#40s design

[krumpkin]

Chevrolet AK Series Pickup Truck ( 1946 ) 😊

[stone-cold-groove]

California Arts & Architecture magazine - May 1943.

[of-fear-and-love]

Noguchi table, designed by Isamu Noguchi and first sold in 1947, as seen in Boomerang (1992)

[burntpink]

Capas da Rio Magazine das décadas de 1940 e 1950 fonte: Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional

[the-mid-centurion]

Zippo Windproof Lighter – George G. Blaisdell (1941)

Originally designed in 1935, the Zippo lighter has had very few design updates over the decades. Aside from special editions this simple, elegant classic didn’t need to change. Zippo offer a lifetime guarantee which is still so rare. I wish more companies paid attention to durable design and sustainability.

Image source: GearDisciple, Zippo

[sdiwh]

Josef Frank ’Plan de Paris à vol d'oiseau’

[radicallyretro]

Raymond Scott album, Columbia 1947

Cover art by Robert M. Jones 

📸 by William Creswell aka crackdog via flickr 

[husoghjem]

John Lautner, Schaffer House, 1949. (x)

The Schaffer residence in Los angeles is one of many famous houses by architect John Lautner, since it featured in Tom Ford’s film debut A Single Man in 2009, in which it is the home of George Falconer (played by Colin Firth). The Schaffer House in Glendale, California, was built in 1949, and was the first house Lautner designed after leaving Frank Lloyd Wright. 

With its strong horizontal lines and open character, it is iconic for the Mid-century Modern movement that was influenced by Lautner’s mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Although the house is not as glamorous as his later projects, the design of the small two-bedroom house is clearly distinguishable by Lautner’s warm modernism. (x)