midcentury modern

Used future: Serenity

September 29, 2009

Used future: Serenity

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.

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Douglas Coupland’s magical white house

August 26, 2009

Douglas Coupland’s magical white house

This is by far one of my favourite houses in Vancouver. It’s in the municipality of West Vancouver, home to many of the best modern houses in the city, and it belongs to the novelist Douglas Coupland.

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Avenel Cooperative Housing Project built either for cartoonists or communists

July 27, 2009

Avenel Cooperative Housing Project built either for cartoonists or communists

Why can’t cooperative housing look like this more often? The Avenel Cooperative Housing Project in LA’s Silver Lake neighbourhood, supposedly built either for “a bunch of communists” or for a “group of motion picture cartoonists and their families” (click above for informative Wikipedia article) was affordable when it was built in 1947 and of course is now ridiculously expensive.

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Florida House by Gene Leedy

May 27, 2009

Florida House by Gene Leedy

This midcentury modern house is for sale – or was – according to the Paul Rudolph Foundation website, which links to this great set of photos from ECOHUSET on Flickr.  

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More Paul Rudolph houses – exteriors and interiors

May 26, 2009

More Paul Rudolph houses – exteriors and interiors

More houses by Paul Rudolph. I’m not sure why I like him so much; maybe it’s the feeling that every space is designed for a party, or the use of white, or that he went so glam/space age in the 60s and 70s.

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Furniture makers of Middle Earth

April 5, 2009

Furniture makers of Middle Earth

I find this Todd Merrell Antiques magazine ad weirdly compelling. If you end up at his website (now defunct) it’s like being transported into Middle Earth or the underworld. You might have to retrieve an amulet with the help of a talking dog with eyes as big as saucers or something.

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