DISPLAY
Interiors Library Series, Volume 3
George Nelson
George Nelson: New York: Whitney [Interiors Library Series, Volume 3] 1953. First edition. A very good hardcover book in a fair to good dust jacket that has been repaired with archival tape to spine and flap joints: presents well under archival mylar Former owner name on front free endpaper, othrwise interior unmarked and clean. Out of print9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 190 pages, with 312 b/w photos and spot-color illustrations. Beautiful photography by the best in the field: Julius Shulman and Heidrich Blessing, etc.
This book was George Nelson's attempt to explain modern exhibion and interior design strategies 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). An amazing reference copy.
Architects, artists and designers represented in Display include Alvar Aalto, Renato Angeli, Luciano Baldessari, Herbert Bayer, Max Bill, Peter Blake, Marcel Breuer, Erberto Carboni, Serge Chermayeff, Norman Cherner, Donald Deskey, Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Walter Gropius, Victor Gruen, Philip Johnson, Finn Juhl, Gyorgy Kepes, Florence Knoll, Morris Lapidus, Leo Lionni, Alvin Lustig, Herbert Matter, George Nelson, Elio Palazzo, Stamo Papadaki, Charlotte Perriand, Gio Ponti, Robert Preusser, Henry Prouve, Antonin Raymond, L. L. Rado, Jens Risom, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen, Edward Durrell Stone, Ladislav Sutnar, Harry Weese, Tapio Wirkkala, Edward Wormley, and many, many others.
Exhibitions and shows represented in Display include: Airways to Peace (MoMA), Architecture: the Measure of man/ Italian Chair throughthe Ages (Ninth Triennale, Milan), Bauhaus Exhibition (MoMA), Festival of Britain, For Modern Living (Detroit Institute of the Arts), Good Design 1950 (Merchandise Mart), Good Design 1951 (Merchandise Mart), Good Design 1952 (Merchandise Mart), Good Design 1953 (Merchandise Mart), Jewelry Under Fifty Dollars (Walker Art Center), Lobmeyr Glass (MoMA), Modern Art in Advertising (Container Corporation of America), Modern Art in Your Life (MoMA), Olivetti: Designin Industry (MoMA), Road to Victory (MoMA), The New Landscape (MIT), Werkbund Exhibition (Paris) and others.
This book is a veritable Rosetta Stone of the modern movement. Highly Recommended.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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