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Orange Slice Chair by Pierre Paulin. Designed in 1960, Orange Slice is a timeless icon that looks as fresh and inspired today as it did when it was first created. Anyone who sees several Orange Slice chairs together cannot fail to be touched by the playfulness fo the composition.

Body Double. Brigitte Bardot and her double, Maguy, on the set of La Femme et le Pantin in Spain, June 1958. Photo by Loomis Dean.

Khyber Ridge / Studio NminusOne.

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada 2005

Photography: Studio NminusOne

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The mid-century modern set up with the Eames House Bird, the George Nelson Half-Nelson Lamp and the Eye Clock, another design classic by George Nelson.  The George Nelson cabinets are vintage and are no longer in production.

smiling feels good

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Design icons.  Pictured clockwise: George Nelson Eye Clock (1952), Eames House Bird (1950), Bouroullec l’Oiseau (2012).

Stardust loves the mid-century modern photographs by the hand of Julius Shulman. And this is one of our favorites! We love the color compositions from that time: yelow and orange with some blue thrown in. Almost feels like a composition in the manner of ‘De Stijl’ and Piet Mondrian. Nicely done in a way that seems to be difficult to repeat today somehow.

The recreation pavillion at the Mirman House. Designed by Buff, Straub & Hensman Architects in Arcadia, California, 1958. Not sure if this house is still standing right now…sure hope it is!

Image Credits: © J. Paul Getty Trust / Julius Shulman

classic black & white photography

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Irving Penn for Vogue

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Stardust loves Chemosphere.  John Lautner designed the Chemosphere House for Leonard Malin in 1960. Formerly called “the most modern home built in the world” by the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Malin Residence was the stereotypical scientific vision of the future brought to life when it was built by American architect John Lautner in 1960. Built for the client Malin Lautner, a young aircraft engineer, the design of the residence was in fact an engineering challenge due to its location on a forty-five degree slope in an earthquake-prone region. The house, nicknamed the ”Chemosphere” hovers 30 feet over the city of Los Angeles resembling a UFO aircraft. Photograph by Julius Shulman.