20 photos of 1970s home decor to overwhelm you with nostalgia
If you did not have a bean bag chair, did you strongly strongly in the 70's?
ImagineBack in the 1970s for a moment.Neil Diamantplays on the turntable; You and your friends relax on Shag's carpet in your living room; And more in the kitchen, the rotating phone of the gold crop sounds and can be the boy or the girl you love. Yes, the 1970s were a simpler time.
But just like the decade has been defined by his music, films and fashionable fodes, who grew up in the 1970s would also agree that there were very memorable interior design trends . Here we take you during a voice in memory with the most emblematic1970s House Decor-Some we hope to come back in style and othersdesigns that we never want to see.
1 Suspended chairs
In the 1970s, Swinging was not just for children on the playground. With the creation ofNanna and Jorgen DitzelEgg chair suspended in the late 1950s, adults were also able to participate in the thrill of hanging in the air andin the style, Not less!
2 Pyrex
Pyrex may not have been able to turn right when he reached the market in 1915. But when he finally started resonating withConsumers in the 1970sIt was as if the world of cooking at home had completely been transformed.
"It changed the way people thought of cooking dishes"Regan Brumagen, reference librarian at the Cornning Glass Museum, explained toenjoy your food. "It's not that slaughter stove that comes out of the oven. It has elegance and style. You can serve it directly on the table."
3 Band Posters
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In the 1970s, you did not wear your heart on your sleeve; You focused on the walls of your room. Teens and tweens at the time covered their rooms in posters of their favorite groups and actors, ranging fromDavid Bowie andLED Zeppelin ToBarbra Streisand andBurt Reynolds.
4 Miry vanities
AlthoughEuropean royalty Get ready in front of vanity centuries ago, it was not until the 1920s and 1930s that these furniture mirror furniture made it in American households. "Luxury dressing tables came to embody the modern glamor and luxury concept", notes a description of the metropolitan museum of the art of artMetropolitan vanities: the history of the hairdresser.
By the 70s, the mirrored dressing tables were everywhere andRaymond Loewydesign was the most sought after all. Picture here is Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) on the 70s struckdelightedThe attachment of its perfect returned from the mirorative vanity.
5 Rattan furniture
The wicker furniture we keep outside today was actually quite popular in the salons in the 1970s.
In parallel with the insurrection of antiques over the decade, wicker made a return - despite the fact that the material had an irritable tendency to sting and push to the one sitting.
6 Lawyer
If youGrowed in the 1970s And you were not a fan of green lawyer, then you were at odd. From Pyrex and aprons to cabinets and wall panels, almost all manufactured over the decade has arrived in this nuance of green not so subtle. Here it is presented on an episode of the series of the Beloved 70sThe Angels of Charlie.
According to the device manufacturerShoneThe rise in the popularity of Lawado Green could largely be attributed to "a new consideration for the concerns of nature and the environment" in the 1970s.
7 Paneling
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The owners in the 1970s did not have too much to worry aboutChoose good painting colors; They had wood panels (as shown on the walls of the iconic 1970sBouquet of BradyHouse, photo here).
Despite their name, however, the material used to make these panels were generally not wood; On the contrary, it was usually plywood or fiberboard designed to look like the actual original and more expensive.
8 Sunken Salons
Have to walk a few steps to get to your living room wasBanal in the 1970s, as you can see here onThe Mary Tyler Moore Show. And, according toRealtor.com, we haveBruce GoffTo thank what we called the "Sunken" show. The architect has designed a house in 1927 with an area in the middle of the living room that he nicknamed a "conversation".
And by the 1970s, architectsEERO SaarinenandAlexander Girard helped catapult the trend in limo. They incorporated this new design into part of their most famous work in the 50s and 60s, includingHouse Indiana's Miller and the TWA terminal from JFK airport.
9 Harvest Gold
In addition to the green lawyer, another terrestrial tone that took more than 1970s home decor was the gold harvest. Here you can see it in the formal lounge on the series of the periodThat "70s show.
"Harvest Gold, orange burned and turtle shell were ...Kitchen and appliance colors, "ExplainLeagany EismanandKeith Reckker in their bookPantone: the twentieth century in color. However, "the rigor of maintaining a golden house of all lawyers and the harvest was perhaps too much for traditional consumers and the pallet fell from the favor by the end of the decade."
10 Clocks and mirrors Sunburst
Hang over uncomfortable wicker chairs and gold sofas of the bold harvest inmost of the 70s was a clock or a Sunburst mirror.
Designed by Nelson Associates in 1949, this retro timepiece is well interested in the revival of the Art Deco of the 70s.
