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Joanne Capella

@joannecapella.bsky.social
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Twentieth century architecture and design, classic films. Editor of Design and Desire in the Twentieth Century blog: design20century.blog

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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling the National Archives. No media outlets are reporting on this. Visit www.saveournationalarchives.org to find out how you can help.
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Save Our National Archives
Keep the National Archives regional facilities open
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Scribblemad @scribblemad.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What have I gotten myself into? #vintageradios #telefunken #60s
A Telefunken Jubilate 1651 ke radio with a dusty but in-tact plastic face. Its wooden shell sits on a makeshift work bench from an old metal cabinet.

Yes im using a silicone cat litter tray catch thing as a work surface.
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22° @aldebrn.me · 12/01/2026
This. Is. An actual building. In New York. Called the General Electric Building. 🤯🤯🤯 the mind fails. Via Chris Hytha's brilliant drone-based floor-by-floor composite orthographic image highrises.hythacg.com/building/gen... in a collection of dozens of similarly jaw-dropping Art Deco high-rise tops
A surreal, close-up view of the General Electric Building’s Art Deco crown, highlighting a rich contrast of warm terracotta stone, vivid teal spires, and electric gold filigree. An intricate, gilded pattern of curves traces through the structure, symbolizing radio waves and lightning. At the center emerges a stylized face figure, crowned by a metallic starburst and wearing stylized Art Deco robes. Intricate, jagged, and colorful, a dreamlike specter against a bland grey-blue sky.
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
design20century.blog/post/8056683... #franklloydwright #architecture #pricetower
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lronlacy.bsky.social @lronlacy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In #JANUARY 1947 👇🧵 ‘Bohn - Beauty and Utility in the Modern Kitchen’ Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation. January 1947.
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Susan See Photography @susanseephoto.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Pamount Theatre, Denver, CO. Built in the Art-Deco style by Temple Buell in 1930. In 1980, the theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places. #Denver #Colorado #architecture #theatre #HistoricalLandmark #ArtDeco #concerts #movies #B&W #photography
B&W photo of the Paramount Theatre in Denver, Colorado, USA
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Rob Telford @robtelford.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Chapel of Christ the Servant, Coventry Cathedral Basil Spence, completed 1962 #photography #architecture #Coventry
Photo of the Interior of the chapel with sunlight running across the space
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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Edgar Wood, Skating in Manchester 1900. Edgar Wood was a British architect, artist, and draftsman who practised from Manchester. He was regarded as a proponent of the Arts and Crafts #Manchester #History #HistoryMatter #architecture
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Jessica @jessicacress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Empire State Building has 73 elevators — and moves about 10 million people a year. Now that’s a high-traffic listing! 😅 #ArchitectureFacts #RealEstateTrivia #FunFacts #DenverRealEstate
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
design20century.blog/post/8005950... #textiles #bauhaus
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Anni Alberts: Weaving Together Art, Love, and Life
“I find this great problem that people are so inclined to think of textiles always in this useful sense. They want to sit on it; they want to wear it. And they don’t like to think of it as something.....
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.wallpaper.com/architecture... #brutalism #architecture
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Louis Kahn’s life and legacy – a modernist master and enigma
Explore the life and key works – from Ahmedabad to California – of one of the 20th century’s most prominent modernist architects
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The kimono displays an elegant composition where large-scale golden hollyhock leaves are distributed across a rich burgundy ground decorated with flowing scroll patterns in lighter tones. . 1926-1940, Japan
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Eames house, Charles and Ray Eames, Los Angeles, California, 1949
Eames house, Charles and Ray Eames, Los Angeles, California, 1949
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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
First Presbyterian Church of La Grange, 1962
Midcentury modern church with columns in front of stained glass windows consisting of squares
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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Lithographs by Ernesto García Cabral: “Hastio, June 7” (1925) and “Head of a Woman” (1924), seen recently in the Gatsby at 100 exhibit at the Minnesota Institute of Art.
Art deco image of a reclining woman with bobbed hair wearing a glamorous dress.Lithograph of a woman’s face. She has curly short hair and a hat with feathers.
