{{Short description|British publishing company}} {{Infobox company | name = Studio Vista | logo = | type = [[Private company|Private]] | traded_as = | foundation = | founder = [[Cecil Harmsworth King]] | location_city = London | location_country = United Kingdom | key_people = | industry = Publishing | products = Books | num_employees = | investors = | homepage = | successor = [[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell & Co.]] }} '''Studio Vista''' was a British publishing company founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics.<ref>[https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/studio-vista Studio Vista], royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2020.</ref> 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 (publisher)|Cassell]].<ref>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</ref>
==History== Studio Vista was founded by [[Cecil Harmsworth King]] and it was then purchased by the Rev. [[Timothy Beaumont]], later Baron Beaumont of Whitley,<ref>[[Andrew Roth]], [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/11/religion.liberaldemocrats "Lord Beaumont of Whitley "], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 11 April 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2020.</ref> with funding from Beaumont's fortune. In 1961, David Mark Herbert joined the firm, becoming its editorial director and then chief executive.<ref>"The Hon David Herbert", ''[[The Times]]'', 23 November 1996, p. 27.</ref><ref name="robert-cross">Robert Cross, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-herbert-1353601.html "Obituary: David Herbert"], ''[[The Independent]]'', 22 November 1996. Retrieved 27 January 2020.</ref> After Beaumont entered politics, he sold his publishing interests and Studio Vista was bought by the American firm [[Collier Macmillan]] in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/04/tim-beaumont-1928-2008.html |title=Tim Beaumont (1928-2008) |date=12 April 2008 |publisher=Bear Alley Books |accessdate=20 January 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref>"Frances Lincoln", ''The Times'', 1 March 2001, p. 25.</ref> In 1975, Frances Lincoln led a strike at the firm after the new owners threatened to make 40 people redundant.<ref>Mark Girouard, "[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/02/guardianobituaries.books1 Frances Lincoln]", ''[[The Guardian]]'', 2 March 2001. Retrieved 19 March 2016.</ref>
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, some of Studio Vista's titles (including [[William Klein (photographer)|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 George Warris Hulton|Edward Hulton]]".<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=se%3A%22Vista+books%22&fq=&dblist=638&qt=sort&se=yr&sd=asc&qt=sort_yr_asc Vista Books], worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.</ref><ref>John Betjeman, [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=betjeman+pocket+poets&qt=owc_search "The Pocket Poets"], worldcat.org. Retrieved 9 October 2020.</ref>
==Books== Among the notable books published by the firm were ''The Nature of Design'' by the furniture designer [[David Pye (furniture)|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 (typographer)|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 (architect)|Serban Cantacuzino]].
==Book series== * Aquarium Paperbacks<ref name="cassells-1970">''Cassell's Directory of Publishing in Great Britain, the Commonwealth, Ireland and South Africa'', London: Cassell, 1970, 6th edition, p. 119.</ref> * Blues Paperbacks (edited by [[Paul Oliver]])<ref>Christian O'Connell, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHVfCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22blues+paperbacks%22+%2B+paul+simon&pg=PA216 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.</ref> * Christie's South Kensington Collectors Series (in association with [[Christie's]] Contemporary Art) * City Buildings * Collectors' Blue Books<ref name="cassells-1970" /> * Creative Sewing Series (in association with the [[Singer Corporation|Singer Company]]) * Elements of Painting Series * Facts of Print<ref name="cassells-1970" /> * Field Sports Handbooks * Gold Series * Great Ages of World Architecture * Great Drawings of the World * Hadfield Anthologies<ref name="cassells-1970" /> * Knowing and Doing * Leaders of Modern Thought * Movie Paperbacks (jointly published in the U.S. as Praeger Film Library by [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Praeger Publishing]] and by [[University of California Press]])<ref>Malte Hagener and Michael Töteberg, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=4r28DQAAQBAJ&dq=Movie+Paperbacks+Studio+vista+Praeger+Publishing%29&pg=PA201 Film: An International Bibliography]'', Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2002, p. 201. Retrieved 27 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=hotseries&q=se%3A%22Movie+paperbacks.%22 se:Movie Paperbacks], worldcat.org. Retrieved 10 December 2021.</ref> * New Directions in Architecture * Picturebacks (also referred to as: Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks) (published in the U.S. by [[E. P. Dutton]])<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/studio-vista-dutton-picturebacks.html Studio Vista | Dutton Picturebacks - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020.</ref> * Planning and Cities * Plan Your Home<ref name="cassells-1970" /> * 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 Library<ref>[https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=se%3ASmall+Garden+Library&offset=1 se:Small Garden Library], worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 July 2024.</ref> * Studio Drawing Books * Studio Handbooks * Studio Paperbacks<ref name="robert-cross" /> * Studio Vista/Van Nostrand Reinhold Art Paperbacks<ref>[https://archive.org/details/theartistasrepot0000unse/page/4/mode/2up The Artist as Reporter], archive.org. Retrieved 4 July 2024.</ref> * Vision + Value Series * Vista Travel<ref>[https://www.publishinghistory.com/vista-travel-studio-vista.html Vista Travel (Studio Vista) - Book Series List], publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020.</ref> * Visual History of Modern Britain
==See also== * [[Diana Bloomfield]] * [[Chris Marker]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *"[http://qwertyrob.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/in-praise-of-studio-vista-ken-garland.html In praise of Studio Vista, Ken Garland and the good old days]" by Rob Waller *[https://openlibrary.org/publishers/Studio_Vista Studio Vista at openlibrary.org] *[http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/post.php?id=76&v=1 Serban Cantacuzino]
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