I hate to say it
but you might check out the "Madmen" series, as the show has evolved through that very same time frame.
The late sixties still had some nice biomorphic chairs (Morgue?) Nelson Meridian ceramic clocks, and good graphic op art and some psychedelic imagery.
But the seventies quickly descended into beaded doorways, macrame plant holders, and pieces that shared photographed wood with real wood. It was not a pretty sight. Hippy real estate agents with plaid pants and white shoes, and hair.
Hippy meets cheap crap.
There must be some good hippy furniture. Espenet was one good hippy furniture designer who lived on the coast in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, and made one of a kind beautiful wood pieces. He was more a sculptor posing as a furniture maker. Beautiful work. Dark wood. There were some cool little Hobbit houses designed in the 70s out near the coast at that time too.
Generalizations all. A bit buzzed.
glassartist,
Good to know that beautiful reductive design was still alive and well in the 70's.
It seemed that America had precious little going on then.
It's funny, but clean-lined reductive design and the Summer of Love just don't seem to go together. I think of musty crusty Victorian houses in San Francisco, with bowls of schrooms on the coffee table. Lots of hanging fabric from the ceilings. And beads.
(I do still have my sony "Dream Machine" clock radio cube from 1971 though)
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Do you mean best (some very good German work) or most exemplary? Are these middle class hip types? What is the exact year? You might find some little object that is indicative, like an old NYT with something about Watergate or Vietnam on the front would work as long as its not gratuitous, something more subtle? Macrame bikinis and Pappasan chairs.
I'm buzzed too
Everyone seems to remember...
Everyone seems to remember the tacky junk but what were the movers and shakers doing.
Well a 30 piece De Sede DS600 sofa for starters from 1970.
That will need a round swivelling coffee table with illuminated bar by Willy Rizzo.1967-1970
Maybe a pair of Douglas Chairs by Jacques Charpentier.1967-1970
How about a Pierre Cardin sideboard or lamp although I personally prefer the big guns with a Paul Evans Wave front cabinet or credenza.
A bit of fibreglass will be needed with a Molar chair by Wendell Castle from 1969.
Or for polyurethane a giant Pratone meadow by Gufram 1971.You sit or kinda fall in it but it's very cool.
Maybe a 70s Raak D-2080 Zodiac floor lamp in the corner and definitely some big plants somewhere.
A Paco Rabanne Space Curtain from 70s?
Most important of all though is a big fat chequebook.hehe
Thanks!
Starline, you are the best! Those are all phenomenal suggestions.
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Iconic designs vs. best designs
THAT is the question. Two entirely different things.
If you want authenticity, then I would go with the crap interiors. (At least if the show is set in America)
Even the rich Hippys were rejecting their parents wealth. Or at least pretending to. That was the whole point.
They wouldn't have been caught dead sitting around in high end environments, unless the setting was a rich parent's house. More likely a commune in a muddy barn.
But I could see throwing in one funky molar chair amongst the crap, just for the vibe.
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