Today some mid-century living rooms of the rich and famous.
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| Greer Garson sits her living room at home in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel Air neighborhood, picking out records to play in April 1943, a month after her Best Actress Oscar victory for Mrs. Miniver. |
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| Sophia Loren in her Italian villa, 1964 via |
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| John Wayne’s living room of his ranch house in the San Fernando Valley - he loved Asian art. via |
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| Steve McQueen takes a call in the living room of his home in Hollywood, 1963 via |
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| Beneath an artificial dogwood tree, Joan Crawford and her fourth and final husband, Pepsi-Cola CEO Alfred N. Steele, relax on the plastic-covered sofas of their 18-room New York City duplex penthouse in the 1950s. via |
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| Kim Novak Playing Guitar Beside Pet Great Dane Warlock at Her Home in Big Sur via |
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| Fred Astaire built his Beverly Hills residence in 1959, and the living room featured comfortable modern upholstered furniture and contemporary art. via |
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| Kirk Douglas stretches out on a skylit sofa in his Beverly Hills home in the early 1960s. Above him hang two Pablo Picasso paintings that he and his wife Anne purchased in 1960. via |
Gorgeous. So hard to recreate that nonchalant, strewn-about coziness nowadays. Sometimes I wonder if people and also furniture were much smaller back then --- somehow even in a 30ft living room I struggle to achieve this airy mid-century look.
ReplyDeleteThey were and it was! In my 1964 house I have only actual mid-century furniture now (mostly thrifted) as it fits the low ceilinged rooms better than the huge modern furniture we have today. Even the reproduction mid-century furniture is larger than the original much of the time.
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