Tag Archive '50s dining room'

Retro dining room: Scalloped-edge table with unusual upholstered chairs

This vintage dining room set is up on Last Day ebay - but I love it so much I have the feature it down here for posterity. I’m hammering away at this issue right now: Mix up your decor! This set is so eclectic - the color, the scalloped table edge, the upholstered chairs with [...]

50s design: 1952 living-dining room with great details

Continuing the theme of the week, another great interior to scrutinize and learn from.

This 1952 living room dining room comes courtesy the interior designers at Armstrong Flooring. To be sure, this company had a massive influence via their advertising in establishing the postwar look. Seems like they were among the first to figure out that [...]

50s living room: A wonderful modern interior with the perfect colonial touch

I feel like I’ve been very focused on kitchens and bathrooms the past several months, so for the next several weeks I will be trying to spotlight a greater selection of 40s 50s and 60s living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms.

Let’s start with this amazing living room dining room from 1952. The color combination [...]

50s retro equals Colonial, Provincial, Capes and Split Levels — too

One of my pet peeves is that decorating pundits always seem to associate 50s with only modern…atomic. In fact, colonial was wicked hot and even French provincial was extremely popular. It’s not that I don’t love atomic — I do. It’s just that, well — it didn’t rule. Those of us with Capes and [...]

Retro dining room furniture - 1959 Heywood Wakefield Danish Modern Contessa line

This Danish Modern take from Heywood Wakefield is beautiful, don’t you think? Again, the company is so well known for its iconic blonde furniture, we forget they were a full-line manufacturer. This ad for their new, 1959 Contessa line says there are 45 pieces in all, including for the bedroom.
A pretty vignette, altogether — and [...]