Mid-Century Modern (1945-1965): The American Golden Age
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Mid-Century Modern (1945-1965): The American Golden Age

ByCéline Vanier

Los Angeles, 1949. In the hills of Pacific Palisades, Charles and Ray Eames complete their Case Study House #8, an architectural manifesto of postwar America. Steel, glass, and vibrant colors assemble into a lightweight structure open to the California landscape. While Europe laboriously rebuilds and the Bauhaus dissolves into emigration, America invents a new aesthetic…

Le TWA Flight Center (JFK) déploie une coque en béton jet-age et des courbes intérieures spectaculaires.
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Cranbrook Academy: America’s Modern Design Laboratory

ByCéline Vanier

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1932. While the Great Depression paralyzes America and Streamline Moderne begins transforming the American industrial landscape, Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen founds an institution that will revolutionize American design: the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Far from the New York or California metropolises, in the affluent suburbs of Detroit, this school invents a unique…