Mid-century Online Blog
Exploring iconic mid-century designers & timeless mid-century modern designs.Plycraft, Goldman and the Cherner Chair
Researching mid-century modern design often turns up intriguing stories that read like the greatest noir mysteries. In its heyday, bathed in cigarette smoke, Mad Men-esque office politics and liquid lunch-fueled moments of creative genius, it was also an arena of...
Timeless: The clocks of George Nelson and the Howard Miller Clock Company
George Nelson, one of the godfathers of American Modernism and a designer of some of the most iconic mid-century furniture, also put his name to an intriguing series of wall and table clocks for the Howard Miller Clock Company. With the help of his studio, George...
Hollywood and Mid Century Design: An Enduring Love Affair
Hollywood and Mid Century Design: An Enduring Love Affair I recently overheard mid century furniture being referred to as “Brown Furniture”. They possibly weren't au fait with Milo Baughman's beautiful chrome framed loungers, Arne Jacobsen's iconic Egg Chair, Pierre...