by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Picture sourced from Schemata Workshop The word “utopia” stems from the Greek ou-topos, meaning “no place”, but at the same time, it also refers to eu-topos, “a good place.” It was first coined by Thomas Moore in 1516, which was used to describe a fictional island...
by Marisa | Feb 11, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
The Sea Ranch. Iconoteca dell’Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “My own way has been to design the outward forms of nature but emphasize the results of the processes of nature…This act of...
by Marisa | Jan 14, 2020 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
Tilting chaise lounge by Charlotte Perriand. Photo via Flickr by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra Born in 1903 in Paris, French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand always believed that better designs create better societies. After her high school teacher noticed her...
by Marisa | Dec 19, 2019 | Architectural Features, Art, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Image via Flickr by James Vaughan World War II was cause for massive changes throughout society — down to the minutia of interior design and home aesthetics. 1945 saw a new generation of veterans with young families working tirelessly to rebuild their lives....
by Marisa | Nov 5, 2019 | Architectural Features, Art, Mid Century Modern
Knoll International poster, 1966. Offset lithograph (1931-2014) LACMA. Stanford Musuem. Photo via Flickr by Massimo Vignelli. The1940’s – A post-war period for architecture that was dominated by men. Fighting the tide was Florence Knoll Schust, a...
by Marisa | Oct 31, 2019 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
Map data ©2023 Google / Bauhaus Building, Dessau “If today’s arts love the machine, technology, and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the...
