Honoured to have been part of a beautiful and emotional day at Piperdam with Abi and Nobby. Our last wedding of 2015 ended with a bang! Thankfully not the love balloon. Here’s a small selection of our faves. Scroll to the bottom for coverage of the whole day.(Image credit: Better Homes and Gardens) Maybe it's because I grew up in the 80s and never had to experience it firsthand, but I have a strange fascination with the interior design of the 70s. There are strange shapes, strange colors, strange things that you never thought you would see in an home, but there they are, bold and unabashed. In the 1970s, interior design reached a level of raw exuberance that has never been equaled since. I had a lot of fun (a whole, whole lot of fun) gathering together these examples of the worst (or the BEST?) excesses of the 70s. Take a tour with me of 10 interiors so outlandish they couldn't possibly be real — but they were. Whether these spaces are magical or horrifying or horrifyingly magical is entirely up to the beholder.
Above: If your houseplants match your bedspread which matches your wallpaper which matches your striped shades which match your carpet deep enough for a toddler to get lost in, you might be living in the 70s. This delightful space occured in a 70s-era issue of Better Homes and Gardens. Spotted on Creative Pro. (Image credit: Better Homes and Gardens) Also from vintage Better Homes and Gardens, via Creative Pro, is... this. They've gone to plaid. The dark ceiling (or is that a mirrored ceiling?) is a little bit opium den, but I'm kinda diggin this. And look at the books! Honestly, if you were to tone down the colors a bit and get rid of the carpeting, I could totally see this in a modern house. Better Homes and Gardens via Creative Pro. (Image credit: Inside Today's Home) One of my favorite things about the 70s is the way designers played with alternative kinds of seating, resulting in installations like this one, which straddles the boundary between furniture and architecture.
Covering the whole thing, of course, is that iconic shag carpeting. From Inside Today's Home (1975) via AnOther Mag. (Image credit: Bloomingdale's Book of Home Decorating) This is from a decorating book, and presumably is not anyone's actual house, although it would be pretty awesome if it were. Besides the pink lighting, there's also the low-slung plastic (?) furniture with a black racing stripe. Try finding anything that cool in stores now. From Bloomingdale's Book of Home Decorating, via Dry Dock Shop. (Image credit: House and Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration) The ceiling-mounted daybed and the diagonally-oriented geometric painting make this living room from House and Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration (1970) distinctly badass. I would not change a thing. Crazy graphics painted on the wall was also a big thing in the 70s. Best if they matched the sofa. And the baby grand piano. Compared to the other stuff we've seen here, this interior is positively restrained, but the lucite tables and curvy, womblike furniture still give it a bit of wacky 70s flair.
From House and Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration (1970) via Dry Dock Shop. (Image credit: Architectural Digest) And the madness didn't end at the kitchen. This 70s kitchen features cane-printed wallpaper, lime green appliances, and, inexplicably, a rocking horse. From Architectural Digest via The Atomic House. (Image credit: Austria Architects) And while these interiors may seem wild to us, in the world of high design there were even crazier things afoot. One of my very favorite things to come out of the 70s was this installation by designer Verner Panton, who sought to completely redefine the way we think about interiors. To that end he created this wonderfully whacktacular space at the Cologne furniture fair in 1970, where visitors could recline on crazy, undulating shapes that were half furniture and half amoeba. (Image credit: Panton World) For those interested in re-creating the look at home Panton created the Living Tower, a small (ish) version of the installation that you could set up in your own home.
Here, the designer and some of his friends recline on one, in an image from Panton World. The living towers are still being made by Vitra, and I will confess that I really, really want one, even though they cost 14 thousand dollars. What do you think? Does 70s design speak to some place, deep in your soul, that craves the funk? Do you feel repulsed but also strangely drawn to this kind of design? Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books. Round Rock Book Company Author interviews, book reviews, editors picks, and more. The Training of the Twelve FREE Shipping on orders over . DetailsThe Training of the Twelve: Discussion and Study Guide for the Book by A.B. Bruc FREE Shipping on orders over .
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He was born at Aberargie near Perth, Scotland. His father suffered for his adherence to the Free Church at the Disruption of 1843, and moved to Edinburgh, where Alexander was educated, showing exceptional ability from the first. His early religious doubts, awakened especially by David Strauss's Life of Jesus, made him throughout life sympathetic with those who underwent a similar stress. After serving as assistant first at Ancrum, then at Lochwinnoch, he was called to Cardross in Dumbartonshire (now Dunbartonshire) in 1859, and to Broughty Ferry in 1868. There he published his first notable exegetical work, the Training of the Twelve. In 1874 he delivered his Cunningham Lectures, afterwards published as The Humiliation of Christ, and in the following year was appointed to the chair of Apologetics and New Testament exegesis at the Free Church College, Glasgow, a post he held for twenty-four years. He was one of the first British New Testament scholars whose work was received favourably in Germany.
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