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.

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Happy Memorial Day

Late de Kooning on late Matisse

Matisse, too, was often in his thoughts. He admired the graphic simplicity of La Danse, which he had often seen in the Museum of Modern Art, and he loved the spirit of the cutouts. "Lately I've been thinking," he said in 1980, "that it would be nice to be influenced by Matisse. I mean, he's so lighthearted. I have a book about how he was old and he cut out colored patterns and he made it so joyous. I would like to do that, too- not like him, but joyous, more or less."

 My favorite de Kooning quote, from the book
de Kooning: An American Master, (page 589)

top: Matisse spread fom Life magazine, Aug 1970

de Kooning photo by Linda McCartney, from Linda's Pictures, 1976
de Kooning's Untitled, 1982

Pierrot le Fou

Some of the millions of reasons to love Godard's Pierrot Le Fou, to the tune of Francoise Hardy singing "La Mer".
Put together brilliantly by youtuber Akaisoul.
Happy Weekend!

Flying Colors

Linda's egg jeans , Gerber sneakers, a vintage Fischer lullaby toy, and The Beatles.

Wary Meyers Kids Shop

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New things will be added constantly, so check it out all the time!

If 2 year-olds could carve things into their chairs

It would look something like this.

Vintage Creative Playthings chair refinished and carved by Wary Meyers, in our kids shop opening this week.

The Dansk Bong

Pepper Shmepper. An exciting new line of bongs with the clean, handsome look of Scandinavian design

... and a nice big party bowl.

Even though a woodshop lathe does not a Jens Quistgaard make, you've got to hand it to them.

Even the ad has the old Lou Dorfsman sensibilities.

From High Times, June 1977.

related here, and here

The Metropolitan Museum's Jolly door prize, 1960

1960 Fiat 500 Jolly.

Arrived in Maine in a cardboard box aboard the freight train to Portland from New York City where it had been a door prize at the Metropolitan Museum. 

How great is that? I would've been psyched to win a just a wicker chair.

Growing Up Absurd

The Wary Meyers Kids Shop opens next week!

Above: Children's chair we customized with new paint job and removable long vinyl tongue cushion. 

Anthology magazine

Our son Fletcher's room is on the cover! Thanks in large part to Keith Kustard and Tomi Ungerer, and of course photographer Seth Smoot and everyone at Anthology.
See a preview of the fantastic issue *here*

More about the stuff in Fletcher's room here and here.
Just out of camera range is the full disclosure of Thomas Trains, Caillou videos, and every plastic truck imaginable.

Best backyard in town

Serge Chermayeff's Payson House, or "Thornhurst"(1952), in Falmouth Maine.

Photos via the always entertaining Bing Maps Birds-eye view.

Gary Anderson's Recycle symbol, 1971

Happy Earth Day

-from Barbara Plumb, American Home magazine, March 1971.

Chez Lalanne, 1978

At home with the fantastic Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, between Paris and Ury, 1978.

From the book Country Houses by Franco Magnani


 Also:http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/artists-francois-xavier-claude-lalanne-abstract-animal-instincts/
http://2thewalls.tumblr.com/post/146529864/atelier-lalanne
http://www.scout-holiday.com/blog/?p=586

Finnish Bunkbed, with car

Designed by Pirkko Stenroos and manufactured by Muurame.
"The drawers slide out from under the bed on wheels and can quickly be converted into a toybox car equipped even with a steering wheel. It is no surprise that since this form rationally answers the demands of a growing family, it has become one of the most popular furniture forms in Finland."
-from Finnish Design: Facts and Fancy by Donald J. Wilcox (1973)

Unfortunately I don't think Muurame makes the car conversion drawer anymore, but Pirkko Stenroos' designs are alive and well and make us want to redesign our son's room, down to the Invicta-striped, Noddy-esque wardobe.

77 Hot Items! Our April Fab.com vintage sale.

Including:
A vintage Ulmer Spatz ceramic pretzel flask; a vintage brass hippopotamus box (the poor man's Lalanne ); British steel spring-type book holders; and a giant sticker for Drum tobacco, which hung on my friend's sister's wall in the 70's. Also those ceramic mushrooms, the Summerjam 76 t-shirt, and a bunch more awesome stuff.
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Santa Monica Airlines, 1985

My old Santa Monica Airlines skateboard from 1985, designed by Natas Kaupas with a little help from Frank Frazetta (more here). Sold last year on ebay in an even exchange to buy Linda's new Linus bicycle.

I would've liked to have saved it for our son, but it's a little more satisfying trading it for family bike trips than waiting 10 years to see if it's cool enough (It would be- sorry Fletcher). He did get one ride in, though.

Pattern Pending

Super cool razzle dazzle pattern block toy designed by Josef Albers' student and biographer Fred Horowitz for Parker Brothers, 1971.

These would be pretty wild in color, too.

(see also): Color Blocks, Valentine

Happy Easter!

Afri Cola

Perhaps the best logo and the best bottle, ever.
From Germany.

Don't miss the Charles Wilp ad campaign:





Thanks for the video Minna Saarinen!

Helmut Newton in the Springtime

Speaking of boobs, here are some favorite spreads from Helmut Newton's books White Women, Big Nudes, World Without Men, and Pages from the Glossies.
This could go on and on, though, of course.
And if you're in Paris before June 17th, it does, as Le Grand Palais has exhibited giant retrospective of Newton's work.

More info about the retrospective here, and at the luxuriously classy Pacific-Standard, who have a little film preview as well.