American Decades
Publications
Richard Horn, Fifties Style, Then and Now (New York: Beech Tree, 1985);
Peter Lewis, The Fifties (New York: Lippincott, 1958).
Architecture & Design
Joseph Alsop, "I'm Guilty! I Built a Modern House," Saturday Evening Post, 222 (20 May 1950): 31;
"Architectural Oscars," Time, 67 (16 April 1956): 86;
J. A. Barry, "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Liberated Architecture," House Beautiful, 97 (November 1955): 240-245;
J. Burchard and A. BushBrown, "100 Years of American Architecture," New York Times Magazine, 12 May 1957, pp. 26-27;
Cherie Fehrman and Kenneth Fehrman, Postwar Interior Design: 1945-1960 (New York: Reinhold, 1987);
O. Gueft, "Furniture—Decade of Modern: How It Grew," New York Times Magazine, part 2, 9 May 1958, pp. 54-55;
John A. Gunnell, ed., Standard Catalog of American Cars, 1946-1975 (Iola,...
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1950's Fashion
- Overview
- Topics in the News
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Headline Makers
- Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco" 1883-1971
- Dior, Christian 1905-1957
- Eames, Charles 1907-1978
- Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster, (Jr.) 1895-1983
- McCardell, Claire 1905-1958
- Norell, Norman 1900-1972
- Quant, Mary 1934-
- Saarinen, Eero 1910-1961
- St. Laurent, Yves 1936-
- Van Der Rohe, Ludwig Mies 1886-1969
- Wright, Frank Lloyd 1869-1959
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Fashion, 1950–1959
