Saturday, June 6, 2009

Mid-Century Mod Wallpaper

Bradbury & Bradbury Atomic Doodle in Turquoise

This piece in the Washington Post's Express says wallpaper is hip again. The article quotes Heather Cole of wallpaper company Bradbury & Bradbury saying: "It's very contemporary to paper one wall. It's like an art installation." I have bad flashbacks to the 1970s wallpaper hanging in my house in New Jersey growing up, but after seeing these 1950s Atomic Age patterns and these from the 1960s, I may be willing to cover up some of my white walls.

3 comments:

dinagideon said...

That is a great design!!! Very fun...thank you for showing us...

I don't know if you have any ideas for me, but here is my problem:

Now if I could only figure out what to do with our outdated (and probably fire hazard) track-lighting in our first level of our raised rambler, I would be set. Why do the Nelson Bubble Lamps not come any smaller and more fixed to the ceiling? Oh, the issues us mid-century obsessed homeowners have in this froofy, Italian villa, overdone housing world we have here in 2009.

Mid-Century Mike said...

Have you checked out: http://www.satellitemodern.com/

SS said...

The wallpaper we put up in the NJ house was very "in" for the times. 50's & 60's paper was "out". Now it is making a come back. Maybe in time 70's paper will be chic again!