Danish Modern Design
Architect Rodney Friedman and his wife, Shirley, sit at their dining room table on "wishbone" chairs by Danish designer Hans Wegner they purchased 45 ye...
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Birth of the Auto Industry
This comprehensive article regarding the birth of automobile transportation has been scanned from October 1923 National Geographic magazine. It is very...
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Modern Design Museums and Auctions
American Craft Museum AmericanCraftMuseum.org
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Modern Furniture and Accessories
Entertainment Center ContemporaryFurniture.com
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Modern Design Stores and Merchants
An archived directory of modern design stores and merchants, preserving the original list of furniture, art, and design retailers.
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Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriter
Marcello Nizzoli’s 1950 Olivetti Lettera 22 combines a low enameled-metal body and compact keyboard in a typewriter designed for portable use.
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Olivetti Valentine portable typewriter
Ettore Sottsass and Perry King’s Olivetti Valentine pairs a red plastic body with a carrying case, bringing 1960s color to portable writing.
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IBM Selectric typewriter
IBM’s Selectric typewriter, introduced in 1961 with industrial design by Eliot Noyes, replaced individual type bars with an interchangeable spherical el...
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Olivetti Lexikon 80 typewriter
The 1948 Olivetti Lexikon 80 by Marcello Nizzoli encloses an office typewriter’s mechanism within a sculpted enameled-aluminum housing.
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Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera
The Polaroid SX-70, introduced in 1972, folds a single-lens-reflex instant camera into a slim package with contrasting metal and leather surfaces.
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Leica M3 rangefinder camera
The Leica M3 of 1954 combines a compact 35 mm camera body, interchangeable lenses, and a unified viewing and rangefinder system.
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Arco floor lamp
The Castiglioni brothers’ 1962 Arco floor lamp carries a domed reflector on a sweeping steel stem balanced by a block of Carrara marble.
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Braun HLD 4 hair dryer
Dieter Rams’s Braun HLD 4 hair dryer of 1970 places its fan and controls inside a compact rounded plastic case offered in bright colors.
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Tizio desk lamp
Richard Sapper’s Tizio lamp, produced by Artemide from 1972, uses counterbalanced arms to position a small light source above a work surface.
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