#1950s architecture

[ed13d1]

sunday morning

[modernistdelights]

Walking away from the Bournemouth Echo building, we were distracted by Bristol & West House, a 1958 art deco building. Originally it must've been offices + retail, with the upper floors being converted to become the plainest apartments imaginable in 2015. Externally it's a very fine building, however.

[introspect-la]

CASA DAS CANOAS BY OSCAR NIEMEYER (1952)

[chalkskyline]

Santa Monica Library, California, January 2024

[vintagehomecollection]

In this view, the dining room is to the left of the living room; beyond the reflecting pool to the right is the master bedroom.

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[germanpostwarmodern]

Miller House (1953-57) in Columbus, IN, USA, by Eero Saarinen. Photo by Balthazar Korab.

[humanoidhistory]

American shopping mall interiors.

[insignificantinstincts]

retro glass block

[atomic-chronoscaph]

1950s and 1960s Motel Postcards

[kafkasapartment]

Terrazze del Duomo, Aranciata La Vaticana, Milano, anni, 1950. Ottavio Cisventi. Gelatin silver.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Guggenheim Museum at night, 1959.

Photo: Evelyn Hofer via the Condé Nast Store

[miamaimania]

"House of Tomorrow" (1957, Monsanto Pavilion) ⟲ 1950s blueprinting 1986

[sovietpostcards]

"Studio in the Lake Senezh House of Art" by Aleksey Shishkin (1950s)

[vintage-ukraine]

Kyiv, 1950s

[vintagehomecollection]

The attractive, modern breezeway dining room combines maximum comfort with weather resistant furniture which can be taken outdoors.

Ladies’ Home Journal Book of Interior Decoration, 1959

[germanpostwarmodern]

Apartment Building (1957) in Massagno, Switzerland, by Giampiero Mina