1945 DESIGN of MODERN INTERIORS Furniture Alvar AALTO Richard NEUTRA GROPIUS

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Design of Modern Interiors by James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford, published by Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1945 (Fourth printing) Classic work on modernist and International Style residential architecture, interiors and furniture of the 1930s and early 40s. Features superb photographs, plans and descriptions of fantastic interiors by exceptional modern architects and designers including Richard Neutra; Donald Deskey; Gregory Ain; Edward Durell Stone; Alvar Aalto; Charles Eames; William Lescaze; William Wilson Wurster; Raphael Soriano; George Fred Keck; Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings; Philip Johnson; John Vassos; Gilbert Rohde; and more. Comprehensive room-by-room chapters; essays on color, furniture design, space planning, as well as writings by many of the architects on "Contemporary Trends." Includes great modernist furniture designs from the Museum of Modern Art's landmark "Organic Design" exhibit. A superb record of 1930s-1940s American modernism in design. Hardcover, 130 pages, 11 x 9". Good condition; light cover edge wear, foxing to inside covers, pages fine.