Interiors and Industrial Design
January 1951
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 109, no. 6]: January 1951]. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 168 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Multiple fold outs and one printed vellum overlay. Cover by Pierre Kleykamp. Interior unmarked and clean. The Rudolph and Twitchell fold out misfolded so the top edge protrudes over the upper textblock. Spine crown and heel slightly worn. Wrappers with mild soiling and edge wear, but a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with approximately 168 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1951 -- 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.
Excellent original edition of Interiors with stunning visual content:
new Raymond Loewy interiors
Le Corbusier’s Marseille Apartment house.“Le Corbusier's most influential late work was his first significant postwar structure—the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles of 1947-52. The giant, twelve-story apartment block for 1,600 people is the late modern counterpart of the mass housing schemes of the 1920s, similarly built to alleviate a severe postwar housing shortage.
Full-page two-color ad for the brand new Eames Fibreglass Chairs for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, designed by the Eames Office, I might add.
Interiors to come: designs by Gyorgy Kepes, Campbell and Wong, Rudolph and Twitchell [with fold-out], the Architects Collaborative, Greta Magnusson Grossmann, James Lamantia [with fold out], Robert Heller, Paul Beidler, Kaneji Domoto, K. H. Cheang and Dahong Wong, Lester Tichy, Paul Jacques Grillo, etc.
Merchandise Cues: fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, lamps, tableware, accessories, floor coverings, etc.
Advertising (many full-page and/or color) from the following manufacturers and companies: Century Lighting, Directional Modern Showrooms, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Hanson, Heifetz, Lightolier, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Harvey Probber, Raymor, Ben Rose, John Stuart, and many others.
and much, 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.
Interiors and Industrial Design
January 1951
Francis de N. Schroeder [Editor]
New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 109, no. 6]: January 1951]. Original edition. Slim quarto. Perfect bound and sewn printed illustrated wrappers. 168 pp. Illustrated articles and trade advertisements. Multiple fold outs and one printed vellum overlay. Cover by Pierre Kleykamp. Interior unmarked and clean. The Rudolph and Twitchell fold out misfolded so the top edge protrudes over the upper textblock. Spine crown and heel slightly worn. Wrappers with mild soiling and edge wear, but a very good or better copy.
9 x 12 magazine with approximately 168 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1951 -- 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.
Excellent original edition of Interiors with stunning visual content:
new Raymond Loewy interiors
Le Corbusier’s Marseille Apartment house.“Le Corbusier's most influential late work was his first significant postwar structure—the Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles of 1947-52. The giant, twelve-story apartment block for 1,600 people is the late modern counterpart of the mass housing schemes of the 1920s, similarly built to alleviate a severe postwar housing shortage.
Full-page two-color ad for the brand new Eames Fibreglass Chairs for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, designed by the Eames Office, I might add.
Interiors to come: designs by Gyorgy Kepes, Campbell and Wong, Rudolph and Twitchell [with fold-out], the Architects Collaborative, Greta Magnusson Grossmann, James Lamantia [with fold out], Robert Heller, Paul Beidler, Kaneji Domoto, K. H. Cheang and Dahong Wong, Lester Tichy, Paul Jacques Grillo, etc.
Merchandise Cues: fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, lamps, tableware, accessories, floor coverings, etc.
Advertising (many full-page and/or color) from the following manufacturers and companies: Century Lighting, Directional Modern Showrooms, Dunbar Furniture Corp., Hanson, Heifetz, Lightolier, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Harvey Probber, Raymor, Ben Rose, John Stuart, and many others.
and much, 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.
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