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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>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>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/03/harp-design/</link>
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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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		<title>Clement Meadmore furniture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went searching for lamps like the one in the advertisement in the previous post, and found this:

in an online catalogue from Shapiro Auctioneers. The description suggests it&#8217;s likely to have been designed by Clement Meadmore, a famous Australian-American sculptor, who was designing furniture in the early 1950s. You may have seen his sculpture at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/clement-meadmore-furniture/</link>
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		<title>Those vintage bedspreads&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Retro Renovation (a blog of which I am a huge fan, oh my goodness the eye candy) has a new post up about upholstered bedspreads for the mid-century modern bedroom which you can buy from the site linked in the post. I had this post in my queue but thought I&#8217;d bump it up as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/those-vintage-bedspreads/</link>
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		<title>The Colorful Home &#8211; vintage Australian home renovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many companies released &#8220;advertorial&#8221; brochures in the years after World War Two, as soon as restrictions were lifted and regular supply of things like paints and fabrics was resumed. Taubmans, an Australian paint company, released this lovely booklet &#8211; The Colorful Home by Anne Stewart. [There was a trend in the 40s to use American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.harplounge.com/2010/02/the-colorful-home-vintage-australian-home-renovation/</link>
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