The Studio Year Book of International Furnishing and Decoration, Volume 55. Edited by Ella Moody. The Viking Press/Studio Vista Limited © 1965. 159 pages. Hardcover. Color and black+white photographs of the latest international designs in architecture, furniture and housewares.
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Excerpt:
What is today's style in interior decorating?
Spacious or intimate, period or modern?
There are as many aspects of design as there are ways of living: with clear outlines and space; with rich pattern and collated objects; boarded in with warm pine or looking out through window walls.
DECORATIVE ART 55 demonstrates a remarkable variety and individuality in the expression of taste. In the introduction Diana Rowntree, architect and journalist, discusses the use of light in the modern interior. The pages of black-and-white and beautiful color which follow show how architects and designers from different parts of the world have chosen to arrange their houses. Each house is the expression of a certain way of life.
The book also provides a valuable world-wide illustrated survey of the year's achievements in the design of furniture, glass, ceramics, tableware, textiles, and light fixtures.
Of the 54th issue, Interiors said, 'The selection is brilliant. Both in quality and variety, the design shown is tops, the brief text informative, and the pictorial reproduction flawless. This is one of the best buys.'