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1949

Florence Knoll and her dog Cartree

Photographer: Herbert Matter

#knoll #florence knoll #herbert matter

[mad-men-60]

1965

Florence Knoll, Interior Designer 

CBS Building (Eero Saarinen, Architect) 

New York City , New York - USA

#florence knoll #eero saarinen #interior design #mid centruy modern #mad men

[mad-men-60]

1955

Album Cover Art

The Four Freshmen & Five Trombones

We ABSOUTLEY LLLOOOVVEEE THIS ALBUM COVER!!!!!!! its also great a album to our mid-century loving ears of the Four Freshmen who came from the limestone covered walls of Butler University in the late 1940s.

#the four freshmen #butler university

[mad-men-60]

1955

The Four Freshmen

Love Is Just Around The Corner

Album: Four Freshmen & Five Trombones

#the four freshmen

[mad-men-60]

1955

Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief

Grace Kelly & Cary Grant

#alfred hitchcock #to catch a thief #grace kelly #cary grant

[mad-men-60]

1943

Frank Lloyd Wright

Perspective of the purposed Solomon R Guggenheim Art Museum with Additional Tower behind the museum

New York City, New York USA

#frank lloyd wright #guggenheim #architecture

[mad-men-60]

1944

J. Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at The Los Alamos Laboratory working on mathematical theories for the Atomic Bomb

#robert oppenheimer #los alamos #atom bomb #wwii

[mad-men-60]

6 August 1945

The “Little Boy” A Uranium Atomic Bomb in its bay before being loaded into the Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress 

Specifications Mass 9,700 pounds (4,400 kg) Length 10 feet (3.0 m) Diameter 28 inches (71 cm) Filling Highly enriched uranium Filling  weight 64 kg Blast yield 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ)

#atom bomb #wwii #uranium #1940s

[mad-men-60]

1941

Raymond Lowey 

Look Magazine 

Shown Left to Right 1941 Studebaker Commander/ TWA Logo 

#1940s #raymond loewy #look magazine #twa #studebaker

[mad-men-60]

1948

Industrial Designer Raymond Lowey & Mrs. Viola Erickson Loewy in their Palm Beach Residence

#palm beach #Raymond Loewy #1940s

[mad-men-60]

1954

NASA Scientist work on a space saving vertical chalk board for calculations for the NASA Space Program. 

Cape Canaveral, FL USA

#NASA #science #math #space race #1950s #cold war

[mad-men-60]

1960

Song: Misty

Artist Henry Mancini

Album: The Blues And The Beat

Composer/Writer: Erroll Garner 

#misty #erroll garner #henry mancini #mid centruy modern

[mad-men-60]

1958 

Doris Day &  Frank DeVol & His Orchestra

Cheek to Cheek 

Hooray For Hollywood

Lyricist: Irving Berlin

#doris day #irving berlin #cheek to cheek #frank devol

[mad-men-60]

1957

"I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan"

A scene from the Musical Funny Face

#funny face #1957 #mad men

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1955

Graphic Design: Herbert Matter

Knoll Planning Unit Advertisement

#herbert matter #graphic design #mid centruy modern #knoll

[mad-men-60]

1955

Connecticut General Life Insurance Building

Architects SOM

Interiors: Knoll Planning Unit  

#knoll #mid centruy modern #interior design

[mad-men-60]

1957

Ray Conniff

Say It Isn't So

Album ‘S Awful Nice

#ray conniff #the ray conniff singers #s' awful nice