Design, How We Live Furniture pieces that we'd call Mid-Century Modern classics today, were just sitting in regular families' houses 70 years ago.

"There's a Peanuts cartoon strip from the '50s that drives this point home. Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty—quintessential middle-class American children—are sitting in a living room, listening to old records, including 'Old Rockin' Chair's Got Me.' "Charles M. Schulz didn't portray them precisely, but the chair at left is most certainly the Eames LCW. In the corner, the Hardoy chair (colloquially referred to as the Butterfly or BKF Chair) designed by architects Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and briefly produced by Knoll. And the piece at right probably references the Barwa lounge chair designed and produced by Edgar Bartolucci and John Waldheim." - Rain Noe Article: Charlie Brown Lived in a World of Mid-Century Modern Furniture Related Article: Design Classics Of The Future. Experts Suggest A Few Recent Products That May Stick Around For Generations To Come.