4.3.11
Retro Kitchen Table & Chairs Printers Plate.
I used to see sets like these at thrift stores all the time and we had one in one of the apartments I lived in as an undergrad. With speckles and shiny flecks in the formica surface and shiny and puffy chairs of vinyl, these kitchen sets seemed to last for a long time and find new and affordable life.
27.2.11
Labour History Images from the Archives.
11.2.11
Jan Brady Objet D'Art!
How Hippy Dippy is this fantastically groovy vanity mirror?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/67940585/vintage-late-1960s-early-1970s-pop
10.2.11
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19.1.11
The Incomparable Flier & War Hero Brit Amy Johnson.
Amy Johnson boldly entered the popular arena of daring early pilots who were setting and breaking world records for flight during the 1920s. She went on to work for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War in the all-women (and equal pay!) section of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died a heroine in 1941 after haivng to parachute out of her plane into the Thames, her body never recovered.Read about her at:
17.1.11
Awesome Collection of 45s!
For the full list of all 12 records included in this collection - and links to listen to every song - go to:
3.1.11
Vintage Zenith Portable Record Player on Etsy.
What an awesome colour and texture!On sale by TheFancyLamb: http://www.etsy.com/listing/55291199/vintage-zenith-portable-record-player
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23.10.10
Things Have Changed. on the surface.
Nevada Proving Ground 1950s nuclear bomb tests... how we can be protected. "lets watch it again in stop motion". amazing how the cameras survived.
22.10.10
Eve Midwinter!
I love the fabulously Mod Midwinter series of tableware. Eve Midwinter developed a glaze called Creation for the series that has speckles of brown, giving the ceramics a real down-to-earth feel. These yellow-themed plates are from the Sun series; there were also the blues (Moon) and browns (Earth).
10.10.10
Vintage Fairy Queen Illustration.
8.10.10
Harlequin Girl!
Emblematic of the boy and girl pairs of big eyed performers that hung in so many of my friends' bedrooms, from the 1960s Moppet series by bigeye artist Eden.
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6.9.10
Cicely Mark Barker's Flower Fairy Alphabet.
Oh, Cicely Mary Barker, you had such a wonderful, whimsical concept, using your sister's kindergarden students and the gardens around you to birth the Flower Fairies! Thank you, and thank you for being influenced by the pre-Raphaelites, such detail and colour and life amidst the somehow more peaceful natural world.I found a 1934 edition of her book and here are all the plates for sale! How awesome they would look framed in a row in some lucky child's nursery.
23.8.10
A Wonderful Example of 18th Century fashion.
Because of this figurine I researched fashion from the 18th Century and learned many new terms, like "paniers" and "en fourreau". I discovered a whole world of artists who create custom gowns and have a new appreciation for costume designers who work in film, like the wonderful and prolific Colleen Atwood.
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6.8.10
Junk Sale Find of the Century?
Rick Norsigian claims to have bought a box of glass negatives showing landscapes for $45.00 and since then he has had experts authenticate them as being the work of very very famous photographer Ansel Adams, a man whose work helped to solidify national parks by showing their beauty as being truly American icons that need to be preserved. Meanwhile Norsigian is set to make loads of money, not only from the negatives should he choose to sell any, but through prints of them and a documentary he's done on his quest to authenticate them. Ansel Adam's heirs and the estate that owns his name and his work are objecting to all of it. Of course.
Here is the famous Moonrise shot by Adams.
27.7.10
Antique M.Stein Cosmetic Co. Assorted Grease Paints.
M. Stein is described as "the preeminent maker during this time period of theatrical face powder used by stage actors off and on Broadway" by one antique dealer I found.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/52490720/vintage-box-of-theatrical-face-grease
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