Googie (and related style and design)

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
You can imagine some of this stuff in the scenery during the last section of Gravity's Rainbow. When Manager Zhlubb is first introduced at the end, and he say's "I'b dot afraid to dabe dabes" for some reason* I pictured him on the sidewalk outside the Wiltern (which isn't googie but more art deco)

*Edit: now that I'm rereading that page, this is probably because Zhlubb is introduced as a manager of the Orpheus Theatre, which I didn't have a visual of in my mind, so I defaulted to this other Hollywood theatre.

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Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Actually @IdleRich In-N-Out is another great example of googie: Notice the intercrossed palm trees around which the cantilevered roof is built. These palm trees have been incorporated into the branding of In-N-Out.

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Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
@version may find it interesting how ultra-competitive fast food chains are able to subsume and commercially leverage even so niche an aesthetic as googie. Granted In-N-Out is ultimately still a regional chain, but in LA it does hold it own against the major international chains.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
MCM to me is, in our current time, a sort of "retro modern" if you will, mainly used to describe furniture / interior design, but also suburban facades and maybe architecture at large. Although when it comes to distinguishing MCM architecture from googie architecture I'd say googie is usually flashier, sometime literally when neon is used.

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Seems to be basically the same as international style.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I saw this on twitter or something, seems to fit

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Great to invent a futuristic desk but the joke is on them cos it turns out people don't use desks in the space age.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Oberlin Ohio, yours for one million apparently...

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IdleRich

IdleRich
This chair is pretty space age, I like it, though I suppose would be best to test it for comfort before I endorse it.

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IdleRich

IdleRich
I reckon it might be ok... but seeing as you have to 'enquire about the price' I don't think it's the kind of chair I buy full stop.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Starburst House in Joshua Tree looks nice

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Shipping containers put together quite effectively to create a gleaming crystalline structure - or possibly it's a flower envisaged on ketamine that has burst out of the desert.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Forgotten how space age the style of the interrogation room/holding cell in Beyond The Black Rainbow is. So at least you can admire that while waiting to be injected with consciousness muddling drugs and then subjected to bizarre psychological tests.

Actually a lot of that film seems to have a sort of atomic age gothic aesthetic which I find quite appealing. For some reason though I can't seem to share pictures on my phone so you'll have to take my word for it.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
They are wicked, do you know what they are called? I would love to get some like that... I guess they are expensive but I can imagine that a decent replica could be built cheaply enough and might even exist if I'm lucky.
 
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