Today's thrifties...

All $1 each! Except the hourglass...that was $8

I really just have a thing for sugar bowls, but I feel guilty if I don't get the creamer too...

White turd ashtray...love it!

I really don't know what this is, but it has cool lines. I'm thinking maybe for saki?

Julius Shulman House for sale...

Here is the listing. Hopefully will be purchased by someone who appreciates it...

Needing an intervention...

Chairs. I just don't know what it is - I've always been crazy for them but now I am a full blown slut for them. Or maybe I just needed a fix while I wait for my new shell chair? Just picked up this little lovely over the weekend - it was being held captive at a stuffy antique mall and begged me to take her home. Never really a fan of the Tulip, but this little knockoff got my attention:

Changed my mind...

I decided to try a low-rod base [or cat's cradle] base for my new shell chair. Just bought one online on impulse [it's Christmas Eve day at work...who's working??]:

So it should look something like this [minus the giant turd]:

yay me...

I am finally getting a vintage Eames upholstered shell chair! And in super rare black!! Won it on ebay and appears to be in great shape. Doesn't come with a base, but as you know, someone won an Eiffel base recently for 99 cents. Merry Xmas to me!

Crabtree Building

One of my favorite buildings in downtown San Diego is the Crabtree Building. Designed by Robert Jones of Deems, Martin & Associates for Hodge Crabtree [read about his modern home here] and built in 1962. An award winning design in its day, the scale and balance of this building is stunning. Cantilevered over the main floor, the upper floors are encased in a beautiful meshwork of shade panels. The building is currently up for sale and I hope it will eventually receive the restoration it deserves.

 

 

Update 12/6/2012: Sad to report that since this beautiful building was sold, the entirety of the external meshwork has been removed. Although the building has been updated, what made it stand out from all other buildings in downtown San Diego has been compromised.

Not your grandmother's rocker...

From ModernLine

I spy...

Vintage DAXs?? With x-bases??? Perhaps...hard to tell, but I'm thinking they may be. Several of these chairs have been visible on the balconies of this senior housing building. Makes me think they came with the apartments?? Anyway, trying to come up with a plan on liberating them. Any ideas?

love...want...need

but, alas - on ebay in the Netherlands [but may bid anyway...]

Eiffel base...ebay

99 cents. Thats right 99 f'n cents! Don't be hating. Now...what to do with it.

Wall system...now obsessed

My new project...can I reinterpret the 606 with a next-to-nothing budget? Stay tuned...

Saga of Poor Louis...

Well, here is the Kartell Louis Ghost chair I liberated from the dumpster [now known as Poor Louis] in two pieces. The entire back and one arm was broken off [in one piece] :

With a little effort and a f*ck load of patience, I was able to epoxy it back together. Not bad:

I did my best, but you can see where it cracked on the back. Maybe I'll do something design*sponge crafty to hide it, but he is certainly patio glam worthy... And the epoxy so far has passed my fat ass wiggle test. Now, if I were a dick, I would coax one of my drunk douchie friends to 'have a seat' and hope it broke again and they'd feel bad and replace it with a new one [in black perhaps?]. But I would never....

Poor Louis...

So, the restaurant by my place must have had a [wine]bar fight going on last night or something because I found one of their Louis Ghost's by the dumpster in 2 pieces. Of course, being a crafty sort, I grabbed it [big surprise] convinced I can salvage Poor Louis. I'm certain I can get him back together, but it won't be pretty. Could give me an opportunity to do something fun with it without getting any grief from anyone...

ebay mod watch

Techfab?? Ok...DARs with ass cracks, but still kinda cool [sold for $100]

Hans Olsen chairs...so going to bid [relisted for 'buy it now $1200]

4 McCobb fiberglass chairs...nice!

Cute... [sold for $180]

Sexy...

Triangle Building

San Diego has some very good modern architecture. The Triangle Building by Lloyd Russell is quite stunning. I live in downtown San Diego and there isn't a time when I am in the area that I don't stop to admire it...

mmmm....duuuunnnne....

Dune lounge chair

Shamir Shah

One of my favorite designers is Shamir Shah. His organic modern sensibility is soothing.

Cabinet re-do

Well, here is my $7 cabinet with a little lipstick:

Yes, please...

Loving these items from West Elm...

All about hanging wall systems...but not quite obsessing yet...

Wall system from Atlas Industries. Of course mine will have to be the bastard DIY version...I used their 'build it' tool on their website - the layout below is about $10K. Yeah...no...

Or these from Rakks: