Posts tagged "Midcentury modern"
Eichler Homes and Steve Jobs
Eichler Homes and Steve Jobs Steve Jobs praised Eichler Homes (*), in a biography “Steve Jobs” (Walter Isaacson 2011). He is considered to be the house he grew up in Eichler Homes. Eichler Homes is a house built and sold in California from around 1950 by Joseph Eichler. Joseph Eichler has made modern houses designed...
Julius Shulman -architectural photo as media-
“Good designs are rarely accepted, so we have to sell them.” Julius Shulman , an architectural photographer One of the most famous photographs of Julius Shulman is of the case study house # 22. Built in Hollywood Hills, it is also called Stahl House (1960) designed by architect Pierre koenig. Spectacle piece that can never...
Blade runner 2049 – Land,Architecture,Design,City,Memories
sun, green and space is the slogan of the modern city that CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) proposed as Athens Charter in 1933. The original story is the concept of Le Corbusier’s “Radiant city” / “Ville Radieuse”. There is something that is missing in this slogan. Isozaki Arata points out that it is <Soil>...
Wooden TV stands with mount modern mid century design
Wooden TV stand with mount by zeitgeist Floor Stand Wood is simple yet functional wooden TV stand with mount. Stand made by plywood and has oak wood finish. Design reflects the spirit of mid century modern era design. Simple yet elegant curve on the wood material makes beautiful interior item with quality. Simple construction...
Entertainment center TV stand with modern simple design
Entertainment center TV stands by zeitgeist. zeitgeist’s FSM floor stand Metal is ideal TV stand to place in the center of living room or any room as Entertainment center TV stand. Simple and visually light weighted design features spirit of modern Bauhaus design. “Entertainment center” still exist? Streaming services changes the way of placing...
TV stand with mount in simple and modern design
TV stand with mount featured with simple Mid-century modern design . The design of FSM, Floor Stand Metal, was inspired by the spirit of Mid-century modern design. The era which became the base of current functional furniture design. At the time, more than 100years ago, there was no Flat screen TV. So there was no...
Folk Craft and Modern Design – Visiting the Japanese Folk Craft Museum –
In a quiet residential area of Tokyo Komaba where western-style houses and low-rise apartments are in line, a unique Japanese-style building appears suddenly. It is the Japanese Folk Craft museum which Soetsu Yanagi established. Opposite the main building and the street, there is a West wing of museum which is old Soetsu Yanagi residence. The...
Age of Atom and California Modern Living
Mid-century is also the nuclear era. America and the former Soviet Union escalated the nuclear test one after another from the 1950s to the 1960s. In this era, the horror of invisible nuclear famine was in Californian sunshine. The fear of nuclear weapons in the Cold War will reach its peak with the Cuban crisis...
Eames House and “Powers of Ten”
Eames Case-study house #8 Eames House was built as a case-study house # 8 in Charles & Ray Eames in 1949. It is a collaboration between Charles and friends Eero Saarinen. A case study house is a plan of John Entenza, chief editor of the magazine “Arts & Architecture”. Tied house manufacturers clients to architects,...
