Perpenduum » Archetype http://perpenduum.com Contiguous thought Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:10:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Usual Suspects http://perpenduum.com/2009/12/usual-suspects/ http://perpenduum.com/2009/12/usual-suspects/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:47 +0000 David Goligorsky http://perpenduum.com/?p=1328
June 1961 Playboy


This is a photo from Playboy, June 1961. It shows George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames, and Jens Risom casually seated next to their famed creations all in the same photo shoot. It’s just about 2010, which means nearly 50 years have come and gone from the time of that iconic photograph and nearly every recent architecture & design periodical I pick up is littered with Eames chairs inside, Bertoia chairs outside, and Nelson tables and clocks in every nook and cranny. They’re fantastic pieces and I am a staunch proponent of “timeless” design.

The image above has been passed around and passed around again. That’s not what this post is about. Instead, I hope some of the readers will post a comment with a punch list of designers that are our contemporaries. A group that you could envision sitting down for a photo shoot together. [If you’re reading this post from the main page, you’ll have to click on the post title to get to the permalink page for commenting.]

Hope you’ll take on the challenge.

]]> http://perpenduum.com/2009/12/usual-suspects/feed/ 1 Citroën HY van http://perpenduum.com/2009/04/citroe%cc%88n-hy-van/ http://perpenduum.com/2009/04/citroe%cc%88n-hy-van/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:45:56 +0000 David Goligorsky http://perpenduum.com/?p=1106
Citroën HY

The Citroën HY is my feeling for the archetypal commercial van.

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