Vintage antique Kochs barber chair
$509.99 (7/29/07) Congrats luv2sell!
7/31/07
7/30/07
Details, Barry McGee
Hand-engraved and painted electrical outlet covers on the floor of Gallery 7 at the Walker Art Center exhibition Regards: Barry McGee (1998).
More: Barry McGee, Artist-in-Residence
More: Video tour of the exhibition
7/29/07
What once was lost, Now is found
For a couple years I've watched Mark from Lost Found Art grow his collection of collections of unusual, practical, and otherwise beautiful objects. I'm glad to see he's getting some well deserved press — a full-page shoutout in the current issue of Dwell. [Lost Found Art]
Back again for the third time
7/28/07
Craftsman Mr. Shoichi Watanabe
"
There is no employer,
he has to started own his work.
He had gotten the way
how to build up more and more.
He has no master.
Every job teach him technique,
little money with cold sweat.
His works is the own way.
He likes traditional style.
He likes tough material. Not suitable nylon.
He likes thick cotton duck.
He likes vegetable tanned leather.
He likes the fine make.
He likes to grow old beauty.
"
More: Mr. Shoichi Watanabe
More: How to Custom Made
Umbrella Stands
Carl Aubock, c. 1948, brass and iron (top)
Angle Steel Inc. stool, up side down (bottom)
7/27/07
134 sheets of plywood
Popular Mechanics, Jan 1958
Plywood Dome Will Serve As Church in Korea
Source: Modern Mechanix
7/26/07
7/25/07
Emory Douglas
Black Panther
The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
edited by Sam Durant
designed by Lorraine Wild
7/24/07
7/23/07
HOBART MODEL 410 MEAT SLICER
Designed around 1940 by Egmont Arens (designer of the KitchedAid stand mixer) & Theodore Brookhart. [eBay]
7/20/07
Beautiful Use
Have a look at the new White Columns website, one of the nicest that our friends at Project Projects have designed.
[whitecolumns.org; projectprojects.com]
Two Handled Bucket (for safety)
"A good sized bucket which is ideal to be left in bucket holder brackets overnight as there is no metal handle to cause injury to livestock. Our Marketing Department pondered long and hard for several weeks before coming up with the imaginative name! Makes a really nice small tree planter and remember, Tyre Rubber is frost proof too!"
Faulks & Company [faulks.co.uk]
BOOK: Die Frau Als schöpferin
Bruno Taut
Die Neue Wohnung: Die Frau Als Schöpferin
Leipzig, Germany
Verland Von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1925
Designed by Johannes Molzahn
Beautiful cover and dustjacket on this book about women and the modern house.
7/19/07
Nice things from Truck
7/18/07
7/17/07
TWO COVERS
John McAndrew, editor
Guide to Modern Architecture: Northeast States
Museum of Modern Art, New York
First edition(s), 1940
<7/16/07
7/14/07
Gut a Book for It's Cover
Etsy seller tylerbender takes vintage hardcovers and makes journals and sketchbooks out of their covers, filling them with plain, lined and other recycled printed materials. $35.00 and up. [etsy]
BOOK: by Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy
Never Leave Well Enough Alone
Simon & Schuster, New York
First Edition, 1951
BOOKS: On my desk
136 Points of Reference is highly recommended and also happens to be very much in the spirit of this blog. The editors of Folk Archive confess that "for everything we have included there are a hundred objects or events that we have left out through ignorance or our own preferences". I feel the same way about Reference Library. The Herbert Collection: Works and Documents is another one; I've only flipped through it once, but I would like to have another look. The Spirited Art of Sister Corita never fails to inspire. The Mennonites is nice, but not great. Jessica Stockholder has a good selection of her installations and sculptures, which I like very much. Yayoi Kusama is awesome. The Complete Rhyming Dictionary "comes in handy," says Andy.
And that Letterpress book is also very nice.
7/13/07
BOOK: "Heavenly Visions"
Heavenly Visions:
Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs
France Morin, editor/curator
The Drawing Center, UCLA Hammer Museum,
University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Nicely designed collection of drawings, song manuscripts and other beautifully lettered texts from the 1840s–60s, all inspired by the unique beliefs and practices of the Shakers.
BOOK: by AJW & Barry McGee
Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Barry McGee
The Broken Down Mysterious Doors of the Impossible
Self-published, 2002
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Lump Gallery in Raleigh, NC. Awesome tag-team artist book of screen-printed, photocopied and collaged pages; the center spread unfolds into a screen-printed and spray-painted poster. I purchased this copy at a Space 1026 benefit auction, along with one of the original drawings used in the book. (Not for sale.)
Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a founding member of Space 1026 and hugely underrated. I like Barry McGee's portraits and patterns just like everyone else — but he really got me at the Walker Art Center exhibition Regards: Barry McGee where he had the outlet covers on the gallery floor hand engraved.
