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Leisurama! The Home of the Future! (And exclamation points!)
By brunoI don't know about you, but my dream has always been to live in a home inspired Nikita Krushchev and Richard Nixon. That's why I was so excited to find out about the Leisurama, a late 1950s-era prefab home inspired by the Krushchev-Nixon kitchen debate.
The homes, which were sold by Macy's beginning in 1963, were sold for around $10,000, and came fully furnished with appliances, fixtures, plates and even toothbrushes. Take that, commies!
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Tracing Design Trends Throughout the 20th Century
By brunoThese days it seems like everyone and their mother (literally) wants to live in a hip urban loft. But it wasn't always so. The American perception of what the ideal home should be goes in phases, shifting subtley all the time. Shirley Teresa Wajda, a historian with a sense of style (her blog is here), helped curate an exhibit at Kent State University that traced the evolution of American home-making trends over the course of the 20th Century.
No Coast Craft-o-Rama
By brunoThis looks very cool: www.nocoastcraft.com
With some great sponsors like Craftzine (from the makers of Makezine), Readymade, and Bust, not to mention a bunch of local independent shops, this is bound to be a cool gathering. I'll post more about it when I learn more.
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