On Design: Eliel Saarinen
‘Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in the room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city.’
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Car Dashboards as Works of Art
Original “dashboards” were simply wooden barriers to protect the horse carriage driver from splashes (or “dashes”) of dirt thrown up by the horse’s hooves. Much has changed since… Modern dashboards are significantly more than just arrangements o…
‘How Television Benefits Your Children’ Ad, 1950
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Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radicall…
Buick XP-300 concept car, 1951
Buick XP-300 concept car, 1951 via retronaut.co
A.L.F.A. 40/60 HP, 1914 | Retronaut
A.L.F.A. 40/60 HP, 1914 “The A.L.F.A 40/60 HP was a race and road car made by A.L.F.A (later called Alfa Romeo). Its top speed was 125 km/h (78 mph). 40/60 HP production and development was interrupted by the First World War, but resumed briefly a…
Science on the March – 1952
(“Science on the March”, Popular Mechanics, January 1952 – illustrated by A. Leydenfrost, via)
‘Airlines of the United States’ Ads, WWII, by James Bingham
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