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
design20century.blog/post/7994171... #artdeco #art-deco
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Norman Bel Geddes: Designer of Tomorrow
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in April 2014. We’re reposting it as part of our celebration of 100 years of Art Deco. Norman Bel Geddes was one of the leading designers of the first...
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Duc C. Nguyên @duccnguyen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The Golden Room, once the crown jewel of Eaton’s 9th floor restaurant, opened in 1931 and designed by Jacques Carlu in pure Art Deco elegance. After decades of silence and restoration, it still glows with the same quiet opulence, mirrors reflecting infinity, brass gleaming like time itself #Montreal
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Over Yonder @over-yonder.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The New York Skyline. #newyork #travel #usa #photography #architecture #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #urbangaze #over_yonder
The New York Skyline
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl... #franklloydwright #architecture
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Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries
Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won't actually find a picture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it may feel as if you should.
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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North Carolina Museum of Art @ncartmuseum.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Described by artist Chris Drury, "Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky" presents an encounter with nature seemingly divorced from everyday human perception, “like a scene from an old movie or a dream.” Check out the NCMA Blog to learn more and watch PBS NC's NC Weekend story ➡️ bit.ly/4o7e89H
A stone building with a wooden door, situated in a lush green forest, with sunlight filtering through the trees.A dimly lit image of an empty bench surrounded by dense, shadowy foliage, creating a serene and somewhat mysterious atmosphere.
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#OnThisDay Oct 27, 1935: Hollywood Theater, "incomparable showplace of the northwest" located in Northeast Minneapolis, opens with the film "Woman Wanted." Designed in Streamline Moderne style by architects Liebenberg & Kaplan, it has since been converted into a popular events center.
black and white builders photo of a box-shaped stone facade with towering "HOLLYWOOD" sign over the black and silver marquis. Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Library. 1935 red and blue movie poster for "Woman Wanted" starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Joel McCrea.full wedding reception under the newly remodeled interior, white walls with gold accents, industrial ceiling with steel supports painted red.
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
design20century.blog/post/7981450... #film #artdeco #art-deco
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Charles D. Hall: The Man Who Designed Horror
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in October 2013. We’re reposting it as part of our celebration of 100 years of Art Deco. It’s October, Halloween is in the air – a time for monsters,....
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Mazzamonk AKA Things That Make You Tick @mazzamonk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This documentary explores post-WWII America to witness a fascinating era of transport design and marketing! A look at two spectacular and unique show vehicles. The 1953 GM Future Liner and the elegant 1963 Ford Thunderbird "Italian," www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWe...
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Inside The MONSTER 1953 GM Future Liner | Mystery Cars
YouTube video by On The Move
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Barbara Segal - PR @barbarasegalpr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The American Institute of Architects Condemns Demolition of the White House East Wing and Calls for Transparency in Public Architecture. www.aia.org/about-aia/pr...
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AIA Condemns Demolition of the White House East Wing and Calls for Transparency in Public Architecture
The demolition of the East Wing without full public engagement or clarity undermines the very process that the design and preservation professions developed
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o... #franklloydwright #architecture
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One of Frank Lloyd Wright's Rare Usonian Automatic Homes Achieves Landmark Status
The Kalil House, located in Manchester, New Hampshire, is one of only seven Usonian Automatics in the country
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Brett Coughlin @coughlinbrett.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, MI. Architect Eero Saarinen. Reception desk. 1965. tinyurl.com/5e5wcxf3 #Architecture
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hard to believe Studebaker managed this in 1953. Best-looking Loewy "Italian-style" design ever in America? I think so.
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
design20century.blog/post/7981450... #film #artdeco #art-deco #horror
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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Muddy Waters at the Fillmore, San Francisco (1966) 
Image: Robert Wesley Wilson / Smithsonian
Red, green and white psychedelic poster design for a Muddy Waters Blues Band concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco
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Arthur Decorations @artdecodude.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Detail from the #ArtDeco copper awning that spans hundreds of meters around what was The Bon Marché department store in downtown #Seattle , #Washington . Notice how I went metric for all my friends in France right now the 100th Anniversary of Art Deco thing? #TheBonMarché
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StephenTravels @stephentravels.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Great #ArtDeco elements of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in #Tulsa, one of the #top5 #churches in #Oklahoma. Read more at stephentravels.com/top5/churche... ⛪️✝️
Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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🎃 Brendan 👻 @brendanpatrick.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#MidCenturyModern car show for #ModernismWeek in #PalmSprings. #CarsOfBluesky
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Brian Cuyler @briancuyler.com · 20/10/2025
Stahl House on a clear day.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
911 love... #Porsche via www.tumblr.com/qualityimage...
