1954 Philip Johnson 3 Projects INTERIORS George NELSON on GOOD DESIGN Japan ARCH

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1954 Philip Johnson 3 Projects INTERIORS George NELSON on GOOD DESIGN Japan ARCH:
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INTERIORS: July 1954

Three recent works by Philip Johnson; Good Design -- What is it for? by George Nelson; Architecture of Japan by Arthur Drexler; MoMA\'s Japanese Garden House; Office Design

Olga Gueft [editor]: INTERIORS. New York City: Whitney Publications, July 1954 [Volume 113, no. 12]. Original edition. A good magazine with a soiled cover with a somewhat cocked spine and some mustiness. Cover by Genichuro Inokuma.

9 x 12 magazine with 118 pages of b/w examples of the best modern American interior and industrial design, circa 1954 -- 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.

Excellent vintage resource for wallpaper, rugs and floorware, funiture, lighting, decorative objects, etc.

Contents

Offices: significant trends revealed in recent examples [Medical center around a courtyard [Associated Architects: George Nemeny, Abraham Geller and Basil Yurchenco], Tower Fabrics offices by Designs for Business, Inc., a decorative dispensary and other offices
Philip Johnson: three recent works [House in Minneapolis for an art collector, 6 pages with 10 b/w illustrations; Cafeteria at MoMA, 2 pages with 4 b/w illustrations; Tent in the desert – bedroom in his guest house, 2 pages with 3 b/w illustrations]
Good Design: What is it for? by George Nelson [4 pages]
The Architecture of Japan: a book by Arthur Drexler
Japanese house in the MoMA garden
In the showrooms: Charak, Dunbar, wallpapers and more [7 pages with 32 b/w illustrations]
Departments include For your information, Interiors\' editorial and an index to advertisers
Vintage advertisements for Herman Miller, Dux, Thonet, Molla, Swedish Modern, Paul McCobb for Directional, Ben Rose, Howard Miller Clock [George Nelson bubble lamps] and Austin-Wolfe 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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