California Surfing And Climbing In The Fifties towel • Back pocket hidden zip

• Back pocket hidden zip

The Design of Retreat explores different types of outdoor retreats designed by and owned by leading names in the interior design world

Because these are hand crafted

Living with and by the tides

It is deeply penetrative

California Surfing And Climbing In The Fifties towel • Back pocket hidden zipThe story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsa wood boards were replaced with lightweight ones