Joel, great to see you on Unplggd, especially after following your great Blue Ant blog (you Flickr found/posted my Eames House Bird once).

I love your chair collection! I wish I had the space to do a chair display. Who produces the speakers in your living room?

The is *not* your typical mcm home. So creative and unique! Awesome.

love the pieces individually and all put together...its a dream home

I love the art! Here is some mid century modern artwork that would look nice in this space!

http://www.etsy.com/your/listings

I meant....

http://www.etsy.com/shop/focuslineart?ref=seller_info

seriously, do you really need that many chairs and clocks?

Have a seat! I have 100 of them here.

@TacoBell I'm sure he does! I do! i have lots of chairs, its a collection. Congrats!

Those chairs give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Beautiful home.

It's like an episode of Hoarders with rich people. This is less of a home tour and more of a collection of photos documenting all of the expensive things you own....close ups of your iMac and iPad? Overall not a very compelling house tour but the picture will come in handy for your insurance company should anything ever happen to your house.

Wasn't this posted already and recently?

Fun tour, Joel. How much of your colletion is vintage?

I'm most impressed by the clean lines and organization of the home. My own living room needs some major cable management for all the electronics (5.1 surround receiver + subwoofer, PS3, CD player, TV) and this inspires me to do something about it sooner than later.

Which IKEA bed do you have (and is it the twin or the full/queen size one)? How sturdy is the construction? I hear mixed reviews across their line of bed frames.

Can you also share details about your wireless speaker system?

Get 'em while they're young: Love how even the baby's room has prints of MCM to fall asleep/wake up to. ;-)

anybody happen to know the designer of the red doggie? i think that it comes in green too, if i'm not mistaken. i want to get one for my son's room.

Great place, I love your chair collection!

twinkle toes: the puppy stool is by Magis you
can find it here: http://www.unicahome.com/p17653/magis/puppy-by-eero-aarnio-for-magis.html

Wow. Haters stay pressed...

Who cares if he has 100 iPads, the house looks great!

thank you, jfl!! :)

glad that you finally got to meet Joel. i love his blog on modern architecture. wonderful collection of chairs. i bought some of his prints a couple years ago. great work.

Oh my god. I seriously stopped breathing looking at this tour. If there is a design and MCM heaven, your home would be it. The wall of of MCM chairs--I nearly died it was so beautiful. Now I know what my dream home looks like. Thanks so much for sharing!

I love the colors and the combination of textures and materials. The cleanliness of the space and the use of artwork to define spaces is very inspiring. The use of plants is beautiful as well.

I don't care for the fact that everything is new; is there anything vintage in this space at all?

Oh, and the photos of the television and the pc? What on earth was the photographer thinking?

You have a beautiful home and I don't mean to be critical, but the fact that just about everything is new somewhat spoils it for me. When I think of "collecting" it means something entirely different than walking into the nearest DWR and saying "I'll take one of each."

Did the Unplggd tour feature a dance-off between the chairs?

Great place! A chair collection and a clock collection and a pile of Apples is not excessive; at least with the clocks they aren't all over the floor or being inconvenient, and chairs are cooler and more functional than some of the nonsense other ppl hoard, and the place is otherwise pretty uncluttered.

Yawn. This is a "look at all the toys I have post."

My dream home! I loved the deck and your chair collection. Wonderful home!

Great job in bringing your personality out so strongly! There is something unexpected at every turn.

I wish he had done something more compelling with the chairs rather than simply lining them up along one of the walls. (He has all that space... why not use it...) It just felt like a DWR showroom.

I don't get the Apple hardware "line up" either... :) ... Maybe because he has something to do with Unplggd, I don't know...

Overall, I like the layout, it's inviting and clean but it lacks some je ne sais quoi...

This is an attractive place with an impressive amount of cool things, but it looks more like a sales floor than a home. It's just missing price tags.

Love the clocks and chairs! I have a clock obsession myself, but your collection puts mine to shame!

Also, does anyone know where to get these speakers? Or does anyone know where I can find the stands? I could probably build my own enclosures. Love them!

letsrebuild... my sentiments exactly. is this supposed to inspire me? ive been to an apple store and a dwr.

