This week, London’s Rocket Gallery is launching a collection of nine pieces from the mid-century master Jens Risom. We talked to Jonathan Stephenson of Rocket and Risom himself about their collaboration.
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Above: Desi is a new brand of contemporary carpets that are quite at home in mid-century modern interiors. Pictured: Tent Rocks. I haven’t really written about rugs and flooring on the...
“ three seater. ”, recently submitted to our photo group by sfgirlbybay Victoria Smith (AKA SFGirlByBay ) noticed, as I have, that laundromats often have the coolest chairs. It's almost like there was a laundromat renovation fad in the ’60s — each shop updating their seating in the modern style of the day in an effort to keep up with the competition.
It’s a small, low chair, made of a single piece of bent plywood with dowel legs. eBay seller mix-mod sold this one for $500 in Nov. 2005 and others have seen that price in local stores. ... Woman who answered was kind enough to walk the floor with this photo and found a 48yr employee who said she remembers this design being discontinued around the time she started in 1958.
When I was in Berlin this May I stumbled upon a very pleasant cluster of courtyards called Hackesche Höfe. The neighborhood of cafés, boutique shops, and ivy-wrapped garden apartments is...
The July issue of Monocle features two articles illustrated by Gaku Nakagawa. No bio available yet, and his own site is in Japanese which I am regretfully unable to translate,...
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