claass HAUS is back for midMOD monday with a G. Milton Small design in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The dramatic U.K. vote last week got me thinking- how is London’s Eero Saarinen-designed U.S. Embassy (1955-1960) faring these days? And just like the election results, this one is a real stunner. It's also today’s midMOD monday.
It’s Memorial Day, and you’re probably sitting by the pool right now (hopefully drinking one of these). So I’ll make this one short.
Call it an architectural wonder or a modern oddity- the Snow Flake Motel is today's midMOD monday. Last week, we celebrated Walter Gropius' birthday with his house in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Coincidentally, Marcel Breuer, another Modernist giant who just so happened to be Gropius’ partner and protégé, is also celebrating a birthday this month. The Hungarian-born, AIA Gold Medal winning, iconic twentieth-century architect was born on this day 115 years ago. So here’s a little Marcel for today's MOD Monday.
Looks like we're back to dreaming about the California coast- Lloyd Wright's Wayfarers Chapel is today's midMOD monday.
Ok, this one isn't technically "midcentury," but if it wasn't for the Lovell Beach House, the MCM we know and love might look a little different. So it's more of a MOD Monday today on claass HAUS.
It's spring here in the Carolinas and that means daffodils, the Easter Bunny, and Pimm's Cups are just around the corner. So in honor of the upcoming holiday or just springtime in general if that better suits you, I'm dedicating this midMOD Monday to all of your favorite design icons in various pastel hues. They are all here- Saarinen, Bertoia, Knoll, Eames- but this time in shades of cotton candy and jelly beans.
Today on midMOD Monday, I bring you a chair. And it's not just any chair. It's the chair that changed a thousand hotel lobbies.
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