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Some Ideas for Midcentury Style Fencing

By — Ted Cleary, ASLA / Studio Cleary Landscape Architecture
Guest Blogger

When it comes to creating a period landscape for your Midcentury Modern home, it’s all about the garden geometry and the hardscaping. Plants are plants; they don’t care whether they’re part of a “French Chateau” garden design or an “MCM” garden design . But it’s in the shapes of constructed elements of wood, concrete, masonry, metal, that a design vocabulary asserts itself. One such component, all the more visible because of its three-dimensional qualities, is fencing.

Spring in Sherwood Forest – A True Mid-Century Neighborhood

Charlotte is gorgeous in Spring! An extravaganza of colors and fragrances that is a treat to the senses…though it may bring on a sneezing attack. I grabbed my camera last week to capture some images of my neighborhood, Sherwood Forest.

Introducing Eero Saarinen – Architect & Designer

Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism.

Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis is one of his most well known designs, even though he did not live to see it completed in 1965.

5 Reasons Modern Homes are on the Rise

I have known, like many of my readers, that modern homes are on the rise. Here are some key and overly enticing reasons as to why. But first I wanted to reach out to my friends and fans to see why THEY thought modern homes are on the rise.

Buy A Modern Home & Become Famous!

Have you ever noticed hollywoods obsession with modernism and mid-century modern homes? No? Well let me fill you in! The modern home owner is often thought to be smart, successful and cool. Naturally commercials, print ads and film want you to think their product is all of those things. It may be perceived that modernism is a thing of the past, in movies like Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski, but they are more popular than ever in movies like Twilight and The Incredibles, Car Commercials, and Power Puff Girls.

Take a look at these famous modern establishments!

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