Mid Century

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• Look: The Worth Your Salt Pop Up Shop at Pavilion

  
  Strange Closets — Authority: 125
  T he Object Design League sponsored  The Worth Your Salt Pop Up Shop has popped up at Bucktown’s Pavilion .  And the concept’s clearly una situación Win-Win-Win! 1.)  Young designers get a splashy venue and a little attention (they also keep all profits). 2.)  Pavilion gets to expose their wares to an ...
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• Classic 1950s Science Textbooks Get 21st-Century Update

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  A series of textbooks dating from the 1950s taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But research progresses and artistic methods evolve, so Wired has brought these mid-century classics up to date. read more
  3 days ago

• Ottomania!

  
  Dude Craft — Authority: 619
  Shelly emailed me to let me know that Curbly is going to be giving away this sweet ottoman she made in conjunction with their book launch of Make It! Mid-Century Modern . Sweet. Contest ends on 12/6, so hurry.
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• Wright auction 12.09. Important design.

  
  DesignApplause — Authority: 128
  auction preview in progress . auction begins 12.08.09. above: tatra, T87 sedan, czechoslovakia, 1940, 184 w x 67 d x 60 h inches above: ludwig mies van der rohe and lilly reich, MR 10 chair above: charles and ray eames, ESU 420-C, italian futurist table lamp, italy, c. 1930, ...
  4 days ago

• Furniture-Love.com The ultimate droooool

  
  PLASTOLUX "keep it modern" — Authority: 465
  If you haven’t had the pleasure of visiting Furniture-Love.com it is worth your bookmark. Obviously their items are rare to uber rare mid century modern beauties. With the uber rare comes the uber $$$, but If I had the dough I would be shopping there weekly. I have to commend them on the way they photograph their ...
  5 days ago

• molly meg

  
  mint — Authority: 132
  I’m trying to get my work done, really! I am! But with great stuff like Molly Meg landing in my inbox, it’s easier said than done. Molly Meg is a new, UK-based online boutique selling classic modern furniture and objects for kids. Do those chairs come in big-kid sizes, too?
  5 days ago

• Keeping it modern on eBay

  
  PLASTOLUX "keep it modern" — Authority: 465
  There are lots of treasures to be had on eBay this week and as usual the budget is all tapped out. I love the pair of Lounge easy shell chairs by Ib Kofod Larsen for Christensen & larsen. Ultra modern or glossy colorful objects are really not my thing but this coffee table is pretty cool. Get the links after the ...
  6 days ago

• Pan Tu Nie Stał

  
  Words & Eggs — Authority: 131
  Pan tu nie stał , meaning You Were Not Standing Here, is a Polish design blog created by sociologist  Justyna Burzyńska and graphic designer  Maciej Lebiedowicz , who are heavily inspired by vintage Polish designs from the 1930s onward . But that’s not all: they also have a shop by the same name, which ...
  1 week ago

• Chicago Still Destroying Gropius Work

  
  Ecology of Absence — Authority: 128
  St. Louis has a long way to go to catch up to Chicago. While our Archdiocese senselessly demolished a motel by Charles Colbert this year, Chicago city government has been working to demolish the Michael Reese Hospital campus planned and co-designed by Walter Gropius. This week, the citys wreckers demolished the ...
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• Interiors - Photography by Hulya Kolabas

  
  PLASTOLUX "keep it modern" — Authority: 465
  A great big helping of eye candy on this Thanksgiving day. Hulya Kolabas has a great portfolio full of well captured interiors. More after the jump http://www.hulyakolabasphotography.com
  1 week ago

• Mid-Century children’s books

  
  Dave Caolo — Authority: 427
  A beautiful collection of Mid-Century children’s books. Beautiful.
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• Chair love...

  
  Aesthetic Outburst — Authority: 477
  I could make room in my scrawny little heart for this Paul McCobb chair. PRH may commit me if I try though. *found via more ways to waste time
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• Can’t deal with the holidays? Make fun of them!

  
  Lost Oregon — Authority: 107
  The good people at the Mid Century Modern League are presenting “Charles Phoenix’s Retro Holiday Slide Show” next month. From the press release: Pop Culture Humorist and Author Charles Phoenix brings his live holiday slide show performance to The Hollywood Theater one night only, December 29. In this ...
  1 week ago

• Unfitted Bathrooms

  
  AtticMag — Authority: 127
  One aspect of doing more with less involves editing down to necessities. This is especially true for “unfitted” bathrooms – those which have no built-in or “fitted” cabinetry. What’s interesting is how cabinet-free baths cut across the style spectrum – from minimalist to country. Instead of sinks and ...
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• What It Sold For: Lautners Hatherall House In Shadow Hills

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 614
  After hitting the market in July and a couple of de- and re-listings the past few months, the Lautner-designed Hatherall House has sold . The 1958 four-bedroom, three-bath concrete block house sites on three acres on a private road, and features a round great room, with lightweight steel trusses for roof support. ...
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• Molly-Meg

  
  Design Milk — Authority: 690
  Molly–Meg is a new company dedicated to bringing 20th Century Modern design icons to the world of children through a new online kids lifestyle store. Molly-Meg specializes in children’s furniture from the 1950s to the present, so you can get your little one started early appreciating modern classics and good ...
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue Welcomes Visitors

  
  Things to Do in Philadelphia: uwishunu Philly — Authority: 514
  Perspective drawing of Beth Sholom Synagogue, 1954. Copyright © the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation For modern architecture buffs, the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park it a must-see destination. That’s because it’s the home of Beth Sholom Synagogue, the last structure that Frank Lloyd Wright completed during ...
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• Top 5: Vintage and Salvage Resources

  
  BackGarage — Authority: 423
  This is a guest post by Betty T . Top 10 is Top 5 this time around because these guys below provide enough for a Top 100.  Really! Sometimes I find it difficult, if not impossible, to find affordable and quirky vintage or salvaged pieces.  Some retailers overcharge for just the word “vintage” or for ...
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• The Las Vegas McNeil Mid Mods That Most Mesmarize Me

  
  Uncle Jack's Very Vintage Vegas - Mid Century Modern Homes, Historic Las Vegas Neighborhoods, Las Vegas History and Urban Living by Jack LeVine — Authority: 421
  There’s 2 of them. Side By Side. Neglected and forlorn. I had a chance to get inside the Mid Mod to the north a few years ago. The tenant had the place on a lease option and said he was going to restore it. Nothing ever changed from the outside. Now it’s abandoned. I have no idea as to what the inside is now ...
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• MCDONALDS’ EXPERIMENTAL FUTURISTIC DECOR IS HERE

  
  Janet Charlton's Hollywood — Authority: 506
  Photo Credit: Splash News Take a look at the possible future of McDonald’s. Not bad, eh? It just goes to prove that NOTHING has to be ugly. The fast-food icon just opened an experimental “Black Label” McDonalds in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. It features mid-century modern Danish decor, free Wi-Fi, ...
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