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Brno: Klub pr?myslového um?ni (Arch. ing. S. St?elec and A. Fuchs), 1937?1938. Quartos (29.5 × 20.8 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated card wrappers; 16 and 16, [VIII] pp. Illustrated with photographs, some full page, chiefly showing fabric design by Drahomíra Fuchsová and various interior views. Very good, save for rust to staples. Complete run of this scarce journal issued by Magazin Aka, a department store for modernist furniture and interior design founded in 1932 by modernist architect Bohuslav Fuchs, his brother A. Fuchs, and his wife Drahomíra Fuchsová (1902?1992). She primarily created various textile designs for the company, including for rugs, placemats, cushions and cover fabrics. An example of her work is pictured on issue 1 of the journal. Other works included glassware (some designed by Bohuslav Fuchs, Alois Metelák, and the Kavalier glass company), as well as ceramics and metalware. The second issue advertises the products of the "Aka weaving mills" run by Drahomíra Fuchsová, which produced "first rate hand-woven stuffs of all kind, every colour and size: hand-woven curtains. hand-woven and knitted carpets." (rear wrapper). According to the rear wrapper of the first issue, other products of Aka had been exhibited at an exhibition of industrial design at the Stedelijk Museum in 1934?35, at a traveling exhibition in the United States, and in the permanent exhibition of the Industrial Design Museum in Prague. Chiefly in Czech, with some German contributions. The contributions include the text of a radio presentation about fabrics by Fuchsová; a German-language article by one Emilie Wenzel ("Stoffe in der Wohnung"); as well as shorter updates about avant-garde art and industrial design, with mentions of such figures as Marcel Breuer, Moholy-Nagy, Walter Gropius, and Jan Tschichold; a Czech translation of "Education for industrial art" by Moholy-Nagy; Siegfried Giedion on Le Corbusier; Josef Hesoun on "notes of an architect"; and Endre Steiner on "Das Bild in der Wohnung", along with numerous reviews of recent avant-garde books and journals. In spite of the significant advertisements in the second issue, and a promising table of contents for a third issue, no further issues appeared. The designer and co-editor, Franti?ek Kalivoda (1913?1971), was a major typographer, graphic designer, and architect of the functionalist style and New Objectivity, best known for his design of the journals "Ekran" and "Telehor". In 1937, he began to work for the School of Crafts in Bratislava and from 1939 to 1942 he taught at the Brno School of Crafts. As of October 2024, KVK, OCLC show only one complete holding in North American, and two institutions with one of the two issues.
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