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Adding vintage to home decor
Posted on 21 September 2014.
It sounds nerdy, but I have been on the hunt for a cool lampshade for almost eight months. A lampshade that isn’t boring. A lampshade that isn’t just 50 shades of grey (boring!). Come on people, someone please make lampshades that aren’t so boring or cost the same amount as my first car. Anyhow, I digress. So it was while on the hunt for this elusive lampshade for my antique floor lamp that I came across addVintage at East Brisbane. addVintage specialises in retro, Danish and Eames-era furniture and collectables.
They have a cool range of retro lounge suites, dining suites, storage units, sideboards, buffets, floor lamps, art glass vases, dinnerware, cowhide rugs and other rare and timeless items that were found in homes between 1947 and 1974 in Australia and overseas. They also stock local items and top-quality pieces sourced from northern Europe. And, most importantly, they had my lampshade. It was a shade found at an estate sale in Paddington and was from the 1960s. It had everything I wanted – shape, many colours and a cool story. Be still this vintage furniture lover’s heart. Check the place out, and make time for a coffee as they have a quirky café on site.
addvintage.com.au
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Californian Dreaming
Posted on 18 January 2014.
| No, I’m not writing about the cool Red Hot Chilli Peppers song Californication – although that was stuck on repeat in my head – today we are Scouting (see what I did there?) out the cool exhibition currently at Queensland Art Gallery.
I know I’m very late in getting this to you, and everyone has written about and photographed this exhibit, but I could not share with you one of the best exhibits I’ve seen in a long time. Plus, you only have a few weeks to get on board – it finishes on Feb 9. This was completely up my alley: Architecture? Check. Fashion? Check. 1950-1960 design? Check. Yes I was a happy chappy when I saw this. Now for the boring (but necessary) info. California Design is an exhibition that looks at a broad spectrum of industrial, architectural, commercial, fashion and craft design from California from 1930-1965. Organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and curated by Wendy Kaplan (Curator and Department Head) and Bobbye Tigerman (Associate Curator) from LACMA’s Decorative Arts and Design Department, the exhibition presents more than 250 objects, including an iconic aluminium 1936 Airstream ”Clipper” trailer. My favourites are the beautiful fashion items (aside from the “out there” swimwear – I would still wear all of the dresses) and focus on acclaimed designers Charles and Ray Eames (have a design crush on these two). The ball and chain and I have on the bucket list to own a beautiful Eames (replica of course! hey not rolling in money over here) chair and floor lamp. Oh one day, but until then, daydream along with me. Check out more details at this website thingo – http://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/california_design_19301965_living_in_a_modern_way And dudes just in case your head is as weird as mine – here’s the cool song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn67vSHIdOs
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Book Recommendation
Posted on 13 January 2013.
As part of my book club I recently read the wonderful novel, Shantaram, by Aussie Gregory David Roberts. It’s a very large and gripping book influenced by real events of Roberts.
In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to 19-year imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia’s most wanted men for the next ten years.
He escapes to Mumbai (or Bombay back then) carrying a false passport in the name of Lindsay Ford. Next, the reader follows him living in the slums, becoming a make-shift doctor, friend to the locals, stand over man for local mafia and even running a business supplying extras for Bollywood movies.
He works in the black market, travels to Afghanistan to smuggle weapons for mujahideen freedom fighters and is planning a trip to Sri Lanka for criminal activities at the end of the book. It’s a fantastic story and what’s more remarkable is it’s based on a true story.
Buy it, it’s just too crazy not to love it.
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