Tag: decoration

Mid-Century at the Movies: Film Noir Mod

by Lynne Rostochil   Back in 1961, newly appointed FCC chairman, Newton N. Minow, famously declared in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters that American commercial TV was a “vast wasteland,” filled with “game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good […]

Modern Living: Typography as Building Decoration

I don’t know what West Coast, mid-century architectural genius first decided that it would be a good idea to design an apartment building and use the name of the complex as wall decoration, but it obviously caught on very quickly because you can hardly drive down a block of vintage apartment houses in L.A. without […]