#cipe pineles

[newyorkthegoldenage]

New York Fair or No Fair: A Guide For The Woman Vacationist by Marjorie Hillis, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939, dust jacket illustrator, Cipe Pineles

Born in Peoria Illinois, Marjorie Hillis (1889-1971) moved to Brooklyn when she was ten and grew up a minister’s daughter. She became a staff writer for Vogue Magazine. In the 1930s Hillis began authoring books for women from the perspective of self-sufficiency and independent money management by living on your own terms. One of her greatest sales successes was Live Alone And Like It (1936). New York Fair or No Fair with the intended pun is a guide to New York written for women who would be visiting the 1939 World’s Fair.

Cipe Pineles (1908-1991) was born in Austria and came to the United States in 1921. Pineles became one of the most acclaimed illustrators and graphic designers. She worked for many magazines including, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Vogue, Seventeen and Charm. Pineles was the first woman member of the Art Directors Club and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1975.

Text & photo: stuffnobodycaresabout.com

[higherentity]

[hitku]

by Cipe Pineles

[nprbooks]

Graphic journalist and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton was browsing an antiquarian book fair on a Saturday morning in San Francisco when one book caught her eye. "It was open to a spread of a painting of a bowl of bright pink borscht in this gorgeous mint scalloped bowl. It had hand-lettered calligraphy recipes and it was absolutely exquisite," she recalls.

She had stumbled upon an original 1945 manuscript of a cookbook designed by Cipe Pineles, who as the first female art director of Condé Nast, helped pave the way for women in design in the mid-20th century.

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-- Petra

[womenofgraphicdesign]

Cipe Pineles (b. Austria, 1908-1991)

Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, & Cookbook of Cipe Pineles via “Recipe for Success” by Lilly Smith (Design Observer, 2017)

“After coming to the United States from Eastern Europe, [Cipe] Pineles became the designer of magazines such as Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, and the first female art director at Condé Nast. After graduating from Pratt in Brooklyn, New York, with a portfolio that according to founder of Brain Pickings Maria Popova, was “strewn with food paintings, from a loaf of bread to a chocolate cake,” Pineles secured a position at Contempora as a textile and display designer. The fortuitous moment occurred when Condé Nast himself saw her pattern designs and hired her as an editorial designer for Vogue and Vanity Fair. By the mid-1940s, Pineles was heading up Glamour’s design team. It was during that time that Pineles created the illustrations for Leave me Alone with the Recipes, a collection of family recipes handwritten and illustrated by the art director herself, but they wouldn’t be discovered until decades later, when Sarah Rich and Wendy MacNaughton discovered the collection at a book fair in California.

... Pineles’ take on home cooking, newly discovered through Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, induces a different feeling. Her illustrations create a friendly entry point and show, now that they have been rediscovered, the power design can have in impacting the everyday experience. As illustrator Wendy MacNaughton said in her contribution to the book, “In Defense of Food Illustration,” “Illustration can convey a love of food and aesthetic in a deeply personal, sensual, accessible way that other mediums cannot. It’s what Cipe Pineles did in her cookbook in the 1940s. And it’s what many people are getting back to doing now.” (source) 

[fawnvelveteen]

Cipe Pineles, Charm, June 1951

[jenniedavis]

[universitybookstore]

New from Bloomsbury, Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles.