Oddly, the first is the only...
Oddly, the first is the only designer piece cover I currently have in my collection. Wegner's Peacock chair
The second, I thought might be suitable for this thread....the Bauhaus. Always liked the icon, but not so appreciative of the band's liberal use of it.
Thank you all. Some great...
Thank you all. Some great examples here. The first got me reading about Ahmad Jamal and his influence on Miles Davis. Have to give him a listen.
WoofWoof: Your first pic doesn't show. What album is that?
Oh, I did find another example in my collection today: "The Swingin's Mutual" by The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson, featuring the DAX by Charles & Ray Eames, 1950 (Image 1). This cover is particularly interesting: On it, George Shearing holds a copy of the album "Something Wonderful" by Nancy Wilson on the Marshmallow Sofa by George Nelson, 1956 (Image 2). I just discovered this, actually.
Edit: DAX, not DKX.
Gustaf, really neat thread....
Gustaf, really neat thread. Enjoyed the covers immensely. The album covers I seem to remember had zippers or somesuch on them, and there was one I just now recalled vaguely with boobs and honey.
Not to Palinize this post, but I googled Nancy Wilson and found she - in addition to making over 70 albums - was involved and awarded for her participation/role on issues of civil rights during the 60s in the United States, and cited this as her greatest achievement.
She also made some sweet album covers, back before the cd and youtube, when they were still making albums, and noboby I knew could see Russia from their house.
Nancy Wilson was soooooooooo hot and smart....
to go along with a good set of pipes.
I remember seeing that album cover at my friend's house. She bought a Cadillac from him. It was Nancy Wilson that made me think: a) being named Wilson did not have to be boring; and b) that I was heterosexual. I wanted everything about her from the time I was in 4th grade. She was one of the gifted unfortunates that rock and roll wrecked. There were so many. Timing is everything. Rock and roll eclipsed the Great American Popular music of the 20th Century. It ended the saloon singer. It forced Sinatra to become a caricature of himself. It marginalized Nancy Wilson. I grew up on rock and loved it, but when I moved to San Francisco to work in 1978 you could still find few piano bars in the old hotels. The lounge singer in a real city was one of the great artistic wonders of all time. It was beautiful and stylish and cool and they could ALL swing. It was so terrible to see lounge singing descend into Vegas style lounge lizard crap. My mom and dad in Kansas City spent their Saturday nights listening to Billie Holiday live, albeit with needle tracks on her arms. I spent mine listening to wax and going to basketball arenas and then stadiums to see no talent douche bags banging on guitars. I loved some of the rock and roll more than anything, but man did it coarsen America and take away all of the intimacy when piano bars and lounge singers disappeared as a vital art form. Sorry to be nostalgic for a time I barely got to see even a sliver of, but man when you listen to those Sinatra albums with Nelson Riddle in the late 50s and early sixties this was some of the greatest stuff ever put down in tracks. It wasn't as great as symphonic music, but at the same time it was democratic and nothing to be ashamed of in terms of craftsmanship. Even the good rock and roll was just phenomenally coarse. Coarse and soulful is good till you discover how good it can feel to have some style and dignity. Nancy Wilson had style and dignity and swing and I wanted her more than I ever wanted a rock and roll diva.
Sinatra cover with a functionalist background...
Know there isn't any classic modern furniture here, but I had to put this in, because Koen and I have been having a little dialogue about Renzo Piano resuscitating functionalism. This is Frank with what seem old enough to be functionalist era buildings in the back ground. 🙂
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