This video is an hour long, but well worth your time if you’re interested in the history of MCM>
CLEAN LINES, OPEN SPACES: A VIEW OF MID-CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE
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Ooogliest Auto Ever?
Mid-Century Modern Freak | Alexander Calder Paints a BMW The BMW Art Car…
Even absent the hideous Calder paint job, that is one ugly BMW. I lived through that era, and I don’t recall them being that totally awful.
File:1974 BMW 3.0 CS federal.jpg – Wikimedia Commons
Hm. Actually, they weren’t that bad.
Apparently they worked to create that monstrosity in the top pic. Probably the addition of that horrid fin-mounted spoiler.
I Miss the Old Detroit Big Iron
MID-CENTURY MODERN DESIGN – 1960 Plymouth Concept Car
This was a Plymouth concept car back in 1960. I remember seeing a pic of it while I was a car-crazed kid in 9th grade.
Remember 1960? Hell, remember Plymouths?
The Eames-Saarinen IBM Pavillion at the 1964 World’s Fair
964 New York World’s Fair Kiosk | IBM & Eames | Flushing Meadow, N.Y.
Designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen Associates, the pavilion created the effect of a covered garden, with all exhibits in the open beneath a grove of 45, 32-feet high, man-made steel trees.
The 54,038 sq. ft. pavilion was divided into six sections: The “Information Machine,” a 90-foot-high main theater with multiple screen projection; pentagon theaters, where puppet-like devices explained the workings of data processing systems; computer applications area; probability machine; scholar’s walk; and a 4,500-square-foot administration building.
I visited this pavillion. It was, in what would soon be the parlance of the time, mind blowing. Especially the main theater.
Now That’s a Kitchen
Mid-century modern kitchen – Boing Boing
Fellow SF writer Cory Doctorow seems to like this kitchen. And though I might pick a different sort of tile for the flooring if I were doing it today, in general, I do too. It was well ahead of the curve for its 1950s era.
Got Two Million Bucks?
Carl Maston’s Marvelous Mid-Century Modern Thies Residence – Weekend Open House – Curbed LA
You could live here if you did. Click the link for a helluva slideshow.
None Better
I still maintain that nobody has ever come up with a better looking, more versatile, more pleasingly styled storage unit that the famed ESU by Charles and Ray Eames. It looks just as fresh today as it did when it was first created more than seventy year ago.
I Love This Room
Why?
Well, nothing yanks my crank like MCM seamlessly merged with traditional classic architecture. This vignette just looks ridiculously warm, comfortable, and inviting. Can’t you picture yourself relaxing in one of those chairs with a cocktail and a good book on your iPad? I can.
I Don’t Think I’ve Ever Seen Ths Version Before
Most folks probably don’t know that Geroge Mulhauser designed the knockoff of the Eames Lounge for Plycraft that outsold the original by at least ten to one, (it was larger, more comfortable, and cost considerably less), and even those who are aware of this may not know that Mulhauser, a gifted designer, created some of the most beautiful formed plywood chairs I’ve ever seen. Here is a model that differs considerably from his better-known “Mister Chair” with the swivel star base
Pretty, eh?
Hans Wagner’s Gorgeous Plywood Shell Chair
This is one of the most beautiful formed plywood shell chairs I’ve ever seen.
I wish Fritz Hansen would bring out a new edition of them.
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Remember When People Smoked Indoors?
Kind of an Interesting Eames Knock-Off, Eh?
Mid Century Modern Eames Inspired Coffee Table by CoMod on Etsy
I always wondered why Eames didn’t make a version of his classic table like this. He had all sorts of different legs for his shell chairs….
Back Home Again In MCM Indiana
This kind of reminds me of my uncle’s house back in the day. It was a startling MCM confection for Muncie, Indiana at the time – circa 1955. And I didn’t even know what that stuff was back then.
Mid Century Modern Canned Goods as Interior Decor?
I sort of doubt that I could ever keep such shelves full of canned goods so anally neat, but the dining set is pretty nice, isn’t it?
A Nest of Jacobsen Ant Chairs
These are not my favorite Jacobsen chairs- I have four of his “Seven” design – but they’re still pretty cool looking.
George Nelson: The Noyes Mid-Century Clock
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Cherner Chairs, Part Two
Projects | Mid Century Modern On A Budget | Rich Mathers Construction
The Cherner family has issued lots of variations on the original chairs their father designed, including some matching tables, which I don’t get all that excited about.
I do like this re-imagining of the originals as bar stools, though. Maintains the weird, insectile vibes of the originals.
A Nice DIY Project?
Mid-Century Modern Freak | Vintage Storage Units set on Hairpin Legs Via
This doesn’t look too difficult: Find an old library card case, refinish it, and bolt some hairpin legs on it.
Where do you find hairpin legs?
Come On – Tell Me You Wouldn’t, Too
Mid-Century Modern Freak | Artist & Gallery Director Dan Devening’s Home |…
Yet another room I could be very happy living in.