Posts tagged "Moden design"
House longs for a car and a car dreams of a house Le Corbusier ‘s Citroen House <1>
The French court society of the 18th century seemed to have the same interest in furniture as modern people would do in the cars. Since the birth of modernism in the 20th century, cars and homes had strong conscious relationship. Machines for living, houses like cars. Le Corbusier’s Citroen House In 1917, Le Corbusier left...
Delusioning Barcelona Chair
There is a chair that changes the air of the room completely by just placing it. The Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe is such a chair. Innovative structure and form, elegant and cool. This chair,the top of a modern furniture, has a coolness and loneliness that refuses someone to sit. (* Barcelona...
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...
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...
55 60 inch TV stand simple modern cantilever design
55 60 inch TV stand zeitgeist’s creation of simple design TV is outstanding invention. The design is original and unique at first sight yet this is traditional modern design created more than 100 years ago. Stand is designed for 50 55 60 inch TV so that together with 55 60 inch TV, it is well...
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,...
