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Eames living room moves to LACMA for design exhibition
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October 12, 2011
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Emma
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is exploring California’s role in shaping the material culture of the United States. Over 300 objects will be on display from the worlds of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and …
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Yukari Sweeney Design’s Eames-inspired Cushion #9
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October 4, 2011
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Emma
So we’ve been giving Yukari Sweeney Design a lot of attention lately, but I hope you’ll agree, it’s well deserved. They’ve just released a new product influenced by the Eames Case Study House #9 which I just had to tell …
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J is for… Arne Jacobsen (1902 – 1971)
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October 2, 2011
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Emma
Arne Jacobsen is one of Russell’s favourite designers, and this post follows on nicely from Alvar Aalto in our designers series, because Jacobsen, like Aalto, advocated design as a total work of art – Gesamtkunstwerk, or to quote Ernesto Rogers, …
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Yukari Sweeney Design Collaboration
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September 18, 2011
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Emma
Where can you find print featuring cowboys, manor houses, koi carp, horses, birds and flowers, covering a range of items from walls to people and anything in between? Yukari Sweeney Design, of course! Yukari Sweeney are a surface design company …
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Knoll Textiles 1945 – 2010
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September 14, 2011
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Emma
Edited by Earl Martin. Essays by Paul Makovsky, Bobbye Tigerman, Angela Völker and Susan Ward Yale University Press (2011) I’ve been thinking a lot about upholstery recently, and how it’s a key consideration for any Mid Century Modern devotee – …
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A is for… Alvar Aalto (1898 – 1976)
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August 18, 2011
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Emma
Put an iconic piece of modernist furniture in front of me, and though I’ll admire it, I can’t always identify the designer or tell you its history. I’m still navigating my way through the icons of the Mid Century Modern …
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Savoy vase
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Come and say “Hello” on Flickr…
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August 8, 2011
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Emma
We’ve had a Flickr profile for a few months now, so I ought to tell you what we’re doing on there. Our modest aims: To share photographs of Mid Century and Modernist-inspired design. To find inspiration amongst the photographs posted …
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Vintage Marketplace at Vintage by Hemingway at Southbank
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July 25, 2011
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Emma
It’s only four days to go until the event of 2011. It has to be Vintage by Hemingway at Southbank. We’ll be watching the festivities from our stand at the Vintage Marketplace, and as it’s the 60th anniversary of the …
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