Coffee Conversations – Meet Blake

Mid Century Store owners Dan Reeves and Blake Macaluso sat down for a cup of joe and mid-century...

Truly Atomic:

The Radioactivity of California Colored Pottery We have had some lovely Bauer and Fiestaware...

Canned Laughter

 We thought long and hard about what to feature for Revolting Recipes this edition. After hours of...

Revoltingly Decorative!

Revoltingly Decorative!   this month’s recipe:Banana Candles ▶Tuna Christmas Tree ▶Hellmann’s...

Mies, Breuer & Stam

The Contentious History of the Cantilever Chair?This issue we were going to do a pretty straight...

Acrylic Scratch Care

Dorothy Thorpe, Vladimir Kagan and Christian Dior all knew the joys of designing with the moldable, crystal-like material Lucite and the woes of acrylic scratch care. Lucite is the popular trade name for an acrylic product developed in the 30’s by DuPont. Known for its clarity and scratch resistance Lucite is synonymous with quality.

Its a Trifle Unsavory

Of all of those imported (and often anachronistic) traditions, rituals and recipes the one that I have the fondest memories of, that you may well find revolting, is Trifle.

Am I a Vinylist?

I’ve been trying to figure out what is the correct name to call myself…

Molded Dreams!

It is an endless fascination to me that what we eat, the recipes we treasure, the foods that...

How MCS Coped with 2020

Commonalities and differences, 2020 had them all. A mini-photo essay of how we spent...

Revolting Recipes

Canned Laughter

Canned Laughter

 We thought long and hard about what to feature for Revolting Recipes this edition. After hours of painstaking “research”, the theme revealed itself to us..... Ads for Revolting Food-Like Substances. From brussel sprout ice cream to horsefat spread, we have found 8 of...

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Truly Atomic:

Truly Atomic:

The Radioactivity of California Colored Pottery We have had some lovely Bauer and Fiestaware pieces in store recently and while researching their history we stumbled across a few articles about the radioactivity of vintage dinnerware. Most of us are familiar with the...

Jack’s Pro Tips

Acrylic Scratch Care

Acrylic Scratch Care

Dorothy Thorpe, Vladimir Kagan and Christian Dior all knew the joys of designing with the moldable, crystal-like material Lucite and the woes of acrylic scratch care. Lucite is the popular trade name for an acrylic product developed in the 30’s by DuPont. Known for its clarity and scratch resistance Lucite is synonymous with quality.

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