Description: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: April 1951 The beautifully designed and printed American Design magazine MoMA Lamp Competition; Isamu Noguchi in Japan; Dreyfuss-designed Cruise Ship; Gibbings' Furniture Design; Fabric Survey Olga Gueft [Editor]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York City: Whitney Publications, April 1951 [Volume 110, no. 4]. Original edition. Printed side-stitched wrappers. 222 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Cover by Bernard Pfriem. Wrappers lightly worn and soiled with spine heel chipped and split, but a very good copy. 9 x 12 magazine with 222 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 post-WWII modern movement. 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. 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." Contents include: A.I.D. conference: An outline of the program Interiors' bookshelf Interiors' editorial: The neck of the turtle The S. S. Independence: Dreyfuss floats a hotel [18 pages with 1 color illustration and approx. 50 black and white illustrations] Authors' viewpoint: As Augenfeld sees it: A house to be [2 page spread with 4 black and white illustrations] Twenty years after: Again the A.I.D. assembles in Grand Rapids A.I.D. history, by Evan Frances Empire after five: A modernist balances his diet Heifetz Lamp competition: results announced by MoMA [4 pages with 20 illustrations including work by Gilbert A. Watrous, John van Zwienen, A. W. and Marion Geller, Zahara Schartz, Robert Gage and Alexey Brodovitch]. These lamps appeared in public at the end of March 1951 and were produced for the 1950 Museum Of Modern Art Competition at Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Competition winners were Joseph Burnett, Anthony Ingolia, James Crate, Gilbert A. Watrous, Alexey Brodovitch, Zahara Schartz, A. W. And Marion Geller, Robert Gage and Lester Geis. Noguchi in Japan [6 pages with 22 black and white illustrations] T. H. Robsjohn Gibbings' new Widdicombs: variations on an elegant theme [2 pages with 6 black and white illustrations] Fabrics '51: Semi-anuual survey [16 pages with 94 examples, many in color including work by Angelo Testa, Isabel Scott, Julore, Stella Minick, Ben Rose, Greeff, Marion Dorn, Josef Frank, Knoll, Boris Kroll and Artcraft] Departments include Merchandise Cues [includes a section on chairs including work by Pascoe Assoc., Russel Wright and Robin Day], People, Address Book, Manufacturers' Information and Interior sources and much, much more! Includes advertisements (many full-page) from the following manufacturers and companies: Widdicomb mid-century modern, Aspenslat, Lightolier, Formica, Herman Miller, Futorian Furniture, Nye-Wait Couturier, Kencork, Boris Kroll, Mosaic Tile, Erbun Fabrics, Tropicraft, Directional Contemporary Furniture, Harvey Probber and Dunbar 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 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. Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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