Mid Mod Pam on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: dining room, living room
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 [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: dining room, living room
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 [...]
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 Mar 03 2008 | Filed under: decoration
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
