Inspiration – Mid-century modern books

The 1950’s and 1960’s modern furniture books (in this case from Digmodern) are great pieces of inspiration for your own modern furniture. Lots of what you find are the sleek and simple lines that were used in so much of the furniture during that time. The really cool part is that since they are simple in design, they are generally simple to build.

The key to designing any furniture is to have form follow function – or funktion If a piece really grabs you, try to find who designed it or built it. In many cases, the original designer also produced other items with the same feel. These are great leads to follow, even if they are the greats like Wright or Eames.

One of my favorite things about the picture below is how all of the pieces work together – the shelves, the couches, the light fixture – it all works. Now just imagine it in color! Now imagine it so that it fits in this century!! Way cool!!!

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