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The Mid-Century/Danish thread

How about some Arts & Crafts items? Found the Japanese Awajo Pottery today and earlier in the week found the Hopi pottery, a Garnet Pavater "Flower Girl" signed ladle and a slatted teak tray, all for a total of 5 bucks at my local Goodwill.

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Thanks Jay. This is a brand new store, been open a month. I hit it two times a day. There is no good electronics (so far), but lots of interesting pottery, furniture, and books.

Fun while it lasts!
 
Hey folks. Happy new year :D

Pardon the absence please, just been helping my friends close/move their store here for the last couple weeks so I’ve been a little beat by the time I’m home. That finished up day before yesterday so I’ve been working on projects. The latest...

The bedroom:

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A mix of vintage and modern MCM/Danish furnishings. The dresser, table lamp, orange ceramic vase, light bedspread, and burl veneer display table are all Marshall’s scores over the last 20 years or so. The oak frame and post bed I think I’ve mentioned before was my loft bed back in the dorms in college a lifetime ago, just widened it and rebuilt it upside down. Pendant lamp is a Lars Schioler for Hoyrup Lighting Denmark. Geometric fabrics are vintage from Denmark. The Panton-esque darker bedspread in the last pic is a vintage NOS score from Etsy. I rotate between the two. Shag rug wall hanging left of the bed is a mix of vintage and modern - the 70s DIY kit only included the canvas, I had to choose and cut the yarns I bought locally.

EDIT: Straight lines are a little wonky because it’s panoramic, but here’s a panorama photo.
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It’s all done I think. I’m content.

Now to do the bathroom.
 
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reydelaplaya said:
Hey folks. Happy new year :D

Pardon the absence please, just been helping my friends close/move their store here for the last couple weeks so I’ve been a little beat by the time I’m home. That finished up day before yesterday so I’ve been working on projects. The latest...

The bedroom:

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A mix of vintage and modern MCM/Danish furnishings. The dresser, table lamp, orange ceramic vase, light bedspread, and burl veneer display table are all Marshall’s scores over the last 20 years or so. The oak frame and post bed I think I’ve mentioned before was my loft bed back in the dorms in college a lifetime ago, just widened it and rebuilt it upside down. Pendant lamp is a Lars Schioler for Hoyrup Lighting Denmark. Geometric fabrics are vintage from Denmark. The Panton-esque darker bedspread in the last pic is a vintage NOS score from Etsy. I rotate between the two. Shag rug wall hanging left of the bed is a mix of vintage and modern - the 70s DIY kit only included the canvas, I had to choose and cut the yarns I bought locally.

EDIT: Straight lines are a little wonky because it’s panoramic, but here’s a panorama photo.
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It’s all done I think. I’m content.

Now to do the bathroom.
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it’s done and it looks perfect. What paradise are you in the corner of?
 
Jay hartman said:
it’s done and it looks perfect. What paradise are you in the corner of?
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Thank you kindly, Jay. I'm in Puerto Rico - though you wouldn't know it from the weather for the last 5 days. A cold front has swept through, so it's been rainy, really windy (20-30 mph plus higher gusts) and generally cold (overnight lows in 60s-low 70s, days in hi 70s). That orange and brown afgan on the chair was my grandfather's - with this weather we've been having, that's been on the bed for about a week! LOL
 
Love this thread and the bedroom @reydelaplaya. Here's our latest acquisition at a mid century shop in town--a kinetic mobile. Don't know the provenance, it came from an estate sale of a very eccentric gentleman, was new in box but the box had no markings on it.

Video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iAVkMMJEatbDqSPt5

We kinda fancy mobiles--here are the two others in our home:

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By the way, the bird below the mobile is named "Chiquita Fandango" and was done by a local artist (now deceased). When my wife wanted to buy it, the store owners "interviewed" her to make sure she was worthy of their friends' creation. Loved that!

PS: Hey Jay, hope you're doing well and weathered the crazy TX weather this past few weeks!
 
Greg Nal said:
Love this thread and the bedroom @reydelaplaya. Here's our latest acquisition at a mid century shop in town--a kinetic mobile. Don't know the provenance, it came from an estate sale of a very eccentric gentleman, was new in box but the box had no markings on it.