Vintage orange Porsche 911 parked in a modern open carport with a wooden slanted ceiling, concrete floor, and decorative metal privacy screens, mid-century modern architecture visible in the background.
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Modernism Week @modernismweek.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"From October 16 to 19, 2025, Modernism Week returns with its October edition, offering four days of midcentury architecture, design, art, and culture." Full story via The Hollywood Home. thehollywoodhome.com/modernism-we...
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Explore Architectural Icons at Modernism Week in Palm Springs This October | 2025 — The Hollywood Home
4 days of midcentury architecture, design, art, and culture. Guests can slip into sunset cocktail parties, step inside glamorous homes...
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zach @zacharyparadis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I didn’t know before this trip that Eero Saarinen designed the #stlouis arch. I pushed to name our son Eero but my wife decided against it in the end. #architecture #design
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Donna @naglalakk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Stahl House - Case Study House #22
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🎃 Brendan 👻 @brendanpatrick.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Spotted in the wild. The ‘59 Cadillac is the quintessential 50s classic car. Look at those fins! I’m gagged. #MidCenturyModern #ClassicCars #ModernismWeek #PalmSprings #CarsOfBluesky
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David Lawson @lawsononstage.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The Warner Theatre in West Chester, Pennsylvania was a 1,600 seat cinema from 1930 into the 1970s. After an attempt as a live theatre in the 1980s, the auditorium was demolished in 1986. Since 2012 the surviving art deco facade and lobby serve as the entrance to a hotel on the same site.
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Go4Know @go4know.com · 12/10/2025
🔥 10 Interesting Facts About Hotel Swimming Pools Check it out & unlock 500+ articles: 👉 patreon.com/go4know #knowledge #facts #education #edusky #ai #blog #aiart #midjourney #photo #photography #hotel #hotels #pool #pools #swimming #resort #infinity #diving #water #health #technology #travel
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
design20century.blog/post/7975116... #franklloydwright #frank-lloyd-wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design
Frank Lloyd Wright is reknown for his architecture but often we forget that he designed furniture for his buildings based on his principal of "Organic Architecture." This fall an exhibition at the...
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
www.artnews.com/art-news/new... #architecture #franklloydwright #frank-lloyd-wright
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A 1957 Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Home Added to the National Register of Historic Places
The 1957 house in New Hampshire retains almost all of its original Wright-designed furnishings.
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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Contemporary Diamond Cuff Bracelet and Earrings inspired by Art Deco Bulgari high jewellery design (Photo source: Pinterest)
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Joanne Capella @joannecapella.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.architecturaldigest.com/story/norman... #architecture #normanfoster
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Norman Foster Speaks on AI, Modern Cities, and the Power of Good Design
The legendary British architect spoke exclusively to AD Middle East about what got him into architecture and what’s keeping him going
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 11/10/2025
Newspaper ads scanned from Annual of Advertising Art in Japan 1970, Bijyutu Shuppan Sha, 1970 Art Director: Koichi Tsuchiya Designer: Katsumi Asaba Advertiser: Toray Inc. designreviewed.com/artefacts/an...
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Wowhaus @wowhaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I get asked about various interior designs in 20th-century houses constantly, so I'm going to compile various design round-ups. The first, now live, is my top 10 affordable retro ceiling lights on the high street. bit.ly/48rla3S
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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Plate 37 is Printemps, designed by Henri Sauvage & Georges Wybo in a sophisticated style, more appropriate to the modern exhibition of 1937 than the dying gasp of #ArtDeco in 1925 Plate 38 is Studium du Louvre by Albert Laprade with sculpture by Albert Binquet and wrought ironwork by Edgar Brandt
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