Archive: 2009 June

28.06.09

Mid-Century Modern Ranch Dollhouse (“Magnetic Doll House” by Child Guidance)

One of our favorite sellers, momoderne, is opening the bids at $125, or buy it now for $135. It’s not entirely my flavor of modern (the drapes and bedroom furniture are remnants of 50s americana) but there are many modern details such as the walls of glass, the built-in woodwork and room divider, the fireplace, and the pedestal chairs.

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12.06.09

Ib Geertsen, 1919–2009

Ib Geertsen is the grand old man of Danish abstraction, but was little known in the UK until he was championed by London's Rocket Gallery in a recent group show with other Danes associated with an abstract movement known as Konkrete. ... He trained as a gardener rather than an artist, but came to prominence as a painter in the 1950s with other Konkrete artists, and pursued with them a distinctive hard-edged, geometric abstract language which arguably pre-dated comparable developments in America.

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08.06.09

Panasonic Radio Clock from the 1960s

“ Panasonic Radness! ”, recently submitted to our photo group by caco-wixtle

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06.06.09

Mid-Century Fiberglass

“ more fiberglass ”, recently submitted to our photo group by strictly_phals

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