Graphic Design Reader by Steven Heller

Author:Steven Heller [Heller, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2002-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

Offices of Reporter Publications in the Empire State Building designed by Alvin Lustig.

Lustig achieved graphic impact on small book covers; likewise, he keenly maximized the limitations of small 3-D spaces. In fact, there is no better example than an office that he designed for himself back in 1952 in a grungy walk-up building on Manhattan’s East 58th Street. Elaine Lustig Cohen, who worked for her husband and briefly ran the Lustig studio after his death in 1955, recalls that “It was absolutely hideous. In the first hour we ripped it apart and cleaned it up.” Like his other spaces, none of the furniture, not even the flat files, sat boulderlike on the floor. Everything was elevated by small legs or open shelves. In addition to structural walls, Lustig devised a wooden blind (actually more like a slatted fence), which hung from the ceiling both to separate the reception from the work areas and to allow for transparency. A beaded curtain replaced the door on the storeroom. While he used certain existing chairs (e.g., he was a fan of Eames) and lamps, he designed custom sculptural lighting fixtures that were akin to the abstract linear designs he used on some of his book jackets. The main feature, however, was his own office, which included floor-to-ceiling drapes (to smooth out the edges of the room) and his legendary marble desk, which was always empty save for a pad, pencil, triangle, and scissors.

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