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This is what I'm channeling in 2025. Rounded edges, timid sofas, and soft upholstery is OUT. Give me sexy black leather couches with shiny metal legs and "IDGAF" pillows thrown on.

Starting with the Panasonic TR-005 "Orbital." Beautiful little thing with a rotating base. Throw it on a coffee table when you want to watch a program and then pick it up and tuck it on the shelf afterwards. TVs used to be treated as (and designed to be) appliances, not wallpieces. Photos taken from this LA listing.

Up next, my fav here, the much-opined-for Dieter Rams FS 80

Pics from here

I love how utilitarian it looks (not surprising given where Rams was at, career-wise, in 1964). One of my biggest pet-peeves with modern televisions is how ugly the back side is, it's almost impossible to not position them against a wall. Not with the FS 80, that's a backside I could stare at just as often as the front, simple, inoffensive, yet also nice and tidy.

The iconic JVC videosphere up next. The "space helmet' TV. More red plastic please! Pics.

More red plastic, this time it's the Linea 1 by Autovox. Designed by Adolfo Bonetta in 1968. Pictured with the optional pedestal. I could see myself popping this bad boy on my kitchen table to watch while eating some cereal one morning.

Another Bonetta design, the T-1228 designed for Voxson, 1973. Collapsible, too (appliances! Tools!! Not wall art!!!!!).

Both Bonetta pics from here

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https://substack.com/@alanafallon/note/c-91073095?r=1l9p1z

Why am I posting a 2 dimensional grid?

I'm not.

From Nendo:

The scatter shelf is composed of 5mm black acrylic shelves in a grid form, stacked in three layers and slightly displaced. The resulting shelving unit is not only structurally strong but creates a visual effect in which objects placed on the shelves appear as though caught in a spider’s web when viewed from the front. When viewed on an angle, the glossy acrylic face creates a series of reflections within the shelves, making the ‘opaque’ acrylic appear to be transparent. The diffused reflections caused by the surfaces’ shine and form also separates and scatters the view behind the shelving unit, creating a completely kaleidoscopic effect.

Gorgeous stuff.

Wow, wow, wow if this isn't beautiful. A perfect example of how tubular framing doesn't have to mean Bauhaus.

Photos stolen from Museo Della Sedia. Pay the original source some love because I'm worried that compression is going to ruin some of the beauty here.

Percival Lafer is quickly becoming one of my favorite modern designers. All his stuff looks so... not-European, for lack of a better word. No clue how it is south of the Equator, but there's very little discussion of him here. These chairs are one of many designs of his I've found reading through Percival Lafer: Design, indústria e mercado . Above pic is one I took with my phone so sorry if the quality is abhorrent. I haven't got a scanner here.

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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Tubular chrome-plated steel frame with plastic-coated gridded sheet for seat and back. Frame composed of a pair of straight stiles, curving back slightly at the top, and a single length of steel running from the foot of both legs, around the sides and back of the seat. The seat and back are each composed of a length of plastic-covered ("Soflex") grid (with rounded lines), arching slightly upward from side to side.

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I love these things. Using plastic coated steel mesh as a flexible seat is so ingenious, especially in the late '70s.