Daily Archives: April 2, 2008

Design For Dreaming (1956) (digitally enhanced)

April 2, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Design for Dreaming is a 1956 musical ephemeral film about a woman (played by Tad Tadlock) who dreams about a masked man taking her to the the 1956 General Motors Motorama and Frigidaire’s “Kitchen of the Future”.
It is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s. The film was directed by William Beaudine [...]

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Eames Lounge Chair debut in 1956 on NBC

April 2, 2008 – 11:56 am

Lot of cool things happened in 1956, in this video Charles & Ray Eames show their then-new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis “Home” show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956.
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