5. Wow With Wood The real estate developer Joseph Eichler (1900-1974) helped to popularize the mid-century modern look in the United States, building houses in the style across California ...

Peter Spalding, a designer in Portland, Ore., would use this painterly indigo paper, Hand Prints, Juliette’s Bedroom Wallpaper, to line a dining room, as a dramatic modern backdrop for grandma ...