Studio Vista was a British publishing company founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics.Studio Vista, royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2020. 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.Cassell plc 1996 Annual Report and Accounts https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02004498/filing-history/NTQ1MjMxMTBhZGlxemtjeA/document?format=pdf&download=0
History Studio Vista was founded by Cecil Harmsworth King and it was then purchased by the Rev. Timothy Beaumont, later Baron Beaumont of Whitley,Andrew Roth, "Lord Beaumont of Whitley ", The Guardian, 11 April 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2020. with funding from Beaumont's fortune. In 1961, David Mark Herbert joined the firm, becoming its editorial director and then chief executive."The Hon David Herbert", The Times, 23 November 1996, p. 27.Robert Cross, "Obituary: David Herbert", The Independent, 22 November 1996. Retrieved 27 January 2020. 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."Frances Lincoln", The Times, 1 March 2001, p. 25. In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant.Mark Girouard, "Frances Lincoln", The Guardian, 2 March 2001. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
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".Vista Books, worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.John Betjeman, "The Pocket Poets", worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
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 PaperbacksCassell's Directory of Publishing in Great Britain, the Commonwealth, Ireland and South Africa, London: Cassell, 1970, 6th edition, p. 119. Blues Paperbacks (edited by Paul Oliver)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. 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)Malte Hagener and Michael Töteberg, Film: An International Bibliography, Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2002, p. 201. Retrieved 27 January 2020.se:Movie Paperbacks, worldcat.org. Retrieved 10 December 2021. New Directions in Architecture Picturebacks (also referred to as: Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks) (published in the U.S. by E. P. Dutton)Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020. 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 Libraryse:Small Garden Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 July 2024. Studio Drawing Books Studio Handbooks Studio Paperbacks Studio Vista/Van Nostrand Reinhold Art PaperbacksThe Artist as Reporter, archive.org. Retrieved 4 July 2024. Vision + Value Series Vista TravelVista Travel (Studio Vista) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020. 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