#lester walker

[xoverit]

3-4 Platypus. Philadelphia, PA. Designer: Lester Walker. (1969)

[xoverit]

“Supercube” furniture designed by Lester Walker. (1968)

[overlookpress]

Shalom, readers!  Today marks the last day of Sukkot, the week-long festival during which Jews construct and dwell within a small structure to commemorate their forty years in the desert.  What better way to celebrate and reflect than to delve into the work of Les Walker, author of  Overlook books Tiny Houses, The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses, and Tiny Tiny Houses?  http://goo.gl/Vr20RO

[fortunefeaturesthebrave]

Plywood Rocker-Table, 1970 http://www.retronaut.co/2012/10/turniture-by-lester-walker-1970/

[mikasavela]

A NYC Utopia, 1969

Nowadays, we dont get so much serious suggestions for the future living and cities. In the 1960's, however, it was different. The utopias were somewhat groovy, but also very futuristic. A strong belief in technology guided the urban solutions. Quite surprisingly, mobility was too an important issue.

Here are clippings from a 1969 article in the New York Magazine, a very stylish presentation of a one possible future of New York by (at the time young) architects Graig Hodgetts and Lester Walker. The proposal was built around a high speed transit system called the Landliner, which was meant to become the backbone of the new strip city and "facilitate the easy, luxurious, rapid movements back and forth along the line". The architects at the time felt, it was necessary to try and prevent the "urbicide by slow strangulation - a mortal disease whose symptoms are now most plainly evident in Manhattan".