http://www.ultraswank.net Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:56:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ultraswank.net/film/airport/ http://www.ultraswank.net/film/airport/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:27:21 +0000 Jesse Kowalski http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=3234 The first of its kind, Airport set the standard for the disaster films of the 1970s. Films such as The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and my favorite – Rollercoaster (1977) collected A-list, B-list, and C-list movie stars and put them into some pretty crummy situations. But their pain is our pleasure; the [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/film/airport/feed/ 2 http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinens-jfk-terminal/ http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinens-jfk-terminal/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:14:56 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1846 The JFK Trans World Airlines (TWA) terminal was designed by the great Eero Saarinen. Built in a very modernist and expressionistic style it was finished in 1962 and set the standard for how modern jet travel was perceived back in its glory days. The Museum of the City of New York had a exhibition about [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinens-jfk-terminal/feed/ 6 http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/welcome-to-fabulous-los-angeles-jetport/ http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/welcome-to-fabulous-los-angeles-jetport/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:10:16 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1343 This is Los Angeles International Airport (Jetport), it was built in the late 1950s and was at the time one of the biggest airports in America. They first envisioned it to be even bigger in the anticipation of the “jet age” with lots of terminals and buildings connected through a huge steel-and-glass dome building but [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/travel/welcome-to-fabulous-los-angeles-jetport/feed/ 9 http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinen/ http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinen/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:21:00 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/uncategorized/eero-saarinen/ This is a continuation of my posts about my favourite architects from the golden days of architecture (this one is for you janepeepshow). Second up is Eero Saarinen, originally born in Finland in 1910. Relocated to the United States when his family emigrated there in 1923, where he began to study sculpture and furniture design. [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/architecture/eero-saarinen/feed/ 3