Posts Tagged ‘modernist architecture’
Friday, March 20th, 2009
The Frey House, Palm Springs, 1963-4. Built by Albert Frey for himself, in the Desert Modern style he established in Palm Springs. I love this bedroom far too much. If you did that in Vancouver, though, it would leak. Top photo by Chimay Bleue on Flickr (click on photo).
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Tags: 1960s, 1963, 60s, Albert Frey, architecture, Desert Modern, design, Frey House, Julius Shulman, midcentury modern, modern, modernism, modernist, modernist architecture, Palm Springs, Swiss
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
The French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand (1903 – 1999) produced some very beautiful furniture and buildings, but she is probably not as well known as she should be, even despite the comprehensive retrospective show of her work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2005. Above is a selection of pieces included in that show.
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Tags: architecture, Bambou chair, Cassina, Charlotte Perriand, corbusier, design, furniture design, Geneva, League of Nations, Les Arcs, modern design, modernism, modernist, modernist architecture, Prouve, Refuge Tonneau, Savoie, Switerland, Thonet, twentieth century, UN, We don't embroider cushions here., women designers
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
For 14 million US$ you can purchase the Eames and Saarinen Case Study House #9, in nearly perfect original condition. More photos at dailyicon.
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Tags: architecture, Case Study House, Case Study House #9, Eames, Los Angeles, modernist architecture, Saarinen
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
In the late 1920s, the modernist designer and architect Eileen Gray designed and built a landmark piece of modernist architecture in the form of a seaside house. The Irish-born Gray is best known for her furniture design (her Bibendum chair is visible in the third photo above), but it is odd that she is only known as a furniture designer considering her architectural contributions.
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Tags: 1920s, 1929, conservation, corbusier, defacement, E-1027, E1027, Eileen Gray, France, furniture design, heritage, Ireland, Irish, Jean Badovici, lovers, Mediterranean, modernism, modernist architecture, mural, Promenade Le Corbusier, romantic, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, seaside, sexism, woman designer, women designers
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