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Spaceship condo

LB — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:01:59 +0000

Spaceship condominium in Guilford, Connecticut, designed by Wil Armster. We need to see more buildings like this, especially in Vancouver, to break up the endless architectural monotony not to mention mediocrity.

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Citroen Kar-a-Sutra

LB — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:36:18 +0000

Living room on wheels designed by Italian designer Mario Bellini in 1972 as a collaboration for Citroen and Pirelli. It’s a combination conversation pit/sleeping area. It was introduced to the US later that year in a show at MoMA – Italy: The New Domestic Landscape.

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Munich Olympics Graphics, 1972

LB — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:36:25 +0000

Logo and graphics from the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, by Otl Aicher. Via. Unfortunately the excellent design produced by Munich was eclipsed by the gruesome tragedy that unfolded at the Games.

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See-through furniture

LB — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:22:47 +0000

These are a mix of glass and lucite, past and present. The bottom 3 pieces are from the 70s and all of the pieces at top are contemporary. Transparency puts furniture into the realm of the future or the imaginary, even when it also automatically harks back to the 1970s.

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Rita Pavone, “Il geghegè”

LB — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:47:41 +0000

Rita Pavone.

Thanks, Kay.

Google Translate says:

The Geghegè ‘(A. Peacock)

We have a riff (geghe geghe geghegè)
that goes like so (geghe geghe geghegè)
and this riff (geghe geghe geghegè)
it means (geghe geghe geghegè)
My greeting is geghegè (geghe geghe geghegè)

Perhaps you think that (geghe geghe geghegè)
this geghe geghe ge ‘(geghe geghe geghegè)
it means geghegè ‘(geghe geghe geghegè)
and instead this riff
means I love you!

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The Dome Show – Intermedia builds geodesic domes, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970

LB — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:36:56 +0000

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.

Montreal vs. Vancouver Olympics graphics – a little comparative photo essay

LB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:36 +0000

Ignoring the problems of hosting the Olympics, which are serious and many (and as a Vancouverite I’m speaking from experience), let’s just compare the graphic design from two different Canadian Olympics.

If Studio 54 were in the Emerald City

LB — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:19:56 +0000

“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.

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Whatever happened to the seating platform, the conversation pit?

LB — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:55:52 +0000

Above, the 1970s modern two-level platform in painter Frank Stella’s loft, from the classic book Inside Today’s Home. Below, a recent photo of the renovated 1950s conversation pit in the Number 31 Hotel in Dublin.

70s kitchen

LB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:21 +0000

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.

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