INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
August 1946 - January 1947

Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]

Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, August 1946 - January 1947 [Volume 106, nos. 1 - 6]. Original editions bound in orange fabricoid with black stamped spine. A non-circulating Museum reference library edition with expected institutional stamps and some pencil decimal notations throughout. All covers and advertisments present. Covers by Bernard Rudofsky, Robert Jay Wolff, James Lamantia, Serge Chermayeff, Piranesi, and Josef Albers.

[6] 9 x 12 magazine with 926 total pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1947 -- offering a magnificent snapshot of the blossoming modern movement after World War II. A very desirable, vintage publication in terms of form and content: high quality printing and clean, functional design and typography and excellent photographic reproduction make this a spectacular addition to a midcentury design collection. Highly recommended.

Contents include:

• Molded Plywood for Radio Cabinets: One page article with 3 photographs of Charles Eames' radio cabinets. Appears shortly after the Eames Show at the Barclay Hotel / Architectural League/MoMA in January - March 1946. Reading this short article, you will understand the abrupt departure of Herbert Matter, Gregory Ain, Harry Bertoia et al. from the Eames office stable in September 1946. See John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart and Ray Eames: EAMES DESIGN: THE WORK OF THE OFFICE OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES. NYC: Abrams 1989, page 69 for the understated, bloodless details. This article makes it sound like the plywood furniture was an immaculate conception, with Charles as the pround, single parent.
• Lester Tichy Designs For The Penn Railroad
• THE COLLECTION: 28-page article with Projects by Pietro Belluschi, Hans R. Wormann, Calvin Coggeshall, Paul Bry, Joseph Aronson, Arthur L. Finn, Joseph Platt, R. M. Schindler, Reisner & Urbahn, Robert Gruen Associates, Hal Zamboni, Pomerance & Breiens, Carl Conrad Braun, Gruen& Krummeck, Raymond Loewy Associates, Seymour Joseph, Morris Lapidus, Virginia Connor Dick, Ross-Frankl Inc., Franklin Hughes, W. & J. Sloane, Edward Wormley, Hilde Reiss, Bertell, Inc, And George Cooper Rudolp & Associates.
• Stage Design
• Alexey Brodovitch vs. Bernard Rudofsky
• Industrial Design: recent work by Peter Muller-Munk
• Newsreel: Morris Sander's new Module Furniture, Edward Wormley for Drexel, Jacob Angmann, Guldsmedes Aktiebolaget, tableware, accessories, lamps, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, etc.
• Advertisements for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Century Lighting, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Paul Hanson, John Stuart, Baker Furniture, Ben Rose, Laverne Originals, and many others.

