Mid-Century Modern on the Playground

Articles

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  Playgrounds Worth A Trip

  In honor of our family themed July/August issue, we've invited guest writer Paige Johnson, who spearheads the blog Playscapes, to share her perspective on some of the most innovative contemporary…

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  BIG & Parkour in "My Playground"

  I just came across the trailer for My Playground, a most unusual documentary about architecture by director Kaspar Astrup Schröder. In it the Danish parkour crew Team JiYo sprints and vaults…

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  How to Build a Natural Playscape

  In honor of our family themed July/August issue, we've invited guest writer Paige Johnson, who spearheads the blog Playscapes, to share her perspective on some of the most innovative contemporary…

Products

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  Uno Mod

  Uno's been around since the early 1970s, and the simple card game never seems to lose its appeal. The classic design just got a graphic update with the recently released Uno Mod, which comes in a…

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  Handcrafted Modern: At Home with Mid-century Designers

  An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated…

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  Classic Century

Dwell Collections

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  Mid-Century Finds

  Los Angeles–based furniture dealer and mid-century scholar Sam Kaufman shares the design lore behind some of his most recent acquisitions.

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  Mid-Century Finds from Sam Kaufman

  Los Angeles–based mid-century modern specialist Sam Kaufman shares a few favorite items from his current inventory of "unusual modernist objects from the last century".

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  Mid-Century Modern from Sam Kaufman

  Mid-century modern specialist Sam Kaufman presents some of his favorite artworks and furnishings that are currently for sale inside his intimate gallery space in Los Angeles. Here he explains the…

Tips

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  Sourcing Mid-Century Finds on eBay

  Bill Backus: I spent months online looking for the right pieces. It was fun sourcing the furniture myself. We visited several different antique stores in Manhattan that carry mid-century modern…

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  Tiny Modernists Need Tiny Furniture

  It’s really important to have furniture that is scaled to children-size. Definitely get tables and chairs that fit the kids.

Video

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  The Future of Play

  For an article on the future of playground design, appearing in the December/January 2009 "Future" issue, artists Mike Perry and Jim Stoten not only collaborated on the illustration that…

Events

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  It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod City

  Join the Los Angeles Conservancy and its Modern Committee as they explore 1960s non-residential gems in the South Bay area of Greater Los Angeles. This special one-time-only tour will highlight…

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  Masters of Mid-Century California Modernism: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman

  The exhibition will offer an overview of the Ackermans' 50-year collaborative partnership, focusing on their work in decorative art and design, and their contribution to California mid-century…

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  Modernist Set Design in Mid-Centery Cinema

  This three-part series, inspired by the museum's exhibition Masters of Mid-Century Modernism—Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, will present three films that encapsulate the era of 1950s and '60s…