11 Woven wall art
Although macramed plant holders and wall suspensions arePretty modish this millenniumThe trend of woven wall arts really belongs to the 1970s. Here is an example behind a Janet espionage (Joyce Dewitt) on the series' 70s-'80sThe company of three.
"Each Groovy apartment in the 1970s had its fair part of the suspended art called" macrame ", which has been made by hand and hung with love as (sometimes) the decoration of the functional house," said a writerDENVER POST.
12 Ceramic
The 1970s were a great time for ceramic and porcelain accents, like lamps, vases and wall arts (seen here in the movieCasino, which is defined during the decade).
It was during the 1970s that artists likeRupert Spira,Lucie Rie, andHans Cooperhas increased to the prominence and their ceramic contributions to society have contributed to catapulting art under the spotlight.
13 Floral impressions
The floral impressions were also ubiquitous in the houses of the 1970s only in the 1970s' closets. And while the flowers of the 50s were clogged and appropriate, the power of the flowers of the 60s and 70 was big, bold and brilliant. Colors like mustard, orange and green lawyer have often been highlighted on floral bedspreads, curtains and sofas.
Discover this one behind the Fonz (Henry Winkler) and Mork (Robin Williams) duringHappy Day-Mork and MindyCrossover episode in 1978.
14 Deck chairs
No Groovy '70ss tad 70s has been complete without at least one full-fingered chair. Unusual design has been produced and perfected by the Mexican artistPEdro Freideberg, whose architect training has influenced his disadvantage in funky but functional works of art like this.
In an episode of 1973 ofThe strange coupleFelix (Tony Randall) Oscar offdered (Jack Klugman) With a pair of armchairs by hand, as you can see here. "These are hands! I feel like an M & M, waken Oscar.
15 Egg chairs
Although its official name can be developed for the debate - it was called the pocket chair, the globe chair and the egg chair - its influence on the decoration of the house of the 1970s is certainly not.
This Chic Oval Chair was designed for the first time in 1963 by the Finnish furniture manufacturerEERO AARNIO. But the shape of the popular eggs in the 1970s was not created before 1968 by Denmark DesignerHenrik Thor-Larsen. Here is an example in the movie "70S-SETDazed and confused.
16 Shag carpet
Do the Shag carpets paid? Yes. Are Shag carpets easy to clean? Absolutely not. However, people living in the 70s did not seem to unfold these facts because it was easily the choice of the most popular floor coverings at the time. (Here are some carpets like Shaggy asDavid Cassidy'spegroneTHE PERDRIX FAMILYHouse in the 1970s.)
"From the room to the room, these soft carpets are in spectacular hues of hot rose, yellow sun, blue blue and snowy white ... or gold, olive green, rusty brown and sea blue (at Fashion during the 1970s), "NotesDavid Mansourin his jobOf Abba to zoom in: an encyclopedia of pop culture from the end of the 20th century.
17 Patterned tiles
In the mid-twentieth century, "greater use of the color of soil materials and surrounding walls has also been occurred," Write the authors ofPrinciples of kitchen and bathroom design: elements, shape, styles. Well, it's a euphemism. The 70s were a time when the owners and architects started experimenting with patterned tiles. Outside the bathtub, worshiping the walls, doubling soils - if it could be covered with ticked tiles, so it was.
WhileJennifer Lawrencewas not alive in the 1970s, his character in the periodHustlewas definitely and shelovePatterned tiles, as you can see here.
18 Fully plaid rooms
For most of the twentieth century, Plaid was only popular in places such as Scotland and England. However, all changed in the 1970s when Tartan took over in the United Statesthe model of the decade.
Catherine Bach isDaisy Duke Sporting a small plaidThe Dukes of Hazzard on TV The week in the 1970s has definitely helped make this model cool.
19 Bean bag chairs
In 1968, three Italian designers-Piero Gatti,Césare Paolini, andFranco Teodoro-Art commissioned by SACCO to design a chair that is interested in the counter-culture of the time. The result? The first chair of the bean bag in the world.
The youth of the 1970s loved that the president had a non-traditional and non-compliant form (more, he did not hurt that bags are easily transportable in vans and cars). Here is an orange burned once in a room very "70 years old onThe Mary Tyler Moore Show.
20 Afghan covers
The Afghan covers were a clip of the house decoration from the 1970s, featuring the same Chunky seam from dresses and popular hook tunics over the decade. "If you grew up in the 70s, as I did, you could fear the square of Mamie-if only because, for a moment, clothes have nothing else," jokesDebbie Stoller in his bookStitch 'N Bitch Hook: The Happy Hooker. "Square vests of granny, square shorts of granny, granny square hats."
Here is an Afghan cover filled with Granny SquareBob NewhartCozy on his holder television showIn 1972. And to learn more about the trends of the past, checkThe definition of "elegant" the year you were born.
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