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James Wines and SITE – art, architecture & enlightened business

October 10, 2009

James Wines and SITE – art, architecture & enlightened business

Dear Vancouver architects and business owners, let’s re-visit the enlightened 1970s collaboration between the Best Products company, based in Virginia, and the artist-architect James Wines and his group SITE (Sculpture In The Environment).

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Taking the indoor/outdoor look to new levels

April 9, 2009

Taking the indoor/outdoor look to new levels

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.

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Circa 1968

Circa 1968

More far out interiors from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, Greystone Press, 1970.

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The Saturday Generation

December 5, 2008

The Saturday Generation

The Cave Room (above), the Projection Room, and the Xanadu Room (below) are from “The Bloomingdale’s Book of Home Decorating,” 1973, by Barbara D’Arcy. D’arcy was famous for her wild display rooms actually constructed inside the Bloomingdales store in New York in the 1960s and 70s.

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