VILLA SANDBERG by Bunker Hill
A 140 m2 house for a familly with two children. Pine and polished concrete floor on the first floor. (Länna, Sweden, 2005).
In the 60s and 70s, you could get by on very little money. And, so, people had time. I mean it was kinda like a bubble or just a brief passage in time when there was so much prosperity in America that if you lived simply you could survive on very little. So people had time to explore things and learn new things.
Lloyd Kahn from this video.
The Marcel Breuer Cottage
634 Black Pond Road
Williams Pond, Wellfleet, MA
Photos: Walter Sanders for LIFE
The bath room in George Nakashima's house.
Photos: Paul Soulellis (flickr)
"In the early 1950s the children's room at carpenter Svend Larsen's home in Langeskov was wallpapered with Kay Bojesen's wallpaper. When the family in the 1960s built a new villa next to the factory, the former residential area was converted into a workshop. They painted over this wallpaper, but they didn't bother painting behind a large cupboard..."
More: here. Wow. ©kaybojesendesign.dk
Carlos Raúl Villanueva's beautiful bed. Photo: Antoine Baralhé, Architectural Digest (German), February 2010.
Living in a yurt in Seldovia, Alaska. More here (NY Times).
Photographs ©2010 Stuart Isett.
Related/previously: Conder-Breslin House, LA
“Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house,” she said, “like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms.”
Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online.
By Brad Stone, NY Times
via South Willard
Listen: Chuck Lakin, Woodworker
Read: "where home births were 30 years ago"
NY Times via South Willard
Related: Dad's Pine Box (flickr)
