Tag Archives: industrial design

just googie it

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is what you get when you mate a WW2 quonset hut with a pole barn – the jetsons! this is something i found tossed into a file chock full of clippings of ‘shopping architecure’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alan hess googie, art chantry, bowlero lanes tacoma, googie architecture, herb kohl, industrial design, john lautner, old LIFE magazines, piggly wiggly grocery stores, Robert Graves, the jetsons, zig zag modern | Leave a comment

bauhaus: mickey maus austerity

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

Walter Gropius soon realized that his vision could not be realized by one man alone. What was needed was a laboratory of design in which a new generation of artists could apply the discoveries of modern art to architecture and … Continue reading →