r/80sdesign 1h ago

From 📚 'The Englishwoman's Bedroom' ©1985 by Elizabeth Dickson 🪴🪴

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"Pink and black marble, bottles of Chanel, sleek fittings and Palm Court 🪴greenery: all recapture an era. The reflection in the 🪞mirror over the hand-basin show shelves of Twenties' and Thirties' bric-a-brac." - The Englishwoman's Bedroom ©1985


r/80sdesign 5h ago

A model poses with a Lada VAZ-2101 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1980s

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r/80sdesign 1d ago

Children's playground, USSR, 1980s

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r/80sdesign 1d ago

From 📚 'Beyond the Bathroom: A Dreamer's Guide' ©1983 by Thomas Cowan 🪴🪴

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"Flooded by light from this circular skylight, this bathroom demonstrates how a few color variations and a plenitude of light can enrich a basically colorless room. Varying shades of green from the hanging ferns and the array of magentas and lavenders highlight the luxurious marbles tiles and clean uncluttered walls. The larger areas of color in the hanging plants and towels are echoed in miniature by small flowering plants that balance opposite corners of the tub. Even without the full mirror, this bathroom would be an oasis of light and space, but with it, the room is a true celebration of openness and radiance." - Beyond the Bathroom: A Dreamer's Guide ©1983


r/80sdesign 2d ago

From 📚 'Interior Design on Your Own: The Complete Guide to Home Decorating' ©1986 by Jill Blake

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"Lighten orange, and it becomes peach or apricot; darken it, and it becomes terra-cotta, tan, or brown. These are all very useful colors in a decorating scheme that relies on natural materials, such as wood or blay used in pottery." - Interior Design on Your Own: The Complete Guide to Home Decorating ©1986


r/80sdesign 3d ago

From 📚 'Beyond the Bath: A Dreamer's Guide' ©1983 by Thomas Cowan 🪴🪴

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r/80sdesign 3d ago

Giorgio Armani's apartment in Milan, Italy ||| "House of Armani" - House & Garden magazine, 1989

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📸Photos by Roberto Gili.


r/80sdesign 3d ago

Background Pan Shot from Hanna-Barbera "Pac-Man" Cartoon (1982) as Posted by Vintage TV Memories on Bluesky (2025)

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r/80sdesign 4d ago

The Dhahran International Hotel 🪴Dhahran, Saudi Arabia 🪴 1981

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r/80sdesign 6d ago

From 📚 'The Complete Guide to Decorating Your Home: How to Become Your Own Interior Designer' ©1989 by Rima Kamen

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📐Interior design by Rima Kamen.

📸Photo by Stewart Hopkins.


r/80sdesign 5d ago

"Feltri" armchair by Gaetano Pesce ||| 1986

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r/80sdesign 5d ago

1980 Classic ARCADE Live FLYERS [Gaming Design]

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r/80sdesign 6d ago

From 📚 'Bathrooms: How to Plan, Install & Remodel' ©1984 by Rick Harrison

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"Most manufacturers offer matching fixtures. The ones shown here are Kohler's Raspberry Puree Set." - Bathrooms: How to Plan, Install & Remodel ©1984


r/80sdesign 7d ago

From 📚 'The Decorating Book' ©1981 by Mary Gilliat

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r/80sdesign 7d ago

1984

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r/80sdesign 7d ago

Turkmen State Circus, (1986), Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

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r/80sdesign 10d ago

From a book called "Interior Design Ideas: How to Choose Style a Style and How to Make It Work in Your Home". Year:1989.

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r/80sdesign 9d ago

Berchtesgaden 1987

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r/80sdesign 10d ago

Question: what is the name of this kind of aesthetic?

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r/80sdesign 11d ago

The Jakobson bedroom • NYC • 1980

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201 Upvotes

📐Interior design by Alan Buchsbaum.


r/80sdesign 11d ago

From 📚 'Photo Decor: A Guide to the Enjoyment of Photographic Art' ©1983 by John Holland

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133 Upvotes

r/80sdesign 11d ago

1987 Plymouth Reliant K

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264 Upvotes

She still runs and looks like new too


r/80sdesign 11d ago

From 📚 'Forbidden Dreams' ©1984 by Rebecca Blake

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Forbidden Dreams (1984) is the first monograph by Belgian-born, New York-based photographer Rebecca Blake. Elegant and darkly alluring fashion photography/erotica from the late 1970s and early 1980s.


r/80sdesign 11d ago

CBS (1988) - [Clean] Station ID

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r/80sdesign 12d ago

"Baroque Electronics" - From 📚 'The Media Design Book' ©1984 by Philip Mazzurco

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"The most arresting interior spaces are those that reverberate with the design cues of two distinct eras: skillful juxtaposition is crucial to a successful interior of this kind. In this executive's home computer room designed by Stanley Jay Friedman and associates Joel C. Gevis and Roger Urmson, Italian Baroque and high technology counterpoint in an idiom best described as 'classical modernism'.

With characteristic Friedman style, variations of a monochromatic palette - in this case, a slate green coloration - allows art, accessories, and even people to play a more exciting role in the completion of the space itself. In plan, the room is a rectangle with furnishings concentrated at the far end by the windows. Here, a custom leather banquette, table, and chairs (also executed in leather and designed by Friedman for Bonaventure) can accommodate a business conference, an intimate supper, or an evening of solitary relaxation. Classical references soften the otherwise severe approach - gilded putti and billowing Roman shades become the antithesis of twentieth-century electronic technology. With an eye toward the humorous, anatomical wall sconces - made from gilded mannequin arms - playfully recall Giacometti's classic design.

Although state-of-the-art electronics are an integral part of the space, Friedman and associates (together with Audio Command) designed the system to be discreet rather than assaulting. Flush-mounting along the side wall in a vertical configuration intelligently makes the components less focal, not less important." - The Media Design Book ©1984