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Drawerment
I’ve been trying to dismiss this as frivolous, but I now concede that I would copy this if I could afford the time and money. It would be great in our studio – both useful and perpetually...
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Dram lamp by Propellor, made from vintage tumblers
This fantastic new pendant lamp or chandelier is by my friends Propellor, an award winning collaboration of three Vancouver designers whose ridiculously beautiful studio is a few blocks from mine. The...
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The words we use when we think about design, 1984 to 2009
This graph shows the occurrence of the terms “decor” (blue) and “interior design” (red) in The New York Times between 1984 and 2009. What happened to the word “decor”? It fell out of usage in...
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Ha, finally! The 90s are the new 80s.
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...
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When “today” had the ring of “tomorrow”
Photos are all from the 1975 edition of Inside Today’s Home by Ray and Sarah Faulkner, Holt Rinehart Winston. (The 1954, 1960 and 1968 editions of this book are all worth collecting too, if you can...
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Wary Meyers Decorative Arts
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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LSD was the gateway drug to long, belted sweaters
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 http://bit.ly/belts...
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Diet Cookbook, 1974, plus nudity
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. The 1970s are a foreign...
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Happy New Year!
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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Fleamarket decor in Delhi
India has the best inventory of vintage and antique furniture—both institutional and domestic—I’ve ever seen. Especially deco and moderne (bench above) not to mention traditional Indian wooden...
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