Flea & Easy

Miscellaneous things we found at yard sales, mostly last summer. 

Nothing was over a couple dollars.

Herb Lubalin & John Alcorn

Designed by Herb Lubalin and illustrated by John Alcorn. The type treatment on the cover is great, but the case is awesome. It repeats on the back, then the endpapers are the same but the colors reversed. Two of the greats.

Jugendstil

We'd never pass up a cool yard sale find just because it was designed with a child in mind, but lately we've been ramping it up (ramping=R.I.P William Safire) a bit since we'll be joined by our own child around Christmas.

From the top: 

Excellent Jugenstyle poster by the great Seymour Chwast, for his and Steven Heller's "Design & Style" series. Jugenstyle translates from the German as"Youth Style" ("Art Nouveau"). 

Old toy submarine, the kind that sink to the bottom. I think there's a trick with baking soda which makes it resurface, but I'm not sure. 

1950's Bugs Bunny t-shirt. 

Spiel Naef wooden toys from Switzerland - the stacking pointy blocks were at the bottom of a cardboard box of other wooden blocks from the flea market and the box of Kugelbau was from a yard sale. The Dala horses are from various places, found one at a time until before we knew it we had a whole herd.

Whodunnit

Linda bought this huge silkscreen at the flea market last year, convinced it had to be either by Andy Warhol signing his name in gibberish or by Andy Warhol titling it in gibberish. Framed at a long-gone framers on Laight St. in Manhattan. Signature suggestions are welcome, if you can read through the diamond dust.

Update here!

Hare Krishna Ramalama ding dong

From the flea market on a virtually empty day last week- but, another old headband and another old belt buckle! 

book patina

Nicely aging whites in our living room bookshelf, due in part to 

virtually none of them having been printed more recently than 1980.

the good rule

A design classic, unfortunately and inexplicably not made anymore.

From Greenwich to Maine via the Ft. Lauderdale flea market (below).

Vertical Type

These were collected more for their type treatments than anything practical, although you never know when we'll need to map out a family cross-country ski trip.

Tabletop

Dansk: small wooden sculptures posing as salt and pepper shakers.

background: rolls of patent leather for a future project, Luxo task lamp, Robert Welch candlestick, another Luxo, Gerald Thurston lamp, Royal Copenhagen vase.

Table by Wary Meyers.

Orangerie

orange things from our apartment:

Above: 1970's L.L. Bean Mountain Parka, from a yard sale.

Cast-iron and enamel sink, from a salvage yard, now in our basement, waiting for us to buy a house

vintage Space Hopper made in Great Britain, from a flea market in Buffalo. Designed by an Italian buoy maker.

Monsieur Meuble ashtray, from France. Great old logo.