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...thing when a raft of 1950s-style pencil skirts and twinsets marches down fashion runways, but nowadays it seems that mid-century design is invading every room of the house. Who would have envisioned a future that looks so much like the past? Fashion trends come and go, but the cultural appetite for great design, specifically 1950s style, doesn't seem to wane. Companies as diverse as KitchenAid and Balenciaga are delving into their archives and revisiting mid-century colors and curves. And a host of famous furniture companies are reintroducing classics--from Prouvé to Parzinger...
Meet the new face of design. It's friendly, whimsical, durable and, it turns out, looks much as it did in the 1950s. Just as twinsets and pencil skirts ruled the recent fall runways, the mid-century look is finding its way into every room of the house, from the campy opulence of '60s interior designer David Hicks to the high design of newly re-issued Dunbar furniture. Marshall Field's has introduced interior-design guru Thomas O'Brien's updated take on Fiestaware for the table. For the kitchen, there are bubble-gum pink stand mixers from KitchenAid...
...popularity of the more functional stainless-steel look of the '80s and high-tech thrust of the '90s, it's only natural that the pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed to reinforce...
Klarman said several of the justices wanted Congress to “solve the problem†presented in the Brown case. However, “that was just wishful thinking,†he said. “In the 1950s, there was zero chance that Congress would pass a law barring school segregation...
...General Electric, Piszek discovered that his deviled crabs, which had become the house favorite, tasted just as good after a week in the freezer. He and friend John Paul, a bread salesman, each pitched in $350 and starting selling frozen fish sticks. He bought out Paul in the 1950s but denied his mother's request to rename the brand Mrs. Piszek...