Apart from a few midcentury and contemporary pieces, antique fixtures, furniture and paintings fill the home.
It's expected to double by midcentury, and most of the growth will be in fossil fuels.
Bancroft moved into it in the 1950s, with midcentury furniture and Asian art on its walls.
The quickest way to sicken a modernist is to bring him to a midcentury Los Angeles diner.
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Today the drive takes him past rows of midcentury ranch homes that seem to go on forever.
Whether 18th century or midcentury modern, the task at hand is usually an issue of craft and not period.
This midcentury Beverly Hills classic was opened in 1955 by Conrad Hilton, great grandfather to blond socialite Paris Hilton.
"We found ourselves fascinated and drawn toward relics of midcentury tiki culture after an extended trip to Hawaii, " said Mr. Hernandez.
He built up HP during the 1940s-to-1960s-that great midcentury time in America when the "aw-shucks, " workaday engineer was an esteemed figure.
The photojournalist, the country's first woman to rise to prominence in her field, chronicled India's tumultuous midcentury of liberation, war and independence.
In midcentury America, the future was an annual event orchestrated by GM.
' And Justice Story, in the midcentury, said that you could only impeach a President for conduct that only the President could engage in.
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With their bridge between old and new like the Ruhlmann table's Deco interpretation of neoclassicism for actress Lorcia they don't suffer the "period look" of the midcentury and beyond.
Afoufou was in charge of design, creating 10 Berber-style villas with spacious rooms and suites filled with midcentury flea-market finds and modern pieces she commissioned from local craftsmen.
Warwick was seventy-six years old, tall, stooped, and frumpy-looking, with a well-worn tweed jacket, liver spots dotting his skin, wispy gray hair by all appearances, a doddering, midcentury academic.
Ms. Sunshine said that she had created seven apartments on the 38th floor, fully furnished with midcentury objects and contemporary design, all of which are now in contract.
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Basketball star Grant Hill owns a collection of midcentury work.
William Manchester's "The Glory and the Dream, " a social history of midcentury America, made a big impression on him, as did several lesser-known movies from the 1950s and '60s.
The Quin in Midtown, has foregrounded luxury and art in its promotion, with a comparatively subdued midcentury aesthetic, drawing structural inspiration from both nearby Carnegie Hall and the Steinway piano showroom.
And while homes from the 1950s and '60s are enjoying renewed interest from admirers of the "Mad Men" midcentury-modern style, the same isn't true for '70s homes, even though they share common elements.
After buying the apartment downstairs, he and his wife purged the antiques and used midcentury furnishings, like a pair of 1955 club chairs by Dutch maker Helioflex, to showcase their art in the new duplex.
Designed by John Lautner, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright and one of Southern California's most celebrated architects, the house is considered by curators one of the 10 most important residences from the midcentury period in Los Angeles.
Starting on March 1, 2012, the public will have access to this masterpiece of midcentury modernism, by way of an orientation tour that begins at the new visitor center, which by design reflects the style of the original estate.
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The result is very modern, particularly toward the back of the home: The dining room opens to the midcentury-modern and Japanese-influenced wood-and-steel kitchen, where double-panel cabinet doors are made from laser-cut steel and feature an abstract design modeled after a historic map of the neighborhood.
One U.S. military adviser said Chinese military strategists see China becoming the dominant power in Asia by midcentury, by which time they believe the world will be divided into spheres of influence dominated by at least four great powers: China, the U.S., the European Union and Russia.
Johnson Library, a midcentury futuristic cube at the University of Texas at Austin, the imperial and the folksy are at odds: Sweeping travertine stairs and a monumental display of scarlet storage boxes emblazoned with gold presidential seals contrast with an animatronic, Stetson-wearing Johnson posed at a split-rail fence.
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Today it looks classic, in much the same way that such masterpieces of midcentury modernism as, say, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building or Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim long ago ceased to look "modern, " at least in the informal sense that most people have in mind when they use the word.
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Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.
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