IDEA 55
International Design Annual
Internationales Jahrbuch Für Formgebung
Annuaire International Des Formes Utiles
Gerd Hatje [Editor]
New York: Wittenborn, Inc., 1955. First edition. Trilingual English/German/French edition. Quarto. Gray cloth embossed and stamped in white. Printed dust jacket designed by Hans Haderek. 180 pp. 410+ black and white photographs. Multiple paper stocks. Jacket lightly worn with trivial short, closed tears and faint chipping to edges. Spine lightly sunned, resulting in the pink ink fading. Exceptionally clean and fresh: a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
8.75 x 11.75 hardcover book with 180 pages and 410+ black and white photographs, a remarkable survey illustrating the best modern industrial design, circa 1953. Includes examples of china, ceramics, pottery, plastics, glass, wood, textiles, metal, small mechanical and household appliances, housewares, radios, communication equipment, lamps and clocks -- everything the burgeoning postwar middle class — and contemporary collectors —could possibly want.
The uncredited design -- as well as the tightly curated selection -- make this volume one of the best of the period. An extraordinarily useful reference volume, as well as a genuinely beautiful period object.
Contents:
Introduction: John Peter
Introductory essays:
On Design: Raymond Loewy, Russel Wright, Misha Black
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm: 11 images
Illustrations:
China And Pottery: 71 images
Plastics: 9 images
Glass: 65 images
Wood: 10 images
Textiles: 63 images
Metal: 37 image
Small Mechanical Appliances: 15 images
Communication: 12 images
Household Appliances: 33 images
Lamps: 46 images
Clocks: 5 images
Index of Manufacturers, Designers and Photographers
The Idea of Design, a Suggestive Bibliography by Bernard Karpel: twenty illustrated pages compiled by the Librarian of the Museum of Modern Art!
Includes work by Carl Aübock, Jenaer Glaswerk, Knoll Associates, Kolb Associates, Bill Lam, Lam Workshop, L. Anton Maix, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Edith Nielson, Offefors Glasbruk, Stilnovo, Marianne Strengall, Tapio Wirkkala, Kaarina Aho, Masakichi Awashima, Hans Bergström, Elmar Berkovich, Paul McCobb, A. D. Copier, Kaj Franck, Bertel Goldberg, Alexander Girard, Viola Grasten, Milner Gray, Jacqueline Groag, Ole Hagen, Karl Gustav Hansen, Margret Hildebrand, Saara Hopea, Louis Hoyles, Lisa-Johannnson-Pope, Bill Lam, Raaymond Loewy, Luke & Roland Lietzke, Heinz Löffelhardt, Yoshikazu Mano, Paul Mayen, George Nelson, Howard Miller Clock Company, Harald Nielsen, Gio Ponti, Tibor Reich, A. Joel Robinson, Gino Sarfetti, Timo Sarpaneva, Carl Harry Stälhane, Marianne Straub, Marianne Strengell, Nissa Strinning, Karel Suyling, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Katherine & Burton Wilson, Tapio Wirkkala, Gross & Esther Wood, Russel Wright, Marco Zanuso, and many others.
Gerd Hatje (Germany, 1915 – 2007) was born in Hamburg in 1915 and apprenticed as a typesetter in Stuttgart, where he started the Humanitas Verlag in 1945. The publishing house was renamed Verlag Gerd Hatje in 1947. His varied interests were reflected in his publishing program, where he concentrated on publishing art books of the highest quality. Among the books he published are some of the best designed art, design, and architecture books of the twentieth century. Hatje was always concerned with quality, both in books and art. He once said, "For me, there is neither a past nor a future in art. A work of art that cannot always exist in the present is not worth talking about." In his words, publishing is the process by which "intellectual spaces are made accessible."
IDEA 55
International Design Annual
Internationales Jahrbuch Für Formgebung
Annuaire International Des Formes Utiles
Gerd Hatje [Editor]
New York: Wittenborn, Inc., 1955. First edition. Trilingual English/German/French edition. Quarto. Gray cloth embossed and stamped in white. Printed dust jacket designed by Hans Haderek. 180 pp. 410+ black and white photographs. Multiple paper stocks. Jacket lightly worn with trivial short, closed tears and faint chipping to edges. Spine lightly sunned, resulting in the pink ink fading. Exceptionally clean and fresh: a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
8.75 x 11.75 hardcover book with 180 pages and 410+ black and white photographs, a remarkable survey illustrating the best modern industrial design, circa 1953. Includes examples of china, ceramics, pottery, plastics, glass, wood, textiles, metal, small mechanical and household appliances, housewares, radios, communication equipment, lamps and clocks -- everything the burgeoning postwar middle class — and contemporary collectors —could possibly want.
The uncredited design -- as well as the tightly curated selection -- make this volume one of the best of the period. An extraordinarily useful reference volume, as well as a genuinely beautiful period object.
Contents:
Introduction: John Peter
Introductory essays:
On Design: Raymond Loewy, Russel Wright, Misha Black
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm: 11 images
Illustrations:
China And Pottery: 71 images
Plastics: 9 images
Glass: 65 images
Wood: 10 images
Textiles: 63 images
Metal: 37 image
Small Mechanical Appliances: 15 images
Communication: 12 images
Household Appliances: 33 images
Lamps: 46 images
Clocks: 5 images
Index of Manufacturers, Designers and Photographers
The Idea of Design, a Suggestive Bibliography by Bernard Karpel: twenty illustrated pages compiled by the Librarian of the Museum of Modern Art!
Includes work by Carl Aübock, Jenaer Glaswerk, Knoll Associates, Kolb Associates, Bill Lam, Lam Workshop, L. Anton Maix, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Edith Nielson, Offefors Glasbruk, Stilnovo, Marianne Strengall, Tapio Wirkkala, Kaarina Aho, Masakichi Awashima, Hans Bergström, Elmar Berkovich, Paul McCobb, A. D. Copier, Kaj Franck, Bertel Goldberg, Alexander Girard, Viola Grasten, Milner Gray, Jacqueline Groag, Ole Hagen, Karl Gustav Hansen, Margret Hildebrand, Saara Hopea, Louis Hoyles, Lisa-Johannnson-Pope, Bill Lam, Raaymond Loewy, Luke & Roland Lietzke, Heinz Löffelhardt, Yoshikazu Mano, Paul Mayen, George Nelson, Howard Miller Clock Company, Harald Nielsen, Gio Ponti, Tibor Reich, A. Joel Robinson, Gino Sarfetti, Timo Sarpaneva, Carl Harry Stälhane, Marianne Straub, Marianne Strengell, Nissa Strinning, Karel Suyling, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Katherine & Burton Wilson, Tapio Wirkkala, Gross & Esther Wood, Russel Wright, Marco Zanuso, and many others.
Gerd Hatje (Germany, 1915 – 2007) was born in Hamburg in 1915 and apprenticed as a typesetter in Stuttgart, where he started the Humanitas Verlag in 1945. The publishing house was renamed Verlag Gerd Hatje in 1947. His varied interests were reflected in his publishing program, where he concentrated on publishing art books of the highest quality. Among the books he published are some of the best designed art, design, and architecture books of the twentieth century. Hatje was always concerned with quality, both in books and art. He once said, "For me, there is neither a past nor a future in art. A work of art that cannot always exist in the present is not worth talking about." In his words, publishing is the process by which "intellectual spaces are made accessible."
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