Vintage Furniture - The “In Love With Old Wood Things” Thread
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Selaws
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We got so lucky with it. It popped up on a page we followed with a first-come-first-served listing. The seller had a shop full to the brim and had just had a shipment come in so he was selling off furniture cheaper than usual.
Selaws
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Haha well spotted! This was a gift and actually really great. There's some really fantastic designs in there amongst the more pretentious rubbish.PS: Chairs by architects
Joe Mac
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Oh wow! That’s great! I’ve not seen one with quite as nice legs as it!
I think we’re lucky in the U.K. and Ireland with G Plan and McIntosh who made a lot of the Danish modernist stuff being U.K. manufacturers. There tends to be a good supply of their stuff on the second hand market at prices that aren’t too insane.
Joe Mac
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Oh I bet! The Barcelona chair is probably my second favourite lounge chair behind the Eames. Also love pretty much any furniture that Le Corbusier designed. Unfortunately the prices for proper ones of any of those are going to be out of my reach for quite some time yet!
Selaws
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Completely! Our local carboot tends to have fantastic furniture and we often say if we bought a house we would fill it just with carboot finds.
I have a crazy and harrowing story about Eames furniture. At work we have quite a few Eames pieces including some office chairs and 2 conference tables. When we moved offices the movers were left with instructions to move it all carefully to storage. One morning I get to work early and my director is pacing on the phone and clearly in a bad mood. Turns out that the movers couldn't fit the conference table through the single door and rather than take it around the side to the double door entrance to the good lift they sawed the table in half and took it in 2 bits.
Joe Mac
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You had told me that one before and it isn’t any less painful hearing it for the second time. I hope he sued the arse off them!
Selaws
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Ah I thought I might have! Honestly not sure what happened in the end, it was several years ago now. I will have to ask around.
We actually had a reshuffle of the office recently and they threw out/gave away a lot of the furniture. The Eames stuff was taken back to storage but a lot of the sample furniture was taken by staff. I ended up with an......interesting.....stool that was given to us by the Polish designer Oskar Zieta. The manufacturing process is really cool and it's essentially shaped metal that is then inflated by compressed air in the same way that a balloon is. The final result is certainly unique and it looks to be maintaining its value so we might hang on to it for a while and potentially sell/swap for something more suited to our taste in the future.
Joe Mac
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Oh wow! I kinda like it! It’s cool! I’m not sure quite how I’d fit it in an interior beyond as a statement piece but equally I like it!
MikeH
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A production company I used to work with moved office in NYC and got a custom marble and gold reception desk. The problem was nobody thought to see if the measurements would fit in the freight elevator…so when it arrived they had to end up hiring a crane and shut down an entire city block to get this stupid desk up to the 5th floor of a building in downtown NY
bfly
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oh goodness, the legs on all of these! I'm in love.
haven't taken real (or wood) furniture photos just yet, but I will share a couple odds and ends I grabbed this weekend for a few bucks. not swoon-worthy pieces, just neat old shit.
this trunk with a very clean interior that is perched on a dolly and serving as a temporary coffee table.
- it caught my eye because of the Antwerp & San Antonio labeling (the two places where my immediate family resides for the most part.) did some quick research, and I think it originally belonged to Henry Ireland who left for Europe at age 18 to fight in WW2. this shipped back with him to base in San Antonio at some point on the SS Eemdijk ocean liner.
and this cute little atomic plant stand that is currently housing my modem.
I've already tipped @Enaz Fox (I think) off to one of my bizarre habits with estate sales
these were both from the home of Polly Lou Livingston, locally renowned gala thrower and art scene queen. more widely known as the voice of Tree Trunks on Adventure Time.
Thackeraye
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Looks like the spaceship in Flight of the Navigator!
Barcelona chair or bust. I want the sofa and bench too. But I would be okay with an Eames Lounge chair.
Joe Mac
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Im team Eames, because I like wood and because I think it looks so damn comfortable. Imagine one of those in the sweet spot between your speakers! The Barcelona chair is beautiful but I’m always dubious as to how comfortable it might be. It strikes me as being one of those “occasional” chairs that sits in the corner of a fancy persons room looking beautiful but rarely sat upon…
However if I had the chance to move into the Barcelona Pavilion itself my bags would already be packed, that’s one beautiful building!
MikeH
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Agree with ya. Also I feel like I always see the Barcelona chair in fancy offices around here instead of homes so it reminds me of executive offices. Plus I like arms on a chair. The Eames chair is damn comfy. And so damn expensive.
Joe Mac
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But just take a look at the Barcelona pavilion that it was designed to go in at some point. Man that building is ridiculously beautiful!
MikeH
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Oh I know it. It's insane.
Mies is one of my favorite designers. I love that pavilion and would live there in a heart beat.
Joe Mac
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And as a bonus you get to live in Barcelona which is an unbelievably cool city!