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Wed

Team Disney

Posted by Marlow Harris under Architecture, Popular Culture
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Disney Building Disney is not just for kids. When you visit any of the Disney theme parks or hotels, you’ll find buildings designed by some of the world’s leading architects.
Typically, theme park architecture is — well — thematic. Borrowing popular motifs from history and fairy tales, theme park buildings are designed to tell a story. At the Disney theme parks, the architects may
strive for historic authenticity and recreate historic buildings or
take a whimsical approach and exaggerate storybook images or
create subtle, abstract images.

Disneyland — Unreal Reality

Walt Disney World Architecture

The Swan and Dolphin by Michael Graves.

Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall in Architecture Week

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Sat

Sin In Linen

Posted by Marlow Harris under Home Decor, Popular Culture
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Sin in Linen Seattle 1
“Sandy Glaze spent months coaxing skeptical manufacturers to produce fabric printed with racy blond pinups for her one-woman operation, Sin in Linen.

So when factory managers in Alabama with “good Christian” employees saw the sexy fabric and refused to sew it into sheets, the persistent Glaze armed herself.

She took a book on pinup history to Alabama and assured factory managers that the pinup was an art form even featured on bombers in World War II.

Her fledgling bedding company was “flirty … not dirty,” she told them. She argued they were practically supporting today’s troops by making sheets with links to the military. They made her sheets.”

Sin in Linen from The Seattle Times, by Nicole Tsong

www.SinInLinen.com

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