Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Wordless Wednesday from Palm Springs

See also:
Cheryl Andrews
Barbara Lambert
Carin Makuz
Allyson Latta
Elizabeth Yeoman

5 comments:

  1. Although we didn't have a pink phone, I do remember a cabinet very much like this one, but there was a stereo in it! Thank you for this healthy dose of nostalgia, Allison!!

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  2. Well now, we HAVE a sideboard almost exactly like this one! And very handy is is, too! And we USED to have a lamp somewhat like the one on top of the sideboard -- only with a white shade from top to bottom ... a variety of what I believe was called a "Noguchi" lamp. We never had a pink phone either, but we did have a lime green plastic "basket" chair and a turquoise blue one to go with it, (those were in an earlier home, a house we rented in Ottawa when our kids were tiny -- and we had "couches" in the same colours made of painted plywood (by Douglas) with wrought-iron legs, and I did paintings for the walls of turquoise and lime green splashes on black cardboard, framed in hardware wooden frames...and we felt very very avant-garde I can tell you.
    Great picture, which clearly brings up memories for us all! Go modernism!!!

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    1. Sounds lovely, Barbara! Did you keep these things? Or are they now for sale in some shop at exorbitant retro prices? (:

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  3. Oh this is fun. Takes me back to an interior decorating book my dad bought from the book of the month club. That's a story in itself. It was all 60's spartan and I've always been attracted to that style but I could never live inside it... my nature is too eclectic and I'd soon have a schmozzle of other things diluting The Look. But I do love this style. Are those ceiling tiles on the walls? And the shag rug. (Shall we all start singing 'Memories' together??) And that painting! And the pink phone. Is this a place you're staying? What a lovely sense of humour someone has. And a brilliant sense of style. And the eye to capture it all!

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  4. Allison, you have such a wonderful eye for composition and juxtaposition of intriguing things (well, I realize they may already have been juxtaposed by somebody else but you placed them flawlessly in the photo.) And the fact that the lights are turned on adds a lot to the charm of the photo too, and the bit of sunshine on the chair. And what everybody else said about 60s modernism. Just perfect! (Though I think in the 60s they might not have put a pink phone into this room, but from our perspective it is what really makes the room, isn't it?)

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