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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Picking Through the Morgue: Racquet Club Drive, Palm Springs - One of the Ultimate Mid Century Style Guides

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  Any art student, industrial or interior designer worth their weight in salt will tell you that a morgue is an extremely useful to...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Andersen Beauty-Line Windows - A Mid-Century Icon.

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Andersen Beauty-Line windows are a true mid-century architectural icon. These windows were/are ubiquitous in all sorts of mid-century buildi...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

An Adrian Pearsall Sofa? In Minot? $40? (And, Eventually, How to Reupholster a Sofa)

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I found this couch on the Minot Varagesale website last night. Every so often (like once a week), I scour the online classifieds (Craigslist...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

An Intimate Biography of Paul McCobb and My Take on the Planner Group

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I used to be spoiled. I used to live in a location where I had four amazing Craigslist divisions - Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, San...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Let's Play... Name. That. COUCH!

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I picked up this couch on Craigslist in the Inland Empire about 5 or 6 years ago for maybe $25 bucks. I saw the ad, wrote them an email, tol...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Focus on Mid Century Lighting: Dazor, and the Model 2004 UFO Desk Lamp

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Dazor began producing lighting products in the years before WWII drew the US into war. In 1938 Harry Dazey and Albert Perbal formed Dazor to...
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Proposed Changes to the Front Elevation of our Atomic Ranch

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I like to tinker. I like to build stuff. I've been doing some pretty major renovations to the ranch. Well, in cyberspace anyway. I saw...