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Mid-Century Modern Freak

Mid-Century Modern Freak
Happy Memorial Day Weekend…Stay Safe! - midcenturymodernfreak Via
Happy Memorial Day Weekend…Stay Safe! - midcenturymodernfreak


Rhythm-A-Ning” | Thelonious Monk Quartet w/ Johnny Griffin | Album: Thelonius In Action (1958) | Recorded at The New York’s Five Spot Cafe


Johnny Griffin (Tenor Sax), Ahmed Abdul-Malik (Bass), Roy Haynes (Drums)





1954 Edris House | Palm Springs, CA Designed by renowned architect E. Stewart Williams for Marjorie & William Edris. - Via
1954 Edris House | Palm Springs, CA





Black Market” | Frank Valdor/Nana Gualdi | Original Soundtrack of the Ernst Hofbauer German romantic crime melodrama film, “Schwarzer Market der Liebe (The Black Market Love)” | Germany (1966)


Two Turntables and a Microphone 1971 Early Portable DJ Console | Vox Discotape Unit - Via
Two Turntables and a Microphone 1971 Early Portable DJ Console | Vox Discotape Unit - Via

The Painter & His Soulmate


(top photo) 1965 Salvador Dalí spending one of many summers with confidante, protégée actress-model-singer Amanda Lear (left) at his home in Portlligat, Girona Province, Catalonia, Spain - Via



The Girls in the Band | Official Trailer


The history of the all-girl bands and the talented female jazz and big band instrumentalists who continue to struggle for recognition in a man’s world.



Sculptured Tables | Philippe Hiquily


Born in 1925 in Montmartre, Philippe Hiquily studied at the Parisian Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in the same class as Gimond-Janniau and César. One of his works, La Bicyclette, was acquired in 1956 by the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 1959, he exhibited in the New York gallery The Contemporaries. He then met the surrealist artists, Max Ernst and Georges Bataille at Ninette Lyon’s. He is celebrated for his work on metal, and began to design pieces of furniture in the 1960s. In the 1980s, he created mobile sculptures propelled by electric motors.


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Moby’s House


Multiplatinum-selling musician and photographer Moby lives in his Hollywood Hills castle, Wolf’s Lair. See more of his incredible home in our previous post. - Via


Is Paul Tuttle a Forgotten Designer?


In the annals of Los Angeles mid-century modernism, Paul Tuttle may not loom nearly as large as Charles Eames and Pierre Koenig, but he should. He created spare but elegant interiors and custom furnishings such as those shown in the 1952 floating glass-box home in Pasadena (2nd photo). (The house was designed by Tuttle’s employer, architect Thornton Ladd.) - David A. Keeps of the Los Angeles Times


Denied entrance to Art Center School in Los Angeles, Tuttle “audited “ a class out of sight of the instructor, Alvin Lustig, a highly respected designer. Tuttle created a model and presented it to the class as if he were enrolled. When Lustig realized he was not, he summarily dismissed him—but he didn’t forget him.


Impressed with Tuttle’s ability, Lustig contacted him within weeks, offering a job in his office. While he was not there long, Tuttle’s lasting friendship with the “pioneer of modern design” was the first of several opportunities that would propel him into the design field.- Jane Ellison of Seasons Magazine



Tamoure Hully Gully (du film “Les Tontons Flingueurs”) | Les Cappuccino | Album: Ultra Kitsch (de luxe) Vol. 1


This Looks Safe c. early 1960s “He Has Turned Her Head” | Photo: Robert Diament | Collection Moscow House of Photography Museum - Via
This Looks Safe

c. early 1960s “He Has Turned Her Head” | Photo: Robert Diament | Collection Moscow House of Photography Museum - Via


Opposites Attract 1965 Hawaiian surfing champion Donald Takayama & towering (she's 6'1
Opposites Attract


1963 Hanging Wall Case with Free Edge | Design: George Nakashima from the Edmund J. Bennett Collection


(pictured) George Nakashima, Doris Harris, and Edmund J. Bennett of Bethesda, Maryland. Edmund J. Bennett acquired the largest Nakashima collection from a single owner in history.


“This collection reflects the best elements of Nakashima’s work, but also the relationship between craftsman and client. Over the course of 30 years, Edmund J. Bennett commissioned Nakashima to create a diverse, all-encompassing collection, from desks, chairs, and daybeds to lamps, mirrors, and wall units. It began with a collaboration between two visionaries and continued with Bennett’s lifelong appreciation of an American master.” - Peter Loughery, Director of Modern Design & Fine Art - Via



Jumpin’ at the Woodside” | Buddy Rich | Album: Buddy Rich in Miami | Recorded at the Dream Bar, Miami Beach, Florida (1957)


Buddy Rich (drums), Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone), Peter Ind (bass), Ronnie Ball (piano)



Mid-Century Modern Cruise Ship


The Dutch cruise liner SS Rotterdam, known as “The Grande Dame” sailed from 1959 and is now preserved as a hotel/museum/tourist attraction and permanently docked in Rotterdam, Netherlands - Via: 1 | 2



The SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen is celebrating their 54th anniversary by celebrating Arne Jacobsen - the master designer of this modernist masterpiece, and the Egg™ and the Swan™ chair - both were created specifically for the hotel.


Rat Pack Interiors 1964 Sammy Davis Jr., May Britt, & son Mark Davis at home.
Rat Pack Interiors 1964 Sammy Davis Jr., May Britt, & son Mark Davis at home.


One O'Clock Jump” | Lester Young & Harry Edison Sextet | Album: Press & Sweets | Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA, November 1, 1955


Harry Edison - Trumpet

Lester Young - Tenor Sax

Oscar Peterson - Piano

Herb Ellis - Guitar

Ray Brown - Bass

Buddy Rich - Drums


1968 PAAM Tube Turntable Stereo Console - Via
1968 PAAM Tube Turntable Stereo Console - Via


Yeh Yeh” | Lambert Hendricks & Bavan


Great vocal version of the Mongo Santamaria instrumental from 1963 and features jazz greats Clark Terry & Coleman Hawkins


Batgirl…Ready for Action! Yvonne Craig portrayed librarian Barbara Gordon, and her alter ego Batgirl, in the third season of the Batman television series (1967–1968). Her Batgirl costume incorporated a long red wig to hide her real avocado-style,...
Batgirl…Ready for Action!

Yvonne Craig portrayed librarian Barbara Gordon, and her alter ego Batgirl, in the third season of the Batman television series (1967–1968). Her Batgirl costume incorporated a long red wig to hide her real avocado-style, black hair. - Via


Long Island Modernism 1963 Murray Gordon House | Architect: Edward Durell Stone | Hewlitt Bay Park, Nassau County, New York Photo: Ezra Stoller - Via
Long Island Modernism

1964 With his trademark tilted horizon, Garry Winogrand’s photograph of two women in front of the Theme Building by architects William Pereira, Paul R. Williams, Charles Luckman, & Welton Becket | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) - Via

1964 With his trademark tilted horizon, Garry Winogrand’s photograph of two women in front of the Theme Building by architects William Pereira, Paul R. Williams, Charles Luckman, & Welton Becket | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) - Via



Hustle & Soul | San Francisco


Song: I Can’t Stand It “76”| James Brown


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