Rare Collectible Vintage Travel Trailer Ash Tray NR Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 10.49 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, November 28, 2008 End Time Friday, December 05, 2008 Location Petaluma, California See more about 'Rare Collectible Vintage Travel Trailer Ash Tray NR ' Description Cool turq boomerang retro Ash tray Jetson 1950's 1960's type Very neat look for the vintage travel trailer decor. Ash tray aprox  6" long. Architecture in the sixties was undergoing  a refinement of Modernism and a move to an even more streamlined contemporary look. Tall buildings or skyscrapers created a distinctly American structural type.  Architects such as Philip Johnson, and  John Burgee, of Johnson & Burgee  (Kline Biological Tower), are some of the architects who designed office buildings which helped create a different look for the skylines of large cities.  Architects used light and space, for example the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library by I.M. Pei , to create buildings which were adapted for the activities which took place in them.  The influence of space and futuristic design was apparent in some public buildings like the  NASA complex at Houston, Texas .  Eero Saarinen created the  Memorial Arch in St. Louis, Missouri  in 1965.   Walter Gropius  designed the  Pan Am Building  (now called the Met Life Building) in 1963 with Pietro Belluschi and Emery Rothe & Sons.  Louis I. Kahn in his Kimbell Art Museum  of Ft. Worth and other buildings brought a feeling of austerity to American architecture.   Robert Venturi wrote  Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture  in 1966 and called for a change in the reductive simplicity of Modernism, beginning a protest in the late 60's. Perhaps one of the most well known and influential architects whose career began to rise in the sixties is  I. M. Pei .  Peter Eisenman and  Frank O. Gehry  are architects who have become world famous for their distinctive designs and who began making names for themselves during this time.  Designers like Herman Miller left their mark on furnishings.    Sleek contemporary  styles like those by Verner Panton have translated  well into future decades of furniture. ART As in the fifties, art in America of the sixties was influenced by the desire to move into the modern age or future which the space age seemed to forecast.  Major works by  Alexander Calder  (mobiles and sculpture) or Helen Frankenthaler  (non-representational art) showed a desire to escape from  details to interpret.  Artists wanted to inspire the viewer to leap into the unknown and experience art in their own way. A new artist who appeared was  Andy Warhol, a leading name in pop art.  Other forms evolving during this time were  assemblage art,  op art (or optical art) (ex. Vasarely ), or kinetic abstraction (ex.  Marcel Duchamp ), environmental art   (ex. Robert Smithson), and  pop art     We are commited to customer satisfaction.We sell a full line of items from victorian to deco and beyond.We collect vintage travel trailers and try to find unique trailer and classic car related items. Please see our store for other items such as hot rod and motorcycle shirtsDid you know…An ashtray is a receptacle used by smokers to deposit the ash and butts of cigarettes and cigars. Many ashtrays feature three notches at the edges, two of which correspond to the width of a cigarette and one to that of the diameter of a cigar. These notches serve as rests for the cigarette(s) or cigar while still burning. The simplest, most common ashtray design is that of a circle with a hollow cylindrical rim around a flat surface, similar to a drinking container such as a glass or cup but larger in diameter and much more shallow. However, this is not the only design of ashtrays: they are widespread homeware, therefore designs are plentiful and occasionally kitschy. Other variations include car ashtrays, and those in toilets or other public places, provided by councils for the purpose of keeping towns and cities clean. In Spain, some ashtrays consist of two interlocking parts, the bottom of which is filled with water to extinguish ash and mute its smell. Ashtrays are typically manufactured from glass, stoneware, porcelain or metals such as silver or aluminium; however, some are made of wood, marble, or clay. Some ashtrays are branded with the logo of a company (such as a cigarette manufacturer) for the purpose of promotion. Ashtrays of the late 1940s to early 1970s were freeform vehicles for Googie styling. As part of a table setting during the 1950s and 1960s, small personal ashtrays were commonly placed on the top right-hand side, behind the wine and water glasses.   Place a Bid!