Gorgeous brass and glass Maison Jansen console table with bronze rams heads and hooves. France, c. 1965 SOLD.
55" wide. 18.5" deep. 27.5" tall.
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: Sold, Sold Out Tables.
Danish Modern Krobo Norwegian teak Tablebench by Torbjorn Afdal for Bruksbo Mellemstrands. Coffee table or bench. Circa 1960. SOLD
47" long. 14" wide. 13" tall.
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: Sold, Sold Out Tables.
1960s Hollywood Regency lamp and side table by Stiffel Lamps. Modern tweed lampshade over a walnut grained laminate side table and gold chrome. SOLD
54" tall. Table 27.5" diameter
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: Sold, Sold Out Lighting & Decor.
Pair of vintage sofa/daybeds in black tufted vinyl on walnut and metal frame. SOLD
31" deep, 76" wide, frame sits 13" off ground.
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: Sold, Sold Out Seating.
Mid century modern Stanley highboy dresser. Walnut and oak all wood construction. Dovetail drawers, with top two drawers fitted with brass bulls eye knobs . Bottom three drawers have slatted underpulls, with one drawer fitted with partitions. SOLD
44" tall. 38" wide. 18" deep.
Delivery available for your home or business. Matching lowboy dresser/credenza and nightstand also available.
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Categories: craigslist, Sold, Sold Out Storage.
Gorgeous Lane coffee table from the Acclaim series. Walnut and oak construction. Top has been refinished with Tung oil. SOLD
36" diameter. 15" tall.
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: craigslist, Sold, Sold Out Tables.
So retro it hurts! Blue collar mid century maple dinette set w/leaf and four matching chairs. Table resembles that iconic Heywood-Wakefield look, with chrome hairpin styled legs. Chairs have protective clear vinyl covering, and rubber feet for your floors; both can be removed easily. unmarked. Circa 1950s. SOLD
Table: 54" x 37", 66" long w/leaf. 30" tall. Chairs: 33" tall, 16"x17" seat
Delivery available for your home or business.
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Categories: craigslist, Sold, Sold Out Tables.
The Vintage Bazaar is next Friday! Drag yourself and all your turkey stuffed, cranberry fed, and gravy stained friends and family to the third installment of this crazy vintage roller coaster that is the Vintage Bazaar.
This Bazaar will be a big deal for Jayson and I for numerous reasons. 1) Space. A 15' by 20' space. Our last booths had two tables with smalls stacked as high as safely possible. This time around furniture is king, with smalls guarding the rear. 2) Investment. We've both have put down a pretty penny to make sure our booth rocks the casbah. 3) Quality. We've managed some jaw dropping picks, with the utmost attention to detail, design, and quality. The staging is gonna be tight, the items killer, and the PBR plentiful.
I've spent every evening this week working at the arrangement of the space, and it going places let me tell ya. I struggled at the beginning with how to bring together our wide assorted of pieces, starting with 1930s industrial, to 1970s space age glam. What brought peace to my soul was dividing the space into three, mostly thinking back to amazing homes I've been during estate sales.
The front of the space is a high-end MCM living/dining room, sleek, clean, and expensive. The middle is the home's kitchen, laid back and cute. The back of the space is the basement, man cavernous to the extreme. The place to have beers with your buddies under a 10-point deer mount.
I really love the space, hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
So where are the pictures? With the sun gone by the time I get home, I simply couldn't get the lighting to place a that I could release pictures with good conscience. This weekend for sure. In the mean time, here are pictures of the geniuses that designed items that will grace the front of our booth.
So I'm name dropping. So what.
If you have been living under a rock, go here to learn about the Vintage Bazaar.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Hello, my name is Morgan, and I don't finish things.
I'm a total sucker for thinking of myself as a jack of all trades, fixer upper, 101 projects going on at once without breaking a sweat; where did I get that crazy idea.
Right now, my garage sits with only a quarter of a roof. I started it last week.
The hole I dug three months ago to patch my foundation crack has yet to be filled. I dug a 5' x 4' hole in about a hour and a half, not bad aye? Filling the hole? Um yeah...
Don't get my wife started on the work I need to do in the basement. Forget about it.
On top of my house, which, in all truthfulness, I haven't been too bad getting the ball rolling lately; I have literally, a couple years worth of furniture/vintage projects clogging my brain waves. I'm at a emotional/visual/monetary, do or die moment with a lot of this stuff .
SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!!!
So I'm challenging myself. Roof and hole are asap, but they're kinda boring, the fun part of the challenge will be some of the vintage projects I've gathered around myself for the last couple years. Did I say some? Maybe more like twenty...
