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House Beautiful - Circa 1979 |
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Post# 964927   10/30/2017 at 00:44 (2,370 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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archive.org/stream/housebeautifu... There was a time when every home of quality had House Beautiful lying about somewhere. Ladies (and some gentlemen) consulted this bible of decorating and household arts for everything from redoing the guest room, to planning out the garden. Looking back can only wonder what Mother and some of her peers were thinking decorating wise. Watch lots of OTA broadcast of television series from the 1970's early 1980's so these interiors look so dated. |
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Post# 964931 , Reply# 2   10/30/2017 at 01:12 (2,370 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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From the 50s I hate..the color yellow in any shade, about any green other than mint or turquoise. |
Post# 964933 , Reply# 3   10/30/2017 at 01:20 (2,370 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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House Beautiful - circa 1976
All the yellow you can handle. archive.org/stream/housebeautifu... To this day yellow, avocado, gold, brunt sienna and a few other shades simply scream 1970's to one, especially in kitchens. |
Post# 964937 , Reply# 5   10/30/2017 at 05:04 (2,370 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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This was a reaction to the modernism of the 50's, I can understand that. What I don't understand that it never went away. Still a lot of people like the 70's design including oak kitchens and lots of brown, brown, brown.
Thanks for sharing the links to the magazines. There is a whole lot of them in those archives. |
Post# 965060 , Reply# 10   10/30/2017 at 21:57 (2,369 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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Post# 965061 , Reply# 11   10/30/2017 at 22:01 (2,369 days old) by leefree (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Post# 965090 , Reply# 13   10/31/2017 at 06:36 (2,369 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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I worked in the library in highschool. We had several bound volumes of old magazines from the 70's. I'd sit in the back room on slow days and look at the ads from the year I was born - 1971. I was amazed/amused that a brand new Mercedes was only $3995 back then! My grandmother used to keep her old Sears catalogs. I'd get tickled looking at the fashions that were popular, even though I can remember seeing them in person. |
Post# 965095 , Reply# 14   10/31/2017 at 06:54 (2,369 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Here in Europe there has always been a strong modern stream in interior design. I bought magazines back then like the Dutch Eigen Huis & Interieur and the German Haus & Garten. Even in the dark brown period there were some lighter colours. Especially Scandinavian design was often lighter, you don't want to sit in a dark interior in the winter close to the north pole.
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Post# 965116 , Reply# 15   10/31/2017 at 09:12 (2,369 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)   |   | |
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Launderess, you are an absolute genius. Thank you for posting this. Had never heard of magazine before. I wish I could jump in the TARDIS and go back to '79. Harvest gold and earth-tones forever! |
Post# 965153 , Reply# 17   10/31/2017 at 13:17 (2,368 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Not a single minority pictured in all those 1970's HB magazines, well outside of a few adverts. Pearl Baily for Westinghouse Appliances for a start. If there was one, certainly missed it.
It is amazing how much things changed in forty years. Cuisinart/food processors were all the rage in 1970's and 1980's; now does anyone bother? Sears of course was all over the place, including Kenmore sewing machine adverts. Guess if one couldn't afford a decorator you simply ran your own up. Looking at all those HB magazines put one in mind of a famous song from a 1970's musical (Company), called "The Ladies Who Lunch". When Joanne launches into her bitter drunken tirade against those "lounging in a caftan and planning a brunch...." it was the HB crowd she was going after. The women who spent vast sums of their husband's money turning their homes and gardens into calling cards. Trying to out do each other in the Bougainvillea or rose garden department. That and or giving intimate buffets or dinner parties for "tasteful friends". This post was last edited 10/31/2017 at 15:12 |
Post# 965154 , Reply# 18   10/31/2017 at 13:22 (2,368 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)   |   | |
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My Cuisinart food processor is worth its weight in gold...their coffee makers, not so much. Something about them catching fire for no reason. |
Post# 965165 , Reply# 19   10/31/2017 at 14:08 (2,368 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I guess you had to have been there and lived thru the 70’s to appreciate all the earth tones and yellow, LOL. Every decade has its high and low points as far as fashions and decorating. As I recall, we all thought that we were just too modern for words. No one wanted the “dated” look of the 50’s, but the 30’s and 40’s style had a certain appeal for many during the 70’s. Everyone wanted either Avocado Green or Harvast Gold appliances. I moved into a brand new apartment in 73’, the very first tenant. It had Avocado Green appliances, Hotpoint BOL, the fridge was a single door model with a freezer comartment that needed to be defrosted. And the carpet was the much sought after green shag. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
With time and maturity I’ve grown to have an appreciation for almost all time period styles. But I tend to like classic, timeless designs. I’ll always have a fondness for the designs of the 50’s, because those are the first furnishings, styles, furnishings and appliances that I can remember. I can find something good and bad about the design ideas of each decade. But that being said, the clothing fashions of the 70’s were really some of the worst. Extreme flared pants and those huge, pointed collars on mens shirts were just ugly. Eddie |
Post# 965177 , Reply# 23   10/31/2017 at 15:32 (2,368 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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That inside joke is totally lost upon those not around during 1970's, and certainly females.
