"The 1930 Look in British Decoration"
, 1930
Article on Francis Bacon as a Young Interior Designer, Creative Art Magazine, Volume 7, Number 2: August 1930. Original edition, Printed wrappers, [102] pp. All color inserts present, Illustrated articles and period advertisements, 8.25 x 11.5 in. (29.2 × 21 cm.)
Condition:
Excellent- Wrappers rubbed and worn with spine flaking. Serge Chermayeff/Bel Geddes’s pages torn with no loss. Francis Bacon pages ave no issues.
Provenance:
Hemphill Collection, NY
Note:
“Francis Bacon is a young English decorator who has worked in Paris and in Germany for some years and is now established in London. We have been perhaps slower than others in adapting ourselves to new ideas in furnishing and decoration, but are gradually becoming accustomed to discriminating between what really is new and good in modernist interiors and what is new and bad. The appeal of steel and glass is a strong one, and Francis Bacon shows us individualistic variations on this theme. His rugs are particularly representative of to-day, and their inspiration springs from nothing Oriental or traditional—they are purely thought forms.”
A Magazine of Fine and Applied Arts, The 1930 Look in British Decoration: Francis Bacon (2 pages) and Serge Chermayeff, Norman Bel Geddes, etc. Henry McBride [Editor]: CREATIVE ART [A Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, Incorporating "The Studio" of London]. New York: Albert and Charles Boni Inc. Creative art meaning architecture, painting, drawing, furniture design, interior decoration and the decorative arts! Given the cast of characters -- 1930 stands as a fertile year for the twentieth century arts and for art deco in particular.
Contents:
-Calendar of August Exhibitions
-The Salon des Décorateurs by Guillaume Jeanneau
-Venice Biennial Exhibition by Rafelle Calzini
-The Achievements of Maxwell Ayrton by George Sheringham
-Pierre Bonnard by Claud Roger Marx
-A Chat to the Print Lover by Malcolm C. Salaman
-Arthur Segal by Dr. Adolf Behne
-Franz Sedlacek by H. V. and G. E. K.
The 1930 Look in British Decoration: Francis Bacon and Serge Chermayeff. -Norman Bel Geddes’s Revolving Aerial Restaurant, Chicago by Frances Dubuc -Current Events in the Art World
-Book Reviews
-Humanism and the Modern Artist by Lee Simonson
-Includes vintage advertisements
Artists, Designers and Architects include Emile Ruhlmann, Gigou, Benedictus for Brunet et Meunié, Eugene Bourdet, Leyritz, Elise Djo Bourgeois, Jean besnard, Eugene Printz, M. Montagnac, Jean Colosiez, Dim, Raymond Subes, Robert Block, Michel Roux-Spitz, Leon Bouchet, Antonio Maraini, Giannino Marchig, Albert Besnard, Bruno Innocenti, R. Strebelle, Colin Gill, Van Regteren Altena, Pinazo Jose, Amato Orazio, Van Deering Berrine, A. G. Santagala, Peyron, Jam Zerzay, Maxwell Ayrton, Pierre Bonnard, W. E. C. Morgan, Alfred Blundell, A. Rigden Read, Ian Strang, H. Gordon Warlow, L. C. Rosenberg, Kenneth Holmes, Levon West, Franz Sedlacek, Francis Bacon, Dunvan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Serge Chermayeff, Aerial Restaurant by Norman Bel Geddes, Paul P. Cret (Delaware River Bridge), and William Nicholson among others.