Mid Mod Pam on Mar 08 2008 | Filed under: Reader homes, furniture, living room
Femme 1 sends us our item of the day - coincidentally, from reader Ronn Ives’ shop, Futures Antiques. Femme1 says:
I’ve just been looking online at some of the older furniture sites I used to check. You might like this sofa. This is a great site–Futures– and the guy who runs it has been around a [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Feb 26 2008 | Filed under: decoration, living room
I find it fascinating that primitive horse themes were so popular in the 50s and 60s. Why? To be sure, there was a sense of internationalism about modern interiors. Did these horse motifs evolve from Spain…or the prehistoric cave painting in Lascaux, France (at left) - as this 1959 interior (above) seems to clearly reference? [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Feb 19 2008 | Filed under: attic & basement, dining room, living room
I’ve been holding off for a while on posting this incredible 1966 wood paneling, thinking I could find some today-sources for this stylish material. Click the images to enlarge and see the wonderful decorative detail. Alas, nothing on the internet. Does anyone have any other ideas…sources?
It’s so interesting - that this was so popular…then so [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: exterior design, living room
I love my home and everything in it. But when I saw this house. OMG. This is what they call a “storybook ranch.” I suppose, for all the bric-a-brac trim… the mimicking of a Hansel and Gretel cottage. You think we are trying to relive the past with our kitsch? We have nothing on these [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 24 2008 | Filed under: living room, paint colors
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The smokey gray walls of the living room in a recent post on Chinese Ancestor paintings really struck me as gorgeous — and not something you’d really see a lot of today. The illustration above is from vintage materials - also really beautiful. It would be so easy to put this [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 17 2008 | Filed under: attic & basement, furniture, living room
It’s nice to see that furniture manufacturers are bringing back sofas and chairs that have more traditional scale and lines like those in the 1954 Simmons ad above and in the thumbnail.
By scale, I mean, not over-sized, like most of the sofas on the market today that are made for new construction home interiors. Today’s [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 12 2008 | Filed under: attic & basement, bedroom, flooring, living room
With so much focus these days on hardwood, tile, cork and here, of course - VCT - flooring, it’s easy to forget that in postwar homes, carpet was very desirable.
In our 1951 colonial-ranch, the long step-down living room had (1975-era) carpet, with plywood underneath. Okay, we tore it out and replaced it with beautiful Berkshires [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: attic & basement, ebay, furniture, living room
Beautiful sofa and chair! These are new. But our good friend Palm Springs Stephan says that he bought his reproduction set from this furniture-maker upholsterer in metro Los Angeles - and that they are great pieces.
“He is located in a little shop down in Hollywood, and he specializes in reproduction mid century modern upholstered [...]
