Interiors
April 1954
Olga Gueft [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 113, no. 9, April 1954. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Martin Rosenweig. Wrappers lightly worn and somewhat soiled at fore edge, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- 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:
Victor Gruen’s duplex
R. Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome at the Tenth Triennale di Milano
Fabrics ’54: Lucienne Day, Ben Rose, Paul McCobb, Angelo Testa, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, Dorothy Liebes,
Furniture '54: first half of a market preview [14 pages with 70 b/w illustrations including Allan Gould, Glenn of California [Greta Grossman], Herman Miller [Charles Eames, George Nelson], Directional [Paul McCobb], Harvey Probber, Knoll [Florence Knoll, Kurt Nordstrom, Harry Bertoia], Dunbar [Edward Wormley], M. Singer [Carlo di Carli, Milan Design Group], Dux [Folke Ohlsson, Alf Svenson], Richard Morgenthau [Arne Jacobsen] and John Stuart [Peter Hvidt] among others.
Merchanidise Cues with Ben Seibel, Jack Squir, Lucie Rie; the Tri-Lamp Co., Lightolier, Isamu Noguchi, Richards Morgenthal, the Heifetz Studio, Nessen Studio, and more.
Vintage advertisements for Knoll, Harvey Probber, Herman Miller, Boris Kroll Fabrics, Lehigh, Paul McCobb for Directional, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Jens Risom Design, M. Singer and Sons, Ben Rose, Swedish Modern, Howard Miller Clock Co., Raymor, Vakassian and Sons, Raymor and Thonet among others.
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.
Interiors
April 1954
Olga Gueft [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications, Volume 113, no. 9, April 1954. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Cover by Martin Rosenweig. Wrappers lightly worn and somewhat soiled at fore edge, but a very good copy.
9 x 12 magazine with color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- 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:
Victor Gruen’s duplex
R. Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome at the Tenth Triennale di Milano
Fabrics ’54: Lucienne Day, Ben Rose, Paul McCobb, Angelo Testa, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson, Dorothy Liebes,
Furniture '54: first half of a market preview [14 pages with 70 b/w illustrations including Allan Gould, Glenn of California [Greta Grossman], Herman Miller [Charles Eames, George Nelson], Directional [Paul McCobb], Harvey Probber, Knoll [Florence Knoll, Kurt Nordstrom, Harry Bertoia], Dunbar [Edward Wormley], M. Singer [Carlo di Carli, Milan Design Group], Dux [Folke Ohlsson, Alf Svenson], Richard Morgenthau [Arne Jacobsen] and John Stuart [Peter Hvidt] among others.
Merchanidise Cues with Ben Seibel, Jack Squir, Lucie Rie; the Tri-Lamp Co., Lightolier, Isamu Noguchi, Richards Morgenthal, the Heifetz Studio, Nessen Studio, and more.
Vintage advertisements for Knoll, Harvey Probber, Herman Miller, Boris Kroll Fabrics, Lehigh, Paul McCobb for Directional, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Jens Risom Design, M. Singer and Sons, Ben Rose, Swedish Modern, Howard Miller Clock Co., Raymor, Vakassian and Sons, Raymor and Thonet among others.
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.
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