Not quite as stunning as the 100 year old wood versions I’ve had before, but I’m still drawn to the industrial edge of the steel blue/gray leather-textured metal and chrome pulls of this one.  The labels have an alphabetical name system on one side, but when I flipped them over I discovered that they’re cut… [Read More]

I love love love the “Seafoam Green” color (one of the rarer colors) of this vintage Eames for Herman Miller fiberglass shell side chair: So tempted to keep this one for myself. Story time: my dad walked into my apartment the other day, saw this chair, and said, “My parents used to have chairs like… [Read More]

I found these chairs in a group of 15 and quickly recognized the chair in the picture as Chair 66 by Alvar Aalto.  This chair was originally designed in the 1930’s, but these were sold by ICF from 1962 onward.  I’m not exactly sure how old the ones I have are. It was quite the… [Read More]

The story goes like this: the man and his wife from whom I bought these card catalogs and the flat file work for the government with airplanes (I can’t remember exactly how they explained it) and got a huge lot of old card catalogs, flat files and barrister bookcases from said government job. After using… [Read More]

            Imagine my excitement to find this tag inside the frame, with the original inspection date of August 30th, 1921!  The metal tag on the front says “Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation”, so I had a little government lesson in researching exactly what that is – the Bureau… [Read More]