catalog design progress: advancing standards in visual communication. By K. Lönberg-Holm and Ladislav Sutnar. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with design examples, photomontage and diagrams. Oblong folio, 240 x 320 mm, spiral bound in publisher’s illustrated boards, with die cut dust-jacket. New York: Sweet’s Catalog Service, 1950.
First Edition. A classic on mid-century design and a visual feast. “Here Sutnar followed the lead of his close collaborator Knud Lönberg-Holm, another important bridge in New York between the European avant-garde and American architecture and design” (Andel, p. 189). Not often found with its fragile dust-jacket fully intact as here, suffering only from a minor tear some faint sun fading. All else fine.
