INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
July 1949 [Volume 108, no. 12]
Francis de N. Schroeder and George Nelson [Editors]
Francis de N. Schroeder and George Nelson [Editors]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications, July 1949 [Volume 108, no. 12]. Original edition. A very good magazine with lightly worn and soiled wrappers. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. Cover by Irving Harper. 9 x 12 magazine with 174 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1949 -- 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:
- Profiles Of Cover Artists Ann Sayre Wiseman, Harry Schulke, and Irving Harper.
- For Your Information: Chairs From Denmark By Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, From Norway By Alf Sture, Raestad and Rolling; California Craftsmen; An Approach To Design Exhibition At Chouinard; Harold Darr; Modern Home Tour In New Canaan; John Weese and Henry Dreyfuss; Floyd Magnuson; Clara Nordfors; etc.
- Magazines From Abroad: Bonytt, The Architectural Review, Werk, etc.
- Modern Furniture. An Attempt To Explore Its Nature, Its Sources, and Its Probable Future: George Nelson. Work By Gilbert Rohde, Eero Saarinen, Alvara Aalto, Mies Van Der Rohe, Bruno Mathsson, Marcel Breuer, Edward Wormley, George Nelson, Gino Levi-Montalcini, Charles Eames, Albertini, Becker & Bursi, Morris Sanders, Alfred Steuer, Clive Latimer, Hans Bellman, Alvin Lustig, Aabel Sorenson, Maria Bergson, George Nakashima, Alden B. Dow, Alf Sture, Edward D. Stone, andre Dupre, Van Keppel-Green, Hardoy, Bonet, Kurcham, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier, Fontano-Radici, Tapiovaara, Elias Svedberg, Finn Juhl, William Armbruster, Cristiani and Fratino, Isamu Noguchi, Nelson-Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc. Three Years After Publication, This Article Was Expanded Into CHAIRS [Interiors Library Volume Two], George Nelson, New York: Whitney, 1952.
- In The Showrooms: Rugs, Rugs and Rugs.
- Merchandise Cues: Heritage-Henredon; Maurice Martine; Limpus Childrens' Furniture' Swedish Modern; Eve Peri; Gene Mcdonald; Fabrics By Rudofsky, Sorenson, Wormley, Dali and Nelson; etc.
- Advertisements for Herman Miller, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, Dunbar, Laverne, Lightolier, Pascoe, Howard Miller Clock Co., Ben Rose, Heifitz, Harvey Probber, Kurt Versen, Thonet, 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.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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