LIVING SPACES
George Nelson

George Nelson: LIVING SPACES [Interiors Library Series Volume One]. NYC: Whitney, 1952. First Edition. A very good hardcover book with a very good dust jacket: the blue boards of the book are clean and bright. The DJ is worn to edges with several small chips. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. The presence of the dust jacket makes this an exceptional copy of a book rarely found in collectible condition.

9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 146 pages, with 232 b/w photos and floorplans. This book is the Bible of postwar american interior design: beautiful photography by the best in the field: Julius Shulman and Heidrich Blessing, etc.

This book was George Nelson's attempt to sell modern housing to America and it is a lavish production. Designed by the Office of George Nelson, the book itself is extremely well-designed and thoughtfully assembled. Drop-dead gorgeous photography, selected from the archives of Interiors magazine (who sponsored the publication of all four volumes in their Interiors Library Series). No other book dedicated to postwar American housing can hold a candle to this rare, exquisite volume. I am not exaggerating.

Architects and designers represented in Living Spaces include Gordon Drake, Marcel Breuer, Richard J. Neutra, Architects Collaborative, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, F.R.S. Yorke, Gropius, Harry Seidler, Samuel Glaberson, Charles Eames, Harold M. Schwartz, Twitchell and Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, J.R. Davidson, Curtis and Davis, Campbell and Wong, Philip Johnson, L. Canella, R. Fontana and R. Radici, Ward Bennett, Breger and Salzman, Paolo Chessa, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Oscar Stonorov, Russel Wright, John Campbell, Robert Rosenberg and New Design, Luigi Ghidini and Guglielmo Mozzini, I. M. Pei, Lamantia and McCoy, Antonio Lombardini, White and Hermann, Harry Seidler, Paul Laszlo, George Nelson, Jan Ruhtenberg, Alexander Girard, Finn Juhl, Waltner Bogner, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, Gruen and Krummeck, Ain, Johnson and Day, Carl Anderson and Ross Bellah, Twitchell and Rudolph, Craig Ellwod, White and Hermann, Oscar Stonorov, Dan Kiley, Robert Carson, Hugh Stubbins, Jr., Franco Albini, Eliot Noyes, Felix Augenfeld, A. Quincy Jones, Bogner and Richmond, Baldwin - Machado, Paul Laszlo, Katz Waisman Blumenkrantz Stein Weber Architects Associated, Michael Goodman, Augusto Romano, Marianne Strengell, Paul Beidler, Philip Johnson, Wallace Heath, Henry Hebbein, and J. Stanley Sharp.

Manufacturers and Distributors represented in Living Spaces include California Contemporary, Inc.; Drexel; Dunbar; Glenn of California; Kaplan Furn. Company; Knape & Vogt Mfg. Company; Knoll Associates; Herman Miller Furniture Company; Jens Risom Design Inc.; Van Keppel-Green; Widdicomb Furniture Company and many others.

"George Nelson was an outstanding designer. We all know that. But my hunch is that, in a hundred years, hešll be even better remembered for his thinking and writing about design." -- Stanley Abercrombie, architect and writer

Even if he had never designed a single piece of furniture or a wall clock, George Nelson (1908 ­ 1986) would be remembered as one of the founding fathers of American Modernism. The Hartford nativešs writing celebrated American Design with messianic zeal and pedagogical insight. Every book Nelson authored is a true classic in every sense of the word.

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