Industry Publishing Founded 1961 | Headquarters London, United Kingdom Type of business Private | |
Founder David Herbert & Timothy Beaumont | ||
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.
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History
The firm was founded in 1961 by David Herbert 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. 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. After Beaumont entered politics he sold his publishing interests and Studio Vista was bought by the American firm Collier Macmillan. In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant.
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), and Norman Potter's What is a Designer: Education and Practice (1969).
The firm also published a number of books by the Romanian architect Serban Cantacuzino.