BOOK: "The Body Beautiful"
The Body Beautiful
Vol. 3, 1937
Heyworth Campbell, editor
Dodge Publishing Company, New York
I posted this book in May, but it's worth mentioning again. And again, and again. I would like that girl to dive into my bookshelf. I pulled these photos from eBay a couple years ago.
7/12/07
Handle With Care
In response to Kelly's appreciation of the Aalto house: this door handle of bronze and woven leather in Alvar Aalto's Maison Louis Carré, built in 1956–59, about 40km outside of Paris. Photo of door handle is from an old Wallpaper, I think.
More: Maison Louis Carré at alvaraalto.fi
Spoon
In response to recent spooning [here], this is my one favorite, hand-carved by awesome Kirk McCall and given to me on my birthday in 2001.
More: Kirk McCall on mnartists.org
BOOK: "New York"
William Klein
New York
Editions Du Seuil, Paris
1956, First Edition
Life is good & good for you in New York. Like Ed van der Elsken, William Klein spent the early 1950s in Paris. After six years there, he was brought back to New York by Vogue who commissioned him to shoot the city and fashion for the magazine. The result was New York (1956), a fantastic collection of photographs. This particular copy includes the original sales brochure and is available from Bondi Books.
7/11/07
BOOK: "foto-jazz"
Ed van der Elsken
foto-jazz
Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung
1959, First (German) Edition
I'm going to be book crazy around here for the next few days, posting about old favorites, new finds, beautiful covers and our own library. First off is this beauty by our second favorite Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken. Foto-jazz is a sick collection of grainy jazz masters and their fans, shot between 1951 and 1958. This is the German edition, published in 1959, the same year as the Dutch original, Jazz. Photo (and this copy) from Bondi Books. [eBay]
I've also got eyes for his 1966 superbook, Sweet Life — designed by Ed with typography by Wim Crouwel, it's one of the Reference Library's favorites.
UPDATE: K. Cooper-Kordylewski fills in the blanks: a reprint of Jazz is scheduled to be released on August 1. Visit your local bookshop at the end of the summer and take 97% off the price of a first edition.
7/10/07
What once was lost, now is found.
Items I Didn't Win (Spring 2006):
Creative Playthings blocks and plywood arches
Car designed by Kay Bojesen
Items I Did Win (April 2007):
Creative Playthings blocks and plywood arches
Playforms car designed by Antonio Vitali
7/9/07
eBay: "INTERIORS" MAGAZINES 1953–1969
Twenty-eight volumes contain 170 issues of Interiors. Opening bid: $3,900.00 [eBay]
Margaret's Stamps
Vintage stamps from the Reference Library's collection used on an invitation to a Massachusetts wedding. Invitations designed by Bird & Banner.
Click photo to see the whole envelope.
7/8/07
7/7/07
Oscar Stonorov 1946 Prefab house
Steel prefab house designed by Oscar Stonorov was manufactured in 1946 by William Harmon and assembled in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The three bedroom house has been disassembled and saved by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia. And as far as I know, is still available to an appropriate new owner, someone willing to restore and protect the house for public benefit.
7/6/07
7/5/07
What the man should wear
A man should wear nothing to bed—what better place for disclosure? When he’s in streets a man should wear composure, as a tailored shirt fits close to the skin. Nobody admires agitation in another fellow. Assurance assures.
A man should wear dignity, like a worsted suit, sound of seam and appropriate for all occasions: grave doubts, triumphs, mean mistakes. Show respect, Mister, your human station is a high one, and a gift.
A man should wear kindness as proof against inclemency. Every man is accountable to men—to women!—wherefore let us celebrate public displays of goodwill: help grandmother across the street; give away your umbrella in a drench.
A man should wear knowledge, woven on a loom of action, but wear it lightly as summer linen, not lord it over others: everyone can’t know what you know.
A man should wear a watch: life is urgent. “In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success and failure,” said Malcolm X, as distinguished a man as any. He had no patience for those who didn’t wear watches, “…for this type is not time-conscious.” In other words, pay attention to the transit of our sun.
Cock-a-doodle-doo—the rooster crows in his own plume and flash, a prick of pique and strut. What is the man who doesn’t wear pique and strut? A man.
—Alex Heminway [via Mister Mort]
7/4/07
7/3/07
Abel Sorenson for Knoll
One of my favorite chairs, the 703 WAC (Webbed Arm Chair), was designed by Abel Sorenson, and produced for only one year, 1945-46. Sorenson came to the United States in 1938 and worked in the offices of Oscar Stonorov and Louis Kahn before designing furniture for Hans and Florence Knoll.
7/1/07
MADE ARCHITECTS
Nice bathroom in (Julianne Moore's) townhouse, restored by MADE Architects. Click for more.
Holztier des Schweizer Designers Antonio Vitali Naef?
123.00 EUR (7/1/07)
Designed by Antonio Vitali.
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