October 29, 2009
From the Canadian Design Resource. Late 70s Quebec vase from the Sial company.
October 25, 2009
These photos of The Dome Show, an exhibition by art collective Intermedia at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1970, are all from the web archive Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties.
October 4, 2009
The house above at centre, a lowly style known as a Vancouver Special, is shown here prior to its renovation about six years ago by Vancouver architects Pechet and Robb.
September 29, 2009
The term “used future” was coined by George Lucas to describe the unkempt reality of life in outer space, specifically Han Solo’s dingy Millennium Falcon.
August 11, 2009
“Electrified Plexiglas and Mirrored Glass Low Table,” circa 1970-79, by American designer Ron Ferri. American Glam. From the artnet site:
“There are few designers who captured the essence of the Studio 54 era as well as Ron Ferri did.
July 7, 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.
July 6, 2009
This is Karim Rashid’s new “Bite Me” Chair, a garish blobject in the shape of a bubblegum-pink molar. There was a pretty unanimous chorus of dislike and disapproval of this chair on the CDR (Canadian Design Resource) blog in May, and Rashid – the master of plasticky furniture that looks carelessly cheap when it’s made and then ages badly – totally deserved it.
June 27, 2009
Which is correct, above, or below?:
Or alternately:
All photos from the 1973 decor book 1601 Decorating Ideas for Modern Living.
June 22, 2009
From the 1975 edition of Inside Today’s Home. “A vividly colored, streamlined kitchen forms one wall of the major group space in this minimal-care beach house. The brilliant blue and red scheme contrasts strikingly with the clean-lined Breuer and Mies van der Rohe furniture and a soft goat hair rug.
June 11, 2009
The 1976 film Logan’s Run, a sci-fi dystopia about a domed post-apocalyptic society that euthanizes its citizens at age 30, heavily occupied my late childhood imagination.
