Posted 10 months ago
ho2cultcha
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This magazine has some really fascinating articles by Richard Neutra in it. It made me aware of Galka Scheyer and the 'Blue Four' who i'm crazy about. Whoever got the gig doing the photo-essays [which are excellent] on effective signs in nyc in 1935, had the best job ever!
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles




Phenomenal era to have Architectural magazines, I love this stuff.
The designs coming out of Europe were incredible, it's a shame so many met their untimely end during the war.
YES THEY DID! and they even got PAID to do it! NICE post ho2. Pict#2 California? no sane builder would build a dwelling here otherwise.
after looking at the comments (after i posted), i thought id better explain the first sentance wasnt directed at Dr_s comment but at ho2s description. Ahh feel better now, hate mail sucks. Sorry ho2.
No worries, I understood it as replying to the description :)