The weekend in typography

 

 A Louis Vuitton Calfskin trunk, c.1900; The Dead Book, 1973; another monogrammed trunk; and the LV lock.

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Film Noir

Johnny Walker Noir, that is. 

Vintage Japanese 35mm Ceramic Camera Flask, with a 16 oz. capacity.

+ In the shop +

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Far Out Isn't Far Enough- The Tomi Ungerer Story

Far Out Isn't Far Enough- The Tomi Ungerer Story from Handle Like Eggs on Vimeo.


The brilliant madman drowning in talent.  
and where does he get all those wonderful toys?
Cannot wait to see this.

Related: giant Tomi Ungerer posters in our son's room

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Poupette Print

Poupette print, 18"x24"
$45 in our shop

Big photo print of a the doll we found, made in France in the 1960's. After we started taking photos it was clear that we should offer the photo, enlarged to larger than life size in all her purple raffia hair splendor. Perfect for a little girl's room. It reminds of of the posters we used to have as kids- the actual photos of Sesame Street characters, or teddy bears, which you don't really see at all anymore. And of course it's not just for girls- this one is in our 3 year old son's room.

Measures 18" x 24", Printed with Epson archival inks on Epson heavyweight matte archival paper.

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Heads or Tails

vintage needlepoint tiger glasses case, in the shop.

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This poster brought to you by the letter T and the number 5

 The fragmented, abstract, last remaining 1965 grocery store window poster, in our shop. 

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George Nelson and Irving Harper

From House & Garden, 1965

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Thinking of something for the man in your life?

There are some gifty ideas in our shop!

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1960's Creative Playthings Bed

Soon to be in the shop after a little tlc and orange oiling. How cool is that fabric?

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Shop Redux

We reformatted our shop, added all new things, & moved it to a new location.

 Update your bookmarks!

http://warymeyers.bigcartel.com/

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9, 1965

One of the last vintage grocery store posters is one giant graphic day-glo 9:

 in the shop.

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Owen' More

Such a pretty shopping bag, such a terrible shopping name.

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In Bloom

Linda made totally sweet kids' pants from this vintage flowery terry cloth. 

Sorry grown-ups, but there's only enough to make a few tiny pairs!

In our kids shop!

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More Vintage Fab

Another Fab.com vintage sale happening for the next 6 days, including this fantastic British suitcase, awesome pottery, mushrooms, Mad Men tumblers, a pair of Lee Stemer carpet bags, and more.

Click here!

If you need an invitation to join FAB, click here

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Bean's Oversize Shopping (shells, shoes, canned foods) Bag

The perfect tote bag, and they don't make it anymore.
May be time to take the sewing machine to our log carriers.

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Creative Playthings Rocking Beauty Hobby Horse

Vintage Creative Playthings "Rocking Beauty" Hobby Horse amongst the goods at an old-timey auction house out in Maine the other night. Designed by Gloria Caranica in 1964, it's in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. And now in the permanent collection of our son's room. ...And in the permanent collection of the auction house is this amazing Wacky Races-looking Edwardian gent.

related: http://vintageforkids.blogspot.com/2010/12/design-for-kids-bruxelles.html
http://daddytypes.com/2006/05/12/wild_creative_playthings_hobby_horses.php
http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2011/01/fletchers-room.html

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Lynn Chadwick and Lypiatt Park

Our latest guest post at Apartment Therapy documents John Russell's 1963 article for Vogue about British sculptor Lynn Chadwick and his home Lypiatt Park,

"Castle Tomorrow".

style="text-align: center;">Read it here




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Knotical

Last year Linda and I went to a garage sale up in Falmouth, Maine. The garage was really a newly built barn, with pulleys and hanging canoes and kayaks, snowboards, skis, etc... of a very outdoorsy family. Mixed in with some newer furniture and knick knacks were some old camping equipment and these intricately knotted, awesome, immense macrame rope hangings. The man told me they were made by his late father while at sea as an officer in the Navy during World War II, during the down time, as knot practice. These are the type of beautiful, cool, handmade, one-of-a kind things we love finding, and as much as we would've liked to have kept the pair together, at 20 dollars each, both were unfortunately out of our budget, even for masterpieces of American maritime craft (it was a lean year). So we chose the more intricate one with the three baskets, and drove away, my face symbolically pressed forlornly against the back window. 

Then, as luck would have it, a few weeks ago the same family had another sale, and the other macrame was still there, draped over a canoe, apparently unwanted by anyone but us, and this time for 10 dollars- a nice reward for spending the past year on the widow's walk.

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vintage fish pillow

with convenient built-in handle

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