By the 1960's female hair styles had started to grow large. Then there were the masses of hair piled on created by adding wigs, falls, pieces, etc... All of which began to spell the demise of hats which women had worn when going outdoors for ages. Final nail in that coffin came with the bouffant (aka "Big Hair") of the 1960's made popular by Jackie Kennedy. So while many women still clung to wearing gloves when going out, the hat was becoming passé. By the 1970's with the whole "ease of movement/freedom" in women's fashions, gloves got the heave ho as well for most women, and then came the ultimate horror far as some are concerned; slacks. You watch vintage 1970's television shows or films and it as if there was suddenly a shortage of material to make skirts. Every female young and whatever is wearing slacks. Or worse, those double knit pant suits. |
Post# 965338 , Reply# 26   11/1/2017 at 09:59 (2,368 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)   |   | |
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My local grocery store has coffee mugs in Avocado Green, Harvest Gold, Poppy Red, and Colonial Blue. I got one of each yesterday. Only thing missing was Burnt Orange. |
Post# 965446 , Reply# 27   11/1/2017 at 19:33 (2,367 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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The apartment building I live in was built in 1978. Cupboards and woodwork are dark. Oak,is it?
Friends of the family had one of these oven/cooktop/dishwashers. I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen (non washing machine division). As always, thanks for a fantastic thread, Launderess!
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Post# 965665 , Reply# 28   11/2/2017 at 19:33 (2,366 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 965669 , Reply# 29   11/2/2017 at 19:55 (2,366 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Over the French version any day of the week.
Truth to tell IMHO both styles work best when done in restraint. Cannot abide Victorian or Edwardian period decorating carried to extreme. All that clutter and so forth to the point getting across room is like running an obstacle course. Like Hyacinth Bucket, English Cottage interiors are right up my street. Again done with taste and restraint you can't go wrong, can you? |
Post# 965685 , Reply# 30   11/2/2017 at 22:16 (2,366 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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I always liked Elizabeth's home better... |
Post# 965727 , Reply# 31   11/3/2017 at 06:11 (2,366 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 965735 , Reply# 32   11/3/2017 at 07:50 (2,366 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Giuliano Bugialli is still around and quite a famous Italian chef/cook book writer.
www.amazon.com/Fine-Itali... www.dreaminginitalian.com/2010/07... In the 1970's and well into recent times North Carolina was *the* spot for fine furniture manufactures and other decorating. Henredon, Baker, along with many others were down there; and those "in the know" would go down (or send their decorators) to get things at discount prices. IIRC however much production today has moved to Asia (where else?), but the showrooms remain. Appliances: Never saw a Modern Maid range, nor that Jenn-Air "grill range" either. When did Corning stop making that 3 in 1 range? Did it sell well? |
Post# 965933 , Reply# 37   11/4/2017 at 07:50 (2,365 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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the house for Howard Roark in Fountainhead was based on Falling Water by Frank Loyd Wright. |
Post# 965952 , Reply# 38   11/4/2017 at 09:11 (2,365 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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The number of cigarette adverts is indeed amazing. Thanks for posting the mags! Regarding Patricia Routledge characters and country mansions, this link might be of interest... CLICK HERE TO GO TO Rolls_rapide's LINK |
Post# 966253 , Reply# 39   11/5/2017 at 18:33 (2,363 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Is the thing about corridors, walls and doors.
Take the Bucket's house; here on this side of pond that first floor would have likely been opened up (no wall creating a corridor) leaving the living and dining room areas open. Even on that standard of lower to middle class homes "two up and two down" you still have entryway into a narrow corridor with front parlor and dining/backroom walled off. Seems rather claustrophobic to one. What one liked about the house in "As Time Goes By" is at least they opened things up a bit for the main rooms. Though that back kitchen seems rather cramped. Have had debates with others and think that at one time the kitchen was below stairs, but was moved to first floor and carved out of space. Lionel and Jean home was in Holland Park (or Shepard's Bush depending upon how you want to look at things), and was likely built as a home for middle to upper class. Either way in it's day there would have been servants something that began to wane post WWI and certainly WWII. So in order to get hot meals on table and save going up and down all those stairs many older homes moved kitchens upstairs. Now we do have the other famous example of a Holland Park home; Eddie Monsoon's place in Ab Fab. Despite being ever so glam and fab Eds left her kitchen in the basement where it was when house was built. Hence nearly *all* the action in Ab Fab takes place in Eddie's kitchen, which in real life would have been very inconvenient. |