• Source: 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 who went on to be noted designers.
      The imprint was later integrated into Cassell.


      History


      Studio Vista was founded by Cecil Harmsworth King and it was then purchased by the Rev. Timothy Beaumont, later Baron Beaumont of Whitley, with funding from Beaumont's fortune. In 1961, David Mark Herbert joined the firm, becoming its editorial director and then chief executive. After Beaumont entered politics, he sold his publishing interests and Studio Vista was bought by the American firm Collier Macmillan in 1968. 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. In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant.
      In the late 1950s and early 1960s, some of Studio Vista's titles (including William Klein's 1959 photo essay on Rome) and series (such as the Vista Travel guides and The Pocket Poets) were published under the publisher names of "Vista Books" and "Edward Hulton".


      Books


      Among the notable books published by the firm were The Nature of Design by the furniture designer David Pye (1964) and Graphics Handbook by the graphic designer Ken Garland (1966) (both in the Studio Vista/Van Nostrand Reinhold Art Paperbacks series edited by John Lewis), 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
      Blues Paperbacks (edited by Paul Oliver)
      Christie's South Kensington Collectors Series (in association with Christie's Contemporary Art)
      City Buildings
      Collectors' Blue Books
      Creative Sewing Series (in association with the Singer Company)
      Elements of Painting Series
      Facts of Print
      Field Sports Handbooks
      Gold Series
      Great Ages of World Architecture
      Great Drawings of the World
      Hadfield Anthologies
      Knowing and Doing
      Leaders of Modern Thought
      Movie Paperbacks (jointly published in the U.S. as Praeger Film Library by Praeger Publishing and by University of California Press)
      New Directions in Architecture
      Picturebacks (also referred to as: Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks) (published in the U.S. by E. P. Dutton)
      Planning and Cities
      Plan Your Home
      Pocket How-To-Do-Its (also known as: Pocket How To Do It) (jointly published in the U.S. by Watson-Guptill)
      The Pocket Poets
      Rockbooks
      Small Garden Library
      Studio Drawing Books
      Studio Handbooks
      Studio Paperbacks
      Studio Vista/Van Nostrand Reinhold Art Paperbacks
      Vision + Value Series
      Vista Travel
      Visual History of Modern Britain


      See also


      Diana Bloomfield
      Chris Marker


      References




      External links


      "In praise of Studio Vista, Ken Garland and the good old days" by Rob Waller
      Studio Vista at openlibrary.org
      Serban Cantacuzino

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