I know someone who knows someone who knows Allen Jones quite well. Or, Kitchen Trophy

A few years ago British interiors photographer James Merrell was up for a weekend photographing our apartment for Domino magazine (here, here, and here), and among the things I (possibly pesteringly) kept pointing out was our kitchen trophy. At this he said, "Yes No! I did see it and love it- and actually the only other time I've ever seen one is at Allen Jones' house.  ...Roger Dean and Yes and I would be hanging out there and we'd always see that knifey jumble on his kitchen wall."
Totally excited to have this connection I was all, "this makes us all mates now, right?!?"

Anyway, above is our kitchen trophy as of the other day, basically a collection of kitchen utensils piled together on the wall like a sort of heraldic crest, including my grandfather's corkscrew, a Stelton bottle opener, an old Zig Zag corkscrew, Dansk knives, a beat-down cleaver, a Danish gnome cheese-cutter, an Adidas tennis racket bottle opener and some other stuff. 

Allen Jones, from the Pirelli calender, 1973. Photographed by Brian Duffy and airbrushed by Philip Castle.


Jones with his sculptures Table, Chair, and Hat Rack, in his apartment, 
from the book 70's Style & Design.


The Jones Residence via Google street view, with quite coincidentally yet appropriately a leather-booted bird strolling by directly across the road.

Bjorn Wiinblad's Hus

From "Guide to Copenhagen, May 1973" brought back by my grandparents. Unfortunately the didn't bring back any Bjorn Wiinblad.

(previously)

Kachelofen

West German WESO ceramic tile stove, from a yard sale. When we finally got it's 440 pounds home and tried to bring it upstairs it crushed the first step, so the next 15 were not in the cards. But when we do finally install it it's going to heat our whole chalet, and we can even cook on it! (see pic). 

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.

Good Friday

From an awesome hospital benefit yard sale on Friday:

Andy Warhol 1971 Tate Gallery exhibition lithograph. A woman we were talking to told us, "I remember the old Tate and even if you were 100 years old and on your death bed they wouldn't give you the pensioners discount. But that's a great poster."

A Dansk teak ice bucket and pepper mill, both designed by Jens Quistgaard, a 70's California polished wood box, and 5 teak trays made in Sweden. 

Three old unsigned geometric/color studies. They might be Josef Albers, they might be a 7th graders, but they're cool and they're old and they were $5 each.