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Posts tagged “midcentury”

Tile Vault: Candies and Cigarettes 60's Square Tile

What: Tiles on the side of a building Where: Main Street in Santa Monica When: Sunday Morning, a late breakfast. Why: We've often admired this old candy, cigarette and cigar distributor building whi...

House Tour: Steve's Beach Bungalow and Garden Retreat
Los Angeles

Name: Steve Prestemon Location: Venice, CA Size: 1340 sq/ft house on a 5000 sq/ft lot Years lived in: Owned for 6 years >> Enter Slideshow When Steve bought his Venice bungalow six years ago, he kne...

LA Store: Xcape Long Beach
Los Angeles

This weekend, we're planning to visit the Rosebowl Flea Market. One of the booths we'll visit belongs to Long Beach store Xcape. Full of fabulous mid-century finds, it was one of the resources used ...

Scavenger: Scandinavian MID CENTURY Modern CHAIR for $250
Los Angeles

If you're in the market for a chair, this Scandinavian chair is a pretty nice option that would fit right in with any mid-century modern home. The wood frame is good shape, and the blue tonal patterne...

House Tour: Eric and Christine's Spacious Pad
Los Angeles

Name: Eric and Christine Location:Silver Lake, CA Size: 1900 square feet My/Our style: Modern/Contemporary >>...

LA House Tour: Elise & Darren Modernist Sensibility

Name: Elise & Darren Location: San Diego, CA Size: 1550 sq. ft. Years lived in: 4 years (3, really, since we moved out during construction) >> Enter Slideshow >> View All Thumbnails For this we...

The MidCentury Art of Kelly Reemtsen

MidCentury might very well be a trend in other parts of the country, but here in California it's just one of our own classic design motifs that has an everlasting appeal to many of our residents, whet...

Balboa Highlands: A Joseph Eichler Community

We forgot to post these images of the jaw-dropping, blast from the past Eichler community we wandered about in after finishing one of our recent house tours in Granada Hills. The Balboa Highlands was ...

Where Can I Get That Couch?

Quite a few of you inquired about the seating shown yesterday in the photo with Maxwell working from ATLA headquarters (aka, my apartment). The L-shaped set is the Modernica Case Study Bed with the ch...

MidCentury Maven's Hancock Park Home

Does the MidCentury digs above look familiar? You might recognize it from the film Running With Scissors. Or if you're really real estate aware, you'd know it belongs to Star magazine gossip columnist...

LA House Tour: Cindy and Harvey's Eichler Original

Name: Cindy and Harvey Location: Granada Hills, CA Size: 2500 sf Years lived in: Own, 9 months >> Enter Slideshow In the northern most part of Granada Hills, in an area where time seemingly forgot,...