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Classic Tony Duquette Design: Works from 1949-1972

I've been intrigued by the work of Tony Duquette since getting the (very lucky!) opportunity to visit his home in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. Last year, Baker, Knapp & Tubbs came out with a line of...

The Meaning of Modern
NPR's All Things Considered

Guilty as charged. I've mixed and misused the term "modern" as much as the next guy in my posts on Apartment Therapy. I couldn't help but feel a little bit sheepish as I listened last week to NPR's ...

The Most Common Artwork

Lately, it may seem the Keep Calm poster is the most common artwork in people's homes. But there's one other piece we've spotted so often, across many ages, locations, and eras......

Panton Chairs as Desk Chairs

Last December, Apartment Therapy Boston bloggers Wes and Kayla suggested that the Panton chair just might be the "perfect desk chair". We liked the look with their Blu Dot desk and "bookmarked" it as ...

50s, 60s, & 70s Roomsets from McGuire

We've always liked McGuire's laid-back aesthetic, and their use of natural materials with high-end craftsmanship. Checking out some of their old catalog photos, we realized it's a look that goes bac...

Beautiful Bomb Shelters — Wait What?
Good Magazine

The man pictured above, sitting comfortably in his odd yet, homey living room is Charlie Hull. He, along with many others in the US have fully functional and prepared bomb shelters—wait what?...

Milo Baughman
Designer Dossier

Designer: Milo Baughman, 1923 - 2003 From: United States - Born in Kansas, Moved to Long Beach, California as a baby Milo Baughman is one of our favorite 20th century furniture designers. His work is...

10 Historic American Writers' Homes

We analyze a lot of homes for decorating ideas, but we're just as interested in getting a sense of the person who lives (or, in the case of these historic homes, lived) there. All 10 of the houses s...

Design Time Machine: The 1965 IKEA Catalog

Sara, of ikke tikke theo recently posted photos of a really fun find that she got from her mom, an IKEA catalog from 1965. She writes that her parents like......

New Home Vocabulary

There are words that have developed around the home that just didn't exist a few short decades ago. Whether related to home tech ("WiFi"), cleaning ("antibacterial"), or sustainability ("recycling ...

The Most Famous Hotel Room in the World?

We recently heard about what may be one of the most famous hotel rooms in the world - at least to lovers of modernism. Located in the "first designer hotel" it is......

Perfectly Faded Elegance: A Victorian Maisonette in London

Gorgeous plasterwork, unbelievably soaring ceilings, furnishings that look like they have a history and a few glitzy details combine into one prime example of faded elegance, British-style. And the fa...

Design Classic Gallery: Zebra Rugs & Carpet

A zebra patterned carpet is by no means a conservative choice, but it is a fairly traditional way to signify "wild" since it's been a decor staple for a looooong time. It would most likely be possible...

Doors, Gates, and Grates in Greece

Like Maxwell on his recent trip to Italy, I too captured many images of doors (and gates and grates) while on my recent escape to Greece. In any new place, these types of details really stand out as p...

Goodbye to Pierre Paulin

We heard the sad news that the French furniture designer Pierre Paulin passed away this week at the age of 81. We found out from the staff at the Chicago Ligne Roset store, when we were in the shop t...

Snapshots of Your Childhood Home

click thumbnails for larger picsAs a family of movers, I had a few different childhood homes. But the one we lived in the longest sat on a hill in Boonville, Missouri near a water tower. Since moving...

Too Cool: Frank Lloyd Wright Lego!

Lego lovers and architecture lovers have a lot in common, in fact, many of the people we know and love are card-carrying members of both of those groups. We were so happy to hear from the kind folks a...

Wisconsin Cabin Revival
Chicago Home + Garden

This amazing small Wisconsin cottage featured in Chicago Home + Garden is steeped in history and sincere care about restoration. The one-bedroom tourist cabin from the 1920s has been brought back to l...

Good Quotes: Carl Sandburg
Small Homes

"The green bug sleeps in the white lily ear. The red bug sleeps in the white magnolia. Shiny wings, you are choosers of colors. You have taken your summer bungalows wisely." ...

19th Century Stick Spatter Designs

click thumbnails for larger picsIs "stick spatter" new to anyone else?? Although we may have seen the style, we never knew the name. This 19th century technique used on ceramic dishware and tabletop ...

Time LIFE Dream Houses

the home's classic, cozy shingled entry on the magazine's 1994 cover "LIFE Magazine believed that too many people, as noted architect Robert A. M. Stern has said, 'buy the house they hate the least'...

Famous TV Interiors in Miniature

click thumbnails for larger picsReady for a trip down video memory lane? A friend sent us a link to these fun and memory-inducing photos of miniature TV sets created by "On The Set". The set above is...

The Commons: Historic Photo Archives on Flickr

click thumbnails for larger pics Did you know that the Library of Congress has a Flickr account? The Smithsonian too, not to mention the photo archives from the Library of Virginia and the George Eas...

Martha's Craft of the Day: Family-Tree Fan Chart

Does anyone keep tabs on Martha's crafts of the day? We've looked over a few of the possibilities in the past, many of which seem like things we'd never do (most are geared at the most enthusiastic of...

1960s DIY: That Girl

These stills from That Girl's pilot episode tell so much about Ann Marie's independence, interest in DIY, decor and style, and creating an apartment/home from scratch in 1960s New York City. We found ...

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