Mid-century modern

One-owner University Grove home open for viewing Tuesday March 25, 2025

This is a unique opportunity to view this home designed by Joe Michels that is in wonderful original condition, owned by the original owners since it was built in 1965....
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Unusual Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home… part of the National Trust and so much carved wood!

This unusual Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 was developed as a way to provide affordable housing for people of moderate means. Sounds like a familiar dilemma,...
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Fred Hollingsworth… Canada’s answer to Frank Lloyd Wright

Every once in awhile I happen upon a MCM gem I feel compelled to share. This week it is Creek House, designed in 1950 by Fred Hollingsworth, Canada’s answer to...
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Biophilic Design… what it is and what it has in common with Mid-Century/Modern Design

I first heard of Biophilic Design last week at a senior housing seminar… but its principles are ones I have espoused all my life, I just hadn’t named it… and...
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Reviving a Classic Midcentury Home

This mid-century home revival from Mid-Century Home caught my eye… Reviving Midcentury Magic: A Perfect Blend of Classic and Contemporary Design
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2024 Docomomo Fall Home Tour Day… A Gaggle of Graffunders

If you don’t already know about MN Modernist Architect Carl Graffunder, this is your chance! His 130+ projects across the state exemplify the essence of 20th Century Modernism – open...
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Love modern architecture? 3 reasons you should be a member of Docomomo US/MN

1. “Before there was Mad Men, Design Within Reach, or Dwell there was Docomomo“… an international non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of...
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Trend Alert… noticing a rise in INDOOR brick flooring

Photograph by Agnes Sanvito, from Kitchen of the Week: An Architect’s Labor-of-Love Kitchen, Art Gallery Included. In keeping with the theme of Earth Day which was this week, an article...
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