Studio Vista

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Studio Vista
Company type Private
IndustryPublishing
Founded1961  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Founder Cecil Harmsworth King
Successor Cassell & Co.
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
ProductsBooks

Studio Vista was a British publishing company founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics. [1] In the 1960s, the firm published works by a number of authors who went on to be noted designers.

Contents

The imprint was later integrated into Cassell. [2]

History

Studio Vista was founded by Cecil Harmsworth King and it was then purchased by the Rev. Timothy Beaumont, later Baron Beaumont of Whitley, [3] with funding from Beaumont's fortune. In 1961, David Mark Herbert joined the firm, becoming its editorial director and then chief executive. [4] [5] After Beaumont entered politics, he sold his publishing interests and Studio Vista was bought by the American firm Collier Macmillan in 1968. [6] 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. [7] In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant. [8]

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". [9] [10]

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

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