The Isamu Noguchi coffee table is the today’s iconic mid century object. I’m lucky to see it every day from real -it’s in the hall of my office- and I can say to know it quite well 🙂
Who Isamu Noguchi was? A Short Biography.
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Thrifting With the Smurfies
First a small request 🙂 If you’ll like this post, I would appreciate you to…
A Mid-Century Weekend in London
If you follow me on Facebook, you probably know that few days ago I had…
Italian Mid-Century Design’s Protagonists: Achille Castiglioni
Has been a while since I posted a biography but, as promised, in addition to Finn…
RESOURCES: The Starting Point for Your Mid Century Appetite
Since a while I had the idea to build a page that was a good starting point for the new readers and a specific archive for posts about the iconic objects that made the mid-century design’s history.
Posts like the Aalto’s Savoy vase or the Jacobsen’s Egg chair -to mention a couple of them- were really appreciated by you guys so,..
Amsterdam Thrifting Tour
This week I had a short thrifting tour, only one shop, but quite interesting. This…
How To Store in a Mid-Century Manner: The Eames Storage Unit
After the Wire Chair and the Eames Screen, today I want to put the spot on another revolutionary product designed by Charles and Ray Eames: The Eames Storage Unit. Probably one of the most desired mid-century modern furniture by folks like us. 😉
The ESU was born to be a flexible and innovative product, it was the result of different assembled parts available in many combinations and materials.
Design Thrifting in Amsterdam
Also yesterday I went thrifting, but for the first time I had a goal, to find the…
Who Said That Students’ Houses Have to Be Ugly?
Our lives, that’s what our houses should be about and tell.
When I visit/see a house I try to understand a bit about the story of its owner and not only if it is decorated with nice mid-century furniture or is an architecture masterpiece. That’s why I immediately loved this house!
A Little Known, But Amazing, Eames’ Object
I’m a curious person, I like to ‘investigate’ and learn as much as possible about what I like: especially about Mid-Century design.
Few days ago I was thinking which object should have I choose for the today post. I wanted to write about something that is usually not mentioned within the most famous works of Charles and Ray Eames but that had an interesting story anyway.
Mid-Century Thrifting in Amsterdam
Finally I did it…I started to thrift again, slowly 🙂 A friend of mine told…
The Vase Born From a Restaurant: The Alvar Aalto Savoy Vase
Choosing the right flowers is important, but what about the vase? During the Mid-Century millions of different vases were designed, but probably the most iconic one -since it was born- is the Aalto’s Savoy vase designed in 1936.
The main characteristic of the Scandinavian design is the organic form of furniture and objects and, as I already wrote in
A Contemporary Vintage Apartment in Valencia: Jaime Hayon
Few days ago, in The Best 4 Posts of the Week About Mid-Century and Design, I wrote about the FAVN sofa by Jaime Hayon for Fritz Hansen: an Arne Jacobsen inspired sofa launched last week at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan.
Yesterday I was, finally, reading the April issue of Case Da Abitare and, guess the house of who was in there? Jaime Hayon and his wife Nienke!
Considering that the house is in Valencia -where I had a short holiday recently- and that I posted about him last week I thought: it’s a sign! 🙂 I’ve to write about it.
Arne Jacobsen: The Egg Chair
If I think to Mid-Century, I can not avoid to think to the Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair.
Probably one of the most famous chairs ever designed during the Mid-Century, the Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair takes its name from the similarity with a broken eggshell and because of its ‘wrapping’ shape it’s considered the modern version of the Georgian wing armchair.
A Modern Mid-Century House in Sweden
Some time ago I shared a Mid-Century/Art-Deco/Classic house in Malmö, Sweden. Today, it’s time to…
The 11 Essential Posts You Can’t Miss to be a Perfect Thrifter
It’s been a while since last time I went for a thrifting tour. To be…
The World Capital of ‘Mid-Century’ Design
Yesterday I received my favorite design and architecture magazine: Case da Abitare.
There’s always an article about some design-oriented city around the world; in this issue is Helsinki.
The reason why I’m writing about it is that Finland and Helsinki were extremely
How to Get the Best from Consignment Stores #1
After my Magical 4 Rules to Save Money While You are Thrifting guide, I received…
Arne Jacobsen: Airplanes, Swans and Eggs.
If you don’t know it, the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen was entirely designed by the Danish Modern architect Arne Jacobsen in the 1950s and built between the 1958-1960: one year later his famous floor lamp.
Staring a Wall You Can Change the World: George Nelson Docet.
“[Simon & Schuster] had given us advantages, and like any young writers we had spent them and hadn’t done the work…We were well-qualified to write the book, except when we got to the chapter on storage: we simply could not write the required 5.000 words.
This produced frustration of an acute sort.
Good Memories from the Divided Mid-Century Germany
Few days ago I was in the new Amsterdam public library -an amazing building- looking…
The Best of The Week: 14 – 18 January 2011
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What a Famous Designer and a Gas Station Have in Common with London and Amsterdam
Today I decided to clean up a bit my archive and I found the following 5 House Tours of inspiring Mid-Century Modern houses:
How the US Courts Thwarted the Mid-Century Design
I can not stop to learn about the Mid-Century Design 🙂
When last week I wrote about the New and Old Molded Plastic Eames Chairs and When the Mid-Century Modern Begun, I pointed out how the designers and the manufacturers invested a lot of time and money in the research and development process in order to find a way to use the post war technologies and new materials for home furnishing scopes.
House Tour: A Mid-Century/Art-Deco/Classic house in Malmö
This house is in one of the nicest Malmö streets -Sweden- and is a magnificent…