Comments on: Whatever happened to the seating platform, the conversation pit? https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pinnacles of the Pits, Pt 1 | Knibb Design Blog https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-719 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:15:30 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-719 […] you to the Ouno design blog for material and […]

]]> By: The Big Wait | On Life and Lava https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-718 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:46:59 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-718 […] was alone in my (previously secret) love of houses with sunken living rooms, but it seems there are more of us out there. Happy Friday! GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); […]

]]> By: The brain-friendly hotel « The Nature of Innovation https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-717 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:02:31 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-717 […] for conversation. Heck, we might consider a neuro-friendly, amorphous version of the 1950′s conversation pit (with universal accessibility, of […]

]]> By: Carpeted Pits & Platforms « Supergraphic Strategies https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-716 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:41:19 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-716 […] In order of appearance, the images in the first section under “Carpet Pits & Platforms” are from: Living for Today (1972), The House Book (1974), unknown, unknown, Ugly House Photos (1974), and The Bed and Bath Book (1978). The images in “Carpet & Cushion Couches” are from: The Bed and Bath Book (1978), Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book (1975), Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book (1975), The Bed and Bath Book (1978), and The Bed and Bath Book (1978). The images in “Modifications” are from: Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book (1975), The Bed and Bath Book (1978), Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book (1975), Bloomingdale’s Book of Home Decorating (1973), unknown, and Sunset Children’s Rooms &Play Yards (1980). The first image and the text blocks in “Construction” are from The House Book (1974) and the remaining images are from this website (2005)- look at the link under “Riser Construction.” Additionally check out a post on pits and platforms by Ouno Design. […]

]]> By: Diary of A Teenage Girl at 3LD « Culturebot https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-715 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:25:43 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-715 […] set for the production is a 70’s style “conversation pit” with Minnie’s bedroom in the middle. The design is Sensurround in the best possible […]

]]> By: Jonathan https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-713 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:12:54 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-713 Wow, what a great blog about conversation pits. I’ve been curious about them. I’ve only seen them in retro books, but not in real life.

I have wondered where have they gone to. I also wondered if they were just popular in design books of the 1970s and never made it in the mainstream. I’ve been house-shopping for a few years and have never seen them.

I also wondered if there is any reason to speculate if conversation pits have evolved to sunken living room. Now, I’ve seen plenty of sunken rooms and I’ve even lived in a house with one when I was a child.

However, I think sunken living rooms were around before conversation pits were.

]]> By: John Hopper https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-711 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:04:23 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-711 Thanks for the great post on the much maligned, but sorely missed, at least by me, conversation pits.

Seating arrangements in many contemporary interiors now either seem to be arranged around the plazma screen, or are in what I think was originally termed, at least in the UK, as the ‘California Look’. That is two couches facing each other seperated by a coffee table.

Conversation pits seem informal and relaxed and you are always facing someone, so you can always engage in conversation, which is the point I suppose.

]]> By: admin https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-712 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:00:58 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-712 PS Alice: Thank you! But my file system is atrocious! Thank god for all the photographers on Flickr though, and their diligence at tagging their photos correctly.

]]> By: admin https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-710 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:59:50 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-710 Don’t you want a conversation pit inside your seating platform? PS Hi Sarah!

]]> By: Sarah https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/23/whatever-happened-to-the-seating-platform-the-conversation-pit/#comment-709 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:55:03 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4015#comment-709 great post! I would like to have a seating platform inside my conversation pit.

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