Friday, April 5, 2013

Swimming in the Seventies.

More vintage mid-century styling for you to feast your eyes on.
 
This time we're living in the 70's and talking exteriors.

 
In a scene of such perfection I find it amusing to see a single leaf floating in the pool. Nature? Or carefully placed by a stylist?
 
(it couldn't be, as naughty Curtise suggested, a number two, could it?!)
 
 
Concrete rafters, marble paving, fibreglass furniture? Yes please!
 
 
 
Those gorgeous matte black exterior lights remind me of yours  Dana, and for anyone in Australia (well, here in Western Australia for sure) I have just seen lights very similar to these in...Bunnings! I know!
 


 
This pool was built in converted barn in Belgium (yours Woolfy?)
Gorgeous beams, painted bricks, copper-hooded open fire, and I like that bull(?) skull on the wall too.
 
 
Honestly, I could've kept scanning and scanning these!

I've had to force myself to stop.

All images from "Pools and Terraces, A House and Garden Guide to Landscaping and Furnishing", published in 1974, and happily picked up by me in an op-shop this arvo, for one dollar.

x 

20 comments:

  1. Stunning pics, Kylie. I've been scrolling up and down the page too to have more peaks. xx

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  2. There's a beach house along the coast road here which looks uncannily similar to the house in the first photo. And now someone has pulled down another old house in the same road and is building something almost identical to the other modern edifice. Funny thing is, I thought these designs were relatively contemporary but no, looky there....they're just copycats of the past.

    Nice though - very nice.

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  3. Oooh, I'd love to get my paws on a book like that!! They sure knew how to add some seriously stylish glamour back there in the 70s:-) Great post, Kylie!

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  4. Ooh, super-stylish pools! But are you SURE that's a leaf in the first pool, and not something far more unpleasant? Just wonderin'... Trust me to lower the tone. xxxx

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  5. Love the converted barn pool with the copper fireplace. Amazing! What a great book score for $1! Nice one. Have a great weekend. : )

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  6. If you're not already familiar with it, check out the Donnell House pool terrace by Thomas Church. Built in America in 1948 but really stands the test of time I think - it's one of my faves.

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  7. What a find this book was.
    They look very similar to many of the houses in magazines these days.
    x

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  8. swimming in the 70's for me was at the beach haha I wonder how many people had a pool then? then again I suppose pools aren't very popular in England, what with the lack of sun!!

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  9. Yes. Yes. Yes. It is so good. xx

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  10. O, how bloody heavenly! I'd float happily around any of these with a huge Pina Colada in hand! XXX

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  11. I really dig the 70s. Much more than the 50s and 60s even. The 70s was just so ... 70s. There's a cracker 70s house on the market at the moment, but of course I have a 70s budget! Keep up the scanning!

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  12. oh my!!...why am I loving all the brickwork so much??...I never knew!...a turd in pic 1??...from what pray tell, its rather large!....sack the pool boy!
    scan more please....I could perve on this stuff all day long xx

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  13. Neato. But what really struck me is how similar the designs are to current stuff, that you see in Perth anyway. All that glass and brickwork.... Maybe the whole retro thing has entered the common design vernacular to a point that we don't even notice it any more???

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  14. I love the first one! Glad the bag arrived safe.

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  15. One well spent dollar for the amount of pleasure, the dome pool is amazing.

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  16. Kylie, don't stop with the scanning, I'm addicted. I just keep looking at them again and again to decide which one I want to live in the most. They are gorgeous. And for a dollar, that has to be the bargain of the year! xxx

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  17. You know I just figured out what I love most about the 60's/ 70's pools. It's not the shape to the finishes although they help but it's those dang funky steel bars to help heave your dripping be frilled bathing suited body out of the blue. I want a set on my pool to set it off...and maybe one of those houses too.

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  18. your imagination running riot, i guess a number 2 'd have sunk? i dunno...

    all of this stunningness makes me wanna go for a swim. ..
    n♥

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  19. Last one in is a rotten retro egg!
    What a great find! x

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