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The Best of the Month: February 2011

05/03/2011 By Marco Leave a Comment

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7 Tempting Books About Mid-Century Modern

02/03/2011 By Marco 2 Comments

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Apparently I suddenly become a Platinum customer and everybody in these days want to sell me something…I keep receiving very ‘provoking’ emails about books that “I can not miss”

Arne Jacobsen: Airplanes, Swans and Eggs.

28/02/2011 By Marco Leave a Comment

The majority of the newsletters I subscribed don’t deliver interesting information normally…with some exceptions.

Few days ago I received an email from Phaidon Press announcing the new, ad cheaper, version of the “[amazon_link id="0714861081" target="_blank" ]Room 606: The SAS House and the Work of Arne Jacobsen[/amazon_link]” sponsored link.

If you don’t know it, the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen was entirely designed by the Danish Modern architect Arne Jacobsen in the 1950s and built between the 1958-1960: one year later his famous floor lamp.

Guest Post: Polar Bears by Josie Portillo

26/02/2011 By Marco Leave a Comment

Also this week Josie sent us a Mid-Century inspired illustration.

It is true, artists get influenced by the surroundings.

Staring a Wall You Can Change the World: George Nelson Docet.

22/02/2011 By Marco Leave a Comment

“[Simon & Schuster] had given us advantages, and like any young writers we had spent them and hadn’t done the work…We were well-qualified to write the book, except when we got to the chapter on storage: we simply could not write the required 5.000 words.