Here's a wonderful MCM home, and by California standards, an inexpensive one to boot.

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Okay, folks, happy new year, and now back to business with a good one!

This is a great photospread. Can you imagine yourself living here?

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Here's an appealing slide show featuring a bi-coastal architect who furnished a pair of city homes in full-tilt mid-century modern style, in San Francisco and New York. Click the pic to view the show.

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Eichler Homes

For every Eichler owner who has no idea what they are living in, and redoes the interior in 19th century New England cottage, there is an owner who knows exactly what he has, how luckyhe is, and isn't shy about saying so, loudly and often.

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George Nelson: Medalists: Inspiration: AIGA



An excellent bio, with pics, of George Nelson, one of the giants of mid-century design. The pics lean toward Nelson's graphic arts work, especially his fabric design.

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Kaufmann House - Richard Neutra - Christie’s - Architecture - New York Times

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Oct. 30 — The Kaufmann House, a 1946 glass, steel and stone landmark built on the edge of this desert town by the architect Richard Neutra, has twice been at the vanguard of new movements in architecture — helping to shape postwar Modernism and later, as a result of a painstaking restoration in the mid-1990s, spurring a revived interest in mid-20th-century homes.

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The Mid-Century Modernist: Mid-Century Modern and Rustic Can Get Along Just Fine




What a great photospread!

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Charlton Modern, Estate of the Day - Luxist

We've already done a little bit on this one, but here is a much larger photospread. As for all the snarky comments, as near as I can figure, they're coming from folks who claim to like MCM, but don't actually like MCM.

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In San Francisco, where I live, this would cost you a minimum of seven figures - or more, depending on the location. You can have this one, though - and a 20 minute drive time (if I recall correctly) to the Chicago Loop - for $213,000. Click the image for more. It's being handled by Joe Kunkel of Jetset Modern, a fave of this blog. Tell him Bill Quick sent you.

 

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Modern resurrection is a wonderful tale of how a ruined mid-century husk was rescued and re-imagined for the 21st century. Be sure and check out the full photo spread, including some spectacular interior shots, by clicking on the picture.

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Henningsen, Saarinen, Jacobsen....

I found the four Jacobsen Series Seven chairs (complete with a tattered piece of a Fritz Hansen label on the underside of one seat) at a sidewalk sale in the Castro, painted flat-mud brown by, apparently, somebody using a toothbrush to smear on the paint. Sixty bucks and some elbow grease later....

Which brings up another nice thing about MCM furniture: There's quite a bit of it still around, and there are quite a few people who regard it as junk. That won't always be the case, so enjoy it - and take advantage of it - while you can.

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A while earlier, I posted that I really wanted a Sarfatti Triennale lamp. Well, here's another great photospread from Jet Set Modern which includes several pics of the lamp in a furnished interior: This is a Keck & Keck home, so don't miss the architectural details!

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Charles and Ray Eames lived what they expounded - in particular, in Case Study House #8, the Eames' personal dwelling for much of their lives. Click the link or on this great pic for a comprehensive look at the home of MCM's greatest designer-duo from the Library of Congress. 

UPDATE:  Here is the official Eames Office site, maintained by the Eames family: Eames Gallery. The family still owns and uses the house, but permits interior tours on one day a year only. Check here for further details.

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Philip Johnson's Glass House (click for another photospread):

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (click the pic for a very nice photospread):

Yes, there do seem to be more than a few similarities, don't there? It's because there are. As one commenter here
notes:

According to the tour guide for the Farnsworth house, van de Rohe gave the plans to Johnson prior to building his own house, and Johnson used the plans to build his version.

I think in the end that you have to give pride of place to Mies van der Rohe. As Johnson himself said:

“I pointed out to him (Mies) that it (a glass house) was impossible because you had to have rooms, and that meant solid walls up against the glass, which ruined the whole point. Mies said, ‘I think it can be done.’”

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Here's another photospread from Jetset Modern I like a lot:

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If you've never seen Philp Johnson's iconic Glass House, one of the greatest triumphs of modern residential architecture, check out Michael Moran's Photo Spread of the house, interior and exterior, in all seasons.

Truly an amazing place - and Johnson lived in it until his death.

UPDATE: via Ed Driscoll, a fascinating video look at Johnson and his famous house. By the way, Ed makes the excellent point that the Glass House owes a hell of a lot to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. He's right, and I'll be taking a look at that groundbreaker later on, as well.

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