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The Eames Lounge Chair Replica Is Still The Best Chair From Manhattan Home Design
It’s been a while since we wrote a piece about the Eames Lounge chair replica, but we want to bring back one of the best-selling chairs from Manhattan Home Design’s catalog.
3 Ways to Properly Turn Your Apartment Into A Mid-century Modern Abode
Filling up your first private space with furniture is always a challenge and a reward on itself. It allows you to express your own style, putting your soul into the walls, floors, and ceiling.
The Unabridged History of Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Table and Chairs Collection
Elegant, simple, timeless. Eero Saarinen made a promise to clean up “the slum of legs” in the common middle-class home in America. Shying away from his work with the Eames couple, who greatly favored four-leg configurations and star-shaped aluminum bases, he embarked on a journey to discover a new way of looking at dining room …
7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Isamu Noguchi, Creator of The Noguchi Table
The Noguchi table is right up there in the top five articles from the early mid-century modern period. We like to believe it is one of those items that has become even more famous than its designer, or equally as famous.
The Docomomo Awards Honor Eero Saarinen, The Mastermind Behind the Tulip Table
The image above is a courtesy of the National Park Service on Flickr. Mid-century modernism is different from other styles of furniture in the fact that it pertains to a particular period of time. That period, according to some people, starts around the mid-1930s and ends somewhere around 1965. Other people consider mid-century modernism to …
The Value of Good Design: MoMA’s Trip Down the Mid-Century Modern Memory Lane
The above photograph credits belong to Allie Caulfield. Found on Flickr. There’s a not-so-new exhibition making the rounds at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We found out about it through an article on The Detroit News: it is just a small, easy-to-miss, showing of furniture and industrial design, which appropriately greets all …
Hakone Honbako: Japan’s Gorgeous Mid-Century Modern Library Hotel
The featured photo was taken from their official website. There’s a new hotel in the Kanagawa prefecture, just a short trip from Tokyo in the center of Japan, that is looking to offer travelers a fresh perspective in hospitality. Christened Hakone Honbako (which roughly translates to ‘Hakone Bookshelf’), its walls are covered floor-to-ceiling in thousands …
Manhattan Home Design’s Guide to Colors: Yellows
Yellow is not the most beloved color in the world, but it isn’t the most loathed color either. You won’t ever see it on a plane though, as yellow is known to cause feelings of nausea and dizziness when the tone is too bright. However, you’ve seen yellow in houses, and people just don’t go …