• Alvin Lustig, Designer: 8-page article with 20 color and black and white work samples. Includes portrait by Maya Deren, Cohama Fabric designs in color [!], Interior Design of the Beverley Hills Office, New Directions dust jackets and the Roteron single-passenger helicopter. Interior photography by Julius Shulman. "The words 'graphic designer,' 'architect,' or 'industrial designer' stick in my throat giving me a sense of limitation, of specialization within the specialty, or a relationship to society that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of a designer."
• Hotel In Curacao By Paul Lester Wiener And Jose Luis Sert
• Surrealism In The Night Club: Café Society Murals By Anton Refregier
• Simplon Restaurant By Sourian
• Murals For Hotels: Holabird & Root
• Jac Lessman Reconverts The Boston Somerset
• Morris Sanders And The Mengle Module
• Glass by Duncan Niles Terry
• Industrial Design: recent work by Karl Brocken
• Advertisements for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Century Lighting, Drexel Furniture, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Paul Hanson, John Stuart, Lightolier, Baker Furniture, Laverne Originals, and many others.
• Letter to the editor from Charles Eames [Venice, Ca] with a photograph of the author.
• Profiles Of Cover Artists Bernard Rudofsky, Saul Steinberg And Alvin Lustig.
• How To Display Furniture: Edward Wormley Demonstrates On Behalf Of Dunbar
• The Hotel: Its History, Development And Its Present Design Problems
• Guild Galleries In Grand Rapids Open Their Doors
• Variations On The Theme Of Plywood: Sears, Ottinger And Richards Create A Weldwood Building
• Interiors For A Tycoon's Yacht By George Farkas
• Beverly And Valentine Design Cameo Restaurant In Chicago
• Suggestions Of Three Kings; Chicago Restaurant By Mabel Schamberg
• Fine Stuffs: Fabrics By Graham Sutherland, Hans Tisdall, Saul Steinberg, Ben Rose, Donelda Fazakas, Etc.
• Industrial Design: Cars By Lawrence Webb Yaggi; Francesco Collura; Adler, Stahl and Radcliffe
• Advertisements for Laverne Originals, Dunbar, etc.
• Furniture Designs By Beppi Kraus-Newbery, Buenos Aires
• House On A Beach: Gregori Warchavchik, Sao Paulo
• A Well-Pruned Garden: Ms. Gregori Warchavchik
• House In Rio De Janeiro: Alvaro Vital
• Furniture By Clara Porset Guerrero Of Mexico
• Station KNEW: The First Post-War Radio Station
• Florsheim Shoe Shop By Ketchum, Gian & Sharp
• John Ward Shoe Shop By Raymond Loewy
• One-Room Living: Hoffman & Heidrich
• Philadelphia’s First Modern Theatre in 20 Years
• Newsreel: tableware, accessories, lamps, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, etc.
• Advertisements for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, Century Lighting, Drexel Furniture, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Paul Hanson, John Stuart, Lightolier, Baker Furniture, Laverne Originals, and many others.
• For Your Information: The New Desoto, etc.
• Laverne Originals Pennsylvania Dutch Wallpaper 2-color full-page ad by Alvin Lustig
• Full-page, 2-color advertisement for the Herman Miller Furniture Company “announces a new group of household furniture designed by George Nelson, one of the leading U. S. exponents of modern design. The furniture will be introduced at the company’s showrooms in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York shortly after the beginning of 1947.” This advertisment also served as the first published appearance of the Herman Miller logo designed by George Nelson.
• Shipboard Design: Comments By Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
• Widdicomb Puts Out A Complete Line Of Furniture Designed By T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
• Beau Nash: Grandfather Of The Regency Style
• Ross Frankel Designs And Build Mangel’s In Birmingham, AL
• The Crown Room, Price Matchabelli Inc., Designed By William Pahlmann
• Offices Designed By Harper Richards
• Culinary Souvenir: Robert's American Restaurant, Berlin
• Duplex Apartment Remodelled By Serge Chermayeff
• Stage Design: Art In Modern Ballet: Eugene Berman, Giorgio De Chirico, Julio De Diego, Boris Aronson, Oliver Smith, Pavel Tchelitchew, Salvador Dali, Jo Mielziner, Joan Junyer And Edward Burra.
• Industrial Design: Samuel H. Rosen's Design Technics, Florence Forst Ceramic Design
• Merchandise Cues: Fabrics By Ben Rose, Emile George, etc.
• Newsreel: Moholy-Nagy obituary, fabrics by Ben Rose, lamps, tables by Andrew Szoeke, tableware, accessories, lamps, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, etc.
• For Your Information: Useful Objects Exhibit at MoMA
• Interiors to Come: 50 pages of New projects from Antonin Raymond And Ladislav Rado, Paul Laszlo, Petroff & Clarkson, Felix Augenfeld, Mario Corbett, Richard Bennett, Paul Beidler, Richard Neutra, Peggy Ann Rohde, Ernst Payer, Edward Wormley, Gruen & Krummeck, Vernon Sears, Robert Sydney Dickens, Peter Schladermundt, Howard Ketcham, Seymour Joseph, Leopold Kleiner, George Daub, Morris Lapidus, John Rideout, Paul Thiry, Gordon Obrig, George Cooper Rudolph, Mackie & Kamrath, Ross Frankel And Rits Van Witsen.
• Stage Design: Cecil Beaton
• Industrial Design: profile of recent work from the office of Harley Earl
• Merchandise Cues: Russel Wright
• Advertisements for Dunbar, Laverne Originals, Ben Rose, etc.
• And much more.

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 during its peak in the 1950s was the most beautfully designed and printed American Interiors magazine I have seen. An amazing vintage mid-century resource, not to be missed. Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.

A sample spread from this volume can be viewed here.

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