Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 2) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
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Swinging Bachelor Pads (Part 1) A bachelor pad is a slang term for a house (pad) in which a bachelor (a single man) lives. The exact standards on what constitutes a bachelor pad are often ambiguous…
The May 1962 issue of Playboy magazine contained their posh plans for exciting urban living – a three level Playboy Town House. This modern town house was billed as a “modishly…
An Ode To The Spell Checker Run this through your spell checker. It’s a clever poem written by Jerrold H. Zar. It’s been floating around the web for years and…
Those Ribbon Highways As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for…
Very active at the time of the epochal “Modern Architecture” exhibition was another leading exponent of modern architecture, the American, Frank Lloyd Wright. Although his work was recognized in the…
The contemporaneous work of the Swiss architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, differed in its premises, if not in its outward appearance, from that of the Germans.…
Ahhh, beans! Beans, beans, the musical fruit The more you eat, the more you toot The more you toot, the better you feel So we have beans at every meal! Beans,…
I Grew Up With Early American Furniture Yep, I grew up with Early American furniture. It was an interior style that was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. During…