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The Mid-Century/Danish thread

Jay hartman said:
Beautiful room beautiful yard. You are going to separate the lamps? No.
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Thanks :) . I'm lucky to have this place to get out of the city, and away from my flatmates, to pull the plug once in a while (or, like this week, plug in my laptop and watch the Tour de France).
The floor lamp is one of a few things I inherited from my grandparents, which I haven't had the space for at home until now. So I'm taking it. But I do plan on getting a different ceiling lamp for up here, so I can reunite them at my place.
 
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I thought I should post a pic of my yard sale find about 5 years ago. An amazing $10 find. Not likely I’ll ever be able to top this. The internet has helped in putting a stop to finding cheap treasures.
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That is a great find. I had the same, the "orange" one, which I kept in my office @ UChicago for many years until I headed west. I left w/ a friend in Hyde Park and she still has and uses it. (Truth: @ 6'3" I never did "fit" in that effin' thing, so it was more a piece of sculpture than functional furniture pour moi)
 
K_50 said:
I found this lamp in a closet in the summer house, and hooked it up just to see if it still worked. I actually think it looks sort of space-age cool, and it gives off a nice soft light. So now I'm planning on getting a longer chord for it, and hanging it over the dining table.



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Very nice.
 
Very nice! I still have mine from the 70s!! (Re-wired with new switch last year).
With LED bulbs in them, the 'hood' doesn't get hot at all, like it used to.
Sheer genius to use music stand bases for lamps. Easy peasy.
 
Two years ago on a Denmark vacation, I went to the Aarhus history museum.

They have one 20th century "street building" having several replicas of old shops, and one of them was a seventies stereo shop!

Now see this.....actually, the repair workshop is probably not set up by typical museum people, but by an old tech because everything was in proper position, even the cigarette disposal...

Unfortunately I was not alone, since I could have spent hours on this very spot out of nostalgia....

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gslikker said:
Two years ago on a Denmark vacation, I went to the Aarhus history museum.

They have one 20th century "street building" having several replicas of old shops, and one of them was a seventies stereo shop!

Now see this.....actually, the repair workshop is probably not set up by typical museum people, but by an old tech because everything was in proper position, even the cigarette disposal...

Unfortunately I was not alone, since I could have spent hours on this very spot out of nostalgia....

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I love it. And I love Tandberg. Do you happen to have any contact info on the stereo shop?
 
Jay hartman said:
I love it. And I love Tandberg. Do you happen to have any contact info on the stereo shop?
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Afaik it is just part of the "den gamle by" history museum, so it probably has contact info of its own. You can google the museum and use google street view for this "shop", it has a B&O logo on the outside, it is just outside of the more more older historic buildings.
 
Bodyblue said:
Yep, an ashtray. No, we don't smoke. But we do collect Anchor Hocking Soreno glass. We usually get the green, but with the gold Brutalist lamp on the 63 RCA record player we use as an and table we thought the amber would look better. Can't have mid century living room without an ashtray right?

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I think I have that same ashtray but with a cork "thing" in the middle for tapping tobacco pipes. I'll have to see if I can find it.
 
kangatoy said:
Hey 1koolcat, the designer of your sofa is Peter Hvidt. John Stuart is only an upscale American importer of Danish American furniture. The sofa was designed in 1958 I believe and was sold individually or as part of a corner group.
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I was perusing this thread and ran across your previous comments, @kangatoy. Indeed, I have since discovered that my parents owned a number of pieces designed by Peter Hvidt including a large teak dining table and sideboard with tambour doors.
 
Knubbling at home




I picked up a proper table to put by the window today. Much better the the Ikea laptop stand I have been using, and it goes well with my chair. Now to get the other Knubbling home, and hung above it (my sister has begrudgingly agreed to let me take it from the summer house).




Book matched veneer

 
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