every time i go over to the blog i feel like i am taking a look at the future as every thing seems so futuristic and way out there,
I come back over here and it feels like home with the six or seven players who basicly control this forum
They all know who they are, but that is a good thing since it saves us time from text messaging each other,
Well put LRF
but remember in the late 40's, 50's, and 60's a lot of the stuff we now discuss must have seemed pretty way out there and futuristic. New stuff can be cool also and 40 or 50 years from now people will obssess and dissect minute elements of what will then be refered to as Turn of the century modernism. Personally I love MCM but also adore a lot of the contemporary stuff. One has to keep moving forward, like a shark or we shrivel up and ....
T.V man
i like it too, for some reason i am stuck in the Mid century
I just love that period, I do get the biggest kick, out of seeing chairs and pieces in catalog's and commercials. Do you think the advertising agencies are doing that on purpose cause they know how popular this stuff has gotten, or cause it just looks so damn cool. I like a lot of the new stuff that i see when i travel but for some reason I just always go back to mcm but Florida where you live has always been on the front for cool modern so for you to really love it that is not unusual. for me stuck in the middle of America in Oklahoma it is real hard to see a new modern structure that some Architect has designed, and for that I wish we had some cool looking modern structures
LRF, First off I think ad...
LRF, First off I think ad agencies use a lot of MCM furniture as a form of hip short hand. The juxtaposition of whatever they're selling and an MCM icon like an Eames chair will give their product a certain cache. I think the Dennis Hopper ads in both in print and broadcast form with the red chair for Ameriprise may be nothing more then the fact that Dennis is an avowed modernist, his paintings and the sensibility that comes across in a lot of his interviews bears this out.
He did a great, incredibly minimalist, ad a few years back with Christina Ricci for the GAP. Plus a lot of these ads are aimed at baby boomers who are one of two things (a) a lot of us grew up with this stuff so it's a familar touchstone, and (b.) as baby boomers we have attained a certain level of affluence to be able to collect it. That is of course not to say that all generations don't collect it, but ads for retirement planning and all manner of pharmaceuticals are clearly aimed squarely at baby boomers.
Regarding the modernist Florida you speak of, that is a bit more confined to the East Coast, although we do have some modern structures and there was a whole school of modernist architecture refered to as the Sarasota School, but other then the odd example here and there, the west coast of Florida is largely populated by, how can I say this delicately, ... well lets just say by a lot of people who either still think it's 1952, or a lot of people who wish it were 1952, and I don't mean those who would have been considered cutting edge in 1952 but rather people who in 1952 were still living in 1939.
My wife and I moved here from Santa Monica, CA and quite honestly we oftentimes feel like we may have moved to the dark side of the moon. If we sold our house tomorrow we'd be back in SoCal in a week.
btvm
I hear you !!!!!!! i have no idea why i am here in Oklahoma other than my twin brother and I have a successful oil and gas company, lots of RealEstate, and several business that i own including the Retro Redo shop,
so I guess it is hard for me to complain, but I am not getting any younger and I guess I will be here for the long haul, cause i had my chance to move to Santa Fe or Scottsdale and passed in favor of marring my wife, who had small kids,
at least i did get to buy one of the coolest houses in the city and make it my life project, so it ain't all that bad just a little boring.
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