INTERIORS
February - July 1956

Olga Gueft [Editor]

Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS. New York: Whitney Publications, February - July 1956 [Volume 115, nos. 7 - 12]. 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 John Alcorn, Aldo Giurgola [x2], Aldo Giurgola, Pierre Kleykamp and Rolf Strub, Aldo Giurgola and Rolf Strub, and Tony Palladino.

[6] 9 x 12 magazine with 1,100 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:

• Letters to the editors
• For your information
• Interiors' Bookshelf
• A sampling of magazines from abroad
• Interiors' editorial
• The Bergers' Dallas hilltop: intermingled interiors and gardens
• Packet of photographs from Cataluna
• New attics for Gaudi's Casa Meli by Francisco Corsini: 6 pages with 12 b/w illustrations
• Villa in Caldetas by Coderch & Vals
• Improvements on a large estate by Leonori
• Interiors' Contract Series '56: No. 2
• Flying Interiors: Private and Commercial airplanes [includes work by Walter Dorwin Teague and Henry Dreyfuss]
• A Rainbow setting for raincoats by Gene Tarnawa
• An Airy setting for giftwares by Hargreaves & Haigler
• Laszlo remodels his style: a Beverly Hils house [4 pages with 11 b/w illustrations]
• Inside stories of traditional interiors – 3: Trompe L'Oeil
• Architectural Pottery: new earthenware answers by La Gardo Tackett [2 pages with 4 b/w illustrations]
• New Structure, new forms in furniture: 3 inventions [2 pages with 8 b/w illustrations including work by D. Lee DuSell, Peter Brunn and Victor J. Papanek
• Furniture Report -- Part 1. First installment, semi-annual market review: 8 pages with 27 b/w illustrations including work by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, Jens Risom Design, Richard Schultz and Isamu Noguchi for Knoll Associates, Paul Colby, Avard, Allan Gould Designs, Vladimir Kagan, International Designer's Group, Robert Barber, Chimento & grabe, Austin Group, Modern Manor and Folke Ohlsson for Dux.
• In the showrooms [includes Jens Risom, new lamps and textiles by Jack Lenore Larsen and Knoll among others], people, address book
• America's Great Sources: Index to advertisers in this issue
• Interiors Contract series Hotels: Aspen Meadowway by Herbert Bayer, etc.
• Texas Lode on Park Avenue
• shelter of a 3-D lattice: house by Jules Gregory
• decorators participate in 2 antique shows
• home in Puerto Rico
• Furniture Report: 15 pages with Arch Gordon, Finn Juhl, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Paul mcCobb, Alvar Aalto, Vladimir kagan, Richards Morgenthau, Glenn of California, Harvey Probber, etc.
• French Furniture craftsmen
• American Institute of decorators 25th anniversary show in San Frnacisco: fold-out map of SF included, along with interiors and exteriors by Don Knorr, and lawrence halprin, etc.
• Furniture: preview for the new Eames lounge Chair and ottoman, Raymond Loewy, Paul McCobb, laverne, Lehigh, Charles Stendig, Georg Jensen, Jens Risom, etc.
• Lighting by Raymond Loewy, Georg Jensen,
• fabrics by ben Rose, etc.
• Interiors' Contract Series '56: Restaurants and Bars
• Barrie's Restaurant in New York by Arthur Silver
• The Canlis Broiler in Honolulu by Wimberly and Cook
• Clark's Crabapple Restaurant in Seattle by Terry & Moore
• Cremeria Coffee Bar in Rome by Corrada Giurgola and Luigi Parisi
• Interiors' Contract Series '56: Libraries and Schools
• Members Rooms at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by Leslie Cheek, Jr.
• Faculty Library for school of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania by Joseph R. Bobrowicz
• Project for a Modern Library in a Palazzo in Milan by Florence Knoll: 2 pages with 4 b/w illustrations
• Garden City High School Lounges by Marion Kitchen
• Japanese House in Michigan; Hollis Baker, Jr. describes its building
• Sculptural Walls in Concrete: Erwin Hauer's Sculptural Concrete Trellis-walls [6 pages with 8 b/w illustrations]
• Don Hatch's Caracas Showroom
• Lunt Silver: Essential Forms from Sensuous Elements
• Pre-Market Furniture Introductions from Georg Jensen, Herman Miller [Marshmallow loveseat, Cocoanut chair] and J. G. Furniture.
