The Last Thing You Acquired #39  

@ niceguy
Nice teapot! I really love arabia vintage stuff, especially the Pomona serie which is fun to collect.
I am sure you know it already but I guess it might be useful to someone someday: the 12-63 stamped is the date of production, meaning your teapot was made in December 1963.
http://www.arabia.fi/en/Arabia-Story/COLLECTING-ARABIA/Factory-stamps
Actually, the Arabia page is wrong and the date stamp has been used until 1971 (I have pieces dated 67, 69 and 71).

DrPoulet,
Thank you for your kind words. Yes, I knew the number 12-63 was a production date stamp. I appreciate your including the Arabia factory stamp chart link.
This is not an area of true expertise for me. Do you know the name of this series? I am grateful for any further help identifying this teapot. I like to buy and use.

It's indeed by Kaj Franck, designed in the early 50s and came in a variety of decors (al thought the plain ones are much nicer). I think the model name is B1 (1,1 l capacity).

The other day I was in a big thrift store and spotted what I was pretty sure was an original Lotte Lamp shade. Lotte and Gunnar Bostlund came to the US from Denmark in the 50s and started designing and producing ceramic lamps in Ohio. The company is still making lamps today--lovely shapes in beautiful glazes. The shades were and still are made of seamless fiberlass wound with string, which may also be fiberglass, I'm not sure.
Anway, I had a Lotte lamp at home that needed a shade and I had pretty much given up hope of ever finding one for cheap. The shade that I found did not have a price on it and this store's policy is NOT to price things while you wait. They take it to The Back, which in this case was a huge warehouse-like space with mountainous piles of clothing and huge bins and carts of housewares and an ever-present cacaphony of stuff being knocked about and carts rolling and coat hangers scrunching together to make more room on racks. It kind of reminds me of that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfuss gets his first glimpse of that bustling alien metropolis amount the mountains of wherever. Like, WHOA. WHAT IS THIS.
Anyway, I was told it could be back out on the floor "in 15 minutes, maybe 30--we don't know." I had to wait, of course. I do not live close to this place and even if I did, I could easily miss out on it if I left and came back later, simply because someone else who just needed a shade of that size could just snap it up as soon as it was put out.
So i waited. I used the time to look for more stuff and to also research the shades online, which was good---was able to confirm that it was indeed a Lotte shade.
Finally, three hours later, an employee took pity on my poor hopeless self, standing there waiting and waiting and waiting, and went back and hunted it down. (A few others had sort of checked on it before that but came back with just shrugs.) The price was only $4, which did not surprise me at all since that's about what all their shades cost.
It's perfect on the lamp and I'm really glad I stuck around for it. Once you see those lamps with their shades, they just don't look right with anything else. It's like a Martz lamp without the original walnut finial. Just....no.

DrPoulet,
Thank you again for your continued help and the proper identification. I am grateful for your help.
Spanky,
You are the man in the thrift shops. Good for you. Patience is truly a virtue.

David L. Page for IMPORTS INC.

So after talking to the gentleman who was considering down sizing to a flat and agreeing to call in when i was next close by, some months passed and i got a call from his daughter. He passed away and she was worried we had made plans.
Long story short i agreed to value the furniture in the estate and maybe buy some.
Alot of furniture and a few lights were purchased and among the lights was this baby.
Spent 3 days researching it and finally got some help from another dealer here in uk who pointed me towards Bernard schottlander.
Now i just need to find a spot to fit it at home.

My Dad and I built this deck last weekend, and while I bought the fireplace a few months back, this is was the first time its seen the light of day!
Last picture is the 'before' from the real estate listing, not my washer 🙂

LOVE that lamp...

Great deck! Did you by any chance use those cement footings with the notches for the joists? I built a low floating deck with those in a house we ended up selling. That's the only thing I miss about that place!

Spanky-
We didn't, I wanted it as low to the ground as possible. The asphalt is seriously uneven, the feet on the under frame vary from about two to five inches! Lots of measuring twice on this.

Grendel The Cat,
Nice fireplace, great deck with an extremely kind and handy father. Good for you. Lucky daughter.

niceguy-
a resounding 'yes' on all of those things!

I built a similar deck (not as well appointed, however). I floated the whole thing on Trex blocks (handmade) for the same reasons, the original patio was messed up concrete and completely uneven. I made mine out of 4'x4' contrasting squares. Worked out like a charm.

Grendel The Cat,
When I was a young man my father would conscript me in a multitude of physical projects around the house. He would work like a no tomorrow with no complaints and I would be a typical teenager (adolescent).
He would always ask the same rhetorical question: How did the they build the Great Wall of China? I would always reply: Gee Dad, how did they build the Great Wall of China? To which he would reply: One brick at a time, get started.
Those are fond memories and as it turns out, wonderful character building opportunities. I in turn have shortened this to: If you would stop talking and thinking (this is not good for you) we would be finished by now.