In previous stories, I’ve chronicled the history of Oregon’s land-use system, and how it affects the state we live in today. “Just like we were a leader in thinking about preserving farmland forestland,” she tells me, “I believe that in the future, we’re going to be a leader in housing equity.”
She’s the panel’s first Black member, and she’s passionate about providing housing - including for marginalized Oregonians. She chairs the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission, which oversees the state’s growth system.
Hallovà has a big stake in how cities - and the state - grow. “A big focus of what I’m interested in,” she says, “is how do we unlock the potential of a lot of the vacant land in our cities.” She imagines denser urban areas less divided by race and income. She wants to grow more homes in existing neighborhoods - lots of them. It doesn’t matter if it’s a backyard or a weedy empty lot. Hallovà seems to see opportunity everywhere she looks. It frees up older buildings to essentially start reducing their pricing because they have competition from new buildings.” “The deal is, the more supply we have, the more affordability. She even defends an old apartment building that’s seen better days.Īnyeley Hallovà chairs the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission, which oversees the state’s growth system. She praises a new eight-unit apartment building that is set back from the street so it doesn’t overwhelm the single-family homes on either side. She sees a lot more on the walk that pleases her. “It’s set in the back, beautiful architecture, well-scaled has a beautiful garden in front of it.” “You might not have noticed it if we walked by,” Hallovà says. She says she’s impressed by how seamlessly the new house was added to the existing property. She’s periodically stopped by as a second house was under construction in the backyard.
#Space age chair portable#
Alongside the pioneering moon missions, JVC manufactured the Videosphere portable television reminiscent of the Apollo 11 space helmets.Īlthough the style faded in the 1970s - with the 1975 joining of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts signaling a new era of cooperation and the global oil crisis impacting the availability of plastics - the era’s innovations influenced designers into the 21st century such as Zaha Hadid and Djivan Schapira.įind a collection of vintage Space Age seating, tables, lighting and other furniture on 1stDibs.Anyeley Hallovà and I are walking in her inner Northeast Portland neighborhood on a drizzly spring day. Sometimes the nods to space exploration were more literal, like moon and star motifs or the 1965 Eclisse lamp by Vico Magistretti that saw the mid-century Italian designer integrating a movable inner shade to “eclipse” the light source. Smith, are considered a high point of modernism and the Southern California lifestyle. The futuristic Case Study Houses, which were designed by the likes of Pierre Koenig, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra and Whitney R.
The Space Age spirit extended to home building too. Today, Joe Colombo is revered as a master of modern Italian design thanks to the provocative modular furniture pieces he created, such as the Tube chair and the Elda armchair, both of which embody the future-forward spirit of the Space Age. Red versions of Olivier Mourgue’s 1964 Djinn chair were futuristic enough to appear on the space station in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair, which debuted in 1966, used molded fiberglass for a capsule-like space while Verner Panton’s 1959 Panton chair was a single piece of molded plastic for a gravity-defying S shape. Space Age design encompassed fashion, architecture, cars, furniture and objects for the home, bringing wonder and hope for the future into everyday life.Ĭoinciding with Pop art, Space Age style featured bold colors and forms. Vintage Space Age furniture captured post–World War II optimism with swooping shapes, bowed lines and experimentation with new materials including plastic and fiberglass.įrom the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 to the landing of Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon in 1969, the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States propelled advancements in technology that transformed culture.
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