Mid Century Modern

An Eames Primer by Eames Demetrios
If you are in Tulsa, Oklahoma area, be sure to join the Philbrook Museum of Art’s “3rd Thursday” speaker series event on January 21, 2010. This series of 3rd Thursday will be joined by Eames Demetrios, a filmmaker, director of The Eames Office, author of An Eames Primerand a member [...]

Visiting the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was the highlight of my recent New York City trip. I was especially looking forward to seeing an exhibit called “What was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944-56,” a presentation of over 100 objects from the Museum’s design collection. These objects include ordinary household items such as a broom, [...]

There are three upcoming modern tours scheduled in Vancouver area showcasing Vancouver’s significant modernist homes and buildings of the 1940s through 1970s. Vancouver developed an adaptation of the modern aesthetic known as West Coast Regional Style that features post-and-beam construction, stepped flat roofs with clerestory windows, and wide expanses of glass that integrated the house [...]

The Modern Tulsa Committee of the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture will host their annual modern home tour called “Living in HiFi” on June 13, 2009 in the historic Lortondale neighborhood. The Lortondale neighborhood, located between 26th Street and 27th Place (east of South Yale Avenue) in Tulsa, Oklahoma was designed and built in 1954 by [...]

The Denver Modernism Show will feature some of the very best vendors from the Rocky Mountain Region and around the country offering a wide selection of mid century modern, art deco, retro, pop and modernist furnishings, artwork and objects. There will also be manufacturers and companies specializing in newer modernist home accessories, appliances, fabrics, and [...]

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana and the Wabash Valley Trust for Historic Preservation are offering a tour of West Lafayette mid century modern homes on May 30, 2009. The “Back to the Future” tour showcases five houses built between 1955 and 1964 in and near the Happy Hollow subdivision, the area is known for its [...]

The day we had been waiting for finally came. We drove 150 miles to join Oklahoma Modernism Architecture Tour, sponsored by Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) and Modern Wealth Management. The tour was one of the events conducted in conjunction of the exhibit “Julius Shulman: Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered” at the OKCMOA, running from April [...]

Oklahoma City Museum of Art will host an exhibit called “Oklahoma Modernism Rediscovered” featuring legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman. The exhibit, featuring over 65 images of buildings including homes, banks, churches, and hospitals taken by Shulman in Oklahoma, runs from April 30, 2009 through June 7, 2009.
The museum will also host a series of related [...]

On May 2, 2009, Oklahoma City Museum of Art and Modern Wealth Management will sponsor Oklahoma Modernism Architecture Tour featuring five Oklahoma City area modern buildings that Julius Shulman photographed during the years he worked in Oklahoma.
Tour destinations include: St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, State Capital Bank, McConnell Residence, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, and Norman’s [...]

Over 50 national and international furniture and fine arts dealers present design movements of the 20th Century.
When: September 24 – 27, 2009
Where: Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center- San Francisco, California
More Information: visit www.dolphinfairs.com/sanfranciscomodernism/