Welcome to Mid-Century Photo Friday – if you’ve never found it before, this is a great time to join!
My post is a follow up to last week’s post about a $7600 3 bedroom house featured in this 1958 issue of Women’s Day – and here (drum-roll please) is the interior:
I adore the chairs and the [...]

The first time I heard about Witco was on a discussion on a Mid-Century Facebook group about Tiki art, the name that kept coming up was Witco, with a link to this post on a Tiki Fan board:
My name is Burke Hovde (aka…The Witco Kid on www.tikicentral.com). I’m the son of Ron Hovde, one of [...]

I love this because about 15 years ago I heard one designer refer to this as “spin art” decorating (all the furniture goes along the walls). In a 50′s house tho, I’ve found this to be a much better way of decorating.
From the 1950′s Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Binder.

Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Mad Men is set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative series follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell.   The series also depicts [...]

I was thinking about renovating this morning – mainly because we’re at a lull on projects until we have some money drop in our lap! But I was looking at some real estate ads in Palm Springs (pretty much the mid-century capital) and one mentioned that the kitchen had been “ruined” in an [...]

This post over at Apartment Therapy (and all the great comments in the comments section) has a fabulous list of Scandanavian Designers.

How many can you name?

Lisa Hix at Collectors Weekly was nice enough to point out this awesome article (I hope some of you will attend the show and send back a full report!):
Kem Weber: The Mid-Century Modern Designer Who Paved the Way for IKEA
By Ben Marks and Lisa Hix
When most people think of Mid-Century Modern, they conjure [...]

I read a LOT of blogs – maybe too many – ha ha! I also have Google alerts set up for all my favorite search terms and that’s how I ran across this article on Hollywood Regency Style:
Rhan. Vintage Modern, picked up some awesome chairs and does a lovely definition of the Hollywood Regency style [...]

The popularity of 1950s and ’60s furnishings has sparked a sharp rise in prices and a drop in inventory, says Victoria couple

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/century+mania/4015342/story.html#ixzz19hoOzCTL

We have had an insane summer – crazy busy. we’ve moved and taken all of our mid-century finds into a 1970′s home in the burbs. We still own and love our 50′s house, but we’re loaning it to someone else for a while!
In settling in tho we have more room (hooray) and so [...]