George Nelson credenza on its way to storage, having never even made it into our apartment.
Time for house-hunting...
Time for house-hunting...
7.10.2012
7.08.2012
7.06.2012
A giant wrench for some giant nuts
Giant Billings iron wrench from the old Biddeford Textile Mill in Biddeford, Maine.
Perfect for your industrial designer friend who needs a present.
This and some other awesome things, just added to the shop.
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7.03.2012
7.02.2012
So much pileup
'It was determined that the continual stockpiling of stuff was becoming self defeating: stuff unused is useless stuff.' -our new dogma, paraphrasing a line regarding nuclear armament buildup from the movie "Spies Like Us"
Below, Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge.
Below, Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Millbarge.
So great. Whatever happened to hand-tinting b&w photos?
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7.01.2012
Ah fixed that chaiah
Yard sale: 1962 Eames chair from an old Mainer estate with then-practical-/now-frustrating drain hole drilled into the seat.
I really don't mind though- it adds context and reminds you that these things were not made to be precious. Plus now we can keep it outside.
I really don't mind though- it adds context and reminds you that these things were not made to be precious. Plus now we can keep it outside.
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6.27.2012
Tennis Anyone?
New in the shop and just in time for Wimbledon. Be the most stylish player on the court when you yell "a little help!" and people see your Neiman-Marcus tennis ball. Love!
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6.23.2012
6.20.2012
6.17.2012
Flight of the Lozenges
In World War I, while the British were busy developing the "Dazzle" and "Splinter" camouflage prints, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians were designing the equally brilliant and crazy "Lozenge" patterns, made up of colorful elongated polygons. Printed on 4 foot wide fabric, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to how the colors were worked out, except possibly the fancy of the pilots.
The scans above are from Kenneth Munson's Fighters 1914-19 (part of a brilliant series on wartime aircraft, and found in my dad's barn- Happy Father's Day Dad!), When I first saw the illustrations I thought the planes were painted just like that- before I realized that one side was the view above, the other side the view from below. But as it happens, there were the inevitable battle-damage field repairs made, and if the plane's original fabric wasn't around, the pilots would use whatever was at hand, often times creating a wildly patched, boro look (which could be similar to the illustrations). As amazing and revolutionary as the Lozenge (and Dazzle) camouflages were, they were sadly and puzzlingly around only for the First World War. Maybe the lozenge didn't work? Certainly with all the other colors and insignias on the airplanes the lozenge wasn't able to do a fair job, but it did look awesome.
related: a Lozenge hat-tip in the selective facet-filtering of secretive European buildings
An interesting note about the colors- "the greatest [wartime] shortage, incidentally, was of good, red-pigmented materials, and explains why the use of red at this time was such a mark of the 'ace'. Only pilots of particular eminence could command the priority for materials in such short supply."
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6.12.2012
6.11.2012
6.07.2012
Prometheus
The Space Jockey's Horseshoe Juggernaut, which will finally roll all over our my brain this weekend.
Have a great one!
Art by Walter Simonson, from Heavy Metal presents: Alien, The Illustrated Story (1979)
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6.06.2012
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