GOLDEN EYE ESTATE

Inspiration for a home

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Architect’s Home

1950s Oscar Niemeyer at his Das Canoas Family Home in Canoas (built in 1951), São Conrado Neighborhood – inside the Tijuca’s Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - Via

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Inspiration: Oscar Niemeyer, Casa Das Canoas, 1951-53, Rio De Janeiro. Sculpture By Alfredo Ceschiatti.

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Athos Bulcão mural of the Brasilia Palace Hotel

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Grete Jalk’s apartment in Skodsborg, Denmark. 1960s. Photography by Keld Helmer-Petersen. Via kunstbib.dk. 

The first picture shows her Eames inspired plywood design from 1963, the GJ Chair or “She and He chair”, made in collaboration with Poul Jeppesen. Although it won the first prize of a competition, it never went into industrial production – eventually Lange launched it in 2008.

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Black Widow (1948) mobile sculpture by Alexander Calder at the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lounge chairs by Grete Jalk (model PJ 56/1, Denmark 1956). / BBC

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Lanaras weekend house by Architect Nicos Valsamakis 1961-63#mid century, #architecture, #MCM, #modern, #design, #modernism

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pendant, Alano Edzerza (Tahltan)

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MAIJA ISOLA, Attika, continuous fabric pattern, 1959. Material silkscreen printed cotton manufactured by Marimekko Oy, Finland. / Finnstyle

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“Lions et Sphinx” Gustave Wertheimer, (Austrian, 1847-1904).

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Brockhaus and Efron - 1890-1907 - via Wikimedia (edited)

Lewis E. Aubury - The copper resources of California - 1905 - via Internet Archive

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Alexander Girard, Poster for the Exhibition of African Fabrics 1974, © Museum of International Folk Art – Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Playing card for Branniff Airlines (c.1968) – Alexander Girard

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alexander girard  plates.

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