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...Another feature of the council’s mid-century heyday was its kite-shaped, black-and-white swing tag reading “selected for the DESIGN CENTRE LONDON” to products in its Design Index....
...The filmmaker’s affection for the architecture of his youth, clean and simple mid-century modern design, says Martin, always includes a “kink or a twist” like this....
...As James Kaplan writes in his book about trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane and pianist Bill Evans — three mid-century geniuses — 1959 brought on “jazz’s future with ruthless speed”....
...The school teaches techniques for reupholstery covering both pre- and post-1950 furniture. For furniture predating 1950, 19th-century methods and natural materials are used....
...Luxury custom-made, hand-finished metal furniture and lighting company Novocastrian, based in Newcastle, states proudly on its website: “We are the sons and daughters of the Northern shipbuilders and coal...
...(some of the most memorable of the 20th century, in my view)....
...“Often [a piece] might have been painted in the mid-18th century, and then the fashions changed, and it was redecorated in the 19th century and becomes part of the rich history it has,” says Melville....
...Hidden among the expansive estates of Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades neighbourhood is the mid-century modern pilgrimage site known as Case Study No 8 — or, simply, the Eames House....
...To the untrained eye, it’s nothing more than a deformity, but for furniture makers it’s an untapped treasure....
...Sultan plucked each image from his family’s home movies, an anthology of mid-20th-century leisure preserved on 8mm film....
...TAKT’s mostly solid timber pieces possess the elegant simplicity that has made mid 20th-century Danish furniture a much sought-after commodity, but they are built for future repair, with easily replaceable...
...Pollock cites the evolution of “Japanese Modern” furniture — developed in the mid-20th century by designers such as Isamu Kenmochi — as an example of functional craft that blended Mingei and modern design...
..., with a 40 per cent increase in late-20th-century chunky items by icons such as Afra and Tobia Scarpa or Charlotte Perriand....
...They truly are the masters of rattan furniture, furniture from the second half of the 19th century, Napoleon III-style ceramics and slips. Talmaris is the ultimate address for tableware lovers....
...With marble and dark wood (both sourced in Spain), earthy tones and a mid-century design aesthetic employed throughout, Thompson is where Mad Men meets Madrid....
...Elsewhere, the acid-yellow 19th-century damask pelmets Soames picked up years ago have found a second life as cushion covers with flamboyant tassel trims, while a mid-1800s wool shawl has become a fine gathered...
...In the 20th century, land all across Brazil was given over by the government to promote industrialisation. When my grandfather came from Italy and owned the place, it was used as a coffee plantation....
...Exhibitions are as much storytelling, or theatrical stagings, as furniture shows....
...He launched himself into Italy’s mid-century “economic miracle”, where Milan formed the epicentre of a reinvention of design as both a financial and cultural driver....
...Shells, fossils and tusks sit alongside maquettes, mid-century furniture, stacks of art books, shelves of pottery, as well as fabrics designed by Moore....
...Like Lanoba, many of Mid Century Møbler’s pieces are dispatched from Denmark. The markets in the two countries are drastically different, even though both embrace mid-century pieces....
...This combination interests me very much: whizz by Wearstler’s online gallery and you’re likely to find furniture 3D printed from recycled materials alongside terracotta sculptures produced using centuries-old...
...But that first purchase sparked in her father a life-long interest in antique Ming and Qing furniture, vanity cases, Japanese antiques and 18th-century silver, so much so that every Saturday, “rain, shine...
...The 2024 edition takes over the decorative interiors and wood-panelled Milanese salon of Residenza Vignale, the 20th-century mansion of an Austrian prince....
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