Dining in Midcentury Style To provide this cozy breakfast nook its vintage appeal, designer Victoria Kirk of Victoria Kirk Interiors place a trio of classic furniture layouts -- Eero Saarinen's Tulip Table, Charles and Ray Eames' DSW chairs, and Louis Poulson's Pendant Light -- against a cushy upholstered banquette. "The nook provides a place for casual family dining, kids' homework, and arts and crafts," she says. "And all substances, including the wood, paint, upholstery, and fabric are 'green'."
Mix-and-Match Modern You don't need a massive budget or a home full of pedigreed decoration paintings to get a cool, vintage look. Designer Shannon Eddings' house is an ideal case of outside-the-box thinking. Inside her son's room, by way of example, she paired a $300 Midcentury vest using a brand new West Elm chair and carpet, a new double-gourd lamp, and a group of framed prints. The shapes and styles all have a '50s look, although some are straight out of a catalogue. For more inspiration, tour her house, that has been showcased in HGTV Magazine.
Perfect Partners Originally made for a hotel in Copenhagen, the Egg Chair of Arne Jacobsen has dwelt as a design classic and comfy living room feature ever. Here, in rich blue upholstery, the chair repeats the organic lines of Isamu Noguchi's wood and glass coffee table and Frank Gehry's cardboard Wiggle Chair. Design by HMH Architecture Interiors.
Grown-Up Elegance "My clients wanted a rather warm area for grownups (just) that would capture the eastern sun. The children' arts-and-crafts room is adjacent and visible through a pair of glass doors," says designer Adam Gibson of Adam Gibson Design. To provide the adults' retreat a slick, classy look, Gibson grouped a group of Midcentury-inspired furnishings round a minimalist hearth. The stars of the space would be the Wally chairs by Kube, designs according to Marcel Breuer's iconic Wassily chairs; the Amici metal seat by Nuevo; along with the Spencer couch by Gus Modern.
Playing With Color and Form When a former food writer chose to refresh the kitchen in her 1951 house, she switched into kitchen designer Christine Nelson to get help. Nelson helped her client increase the counter area and total efficiency and gave the kitchen the "colorful, updated, Midcentury Modern" look she wanted. "A gray linoleum floor, stacked subway-tile backsplash, and butcher-block counters produce a clean background while orange walls, and avocado-green accents include a burst of Mad Men-era color," says Nelson. Classic period furnishings such as a Saarinen-style Tulip Table and a pendant light based on Werner Panton's Flowerpot design finish the appearance.
Modern, Inside and Outside "The update of a Midcentury home in Carmel, California had numerous objectives, bringing 21st century comfort and LEED-certified energy efficiency to a older home, without increasing the footprint sacrificing its classic appeal," says architect Mary Ann Schicketanz of Studio Schicketanz. Choosing Midcentury furnishings like the classic Bertoia Diamond Lounge Chairs, designed by sculptor Harry Bertoia for Knoll in 1952, helped create a look in keeping with the home's design.
Fantastic Legs Midcentury furnishings are best for smaller rooms. Pieces with simple lines, unadorned surfaces, and slender legs create a sense of space and air in even the tightest quarters, like the bedroom of the studio apartment that was intended, according to designer Chris Nguyen of AnalogDialog, "to showcase the operator's incredible artwork and furniture collection while still keeping the sense of a warm and inviting home rather than that of a museum"
Finest Seat in the House With inspirations as disparate as a British club seat and a British baseball mitt, the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, designed in 1956 by Charles and Ray Eames, has yet become a design classic. The duo creates instant Midcentury Modern cred in almost any setting, but looks particularly right when paired with other period-appropriate elements such as the vertical wood paneling architect Mary Ann Schicketanz defined in the renovation of the Carmel, California home.
Serving Up Vintage Style As part of the entire rehabilitation of a dated kitchen, designer Sarah Richardson produced a cozy breakfast area with the help of some modern classics: a classic chandelier inspired by the Sputnik design designed by scientist Gino Sarfatti in the 1950s and seats very similar to Marcel Breuer's chrome-and-cane Cesca chairs, designed for Knoll in 1928.
Layered Luxury To provide this bedroom a boutique-hotel style, the Toronto Interior Design Group used a rich mix of tone-on-tone fabrics, textures and fabrics, such as an embossed metallic dresser along with a chrome-and-glass side table motivated by Eileen Gray's renowned layout, part of the permanent design collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art. "It's the perfect place to recharge your batteries after a long day," say the designers of the distance.
Personal Choice "Although we incorporated traditional family antiques in areas of this customer's house, she requested her home office be a more accurate reflection of herself, together with Midcentury Modern influences and brightly colored accents," says designer Laurie Woods of Laurie Woods Interiors. The chairs and table are contemporary interpretations of Eero Saarinen classics. The colors and pattern of this custom cowhide rug provide a female twist. The framed picture photograph is by Allison V. Smith, the customer's childhood friend.
Cool Contrast The strong, simple silhouettes of Midcentury Modern designs work well in spaces of each architectural era. Case in point: In designer Anna-Carin McNamara's very own conventional dining space, a pendant fixture inspired by George Nelson's plastic creations for Knoll in the 1950s extends from an ornate plastic ceiling rose, as well as the Cherner and Eames-style shaped plywood and plastic dining chairs live comfortably prior to a set of contemporary French doors.
Creating a Record Designer Jennifer Scott of A Great Chick to Know looked after layer plenty of personality to a young bachelor's newly built condominium. "We started with striking wallpaper to set a darker, more manly disposition within the space; we then found our announcement bits and picked to get custom light with a sense of story. We scoured estate and garage sales for the classic Persian carpet to counterbalance the light wood flooring, and add in a tiny standard glamour with the industrial decoration elements," says Scott. One of those statement bits is a Midcentury gem: Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair, designed for Knoll in 1925.
Living With History Kylie and Ryan Durkin adore Midcentury Modern layout so much, they started a store devoted to the design: Modern Manor in their own hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. And obviously their very own home showcases their favorite aesthetic, from the living area's orange-upholstered Danish Modern armchair to the Sputnik-style ceiling fixture along with the vintage road sign. Take a tour of the remainder of the boomerang-style home.
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