Showing posts with label 70's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 70's. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

High School

Bong Contest

Taped to a pole in my high school cafeteria, 1976.
(via my older brother)





Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Heavy Metal 1977-81

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From Ebay.
AAAAA+++++!

Related: Bowie at the Beeb:







Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Boing Boing




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Awesome cantilevered hangout with springy net seats from Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin's seminal 1978
industrial style & design opus, High Tech. 
Which, if I had to choose only two design books to have in a library,
would be one of them. 

Mezzanine into the woods made by Michael Jantzen (of Illinois, who has very lucky kids).
click to enlarge.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Collagical

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Collage, signed "RC '76" from a yard sale.






Thursday, September 23, 2010

Take R.I.T

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Selections from Rochester Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1974, 76, and 78.
(in no particular order)







Saturday, September 4, 2010

Birthday, 1975

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September 4th, 1975. Green Arrow, Superfriends, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Snoopy. Breakfast was probably Quangaroos or Freakies and in all hopefulness dinner was a Libbyland and a Friendly Fribble.



Friday, September 3, 2010

Bjorn Wiinblad's Hus

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From "Guide to Copenhagen, May 1973" brought back by my grandparents. Unfortunately the didn't bring back any Bjorn Wiinblad.



Monday, August 16, 2010

Enter the Dragon

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Osborne & Little's fantastic "Chinese Dragon" wallpaper, designed by Antony Little c.1968.
From a Bondian fashion layout in Oui magazine, 1975.



Sunday, August 1, 2010

Lift up your feet and put them on the groundthe grass was greener then, when we were young.....

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A few random spreads from the brilliant new book 70s Style & Design by Dominic Lutyens and Kirsty Hislop.

This is a mind-blowing book and easily the best 70's resource book you'll ever see. Imagine Caterine Milinaire and Carol Troy's Cheap Chic (1975) mixed with Charlotte and Peter Friel's 70's Decorative Art (2000) and how they would make sense together. The research is extraordinary, and the scope is radically extensive.
It's also nice to read a book that doesn't just reduce the 70's to kitsch, but really shows you how amazing it was.






Saturday, June 19, 2010

Valley Guy





Living Treasure of California ceramicist Stan Bitters making a cameo in his friends' Joyce Aiken and Jean Ray Laury's 1977 classic, "The Total Tote Bag Book", which, along with their "Handmade Rugs from Practically Anything", and "Creating Body Coverings", complete the must-have holy trinity of 70's craft books (with Alexandra Jacopetti's "Native Funk & Flash" and Peter Beagle's "American Denim" coming in close behind.

* Google mapping that address adds a healthy dose of 70's California Valley provenance.



Sunday, March 14, 2010

Knitted Landscapes

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Two fantastic projects- the picture sweater and landscape rug- from the 1978 British book
The Needleworker's Constant Companion.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Vintage Gregory Backpack

25 cents at a church sale. 
Nice removable fannypack (not allowed- Linda)/ bike bag. 
Made in San Diego, 1978

Monday, December 28, 2009

Flea & Easy

Miscellaneous things we found at yard sales, mostly last summer. 
Nothing was over a couple dollars.