Video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iAVkMMJEatbDqSPt5

We kinda fancy mobiles--here are the two others in our home:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ag4pzcyi5co289q67

By the way, the bird below the mobile is named "Chiquita Fandango" and was done by a local artist (now deceased). When my wife wanted to buy it, the store owners "interviewed" her to make sure she was worthy of their friends' creation. Loved that!

PS: Hey Jay, hope you're doing well and weathered the crazy TX weather this past few weeks!
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The mobiles are excellent but Chiquita is perfect - a true piece de resistance.
Thank you for the thought, we fared much better than many.
 
Greg Nal said:
Love this thread and the bedroom @reydelaplaya. Here's our latest acquisition at a mid century shop in town--a kinetic mobile. Don't know the provenance, it came from an estate sale of a very eccentric gentleman, was new in box but the box had no markings on it.

Video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iAVkMMJEatbDqSPt5

We kinda fancy mobiles--here are the two others in our home:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ag4pzcyi5co289q67

By the way, the bird below the mobile is named "Chiquita Fandango" and was done by a local artist (now deceased). When my wife wanted to buy it, the store owners "interviewed" her to make sure she was worthy of their friends' creation. Loved that!

PS: Hey Jay, hope you're doing well and weathered the crazy TX weather this past few weeks!
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Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it. :) You're on to something... I really like the idea of kinetic mobiles. Until you posted, I had kinda forgotten they existed. Looks like you are better set up for them than I am though - it's probably too windy here, especially since I live in an open air/screens home. LOL
 
Not sure if this quite qualifies as mid-century or danish, though I'm sure I've seen adjustable track wall shelving in MCM photos, but it's another little project I've been working on behind the scenes.

All anodized aluminum and infinitely adjustable, I ran across this shelf hardware kit on amazon a few weeks ago and decided it would be perfect for the LR. I repurposed my old loft-bed plywood planks I had in storage to be used as the shelves. One still needs to go up top, but the glue is drying on the veneer that was peeling up. Probably gonna hit all of them with a light sanding and a wipe or two of teak oil just to liven up that wood a little and tone down some of those scrapes.

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I'm gonna brag a little with these next photos :D


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All of them are like that - and with infinitely adjustable shelf brackets that friction-lock into that track (leaving little indentations inside), that needed a bit of creativity to get those perfectly level on the first try each time. And all are exactly 15" from top to top to top to top. My OCD had a nice fix today! LOL

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That clock has a service signature inside dated with the year 1864! And it keeps excellent time, too. Pretty sure it was in a fire at some point of its life - the back shows significant scorch marks, the flared out base is missing entirely and a makeshift drawer has been put in its place, and even the dial/face has bubbly/melted paint. I've had this thing for a loooong time - bought it on a new england road trip when I was probably 11-12 maybe. It then flew down here in my backpack, pre 9/11.
 
reydelaplaya said:
Not sure if this quite qualifies as mid-century or danish, though I'm sure I've seen adjustable track wall shelving in MCM photos, but it's another little project I've been working on behind the scenes.

All anodized aluminum and infinitely adjustable, I ran across this shelf hardware kit on amazon a few weeks ago and decided it would be perfect for the LR. I repurposed my old loft-bed plywood planks I had in storage to be used as the shelves. One still needs to go up top, but the glue is drying on the veneer that was peeling up. Probably gonna hit all of them with a light sanding and a wipe or two of teak oil just to liven up that wood a little and tone down some of those scrapes.

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All of them are like that - and with infinitely adjustable shelf brackets that friction-lock into that track (leaving little indentations inside), that needed a bit of creativity to get those perfectly level on the first try each time. And all are exactly 15" from top to top to top to top. My OCD had a nice fix today! LOL

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That clock has a service signature inside dated with the year 1864! And it keeps excellent time, too. Pretty sure it was in a fire at some point of its life - the back shows significant scorch marks, the flared out base is missing entirely and a makeshift drawer has been put in its place, and even the dial/face has bubbly/melted paint. I've had this thing for a loooong time - bought it on a new england road trip when I was probably 11-12 maybe. It then flew down here in my backpack, pre 9/11.
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Nearly every other shelf standards and brackets I’ve seen look like clunky crap. Those are nice and clean. Very nice.
 
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