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Comments Off on The 1966 Swildens Desk
Fancy a new desk and chair at work? Thought so, well, you can either check out our recent IKEA post for something at the, shall we say, less-expensive end of the market or alternatively if you’re feeling a bit flush you could do a lot worse than look at...
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Comments Off on Space-Age Design – Irvine New Town
Unlike most ‘conventional’ British new towns Irvine was already a town in its own right before plans were drawn up to raze large swathes of it to the ground and rebuild it under the stewardship of the Irvine Development Corporation. As is often the case...
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Comments Off on Harry Murphy and Friends
As a design studio in 1970s San Francisco Harry Murphy + Friends were the shining stars of the whole design scene whether it be architectural graphics, corporate identity, large murals or simply domestic interior design. They won over 700 national and...
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Comments Off on Nakagin Capsule Tower – Livin’ Near the Ceiling
We do like our obscure architectural trends here at VoEA and we’ve struck lucky again with this classic example of Japanese Metabolism – a movement that almost represented Japan’s post-war resurgence and was all about radical ideas and change in a...
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Comments Off on London Calling – The Sound of Big Ben
Is there a more potent symbol of London and England than Big Ben? Probably not judging by the number of album covers we’ve managed to dig out using it as a reference for swinging London...
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Comments Off on Golden Homes – Seventies Australian Magazine
G’day folks. Today we’re going walkabout down under and taking a look at how the trendsetters in Oz were decorating their homes back in the early 1970s courtesy of the now sadly defunct Golden Homes magazine. Golden Homes was around during the 1970s and...
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Comments Off on Googie Oogie Oogie
We took a good look at the all-American Googie style of architecture some time back and now, by way of a re-visit, we’ve turned our heads west again and dug out this brief video taking a look at the criminal neglect during the 1980s of America’s defining...
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Comments Off on Taken To The Cleaners – Laundry Adverts and Signage
Like the contents of the average laundry basket, this post is a real assortment as we have rummaged to find pictures from the past and present. Here we take a look at some signs, posters and window stickers from laundrettes and dry cleaners that time...
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Comments Off on The Office – Island Records Headquarters in 1974
The influence that Island Records had in its heyday is considerable by any measure and when you start to look at their roster and the fact that they almost single-handedly introduced the wider world to reggae you begin to wonder whether many other labels have...
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Comments Off on Guy Dessauges – Going Round in Circles
For a long time architect and artist Guy Dessauges had an obsession. Preoccupied as he was by the fact that our predecessors, including the Romans, often lived in semi-cylindrical shaped buildings (caves being a good example) he wanted to take it to the next...
