PENCIL POINTS
Volume 22, Number 5, May 1941
Kenneth Reid [Editor]
Kenneth Reid [editor]: PENCIL POINTS. Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1940. Original Edition [Volume 22, Number 5, May 1941]. A good vintage magazine with shelf wear including creasing and a damp stain on the cover's bottom right-hand side -- translates throughout the interior, but does not occlude any graphics or text. Business-card size square neatly cut out on advertisement page 95/96. Otherwise, interior unmarked and clean. Out of print. Cover design by Gustav Jensen. Cover Photograph by Ansel Adams.8.75 x 11.75 original magazine with 192 pages of vintage content and advertising. "Pencil Points," the forerunner of "Progressive Architecture" embraced the streamline moderne aesthetic in the arts.
Contents
- ARTICLES
- Spirit of Eldorado by Michael Goodman
- Go West, Gourmet by Douglas M. Game
- Welcome to San Francisco by Frederick H. Reimers
- California: Whys and Wherefores by Talbot F. Hamlin: 6 pages with 18 b/w illustrations including work by Maybeck, Greene & Greene and William L. Wollet
- SPECIAL PLATE SECTION
- Views of Los Angeles including Public Buildings, Representative Industrial and Commercial Work: 14 pages with 28 b/w illustrations including work by William Lescaze, Kem Weber, David J. Wirmer, Ralph C. Flewelling, Richard J. Neutra and Hugh R. Davies among others
- The Work of Some Contemporary Los Angeles Architects including George J. Adams, Gregory Ain, Allison and Allison, Ronald E. Coate, Theodore J. Criley, Hugh R. Davies, Walter Davis, Ralph C. Flewelling, Bertram Grovesnor Goodhue, Harwell Hamilton Harris [Chinese Restaurant, Lee Blair Residence, Fellowship Park House and Granstedt House], Douglas Honnold, Gordon Kaufmann [Palladium], H. Roy Kelley, Marsh, Smith & Powell, Richard J. Neutra [House for D. Scioberetti, Hillside House in Glendale, Advertising Building], John & Donald B. Parkinson, Winchton L. Risley, Cecil A. Schilling, R. M. Schindler [Henwar Rodakiewicz House, Beach Devlopment], Sumner Spaulding, Eugene Weston, Jr., Lewis Eugene Wilson, Kenneth Wing, Carleton M. Winslow, David J. Witmer and Lloyd Wright -- and examples of landscape design by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council
- The Work of Some Contemporary San Francisco Architects including Wm. Clement Ambrose, Hervey Parke Clark, Gardener Dailey, John Dinwiddie, FSA, John C. Funk, Francis Joseph McCarthy, Clarence Mayhew, Timothy L. Pflueger, Frederick H. Reimers, Albert F. Roller, Clarence A. Tantau and William Wilson Wurster -- with representative examples of landscape design by Thomas D. Church; also two schools by Franklin & Kump of Fresno
- THE THRESHING FLOOR -- Letters and Discussions by C. H. Gillette, Martin Torrence, Roland Gourley, John M. Hirsch, George Schley Stillman, D. Ashley Reed and Paul Pippin
- Public Relations -- A Section edited by D. Knickerbacker Boyd
- Data Sheets -- prepared by Don Graf include attic ventilation and fire resistent vaults
- Departments include News from the Field, Competition Announcements and Book Reviews
- General Advertising: an excellent assortment of vintage trade advertisments that espouse the depression moderne streamline aesthetic quite nicely.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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