Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client

New York: Whitney Publications, 1948. Hardcover. Orange cloth/boards with black lettering. No dj. 69 pp. with delightfullly humorous bw illustrations throughout. VG- (light fading to spine; ffep clipped; age toning to end papers; a hint of age toning to page edges). Item #148673

A humorous but very practical guide for interior designers about making living and work spaces comfortable. Even includes hallways and storage spaces, along with basic measurements of humans and in the context of the spaces we inhabit. Wonderfully entertaining illustrations by Nino Repetto, Henry Stahlhut, and Mario Carreno, including the "beckoning woman" and more. Also includes practical advice on how to engage with clients, grovel, reel them in, etc. From the introduction: "The proportions of the human body are generally attractive to most of us...but from an engineering point of view, the human body is a rather imperfect machine. It cannot hibernate, and it cannot regularly fly south for the winter, except in the case of retired millionaires and gangsters. For this reason, the human mind was forced to invent two protective devices: clothing and architecture, and, with the architecture, designed to protect the even temperature of the body, the human mind had to invent something else - furniture. Again it is a fault of the human body as a maching. It cannot curl up like a snakeor hang from a tree by its tail, andit only bends in three or four places; hence beds, chairs, and tables."

Sorry, this book is not available.
Notify me when this comes back in stock.