Check out all of our new vintage Halloween holiday decorations in our Etsy shop!
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Get Ready for your Vintage Halloween Party!
Just sold: 1950s Curtiss Saf-T-Pops Halloween candy treats box. Very graphic vintage eye candy!
Labels:
1950s,
candy box,
graphic design,
Halloween,
mid-century,
trick-or-treat,
vintage
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Asian Modern: Swank Modern director, Niki, in front of a "Cambodia cool" modernist sculpture made using the four distinct Khmer rattan caning patterns used in traditional furniture and applied here to vibrant effect (Siem Reap).
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Just sold! Fab mid-century mod Xmas card tree. Check out more ultra-groovy vintage mid-century ornaments and mod pop Christmas decor from the 50s, 60s and 70s on our Etsy page!
Monday, November 2, 2015
Apocalypse later, Liberace now! Dig this vintage 60s, ultra high fidelity LP on the Dot Records label, with Libby grooving on (and in one case actually tap dancing to) pop hits like Born Free, Georgy Girl, and The Impossible Dream. Improbable dream? Maybe. Far out? Classical gas. Check out our our Etsy Shop and website for more cool vintage, mod pop essentials!
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Monday, December 1, 2014
Mod manger managerie! Check out these ultra-groovy vintage mid-century ornaments and other mod pop Christmas decorations from the 50s, 50s, 60s and 70s on our Holiday page!
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Monstruos! Vintage Mexican Horror & Sci-Fi Lobby Cards
Kicking off Halloween season with our new exhibition: Monstruos! Vintage Mexican Horror & Sci-Fi Lobby Cards from the M. Wright Collection.
Click here for the gory details!
Click here for the gory details!
Monday, September 15, 2014
Feature Article on Swank Modern in Desert Outlook Magazine
Check out this feature article about our Palm Springs home studio from the Sep 2014 issue of Desert Outlook magazine!
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Groovy Magic Kingdom Map
Just sold: It's a smile world after all! Like a giant Flair pen coloring book, this rainbow-hued map of Walt Disney World from the start of the 1970s was imagi-marketing at its hippy-dippy zenith. High or not, you can stare at this hand-drawn atlas of the Hippiest Place on Earth for hours and always discover some new detail.
Click here for more groovy vintage pop from the 60s and 70s!
Click here for more groovy vintage pop from the 60s and 70s!
Labels:
1970s,
Disney,
Disneyworld,
Flair pen,
Florida,
map,
peter max,
pop,
psychadelic
Friday, January 31, 2014
Astronaut Piggy Bank
Lift off! Wonder Bread kids growing up during the space race could save their pennies in this vintage extraterrestrial piggy bank. Dig the alien romance developing in the roiling rocket exhaust on the back!
Click here for more vintage space age craze!
Click here for more vintage space age craze!
Labels:
1960s,
aliens,
mid-century,
piggy bank,
pop,
rocket,
sci-fi,
space age,
vintage
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
MORE IS MORE: The Way of Sparkle by John Paul Hylton
Join us for our ho-ho-holiday exhibition of glittering masterworks by artist John Paul Hylton.
Click here to preview his works!
Labels:
exhibition,
gallery,
glitter,
kitsch,
modern art,
Palm Springs,
pop art
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
October is here!
Labels:
1950s,
1960s,
Art,
collectibles,
decor,
decorations,
Halloween,
mid-century modern,
posters,
spooky,
trick or treat,
vintage
Monday, July 8, 2013
Asian Modern Gem
Cambodia is full of surprising modernist gems, including this guardhouse and rain shelter with an exquisite boomerang-shaped cast concrete roof (now covered with moss and plants) at the Angkor Conservancy, Siem Reap.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Feelin' Groovy
Join us for our hippy, trippy exhibition, Day-glo Dreamscapes: Vintage Blacklight Posters of the American Pop Era.
Click here to dig the good vibrations!.
Labels:
1970s,
acid trip,
blacklight,
Charles Shultz,
day-glo,
flower power,
fluorescent,
graphic design,
head shop,
hippy,
pop art,
posters,
psychedelic,
Robert Crumb,
rock era,
ultraviolet,
UV,
vintage,
Woodstock
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Unclad Tidings: the Male Nude by Marcus Mok
Join us for our ho-ho-holiday exhibition: of sizzling portraits by Singaporean photographer, Marcus Mok.
Click here to preview his works!.
Friday, September 28, 2012
CINEPANIC! Vintage Thai Terror Posters
Join us for our horrific Halloween exhibition: CINEPANIC! Vintage Thai Terror Posters from the M. Wright Collection.
Click here to preview CINEPANIC!.
Labels:
cinema art,
Frankenstein,
Halloween,
horror,
movie posters,
terror films,
Thailand
Monday, January 2, 2012
Eyegasm! The Art of Thai Movie Posters


We're kicking off 2012 with a landmark pop culture exhibition coinciding with the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Eyegasm: the Art of Thai Movie Posters collects together some of the most beautiful, rare and eye-poppingly lurid movie posters ever created. Eighteen utterly unique graphic designs for films such as Apocalpyse Now, Tron, Dr. No, as well as Asian horror and fantasy movies are on display.
Click here to preview Eyegasm.
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