Mid Century Home: The Very Best of 2011.

This week I posted a short recap about Alvar Aalto and Achille Castiglioni, two of the mid century period masters.

Today is almost the last day of the year and I thought to highlight the Mid Century Home posts you most loved divided in five categories; a kind of Oscars of Mid-Century. icon smile Mid Century Home: The Very Best of 2011.

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Mid Century Home Rewind 2011: Achille Castiglioni

After Alvar Aalto today is time for a recap about Achille Castiglioni.

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Unlike Alvar Aalto, Achille Castiglioni was ‘just’ an industrial designer. As I wrote in “Achille Castiglioni - Biography“, he was one of the most important Italian designers of the mid-century period.
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Mid-Century Art: The Pacific Standard Time

Last week one of you -thanks Jasmine- sent me an email to highlight a really cool video where the rapper Ice Cube -that also studied architecture- had a tour of his favorite Los Angeles spots where Charles and Ray Eames lived and worked.

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How Charles and Ray Eames Invented the Mid-Century.

The reason why I love the mid-century aesthetic so much is the same that makes me love the beautiful design of Dieter Rams or Apple products.
The combination of simplicity, functionality and mass-production is the key of all the successful and revolutionary products that  we all love and want.

Reading about mid-century and its protagonists, I realized that only few people joined together those three elements in their works: Charles and Ray Eamescertainly did it in the furniture industry as Joseph Eichler did in the housing market.
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My Three Secret Sources For Mid Century Design.

As you probably know, through Mid Century Home I share information about mid-century design, architecture and theirs protagonists.

Not only do I share what I discover and learn about the mid century, I also share my sources. That is why I have created the Bookshelf page -with some of the most amazing books about mid century- and the Blogs I Follow page with all my favourite blogs about mid century and design.

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