PENCIL POINTS
July 1937
Kenneth Reid (editor)
Kenneth Reid (editor): PENCIL POINTS. Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1937. (Volume 18, Number 7, July 1937). Original Edition. A very good vintage magazine with mild spine wear, and mild rubbing on the cover. Interior unmarked and very clean. Cover design and typography by Richard Neutra (uncredited).8.75 x 11.75 original magazine with 128 pages of vintage content and advertising. This edition of Pencil Points is noteworthy for its feature article: Richard J. Neutra -- by Henry Robert Harrison: 32-pages showing, identifying, and discussing the architectural designs of California architect and designer Richard Neutra. An early, very high profile look at one of the giants of American Modern Architecture. Highly recommended.
Contents:
- Here, There, This & That: Letters From Readers, News From the Field, Etc.
- Richard J. Neutra -- by Henry Robert Harrison: 32-pages showing, identifying, and discussing the architectural designs of California architect and designer Richard Neutra.
- School Training for Architecture by Charles W. Killam
- The Painter Niggers for the Architect by T. Loftin Johnson
- A Question of Simplicity by Ralph Walker
- Guptill's Corner by Arthur L. Guptill
- Data Sheets by Don Graf
- Service Departments
- Publications on Materials and Equipment of Interest to Architects, Draftsmen and Specification Writers
- Free Employment Service for Readers of Pencil Points
- New Products
- Index to Advertisers
- General Advertising: an excellent assortment of vintage trade advertisments that espouse the depression moderne streamline aesthetic quite nicely. You have been warned.
Designers, architects, manufacturers, and/or artists include: Richard J. Neutra, Truscon Steel Company, General Bronze Corporation, Tilden -- Register & Pepper Architects, Randolph & Wabash Architects, Robert Willgoos, Gustave Fassin, 1939 New York World's Fair, Congoleum -- Nairn Linoleum Floors, Vitrolux Architectural Glass, Peter Pfisterer, Otto Winkler, Gregory Ain, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Dione Neutra, Theodore Kautzky, 1937 International Paris Exposition, Paul Lester Wiener, Charles H. Higgins, Julian Clarence Levi, Edward Steichen, Robert McLaughlin, Otto Eggers, Richard Gardner Hartshorne Jr., Clifford Edgar Jones, John Amore, John Finley Kirkpatrick, Edmond Amateis, Lorimer Rich, Louis Slobodkin, Willa Gray Martin, Arthur L. Guptill, Albert Kahn, Donald Deskey, Robert Law Reed, Morris B. Sanders, Raymond Hood, Hugh Ferriss, Francis Swales, Anaconda Copper & Brass Company, H. Ross Wiggs, Insulux Architectural Glass Block .aand more.
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