Playbill

September, 2010

Fifty years ago in Architects' Jour­nal, the critic and design historian Reyner Banham revealed himself to be a reader and fan of playboy. He enjoyed the feminine curves, he said. But he was equally impressed with the modern furni­ture featured in the magazine, as well as the "plans and perspectives" of bachelor pads we christened the Playboy Penthouse and Playboy's Weekend Hideaway, "neither of them by any designers you have ever heard of, but none the worse for that, and conside...