This is my latest typograhical find, and I’m quite taken with it.  It is an old advertising sign printed on thick stock paper.  The type bites deeply into the paper, making heavy impressions.  The words are highlighted by the most gorgeous, rich, shimmery colors – teal, fuschia, purple, deep royal blue.

Deliciously Different indeed!  If you [...]

We bought this vintage Waverly fabric swatch book at auction recently.  It was a true impulse buy.  I had not even seen it on preview.  But when the floor person was holding it up for bid, and flipping through some of the pages, I caught a glimpse of my childhood.
It’s funny, but if you asked [...]

Steve went to an auction down in Kingston the other night, and came home with some treasures!  He had seen this chair in the listing online, and it was the main reason he went.  It is an LC7 chair designed by Le Corbusier.  This one was originally purchased back in the ’80s, but it’s ours [...]

What exactly is it about letters, type, font that is so fascinating?  I can’t quite put my finger on it – the pull I feel towards typography. It’s not about words, although I love words.  It applies equally to characters printed on a page, painted on a sign, created out of wood or metal as [...]

I have finally gotten the lot of vintage CathrineHolm enamel kitchenware listed on ebay.  I promised to do so when I blogged about it here, and I can’t believe it has taken me this long.  But at any rate, it’s up and you can find it here.  Get on over there and bid, and get [...]

Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me?
I love lamps and lighting of all kinds.  I understand the impact that the right shade can have, and the damage that can be done to good design with the wrong shade.  I get all that.
Often, when I see a lamp with a shade on [...]

The other day Steven and I went to Cooperstown to hang out with our old friend Bob Graham.  He is an antiques dealer and lighting designer, and I wrote about him here last year.  We delivered some merchandise that Bob bought from us after seeing it here on TA&D (ah, it’s working!)  Our afternoon together [...]

As I have mentioned here before, I love vintage CathrineHolm enamelware.  For me the forms, colors and patterns totally evoke the whole mid-century vibe – kitschy and fun, and at the same time clean and elegant.  All I have to do is catch a glimpse of a bowl or pan, in a pile of ordinary [...]

We are getting organized to travel home from North Carolina.  I took a break from packing and took a bunch of pictures of the antiques we bought while we were here.  We found some wonderful things (in addition to the giant H of the last post) including mid-century lamps, Blenko glass, cool industrial, mercury glass, [...]

Where are the true roots of modern design?  My formal art education is somewhere between lacking and non-existent, but sometimes that is a good thing.  It frees me to stumble upon my own little revelations of culture and form with joy, instead of having them covered (as I’m sure they would have been) in some [...]