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    Erica Wilson needlework — from her private collection <3

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    Child’s polio braces … and how they relate to spotless mid...

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    Erica Wilson and Julia Child — Next door neighbors at PBS, super...

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    Kit-Cat Clock turns 80 — a classic collectible still Made in the...

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    Tupperware & Brownie Wise: Amazing documentary about women and pl...

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    Saving the famous 1960 all-Formica Kitchen from the Corbett House R...

    Lagardo Tackett stash containers condom holders

    Lagardo Tackett stash containers — the complete set of eight

    Eva Zeisel, photo courtesy Daniel Wickemeyer

    Eva Zeisel: A comprehensive online guide

    Emily Morrow and retro carpet swatches

    Wall-to-wall carpeting history from the 1950s to today — an excl...

    Pete's 1964 Shasta Astroflyte trailer, restored

    Pete’s 1964 Shasta Astroflyte travel trailer — a gorgeous ...

    Midcentury kitchen history in 4 minutes, with soundtrack: We Didn̵...

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    Royal Barry Wills: Biography and Comprehensive Online Guide

    Homarina - a vacation house set right over the water

    18 midcentury modern vacation homes — including a “Homarin...

    Merry Mamie Eisenhower Christmas

    Merry Mamie (Eisenhower) Christmas 2011

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    Tinselmania: 73 vintage aluminum Christmas trees

    On PBS Monday night: Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the P...

    Hoover Christmas commercials from 1959-62 — “Hoover happin...

    Erica Wilson

    Erica Wilson: Biography and Comprehensive Online Guide

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    Most popular Christmas songs on the radio — Rockin’ Around...

    LaGardo Tackett 1958 egg shaped condom canister "Think"

    LaGardo Tackett — 1958 ‘egghead’ condom holder is ju...

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    Top-10 interior design trends for 2011? Let’s make a list

    gladding mcbean tile at the leo carrillo ranch

    Gladding McBean tiles — sentimental artifacts of Romantic Reviva...

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    100 years of dance and style in 100 seconds

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    Homeland Security Threat Level posters from the U.S. Government Printi...

    Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing no. 20, the 'Religion' issue September/November 1979 Edited by Leonard Koren. Design by April Greiman in collaboration with Jayme Odgers

    Postmodernism and how it influenced 1970s and 1980s interior design &#...

    1970s interior design

    Renovating 1970s houses: The next big thing

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    “California Design, 1930–1965: ‘Living in a Modern Way&#...

    Richard Hamilton Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, 1956

    Pop art and how it started: Richard Hamilton, 1956: Just what is it th...

    20 years of mid century kitchen history — in 24 favorite images

    retro renovation in the new york times - cindy in front of the new york times!

    Taking the road less traveled — makes for Lots Better Stories

    Restoring the Retro House in the New York Times Aug. 18 2011

    We’re in the New York Times today!

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    Mid century designer Beatrice West — and NOS Caloric pink kitche...

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    1940s House — the BBC retro-reality series

    1960s brochure about metal sink rim from vance industries

    A short history of Hudee Rings from the president of Vance Industries....

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    Analyzing details on a perfect, mid century Dutch Colonial — Roy...

    cathy callahan cathy of california

    Vintage Craft Workshop: An interview with Cathy Callahan — Cathy...

    When Harry Met Sally and the topic was wagon wheel coffee tables

    MOMA’s kitchen exhibit: Live tour with curators Juliet Kinchin &...

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    Video: The Wilson House — shrine to mid century laminate

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    The history of laminate countertops

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