Editor: J. M.Richards
Publisher: Architectural Press, London
Publication: 1935, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 90 (plus ads)
Size: 285 x 360
Text: English
Cover Art: Edward McKnight Kauffer
(Preface) 'The pages that follow are intended to form, quite simply, a catalogue of what well-designed objects of everyday use are available on the market today. This catalogue is in a sense a reply to those critics who have accused the ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW of taking up an obstructionist attitude towards certain recent exhibitions, notably the Exhibition of British Art in Industry held at Burlington House. We are far from saying that such exhibitions have had no good results.
We believe that they have exercised influence in drawing popular attention to the fact that "design" exists at all in the field of equipment; but we believe that there is a tendency amongst exhibition promotors to concentrate on exhibition stunts such as furniture covered with crocodile skin, for instance) either in the belief that stunts are the backbone of the modern idea, or in the belief that the public cannot be lured into an exhibition unless they are given something sensational. Whatever the motive, the stunt exhibit, or even the specially-designed-for-the - occasion-all-personal-work-never-been-shown-before exhibit, obscures at the present moment what it is of the greatest importance to make clear: that there is already in being a great range of excellent standard types, of household objects and equipment, which are being produced by a large number of manufacturers as part of their ordinary programme of production...'
Contents:
- THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY
- TOWARDS A RATIONAL ASTHETIC
- EVERYDAY THINGS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Sport Tools
- Lighting
- Heating
- Kitchen
- Bath
- Furnitura
- Music
- Fabrics
- Floor finishes
- Wall finishes
- Pottery
- Glass
- Hardware
- Sundries
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