Posts Tagged ‘groovy’
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
This 1974 book cover has everything including mod 3D typeface, superimposed naked women in psychedelic colours, and an author named bureau of consumer research in lower case. The 1970s are a foreign country; they do things differently there. All I can think of is the 1973 lyric “painted ladies and a bottle of wine,” but probably only Canadians will know what I’m talking about. Dear 1970s, your grooviness can be a …read more
Tags: 1970s, 60s, 70s, book, Bureau of Consumer Research, cover, design, Diet Cookbook, graphic design, groovy, Ian Thomas, mod, naked, nudity, Painted Ladies, paperback, photo, rainbow, retro, sexual revolution, softcover, superimposed, vintage
Posted in book, Canadian design, design, graphics and signage | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Above, the 1970s modern two-level platform in painter Frank Stella’s loft, from the classic book Inside Today’s Home. Below, a recent photo of the renovated 1950s conversation pit in the Number 31 Hotel in Dublin. Maybe it’s because I grew up around a hip artist aunt whose 60s/70s handmade house had a seating platform in it, but I am mourning the disappearance of the freeform seating arrangement. And apparently I am not alone. …read more
Tags: 50s, 60s, Bavinger House, Bruce Goff, built-in, conversation pit, dais, Eero Saarinen, estrado, flokati, Frank Stella, Greece, groovy, inverted, Miller House, modernism, nostalgia, platform, raised, seating, seating area, seating platform, shagadelic, sunken living room, Sydney Butche, Turkey, unconventional, why are things so boring now?, window seat
Posted in architecture, British Columbia, Canadian design, design, DIY, favourite, furniture, interiors | 11 Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
If tumblr is a bellwether—and it may not be—then the sixties & seventies are back, in style if not in substance. So many of tumblr’s weird little blogs, each of them a kind of eclectic personal bulletin board, feature this kind of rock and roll Hair: The Musical meets back-to-the-land handmade-house thing. They have a taste for a simpler yet groovier style of living, but it’s never clear if there’s …read more
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, aesthetics, alaskaneyes, back to the land, blog, blogging, bree apperley, breeapperley, cosmic dust, cosmic_dust, decontextualization, decor, groovy, handmade house, hippe house, hippie, hipster, interior design, photographs, photography, photos, please make the 80s go away, politics, sexy, tumblelog, tumblr
Posted in architecture, design, fashion, green, interiors | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
This gets points for adventurousness and imagination and magic, if not success. It’s another image from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, Greystone Press, 1970.
Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, adventurous, bold, cedar, decor, fireplace, groovy, indoor, inside, interior design, interiors, madness, marine lights, mod, outdoor, outside, red, retro, shingles, wacky, weird, why are things so boring now?, wood stove, wood-burning fireplace
Posted in design | 5 Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
More far out interiors from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, Greystone Press, 1970.
Tags: 1960s, 1968, 1970, 1970s, 60s, 70s, abstract, adventurous, bold, capiz shell chandelier, chrome, decor, design, favorite, favourite, groovy, interior design, macrame, mod, modern, panton, plexiglas, red wall, retro, shag, shagadelic, skylight, supergraphic, The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvemen, why are things so boring now?
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Obviously the House of Tomorrow wasn’t meant to be part of everyone’s tomorrow. Nice Jag. Nice unbuttoned look, too. That’s the developer, Bob, with his wife Helene in their 1960 Desert Modern-style house in Palm Springs by Palmer & Krisel, architects. From here. The photographs originally appeared in Look Magazine. The third photo is actually from a different Palmer & Krisel house in Palm Springs.
Tags: 1960, 1960s, architecture, Desert Modern, groovy, In Every Dreamhome A Heartache, Jaguar, Look Magazine, midcentury, mod, modern, modern architecture, modernism, modernist, Palm Springs, Palmer Krisel
Posted in design | 4 Comments »