Love it, esp the closet and bathroom. You are totally fanning the flames of the DWR/Apple haters!

So as I understand Joel is a graphic designer. Does anybody know where I can see his GD work? Thank you...

If you read the info above, the tour is a tech tour for Unplggd to showcase all of his tech gear! Love it! And since when is a "collection" specifically vintage? Does every house tour need to "inspire" us? I enjoy gawking at all of them. If I am inspired I am inspired. A collection is just that.. a collection. Could be a collection of anything! *:O)

Typical designoid fodder. Wheres the actual design? All I see is endless boring ass receipts from DWR and Highbrow posing all over the house as furniture. Nice subway sign (if its real).

dude, your chair collection is nothing if you don't have a barcelona :) sell your similar ones and get more unique pieces. and don't just line them up along the wall (unless there is always a dance ball in your house haha

I think you've done a nice job with what you collect, but I don't see many things that are "you" as much as I see things that are "Apple" or "Eames," etc etc.

Beautiful place ... is it located in South Beach?

WEIRD--I have seen a photo of this clock wall before. There was an ebay seller who made great, cheap MCM knock-offs and that photo was his profile pic. The profile was closed about 6 months ago, but it was the name "guysshopalot."

I have no idea what the connection is there (not suggestion there is a connection, btw), but I was very surprised to have seen that wall of clocks before!

Bravo...!! Beautiful photo tour of an amazing home with great design that just flows throughout. Wonderful eye candy for us aspiring home designers.

I like it. If I had not known that this was a gadget-focused home tour, I would have said it was a bit pretentious...but it's not...so it's a great tour.

Must be nice to have money, though...and not have to live in an apartment and provide therapy.

9 train?

I love the the Eames chairs at the dining table, but aren't they a bit too low, compared with the Bertoia chairs? This is an honest question, as I consider one of them for our own dining table.

It just goes to show that one can have the money, buy the right pieces, and still end up with a terrible looking home. One is even inclined to wonder about the character of the owner...

Hello! the chairs lined up (after shooting them in their proper places) on the wall are just to showcase the collection for that particular photo!

I like the art work, esp. at photo 31 and 33. Do I understand correctly, is it made by you? Do you sell it? Where?

So many haters here . . . Why?

And for all the people commenting on the space, note that we are looking at a place that's less than 1000 square feet for a family of 3. Not extravagant by any means.

"One is even inclined to wonder about the character of the owner..."

:-) Haha Pol, that's parody, right? Parody of all the snark going on and assumptions based on nothing whatsoever other than the critics' own prejudices?

MCM is not my thing but I think this is very well done for that aesthetic. I also find it a comfortable space, unlike some that can be cold. And for me, a collection of tech items, or chairs, that provide function as well as form for the owner, is preferable to a space that is so littered with random stuff that I feel claustrophobic just looking at the photos.

I also appreciate the original artwork in the space, done by the homeowner, giving this place an individuality that reflects the individual who did them.

By the way, props to the photographer for the birds eye view image reflected in the mirror and the bird sitting on top. That tripped me out for awhile. :-) Also, I love what I can see of that huge black and white painting in the main living area. Is there some place to see the complete piece?

What a great space! You have come up with a good layout for all your furniture. It looks like everything was placed strategically causing no clutter. My favorite things are the segmented plywood wall with the clocks and the artwork throughout; specially the pieces in the girl’s room. The shelving and cabinet doors in the closet are great solutions to keep the mess away. I envy your chair and table collection.

Big props to Joel for sharing his place with us. Does he have a lot of chairs? Yes, of course, but that's exactly the point. He loves and collects them.

It's definitely not something that you walk into a DWR and drop $20k and walk out with a collection. It took him years to amass, all the while learning and appreciating them for what they are.

Nice to see a fellow Miamian's home! Thanks Joel. Did you shoot the house tour photos?

-kellen

love the screenprints ! not sure what to think of the 'chair collection' - each to his own i suppose

One of my favorite houses! I love the color variety, the design choices, and the mid century art Joel displayed across his house. Very tasteful and carefully designed especially for a family home. Love it!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks FloMidCentury, appreciate the good comments! The pics were taken by me, and the chairs are never displayed like that, that was just for the photo! :)