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added on 2008-12-11

old drug store cabinet...

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"Stylish way to communicate. Authentic phones from 1960s add substance and beauty to any room in a home with classic design and wonderfully musical ring. About the phone: Our vendor collects antique phones from all over Argentina. Each phone is completely restored by hand by adding new wiring and new microphone. The restoration process can require that pieces be taken from as many as five old phones to have enough parts to perfectly restore just one beautiful vintage telephone. Each phone may take up to 4 months to restore. Each phone is not exactly alike." added on 2008-10-31

authentic 1960s orange phone...

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cold war modern design exhibition at: victoria & albert museum, london
from: september 25th to january 2009

"after the second world war a rivalry began between the world's two superpowers: the soviet union and the united states of america began. a few years later the cold war ensued. during this time new technologies were continually being developed to produce weapons and launch space programs.
art, design and architecture were also strongly influenced during this period, as each wanted to show their idea of modernity.

the cold war design exhibition displays art, film, architecture and design between the period of 1945 - 70 focusing on the ways in which artists and designers responded to the conditions of the cold war." added on 2008-10-01

garden egg chair by peter ghyczy, 1968 at the cold war design exhibition...

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added on 2008-08-12

general electric 1978 wide screen tv...

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added on 2008-06-23

1930's 7pc black glass muddlers...

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added on 2008-04-30

rare w. lutjes den boer book shelves...

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added on 2008-04-04

h is for home - vintage items for the home...

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added on 2008-03-25

the "von slatt original" keyboard made with vintage typwriter keys...

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added on 2008-03-20

original vintage wallpaper...

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added on 2008-03-05

rare & out-of-print design books...

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added on 2008-02-13

czech functionalist desk...

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During and after the Second World War, the scarcity of materials resulted in the development of a range of new production techniques. Attempts at manufacturing furniture in bent plywood had been made before the war, but in the late forties the techniques had improved substantially, and the first pieces were put into mass-production.

In 1948 Hans J. Wegner presented a chair with a teak plywood seat and back mounted on a beech frame. And the following year, Børge Mogensen used the same teak plywood/beech combination in his version of the “Shell Chair”. added on 2008-02-06

chair by grete jalk...

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added on 2008-01-18

duvet cover made from recycled scarves...

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added on 2008-01-16

not so pink flamingos vases...

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added on 2008-01-10

salvaged kitchens from source antiques...

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added on 2008-01-03

one of a kind products made from vintage tapestries...

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added on 2007-12-12

1950's italian glass coffee table...

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added on 2007-10-09

vintage rocking chair...

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added on 2007-10-01

keracolour tv back in production...

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added on 2007-09-28

retro-style abs plastic nutcrackers...

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Retro 60's Nord-Lite pendant ceiling lights designed by Sven Middelboe and produced by Audiola for Danish lighting company Nordisk Solar Compagni added on 2007-09-28

60's nord-lite pendant...

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During the 1950s and 1960s Swedish designer Hans-Agne Jakobsson headed his own lighting production company, Hans-Agne Jakobsson AB, and also produced lights for other companies including AB Ellysett of Sweden, for whom he designed a range of natural split pine lighting fixtures of which this particular pendant light is believed to be one example.

The light has a maximum diameter of 30cm (11.75 inches) and a height of 21cm (8.25 inches). Its eight-pronged star shape is made from two intersecting rectangles with slightly elliptical lines. Close inspection reveals that in two places the very fine pine slats have split but the wood is still in situ, while in a third place a splinter has been lost (see final two images below for the splinter and the longer of the two splits respectively). These flaws are, however, difficult to spot in normal viewing of the light and its overall appearance is very good, the wood having the rich patina always seen in vintage Jakobsson split pine lights from the 1950s and 1960s. added on 2007-09-27

vintage 1950s/60s split pine ceiling light...

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added on 2007-09-19

awesome set of retro 60s glassware...

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added on 2007-08-22

a selection of crackled resin table lamps...