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	<title>The Harp Lounge</title>
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	<description>Vintage all the way to retro</description>
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		<title>Australian 1950s interior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is from an advertising booklet for a paint company. It features what you might call the Australian version of &#8220;mid-century modest&#8220;, those post-war red brick or weatherboard homes that have an unfortunate tendency these days to be demolished and have an unpleasant McMansion replace them.
Herre&#8217;s a sitting room with the ever-popular Venetian blinds, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent op shop finds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve bought heaps of glassware, which I&#8217;ll photograph later, but these are some of my favourites from the past few weeks:

Found at Salvos in Fyshwick, a Danish-style mid-century modern chest of drawers. It&#8217;s got solid teak trim and handles, and an unusual plywood veneer. One of the drawers is stamped inside with &#8220;Gainsborough&#8221; and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/03/recent-op-shop-finds-2/</link>
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		<title>1955 Twin Set &#8211; free knitting pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty twin set from My Home magazine&#8217;s 1955 Christmas edition. My Home was a British publication &#8220;for women who love their home&#8221;. I&#8217;ve compiled the pattern into a PDF to download.
Knitting pattern &#8211; 3.5mb PDF
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		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/03/1955-twin-set-free-knitting-pattern/</link>
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		<title>Harp design: gilded ornament to modern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harps aren&#8217;t furniture, they&#8217;re there to be played. But like pipe organs and harpsichords, there is a tradition of harps being decorative as well as incredible instruments. Marie Antoinette made the harp popular as a pastime for ladies, and this is what they were like back then:

Those harps are only about 155cm/5&#8242; tall and quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canberra, 1955: Home Beautiful special feature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my large pile of vintage home and fashion magazines, which I am slowly scanning my way through, there is this:

A March 1955 special feature on Canberra. Canberra was a relatively new city, and after WWII, modern architecture sprang up everywhere alongside the original Californian bungalows and (almost Arts and Crafts) cottages. There are many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/canberra-1955-home-beautiful-special-feature/</link>
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		<title>Vintage 1940s plus-size sewing pattern catalogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I found a very tattered old mid-1940s pattern catalogue at an antiques centre. What was unusual about it was that it featured outsize fashions, something you hardly ever see. I paid a bit too much for it considering the condition, but I balanced it out with a few bargains elsewhere!
It&#8217;s a Leach-Way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/vintage-1940s-plus-size-sewing-pattern-catalogue/</link>
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		<title>Ars gratia artis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fiddling about with Illustrator this evening, I made this, a tribute to 1950s abstract-atomic-biomorphic-pop art. It was inspired by a painting in the background of a Shag work.


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		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/ars-gratia-artis/</link>
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		<title>Vintage recipe: Coconut ice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coconut ice has long been a favourite sweet! Often found at school fetes and at CWA or any fundraising cake stall, it&#8217;s a delicious confection of desiccated coconut and sugar mixture. Traditionally white and pink &#8211; tinted with chochineal &#8211; adventurous cooks branched out into other colours when artificial food dyes became available. Fact: there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/vintage-recipe-coconut-ice/</link>
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		<title>Vintage harps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the Harp Lounge, after all.
Here&#8217;s an ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, date early-mid 1940s, I think, going by the pageboy hairstyle. A time when beer ads featured classy lassies wearing more than a bikini! (Artist placed the lady sitting way too far down the harp, incidentally. And sitting on the wrong side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/vintage-harps-2/</link>
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		<title>Australian Home Journal 1953 vintage fashion gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for a fashion parade! Here&#8217;s a collection of covers from the AHJ &#8211; all from 1953. Click on the covers to enlarge them.
First, February. A full-skirted dress with a wrap-style bodice; a girl&#8217;s cap-sleeve frock; a sleeveless tennis dress.

Next, March.Interesting foldover-sweetheart neckline dress with pleated detailing on the front; frock with gathered panel bodice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/australian-home-journal-1953-vintage-fashion-gallery/</link>
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