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.
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 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.
^Malte Hagener and Michael Töteberg, Film: An International Bibliography, Stuttgart and Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 2002, p. 201. Retrieved 27 January 2020.