Studio Vista

Studio Vista was a British publishing company founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics. In the 1960s, the firm published works by a number of authors that went on to be noted designers.

Studio Vista
Private
IndustryPublishing
Founded1961 (1961)
FounderDavid Herbert & Timothy Beaumont
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom

History

The firm was founded in 1961 by David Herbert[1] and the Rev. Timothy Beaumont, later Baron Beaumont of Whitley, with funding from Beaumont's fortune. Herbert was the first editorial director and then chief executive.[2] After Beaumont entered politics, he sold his publishing interests and Studio Vista was bought by the American firm Collier Macmillan in 1968.[3] In 1969, the publisher Frances Lincoln joined the firm as an editorial assistant, staying for six years and rising to the position of managing editor.[4] In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant.[5]

Books

Among the notable books published by the firm was a series edited by John Lewis that included The Nature of Design by the furniture designer David Pye (1964), Graphics Handbook by the graphic designer Ken Garland (1966), Norman Potter's What is a Designer: Education and Practice (1969), and Gillian Naylor's the Bauhaus (1968).

The firm also published a number of books by the Romanian architect Serban Cantacuzino.

Book series
  • Aquarium Paperbacks[6]
  • Blues Paperbacks (edited by Paul Oliver)[7]
  • Christie's South Kensington Collectors Series (in association with Christie's Contemporary Art)
  • City Buildings
  • Collectors' Blue Books[6]
  • Creative Sewing Series (in association with the Singer Company)
  • Elements of Painting Series
  • Facts of Print[6]
  • Field Sports Handbooks
  • Gold Series
  • Great Ages of World Architecture
  • Great Drawings of the World
  • Hadfield Anthologies[6]
  • Knowing and Doing
  • Leaders of Modern Thought
  • Movie Paperbacks (jointly published in the U.S. by Praeger Publishing)[8]
  • New Directions in Architecture
  • Picturebacks (also referred to as: Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks) (published in the U.S. by E. P. Dutton)[9]
  • Planning and Cities
  • Plan Your Home[6]
  • Pocket How-To-Do-Its (also known as: Pocket How To Do It) (jointly published in the U.S. by Watson-Guptill)
  • Pocket Poets
  • Rockbooks
  • Small Garden Library
  • Studio Drawing Books
  • Studio Handbooks
  • Studio Paperbacks[1]
  • Vision + Value Series
  • Vista Travel Books[10]
  • Visual History of Modern Britain

References
  1. Robert Cross, Obituary: David Herbert, The Independent, 22 November 1996. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. "The Hon David Herbert", The Times, 23 November 1996, p. 27.
  3. "Tim Beaumont (1928-2008)". Bear Alley Books. 12 April 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. "Frances Lincoln", The Times, 1 March 2001, p. 25.
  5. Mark Girouard, "Frances Lincoln", The Guardian, 2 March 2001. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  6. Cassell's Directory of Publishing in Great Britain, the Commonwealth, Ireland and South Africa, London: Cassell, 1970, 6th edition, p. 119.
  7. Christian O'Connell, Blues, How Do You Do?: Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016, p. 216. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  8. Malte Hagener and Michael Töteberg, Film: An International Bibliography, Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2002, p. 201. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  9. Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  10. Vista Travel (Studio Vista) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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