Word: lautner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midcentury now. For if ever one decade were in love with another, the '90s is crazy about the '50s. This is not the '50s of Happy Days or Pleasantville, where people are decent but unsophisticated. This is the sleekly glamorous decade of architects Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Albert Frey and designers Charles and Ray Eames. This is the decade when the rest of the world looked with envy at American products, homes and life-styles. Some people consider it the golden age of American design in this century...
...budgets can indulge their interest in the '50s in the photo-filled pages of magazines like Metropolitan Home, Elle Decor and Wallpaper* (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner). A slew of books have come out this year, including lush coffee-table tomes on Koenig, Frey, Lautner and the photographer most closely associated with the era, Julius Shulman...