Like many things in our place, our one-year old son Fletcher's room is furnished with from yard sales, thrift shops, flea markets, and hand-me-downs.
The dressers and cabinets are old George Nelson for Herman Miller- the long glass case originally meant for record albums. The Mickey Myers crayon prints and signed ("For Amanda") Bil Baird Marionette Theatre prints were bought years ago at the Carousel thrift shop in Southport, Ct., which funnily enough is located in the church where I went to nursery school. We found the Stokke crib on Craigslist, from the local window-washer who washes the windows of the local Scandinavian Shop. The mobile has since moved away since I took this photo a few months ago.
Linda's old Eames rocking chair was from the 26th St. flea market and is now home to a Freudian-looking Keith Kustard. The teak monkeys are hanging around a teak floor lamp by Laurel, from a garage sale.
The Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera was a store display from the 60's. The flash cube is actually an electric light.
The wooden sail lamp was made by our friend Fidi. Over to the left is a giant Marimekko beanbag, and an unphotogenic mass of stuffed animals and books.
The hi-fi system with fun-for-Daddy records including Harry Nilsson's The Point! and my brother's and my old Jim Copp and Ed Brown records, inscribed by them when we were kids and our mother took us to see them perform at Bloomingdale's in Stamford, Ct., in the shadow of the giant Bjorn Wiinblad ceramic fountain.
For more on his room and our inspirations click over to the super nice and extremely patient Jenny Dalton's site: LittleBig Magazine
Below is his room in its previous state as our guestroom:
related:
Julie Merz's room, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, January 1978. From the incredible, fascinating Nooney Brooklyn Photographs, 1978-1979. From the NYPL Digital archive.
4 comments:
what i really want to know is what's going on with the marimekko-esque crib sheets? is it just fabric wrapped around the mattress?
awesome array, although very meta---your child will eventually be nostalgic for all your salvaged nostalgia!
It's just fabric wrapped around the mattress, and changing pad. He doesn't sleep on at all, it was there really for our benefit, as something cooler to look at during the day, and a vaguely Scandinavian-looking room in which to use it.
And we're fairly certain he'll have a few good years of minimalism before an eventual nostalgia!
fletcher is one lucky kid. i love that room. especially the giant camera.
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