Mid-Century Modern Aficionado's Modernism Week 2013--Talk of the Town in Palm Springs

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Come Valentines Day, mid-century (that's the 20th) is the talk of the town in Palm Springs as storekeepers and modern aficionados begin a week of showing off anything and everything that's made or looks to be made in the period between 1920s and the 1980s. From Art Deco to 1980s chrome-and-glass, the Palm Springs Modernism Week doesn't miss a beat.

This over-the-top, enthusiastic conversation has become a hipster international-speak, where people from all over the world to experience the Disneyesque mid-century modern celebration in Palm Springs, the center of the world for this sort of thing. 

About a decade ago it was just a gathering of venders from all over the United States coming to sell their mid-twentieth century modern wares. Today, it's a week-long event with activities (dozens of them), tours, modernism sale and lectures.

As for the digital art above, it's a piece constructed from a television set in the store  The Modern Way. (The modern TV set is quintessential for the purist mid-century modern collector.) It's one of the most incredible ones I've ever seen in a store that's filled with authentic mid-century modern wares from furnishings to accessories.


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