Description: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: May 1949 Cover by Ann Sayre Wiseman George Nelson Designs Herman Miller Furniture Showrooms in Grand Rapids and Chicago | Richard Koppe's Murals Fold Out! | Hugh Stubbins | Florence Knoll Planning Unit, etc. Francis de N. Schroeder [Editors]: INTERIORS + INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. New York: Whitney Publications [Volume 108, no. 10] May 1949. Original edition. Slim quarto. Printed thick perfect bound wrappers. Side stitched textblock. 188 pp. Illustrated articles and period advertisements. Cover by Ann Sayre Wiseman. Wrappers soiled and lightly worn, but a very good copy. 9 x 12 magazine with 188 pages of color and black and white examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1949 -- 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: Letters to the Editor concerning George Nelsons' beatdown of the Fountainhead "Mr. Roark Gets to Hollywood" by Alvin Lustig, Craig Ellwood, Paul Laszlo, Frank Lloyd Wright, Peter Blake, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Walter Dorwin Teague, William Wilson Wurster, Antonin Raymond, and others. Antonin Raymond penned the best lines of all: "Money and beauty hardly ever travel together. Why should Hollywood be an exception in a materialistic civilization, in which the salesman is the arbiter of beauty?" Atlas shrugged, indeed. For Your Information: Walter Gropius At Harvard; Frank Lloyd Wright For Patton Price; House In The Garden At Moma By Marcel Breuer; Marion Walton; Barbara Hepworth; Mary Callery; etc. Profiles Of Cover Artists Muriel Batherman, , Gyorgy And Juliet Kepes And Warren Nardin. Magazines From Abroad: Form, The Architectural Review, Werk, The Ambassador, Future, Architectural Digest, etc. The Scenes Of Our Childhood: Francis De N. Schroeder Three By One: George Nelson Designs Herman Miller Furniture Showrooms In Grand Rapids And Chicago [With Ernest Farmer]. 12 Pages In Color And Black And White. Designed For Designers: L. Des-Porch And Paul Grunberg Design For Isabel Scott. A Master Penman Draws A Fine Line Of Fabrics: Harold Schwatz. Makers Of Tradition 3: The Sons Of Adam: Francis De N. Schroeder. Washington Never Slept Here: Massachusetts Residence By Hugh Stubbins Down To The Sea In Tips: Richard Koppe's Murals For The Well Of The Sea Restaurant [At The College Inn Of The Hotel Sherman, Chicago] Including A Full-Color Fold-Out. Magnificent Work From The Insitute Of Design! ANATOMY FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS: Here Let Us Dine -- Part III: Francis De N. Schroeder, Nino Repetto [Illustrator] Felt But Not Seen: Florence Knoll And Her Planning Unit Design For Hewitt-Robins. Merchandise Cues: Hansen, Knoll, Thonet, De Long-Lenski & De Long, Paul Lobel, Saarinen-Swanson Andirons, etc. Advertisements for Herman Miller, Functional Furniture Manufacturers by Allan Gould, Widdicomb design by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Laverne, General Lighting [George Nelson], Thibaut, Pascoe, Dunbar, Harvey Probber, Thonet, Heifitz, etc. And much more. Educator, painter, and sculptor Richard Koppe [United States, 1916-1973] moved to Chicago in 1937, and studied at the New Bauhaus and the School of Design. He became an instructor at the Institute, which merged with the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1946 and remained an Associate Professor and headed the Department of Visual Design until 1963. He then became a professor of Art at the University of Illinois in 1963. Architect Robert E. Lederer transformed the basement of Chicago’s Sherman House hotel into The Well of the Sea restaurant in 1948. Richard Koppe, an instructor at the Insitute of Design was assigned by Lederer to design the murals and mobiles for the restaurant. Koppe used fluorescent paint for the five murals that were then illuminated with invisible black lights for a “dramatic and mysterious effectacross the dim recesses of the interior.” Koppe also designed organic aquatic forms cut out of the walls and backlit with colored lights. Koppe aquatic abstractions were wildly popular in the 1950s: Shenango China released a full product line based on Koppe’s Dinnerware in 1953, and the popular Libbey Glass Mediterranean pattern was also attributed to Koppe. 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. 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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