1966 Footage of Playboy Bunny Girls and The Playboy Club
Starting at a race meeting attended by Roger Moore, we end up at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club in Mayfair, London where a famous band from the swinging sixties plays out out with a classic tune.
1964 New York World’s Fair Kiosk | IBM & Eames | Flushing Meadow, N.Y.
Designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen Associates, the pavilion created the effect of a covered garden, with all exhibits in the open beneath a grove of 45, 32-feet high, man-made steel trees.
The 54,038 sq. ft. pavilion was divided into six sections: The “Information Machine,” a 90-foot-high main theater with multiple screen projection; pentagon theaters, where puppet-like devices explained the workings of data processing systems; computer applications area; probability machine; scholar’s walk; and a 4,500-square-foot administration building.
The COUNTDOWN is ON…..May 26 on HBO
“Behind the Candelabra” | UK Trailer
The film will be shown in UK select theaters on June 7!
“Likeseat” by L. John Andrew
Resembling a cell undergoing mitosis, the “Likeseat” is sculpted using hundreds of precision welded metal washers. The modern lines pays homage to the classic Diamond Chair. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, artist L. John Andrew is influenced by the great furniture designers including Charles & Ray Eames, Harry Bertoia, Eliel & Eero Saarinen. - Via
1958 Sue Oxley Residence | Architect: Richard Neutra | 2680 Greentree Lane, La Jolla, CA | Photo: Julius Shulman - Via
1959 Whittier Public Library | Architect: William H. Harrison | 7344 S. Washington Ave. Whittier, CA 90602 | Photos: Julius Shulman - Via
TV on a Pole!
1952 The Goodman House | Architect: Richard Neutra | 4225 North Golden Ave., San Bernardino, CA - Via
1961 Casady Residence | Architect: Arthur Decker | 10010 Shadow Road, La Mesa CA 91941 | Photos: Iris Conrad
Arthur Decker went to the University of Southern California, earning a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1947. Many of his buildings can be found in the City of El Cajon, San Diego County, CA. - Via
The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s Desert Retreat (2nd Trailer)
In 1959, a working-class government employee in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To his surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of Neutra’s life. “The Oyler House: Richard Neutra’s Desert Retreat” tells the story of this house, and its stunning desert setting, through interviews with Richard Oyler, actress Kelly Lynch, who currently owns the house, Neutra’s two sons, and well-known LA real estate agent Crosby Doe.
1970s Arteluce-style 3-Arm Floor Lamp - Via
Modern San Diego Retail | Dean Marshall Interiors with ‘1958 Chevrolet Yeoman Four-Door 6-Passenger Station Wagon’ parked in front | In the display window: Architectural Pottery, Vista Furniture, and an enamel by Ellamarie & Jackson Wooley. - Via
A Single Man (2009)
Visual feast of a film. John Lautner’s stunning 1949 Schaffer Residence (in the Whiting Woods area of Glendale, CA) is prominently featured and absolutely captures the beauty of a modernist masterpiece. From Julianne Moore’s period hair and eye makeup, her lavish 1960s Hollywood Regency home interior, to architect Peter J. Holdstock’s 1966 Fine Arts Hall, Ambassador College in Pasadena. Definitely worthy of a second viewing….or third…or fourth…oh yeah, great story and great acting too!
“A SINGLE MAN is based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.” - (iTunes Movie Trailers)
