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1952 George Nelson LIVING SPACES Neutra SHULMAN Breuer EAMES Stonorov JUHL Laszl:
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LIVING SPACES by George Nelson

1952 Interiors Library Series Volume One

146 pages, with 232 black and white photos and floorplans

George Nelson: LIVING SPACES [Interiors Library Series Volume One]. New York: Whitney, 1952. First Edition. Small folio. Blue cloth stamped in silver. 146 pp. 232 black and white photographs and diagrams.

9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 146 pages, with 232 black and white photos and floorplans. This book is the Bible of postwar american interior design: beautiful photography by the best in the field: Julius Shulman and Heidrich Blessing, etc.

“With this book, Interiors, a monthly periodical published for professionals in all branches of interior design, answers the demand for a popular and comprehensive book on contemporary interiors. The book's editor, architect and designer George Nelson, ties its 232 illustrations together with an introduction and running commentary that points out the problems faced by each of the 81 designers involved, as well as their solutions. This survey of the best of today's living spaces is one that graphically presents the contemporary feeling in the elements of space, volume, texture, light, color, and form.” — from the dust jacket. (not included)

This book was George Nelson's attempt to sell modern housing to America and it is a lavish production. Designed by the Office of George Nelson, the book itself is extremely well-designed and thoughtfully assembled. Drop-dead gorgeous photography, selected from the archives of Interiors magazine (who sponsored the publication of all four volumes in their Interiors Library Series). No other book dedicated to postwar American housing can hold a candle to this rare, exquisite volume. I am not exaggerating.

Architects and designers represented in Living Spaces include Gordon Drake, Marcel Breuer, Richard J. Neutra, Architects Collaborative, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, F.R.S. Yorke, Gropius, Harry Seidler, Samuel Glaberson, Charles Eames, Harold M. Schwartz, Twitchell and Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, J.R. Davidson, Curtis and Davis, Campbell and Wong, Philip Johnson, L. Canella, R. Fontana and R. Radici, Ward Bennett, Breger and Salzman, Paolo Chessa, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Oscar Stonorov, Russel Wright, John Campbell, Robert Rosenberg and New Design, Luigi Ghidini and Guglielmo Mozzini, I. M. Pei, Lamantia and McCoy, Antonio Lombardini, White and Hermann, Harry Seidler, Paul Laszlo, George Nelson, Jan Ruhtenberg, Alexander Girard, Finn Juhl, Waltner Bogner, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, Gruen and Krummeck, Ain, Johnson and Day, Carl Anderson and Ross Bellah, Twitchell and Rudolph, Craig Ellwod, White and Hermann, Oscar Stonorov, Dan Kiley, Robert Carson, Hugh Stubbins, Jr., Franco Albini, Eliot Noyes, Felix Augenfeld, A. Quincy Jones, Bogner and Richmond, Baldwin - Machado, Paul Laszlo, Katz Waisman Blumenkrantz Stein Weber Architects Associated, Michael Goodman, Augusto Romano, Marianne Strengell, Paul Beidler, Philip Johnson, Wallace Heath, Henry Hebbein, and J. Stanley Sharp.

Manufacturers and Distributors represented in Living Spaces include California Contemporary, Inc.; Drexel; Dunbar; Glenn of California; Kaplan Furn. Company; Knape & Vogt Mfg. Company; Knoll Associates; Herman Miller Furniture Company; Jens Risom Design Inc.; Van Keppel-Green; Widdicomb Furniture Company and many others.