retro Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/retro/ Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:53:13 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Happy New Year! https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-2/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-2/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:53:13 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7729

Who she was, and whether she was led astray that night, are lost to history, but I hope she was celebrating New Year’s in the way she thought best. Happy New Year, everyone.

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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.

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Overheard dialogue on Twitter, if Twitter is capable of such a thing as dialogue:

GammaCounter:  Seriously lamenting that I missed out on the era of long Belted Sweaters https://bit.ly/belts
GreatDismal:  LSD was the gateway drug to long, belted sweaters

For those of you who don’t know, GreatDismal is fellow Vancouverite William Gibson.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/10/lsd-was-the-gateway-drug-to-long-belted-sweaters/feed/ 5 Wary Meyers Decorative Arts https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/24/wary-meyers-decorative-arts/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/24/wary-meyers-decorative-arts/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 17:50:18 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4100

Linda and John Meyers of Wary Meyers Decorative Arts assemble these mod, chic, distinctly 1960s and 70s interiors almost entirely from furniture and objects they find in thrift and vintage sales.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/05/24/wary-meyers-decorative-arts/feed/ 4 Joe Colombo https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/24/joe-colombo/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/24/joe-colombo/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:59 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=3256

Joe Colombo, 1930 – 1971, a prolific Italian architect, designer, artist and filmmaker, produced a substantial, instantly recognizable body of work before dying far too young at 41.

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

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/09/circa-1968/feed/ 9 Gabriella Crespi https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/06/gabriella-crespi/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/04/06/gabriella-crespi/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:26:54 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=3131

A quasi-surreal or space age ‘Polished Steel Coffee Table’ by Italian architect and designer Gabriella Crespi looks like a metal crystal formation of some kind.

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That’s according to the New York Times, and since nostalgia seems to work in 20-year cycles, I guess anyone could have seen it coming. If, as the article says, the 90s were the sci fi thing and the Breeders, then excellent, but … what is that orange outfit!

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The big glasses everyone’s been wearing for five years? Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers, 1975. More here.

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