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Feb222008

Everything old is new again

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Fri, 22 Feb 2008 by

midcenturyjo

4 Comments

I know a lot of you really love the retro posts here on Desire to Inspire. Rachel from Design Savvy Maui emailed me these wonderful scans from two of Billy Baldwin’s books, Billy Baldwin Decorates, Chartwell Books Inc., Secaucus NJ, 1972 and Billy Baldwin Remembers, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1974. Seems Rachel loves retro has much as I do especially when it is the work of the king of society decorating from the 50s through to the 70s. I confess I’ve been seduced by the kitschy and downright disgusting of bad retro decorating lately. Thankfully Rachel has bought me back on track. Divine decadence!

Reader Comments (4)

I am totally drooling over the dining table and chairs in the second photo. LOVE THEM!!!

22 Feb 08 |

kim.

I agree with Kim. I want everything in that second photo.

22 Feb 08 |

pompom

thanks you both !!

22 Feb 08 |

orangered

I'm sure the the people who paid a fortune for the dining room in Picture 6 were really happy with it, right up 'til the moment someone pointed out that it looked like a suburban Chinese restaurant.

24 Feb 08 |

Blandwagon

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