PENCIL POINTS September 1936
ELIEL SAARINEN: Master of Design
Russell F. Whitehead [Editor]
Russell F. Whitehead [Editor]: PENCIL POINTS [ELIEL SAARINEN]. Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Company, Volume 17, Number 9, September 1936. Original Edition. A good or better vintage magazine with shelf wear including a center crease which translates to the interior pages [most apparent in the advertising section]. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. 8.75 x 11.75 original magazine with 54 pages of vintage content and advertising. "Pencil Points," the forerunner of "Progressive Architecture" embraced the streamline moderne aesthetic in the arts.
Contents
- Eliel Saarinen, Master of Design by Kenneth Reid [32 pages with 42 b/w illustrations]
- Creative Individualism by Ralph Walker
- Symposium Upon Dietetic Design by Katherine Stanley-Brown
- The Underground City by Eugene Raskin
- Guptill's Corner by Arthur L. Guptill
- PLATES
- Eight Drawings by Samuel Chamberlain; Design for Apartment Building by Paul Trapani; Design for Six-Room House by Alton L. Craft; A Pair of White Pines by Arthur L. Guptill
- Data Sheets -- prepared by Don Graf include Standard Wood Moldings, Types of Nails and Concrete Lintels
- COMPARATIVE DETAILS [Group 30] Ð Overmantels includes the work of Frank J. Forster; William Gebron; George Howe; Bernhardt E. Muller; John Gaw Meem; Verna Cook Salomonsky; Leroy P. Ward and Walker & Gillette
- Here, There This and That: Letters from Readers, News from the Field, etc.
- General Advertising: an excellent assortment of vintage trade advertisments that espouse the depression moderne streamline aesthetic quite nicely.
Eliel Saarinen occupies a unique position in the history of modem design. From Helsinki's famous railroad station to the Cranbrook Academy, his work spans two continents and has had a major influence on twentieth-century architecture and city planning. Saarinen's Finnish years represent the laboratory within which he developed the skills and the concepts to advance an aesthetic of modem design responsive to international trends yet steeped in regional expression. From the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World's Fair, which brought Saarinen and his partners to the forefront of the international scene, to his design of stamps and banknotes, his large city planning projects, and his successful competition for the Chicago Tribune office building, which in 1923 prompted Saarinen's move to the United States, Saarinen is truly Master of Design.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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