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I've always wanted a "Heifetz style" or "Frederick Weinberg style' sculptural lamp.

 

Though not marked, the base alone is like 13 x 9.....it's huge!

Though I like the shade, I think I'm going to update it with a simpler coffee or dark gray silk shade?

It is SO cool!

From the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

Written on back in manuscript:

Will be 4 to 6 stories below ground -

36 above -

11 million

now 17 million

 

[Building opened in 1954.]

I love this lamp! And oddly enough it's by MOE Lighting, famous for their wonderful 'honeycomb' pulldown lamps. Who knew they made floor lamps? I'm guessing this is mid-fifties, so it would predate the later famous fixtures.

(I'm now cutting myself off....no more floor lamps!) :)

Laurids Lonborg fish-shaped rosewood crumb sweeper & tray, Denmark c. 1960

We needed the perfect nightstand for our bedroom, and we found it yesterday!

Pretty sure it's a headboard, if not, it works.

Open and airy.

 

From the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

More kitchen remodel. Turquoise laminate, not so easy to find these days. Cabinets are a stained solid alder.

From Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

From Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

Design by R. Donald Jaye and rendering by Humen Tan.

5200 block of West Jackson Blvd., Chicago

► Taylor, Smith & Taylor for Sears' Harmony House, Del Ray, 1960. Unmarked

  

House & Home 1954

 

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It's all designer-y. Actually, the fabric on the two lounge chairs is nifty.

 

From the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

Detail of an advertisement for Reynolds Aluminum "Compositions in vertical planes - Hauserman movable walls of Reynolds Aluminum" in Progressive Architecture July 1958. NA1 .P7 v39 pt 3 June 1958.

From Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement. Got to give props to the total commitment to the look, even if it stretches the "good decorating" title.

Self portrait with my Plymouth at the awesome De Luxe Cleaners in Modesto, CA

 

Print made my me in the color darkroom.

By Evelyn Ackerman for ERA Industries.

"Total environment....constructed for flexible living....boldly styled".

 

From the Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.

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