentz, Henriette Reiss, Robert Leonard, Gustav Jensen, Lucian Bernhard, Jacob Asanger, Eduard Buk Ulreich.
• COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Edward Steichen, Nickolas Murray, Sara Parsons, Hi Williams, Emilie Danielson, Arthur Gerlach, Will Connell, Kem Weber.

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