Craft Horizons Magazine – Part 3.

by Sandi Vincent on April 12, 2012

July/August 1956
Special issue on Japan, Finland and Italy
Cover design: Ivan Chermayeff, interpreting the issue’s special theme: Japanese paper at the top is intersected by the white cross-on-blue of the Finnish flag, both superimposed on birch wood; the Italian marble at the bottom is overlaid with mosaic tesserae.

September/October 1954
Polychrome decorated faïence pieces by Stig Lindberg.

January/February 1955
Cover design: Fernand Léger‘s four-tile relief Femme et enfant sur un fond jaunes.
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September/October 1954
Cover design by Gloria Finn, featuring a rug by Hans Moller, “Meteor”.

February 1957
Cover design: Pin of gold and turquoise by Ruth Clark Radakovich. Cover photo by Frank Guida.

January/February 1958
The world of the microscope suggested these studies in wood by Jan de Swart.

September/October 1952
Pineapple planter manufactured by Robert F. Gottschalk, NYC, designed by Andrée Francis and Reta Shacknove. Cover design by Sydney Butchkes.
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March/April 1954
Stone and ivory carvings by Eskimos of the Eastern Arctic, arranged by Sydney Butchkes. Angry Owl by Kipekilik of Povungnetuck; Man on Walrus Head with Fish by Ningeeuk. Both artists from East Coast Hudson Bay.

September/October 1952
Stoneware in primitive and unique forms, characteristic Swedish surface patters; the expression of ceramicists designing for the Rörstrand factory near Stockholm. Carl-Harry Stalhane designed the tall vases in center; others by Gunnar Nylund, Hertha Bengstsson, Maria Hackman.

September/October 1953
Cover design adapted from a wallpaper design by Marion V. Dorn, consultant designer for C.H. Maseland & Sons and Edward Fields Inc.
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January 1958
Cover design: Jan de Swart‘s sculptured form sawed from wood. It is balancing three plastic spheriods that demonstrate the mysterious light-transmitting properties of the medium. “The de Swart cover story was a response to the deluge of reader inquiries about art possibilities of plastic.”

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A new bounty of covers and artisan work from my elaborate stash of vintage modern Craft Horizons magazines. See Part 1 and Part 2.

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Sandi Vincent grew up in the bay area of California surrounded by mid-century modern architecture and other influences responsible for her affinity for the period and its pop style, including her early exposure to The Monkees, The Avengers and Gerald McBoing-Boing. Sandi now resides in Portland. In her day job at a community foundation, she sports the web/social media/print materials coordinator title.