• The Door and the Floor: Art for Industry's Sake [Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company's new styling program for door knobs, levers, escutcheons and pulls created by Mirko, Noguchi, Spadini, De Poli, Leger, Roscak, Philip Johnson and more + Mike Spivak's tile patterns for Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Company; 2 pages with 10 b/w illustrations]
• In the showrooms, people, address book
• America's Great Sources: Index to advertisers in this issue
• America's Great Sources: an index to advertisers for January - June 1956
• The Exhilirated World of Eszter Haraszly: 6 pages including a full color fold out and 7 b/w illustrations
• Interiors Contract Series '56: Banks
• Introduction
• The Savings and Loan Association of Houston
• The Hartford Bank
• American National Bank of Austin, Texas
• The Neumann's House by Breuer: their Schumacher fabrics [4 pages with 7 b/w illustrations]
• Interiors Contract Series '56: Offices
• Jamian Advertising and Publicity
• Oscar Widmann's Quarters
• Cheney, Greef's Top Executive Office
• Aspects of Offices by Hans Krieks
• Report on the A.I.D.'s Silvery Anniversary Conference: 14 pages with 37 b/w illustrations including work by Jens Risom, Jack Lenor-Larsen and Edward Wormley among many others.
• Pre-market Survey of New Furniture: 8 pages with 24 b/w illustrations including work by Mario Dal Fabbro, Paul Colby, John Vesey, Paul McCobb, George Nelson [1 page on Nelson's clean components for a comprehensive modular system], Kurt Ostervig and Arne Jacobsen among others.
• Design in Japan: 2 pages with 4 b/w illustrations
• Departments include For your information, Interiors' editorial and Interiors' bookshelf
• Letters to the editors
• For your information
• Interiors' editorial: Year's work
• Interiors' Contract Series '56: Shops
• Ceramics Shop in Milan by Ferruccio Rezzonico and Vittorio Garatti
• Jewelry Shop in Melbourne; Lingerie Shop in Nottingham by Misha Black and Philip Lucey, Design Research Unit
• Apparel Shop in New Orleans by James Lamantia
• Japanese Shop in Seattle by Ruth Nomura and Scott Hattori
• Florist Shops in Milan [Vittorio Morasso] and Seattle [Terry & Moore]
• Marble Shop in Milan [Vittorio Morasso]
• Contemporary Furniture Shop in Philadelphia
• Candy Shop in New Jersey [Meyer Katzman]
• Contemporary Furniture Shop in Beverly Hills [Van Keppel-Green; 3 pages with 6 b/w illustrations]
• Interiors' Contract Series '56: Showrooms
• DuPont's New Salesrooms by William Pahlmann
• Celanese Corporation's "New Dimensions" by The Brices
• Cassard and Walker's Airy Treasure Trove by John Wisner
• C. W. Stockwell's New Showroom by Donn Emmons
• The Romantic Craftsmanship of Tapio Wirkkala and Rut Bryk: 4 pages with 7 b/w illustrations
• Royal York Apartments by Members of the A.I.D.
• Report on the Summer Furniture Markets: Part I [8 pages with 27 b/w illustrations including work by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, Hans Bellmann for Design International, Berge-Norman, Mills-Denmark, Charles W. Stendig, Edward A. Roffman Associates, Charles U. Deaton for Leopold, Executive Office Interiors and Arnot among others.
• In the showrooms, people, address book
• America's Great Sources: Index to advertisers in this issue
And much more.

Includes advertising (many full-page and/or color) from the following manufacturers and companies: Knoll (full page ad), Herman Miller double-page 2-color ad for the new Eames lounge Chair and ottoman, Century Lighting, Directional Showrooms, Hanson, Kagan Dreyfuss, Georg jensen, Koch and Lowry, Lightolier, Herman Miller Furniture Company: 2-color full page ad for George Nelson's coconut chair!, Howard Miller Clock Company, Nessen Studio, Harvey Probber, Jens Risom (photographed by Richard Avedon!), John Stuart, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Hanson, Georg Jensen Howard Miller Clock Company, Harvey Probber, Raymor, John Stuart, John Widdicomb Paul McCobb for Directional, Lightolier, Jack Lenor Larsen, Erwin-Lambeth, Lehigh Furniture Corporation, Harvey Probber Inc., Janet Rosenblum, Thonet and Avard Furniture, Howard Miller Clock Co. [Nelson Bubble Lamps] among others.

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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