bump...
Too bad nobody replied to this.
I cannot help too much, but I'll see what I can give you.
http://www.rareads.com/rareads/webmiscell.html
The Golden Age of Advertising - the 50s, by Taschen
Don't know if much furniture is covered.
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/popculture/all/facts/038...
hmm...
Surely we can do better than this...
http://pages.adsbydee.com/11382/InventoryPage/1780916/1.html
Vintage architecture magazines
You know what, I jumped on your bandwagon for a moment. I thought it would be an interesting pursuit, but I've decided, you'd be much better off finding some vintage magazines:
http://books.listings.ebay.com/_Magazine-Back-Issues_Architecture-Design...
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