Miami Deco Palm🌴

Home interiors in the 1980s-1990s ‘Contempo-Eclectic’ style, designed by Carrie Brockman. This style mixes up popular then-contemporary trends like Deco-revival, 1980s ‘all-white’ interior minimalism, high-tech, free-form playful abstract shapes. It sometimes functioned as an art gallery for the new American folk furniture, art, and sculpture movement of the 1980s. Folk art may not be the right word for this style, I’ve just noticed that this time period produced a huge amount of regional designers, and these houses were filled with their relatively unique pieces; in comparison to our more mass-produced, homogeneous Amazon/Ikea era. 

‘Kitsch Kitchen’ designed by British TV personality & designer, Anne McKevitt 

Not sure what I’d call the style, it’s like a mix of 1950s-60s kitsch, some Y2K pieces by Inflate & Stefano Giovannoni, and the ’Wacky PoMo’ aesthetic. Memphis-esque patterns (reminds me of Sottsass’s ‘Bacterio’). I think Memphis took some inspiration from the kitschy 1950s formica/Googie stuff, so kinda ties together here.

Home by Bobbi Packer Designs (mid 1990s) ❤️💜💙

‘Matsushita Electric Show at Audio Fair’ (Oct. 1989)

“To exhibit the newest technology in a ‘Time Machine’ that slips back to ancient days, vividly showing the great difference between past and present.”

The Esplanade Mall - New Orleans - Designed by RTKL Associates (1988) 

This amazing furniture display in ‘The Gallery of Functional Art’, established by Lois Lambert in Santa Monica (1988).

Designed by Lembo/Bohn 🎨

Bath Design, Philip Mazzurco, 1986 📚