With the upcoming Vintage Bazaar(woot woot) I've been doing inventory, and I'm ashamed, flipping ashamed about how many chairs I bought with good intentions but never got around to them. There's also about six lamps and two fans, but I have a long history of failure with the chairs. I really love chairs. Especially wood chairs that have ripped upholstery, or one broken arm, or just a frame of a chair. For years I bought them off Craigslist and at estate sales, vowing to fix em' up, but they would just stacked up in our apartment basement. Now with a house they have been all over the attic. Last night I bought them down into the basement to start work.
My secondary goal in all of this, is to offer all my current projects finished and beautiful to my customers at the next Vintage Bazaar, but my main goal is to make this a regular act in my vintage circus I'm putting on for all you lucky people, maybe even start designing and building my own furniture...
My plans for some of these pieces are maybe a little too grand. I'm determined to use real leather for the upholstery. Is this hard? My wife is a seamstress extraordinaire, who has promised to help with the fabric and leather ordeals. We shall see.
Below is my room of projects, hover over each picture for a description and some idea of what I plan to do.
Categories: Moment of Manly Zen, The Vintage Handyman, Uncategorized.
I didn't even know what a Bertoia Slat Bench was until today.
I haven't been able to even take it home yet, as I had a car full of four kids at the time. This ridiculous piece of furniture only cost me $30 and I actually got it from my own church's rummage sale. When I first saw it, I was interested, but unsure. I looked underneath for a marking, and the Knoll tag made my heart flutter. But I'm so ignorant about mid-century furniture I still had to text my pal Michael from Flatout Design and ask if it was worth. When I sent him the picture via sms asking if it was worth $30, his response was, "Where's the church? Is there anything else good there?"
I thought it might be worth around 150 or so, but upon further research, it may be worth more than that if I fix it up. If I sell it for something ridiculous, I'll give a portion of the profitback to my church. Its going to need to be refinished, but it'll be amazing once I do.
Categories: Uncategorized.
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Categories: Sold, Sold Out Lighting & Decor.
Remember a couple posts back when I mused at the possibility of listing whole rooms on Craigslist? Well here's round two.
Here's the listing.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Dear 1950s Frigidaire Imperial Refrigerator,
Unfortunately, things are not going to work out between us. I am so sorry for rushing into a relationship.
Before meeting you, I only dreamed about machines like you. When we first met I found you irresistible, hip, and that chrome trim made my knees shake.
You were always so eager to hand me a beer. Remember when I first put eggs in your rack? Golly you have an amazing rack.
Trust me baby; when I say it’s not you, it’s me. I should change for you, but I can’t. I need someone who can handle all of me; I’ve got too much baggage baby. Move on.
I will never forget when I first touched your curves, or laid eyes on your mint green interior.
It’s time to go. Goodbye.
Categories: Uncategorized.
The two hot dudes from Manly Vintage will be pushing vintage goods this Saturday at the Heaven Gallery in Wicker Park...wait a minute...THAT'S US! Come on by and buy some antique razors, throw some high fives, and step outside with us for a smoke.
We're gonna be trying some crazy new ideas this time around, our first vintage market experience at the Vintage Bazaar was somewhat of a serious systems malfunction, so we're doing things different, LIKE HAVING PRICE TAGS! I'm also setting up at home beforehand so I don't have full boxes of crap underneath the tables, and I will eat breakfast and have coffee before I head out Saturday. Did I say crap? I meant recycled treasures. ha.
When: Sat July 3rd, noon-6 p.m.
Where: Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., b/t Damen Ave. & Honore St. Info online at vintageheavenchicago.blogspot.com.
What: Our booth will consist of mostly pre-1960s, barware, home decor, some depression glass, lamps, razors, and household items.
Categories: Uncategorized.
Take the Quiz, show how much into modern furniture you are. Make sure to post your results in the comments, and for HEAVEN'S SAKE be honest, there's no shame if you're just a beginner or if you've been tricked by fancy Chinese craftsmanship.
(There are 10 total questions)
Quiz fixed. All is right with the world
Categories: Ask the Readers, Moment of Manly Zen.
Etsy shop closes up tonight. Time to start packing.
Categories: Moment of Manly Zen.
"Harry Dazey began his career by producing butter churns, but when Mr. Dazey came up with the idea for the "floating arm" portable light he decided to restructure his company into a lamp manufacturer that specialized in task lights."
Butter churns?? ha
Categories: Uncategorized.
