Modern Furniture / Furnishings

Looky What I Found-Yummy Modern Furniture Again

Quick update – Sorry I have been absent.  Things are afoot at my workplace and that means passionate writing has sadly taken a small backseat.  Don’t think I don’t feel the familiar patter of little Modern Home feet kicking the back of my chair to get back writing.  I will and the first order of [...]

Isamu Kenmochi Chair

Australian Chair Distributor: Youshiki I saw this link from a friend of mine Dennis Convington. I don’t think he has a blog or I would link to him and give him some search juice but for now. LOOK AT THIS CHAIR. This is from the site. Designed by Isamu Kenmochi for Tendo Japan in 1961. [...]

The Week of Things I Like

I know that I need to get back into the habit of posting scintillating content over here and I am going to warm myself up with posts that are mainly visual and discuss why I love them.  Let me know what you think and I look forward to hearing your thoughts as always. Tonight’s is [...]

Modern Furniture Store of the Week – 11/17/08

I’m trying to do the schedule this week and so the first up of the week is a Modern Furniture Store or Furnishings I like.  I will eventually run out of locations in the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex but for now, I’m going to try and highlight stores that have physical locations here.  Since [...]

Use of Space in the Modern Home

This topic deserves several posts and deeper thought as this is at the heart of many things modern.  However, I have had a long day and an even longer week and am tired. I do want to remind everyone who is interested that the AIA Dallas Tour of Homes tomorrow.  I believe tickets are still [...]

National Blog Posting Month, Interesting Cabinets

I’m not sure if everyone or anyone is familiar with this but NaBloPoMo or National Blog Posting Month is an offshoot of NaNoWriMo.  National Novel Writing Month is a great exercise in getting going on writing the next novel.  They don’t care what you write, they just want everyone to write 50,000 words.  I’ve tried [...]

Modern Home Furnishings

As we discussed I think Modern Homes can be modern, both through architecture and also through the internal aesthetics you choose to illustrate your world with decoration, furnishings, textures and colors.  To that end, there are lots of great decorating, furniture and local places that feature modern pieces that I would love to highlight.  Naturally [...]

Why Dallas, Why Modern Homes

I can explain the love of Dallas. I grew up in this Metroplex. I did move to other locales and while they were fine, they weren’t Dallas. I know how people perceive Dallas. And perhaps that’s why I think Modern Homes and Dallas share some perception issues. To wit: When I originally thought of Modern [...]