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Objects, spaces and visual culture worth remembering.

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I loved when technology used to let you see inside.
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THE DESIGNER Marcel Breuer THE DESIGN Wassily Chair, 1925
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The Clear Tech era, my longest-lasting and very missed obsession.
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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Catalan Modernism (Art Nouveau) holds a very special place in my heart.
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Giovanni Pintori for Olivetti, 1937–1967.
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I could spend hours looking at Olivetti posters and their beautiful design. I don't think I've ever seen one I didn't love. Selected Olivetti Vintage ads.
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Imagine making a typewriter so beautiful it ends up in museums. Olivetti Valentine Sottsass & King, 1968.
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A few more Japanese vintage lottery tickets I couldn’t stop looking at. Same irresistible charm!
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Behold, the unexpected beauty of vintage Japanese lottery tickets. Absolutely charming! Circa 1960's.
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You’d think this was science fiction. It’s an actual restroom in Zhejiang, China.
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The warmth of wood-paneled walls deserves a comeback.
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Plastic fantastic, especially in orange. Europhon H 10 Designed by Adriano Rampoldi, 1968.
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Playtime is a masterpiece! Severance production designer Jeremy Hindle has cited Jacques Tati's 1967 film as a key reference for the visual world of Lumon. The symmetry, the simplicity, the absurdity. The parallels here are loose but the atmosphere and satire remain similar.
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Four sculptural ceiling lamps by Verner Panton. I've always found them mesmerizing.
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The quiet confidence of good design. Dieter Rams for Braun.
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Lightness framed in chrome, my favorite pairing.
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A legacy in covers, and a defining visual voice at The New Yorker. Ilonka Karasz designed more than 180 covers for the magazine between 1925 and 1973. Ilonka Karasz Artist and multidisciplinary Designer
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Could you imagine walking into a store with green marble floors, Murano glass lamps and a 23-meter sculptural relief? Olivetti did! This Fifth Avenue showroom in New York glamorously embodied the company's vision of design culture. Olivetti NY Costantino Nivola & BBPR, 1954.
Forms Archive@formsarchiveAug 20
We've all heard that Olivetti stores were the Apple Stores of their era. But my favorite part is how they built a beautifully coherent brand identity while treating each location as a unique design project Each store became an opportunity for a different architectural response.
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Slightly obsessed with German Brick Expressionism. Hoechst Administration Building Arch. Peter Behrens, 1924.
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This was the softer, more poetic side of the Space Age. Murano glass lamps Carlo Nason, 1960s.
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See this level of reverence? Designed as part of a network of 29 Olivetti stores across Spain. Each space refined a simple idea: make the typewriter the only thing competing for attention. Olivetti Shop, Badalona Federico Correa & Alfonso Milá, 1969.
Forms Archive@formsarchiveAug 20
We've all heard that Olivetti stores were the Apple Stores of their era. But my favorite part is how they built a beautifully coherent brand identity while treating each location as a unique design project Each store became an opportunity for a different architectural response.
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