enjoy seeing older books and magazines with all the fashion of the day, these interesting interiors, accesories, and decor. Sometimes I wonder, "How did they possibly think this looked good?" But then again, they had some pretty good ideas that are actually coming around again.
These times were always geared towards the future, hence the advent of the spectacular starburst clock (which I collect these and have several!), sometimes called the 'atomic clock' and 'rocket' shaped lamps and cars with tailfins. Why don't they make cars with tailfins anymore? Those are so cool.
It's hard to believe so many years have passed since the fifties, and so much , from styles of just about everything, clothes, hair, cars, even furniture ,has changed, just like it will continue to
in the future.
I like to settle down with my paints and just make stuff up, like some sort of 'psuedo' interior designer. I offer them here.
From old family photos (which luckily survived Katrina on a top shelf!) from the 50's and 60's, houses were very strange (to me!) and were always very open, but not in a light, airy way. The walls always seemed to be very deviod of anything, except maybe a couple of those little odd pictures that always seemed too small to see. Anything in the way of 'art' was some sort of cardboard print textured to look like brushstrokes.Everything was in weird greens and yellows, or covered in some hideous wallpaper.