Aug 042021
 

This book looks interesting:

Star Trek: Designing the Final Frontier: How Midcentury Modernism Shaped Our View of the Future

Celebrate Star Trek: The Original Series and the show’s distinctive Midcentury modern design that would change design– and television–forever. 

Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) was the first installment of one of the most successful and longest-running television franchises of all time. Today, Trek fans champion its writing, progressive social consciousness, and aesthetic. Designing the Final Frontier is a unique, expert look at the mid-century modern design that created and inspired that aesthetic. From Burke chairs to amorphous sculptures, from bright colors to futuristic frames, Star Trek TOS is bursting with mid-century modern furniture, art, and design elements—many of them bought directly from famous design showrooms.

Together, midcentury modern design experts Dan Chavkin and Brian McGuire have created an insider’s guide to the interior of original starship Enterprise and beyond, that is sure to attract Star Trek’s thriving global fan base.

After the atrocities of STD and STP I’m not sure the Trek fanbase is “thriving,” but some of us are old enough to be fans of TOS.


 

But if you can only buy one book on Amazon, buy ten copies of this:

It seems to be available there now, though there are as yet no reviews. Plus, the price seems to jump all over the place.

Note: I’m hoping to finish up the 18X24 CAD diagram prints in the next day or two for those who want signed copies. Sorry it’s taken so long… I’m *still* buried under the B-47/52 project.

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