I hope someone enjoys looking/drooling over the furniture in some of these photos. I have copied 14 old photos from my family album for you, and cropped/enhanced as best I could. I can only show 3 photos in each thread, so there will be 5 threads. The first group show the exterior design of the modern ranch my folks built in 1951 in Glenview IL. In the first photo, my mom welcomes you on my (her daughter) little tour of our homes. Enjoy (& try to ignore those of us blocking your view of the wonderful furniture!) The later threads show rooms/furniture in our circa 1930's house in CT that we moved to in 1956. Each photo has a caption & description. I still have some of the pieces shown in them!
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Mid-century furniture - photos 2 of 5
Oops - my descriptions for each photo don't appear unfortunately!
The 1st one here shows a wonderful chair I recall well! I have color stereo slides of it - the pattern is oranges, browns & black on off-white. If anyone knows how to convert stereo slides to photographs, let me know.
2nd photo - the gong is an antique & I have it in my possession now, but wanted you to see the wonderful ottoman to the left. Wish I had it now! Circa late 50's, early 60's Greenwich, CT.
3rd photo - 1950's couch, mfr unknown. Redwood chair is one of a pair & most uncomfortable chair ever sat on. I have the prints hanging in my house now, but wish I had the couch!
Mid-century furniture - photos 3 of 5 threads
All photos circa 1950's or early 60's. Greenwich CT.
1st photo: Red leather pigskin trunk. Trunk now lives in my home, but again - I wish I had the couch in the background. Isn't it gorgeous! (I also have the brass censer bowl.)
2nd photo: Photo circa 1958. Nelson slat bench - we had 2 of these - one had an orange-red leather cushion on half of it. I wish you could see the magazine rack to the left of the couch. It was fantastic & I have a fabulous stereo photo of it that was taken in our Glenview house. I am trying to recall just which room this is in our CT house - it could be the opposite wall of the living room with the brown couch - or it's the downstairs living room before couch was replaced with rattan furniture suite.
3rd photo below: I can't recall when this loveseat entered the living room scene, but there were matching fabric pillows on the brown couch. (I inherited the copper/silver horn lamp, the antique money chest & buddah, and that antique black cabinet in the background - none of which are mid-century but somehow "worked" well in the house!)
Mid-century furniture - thread 4 of 5
1st photo: Zebra chair! Don't know year of this photo. That's my mom's hairdresser, Gary - isn't he gorgeous - in his NYC apt where mom went to have her hair done! Circa late 50's early to mid 60's. Someone can probably date photo by chair.
photo 2: This photo is for the fabulous pattern on the curtain! I believe other items in the room matched this fabric but I have no pictures. This was our downstairs living room. Too bad you can't see the black leather fireplace surround my mom is sitting on. It was u-shaped, about 10 feet long & on a metal base. My dad said this leather piece was missing when they moved into the house in 1956 & my mom went hysterical as she thought it came with the house. The former owners promptly returned it.. (Mom always got what she wanted!)
photo 3: The Bar! Circa 1956-67. I played my Shirley Temple record "On The Good Ship, Lollipop" over & over on that record player you can barely make out on the left. Note the awesome white leather stools & the orange leather stool/ottoman in front of the tall window. The walls were granite stone and the floor was black granite
Mid-century furniture - thread 5 of 5
photo 1: I so wish I had this table! I would love to know the mfr of this table. I think my mom once said it was Duncan Phyfe. Can anyone confirm for me? The chairs were plum colored. I have the Hong Kong harbor oil painting. It was commissioned by a local artist to tie in with the asian antiques my dad inherited. (I found the original receipt for the painting in my mom's Aalto secretary desk that I posted elsewhere on this forum)
photo 2: Our mid-century living room in CT, circa 1957. Note the orange leather chair and the Aalto secretary desk on the left. Nelson slat bench in front of the white chairs. Oh to have all this furniture again! I DO have the Aalto desk however, so lucky me...
Here's a GREAT ONE...
of our place that the original owners who commissioned the house had taken. They had some awesome pieces from the period.
http://gallery.mac.com/matt.d.bell#100226/L1110603_2&bgcolor=black
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