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Recently in our Cinematic post we looked at various vintage movie theatres worldwide, this time we’re focusing on one – The Ambassador cinema in Dublin, Ireland. These photos of the cinema from the seventies and eighties display the artistic...
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Comments Off on Metro Transportation Area Southern California – Station to Station
The following images have all been culled from the Flickr group ‘Metro Transportation Library and Archive’, and are all proposed construction drawings for new stations and their surroundings. The metro area in question is Southern California, in...
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Comments Off on Cinematic – Movie Theatres and Cinemas
Time to get your popcorn ready as we take a look at some cinemas from the past and worldwide – from Israel (Above) to Sunset Boulevard, California in 1966. The pictures are mainly of postcards, and show a mixture of styles- from Brutalist...
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Comments Off on The Home Book by Terence Conran – 1982
Although the Home book by English designer Terence Conran was published in 1982, a lot of the designs, colours and the Osmonds posters were still reflecting the flamboyant style of seventies. Amongst the pages are giant beds, space age looking sofas,...
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Comments Off on Peter Womersley – Modernist Architect
Born in Yorkshire in June 1923, the young Charles Peter Womersley soon took a keen interest in architecture. However his grammar school headmaster persuaded him to study law at Cambridge just in case, which he did, only after serving in the Army during the...
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Comments Off on Design from Scandinavia Magazine
Publisher Kirsten Bjerregaard launched the annual magazine Design from Denmark in 1967. Bjerregaard’s publishing house said that her ambition was to produce a ‘design exhibition in the form of a book’. 50,000 copies of the magazine were...
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Comments Off on 1973 Bloomingdale’s Book of Home Decorating
While digging around the internet looking for information on this 1973 book, we found out that the author Barbara D’Arcy had recently passed away on May 10th 2012. The New York Times described her as an “Interior Design Guru” and “an...
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Comments Off on Bolwoningen – Globe Housing
Here at VoEA we like a bit of groovy architecture as we’ve demonstrated previously with our features on the Futuro House , the Kunstoffhaus and of course the legendary Pierre Cardin’s Bubble House. Now we travel to the flatlands of Holland to take a look...
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Comments Off on Wish You Were Here – Restaurant Postcards
So how do you make sure your customers don’t forget their delicious meal? With postcards of your fine eatery to go of course. Back in the day, cafes and restaurants produced a postcard of their establishments to publicise themselves and their wares and...
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Comments Off on The Ultimate Bachelor Pad – James Bond House
He was the man who designed the Googie café that started a whole architectural trend in 1950s USA but John Lautner was an architect who during his lifetime was not fully appreciated by the wider architectural community and it was only after his death in...
