Every time I come across one of these chairs (known only as a "Mayan folding chair", from what I can gather), I'm utterly charmed. Comfortable, great looking, and they sell for the low low price of $170, in solid cherry. Who designed this clever beach chair, and when?
Hat's off to you, Mayan Chair designer, whoever you were.
Got any favorite 'anonymous' designs?
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Great thread idea, had been thinking the same.
Some things I use everyday work so well I'm usually not aware of them. I especially like the Bodum plunger but also a set of shallow cone shaped spun or stamped stainless steel bowls I use constantly and a drinking glass set produced by Crown Corning in Australia in the 70's that is brilliant, they have a really thick low stem and a very slight curved taper upwards, they are everywhere in charity shops for 20c apiece. They stack (all three together), the foot being slightly smaller in diameter than the mouth of the smallest glass. They look good for drinking wine, whisky and the big ones are great for cold drinks.
I'll try and find a picture.
There is a bit of a thread ab...
There is a bit of a thread about the chair at Apartment Therapy, but I am not sure anything definitive (a number say the chair is all over Central America). There are also instructions for making your own available on the web.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/boston/good-questions/good-questions-hel...
This site sells them (below).
They're so great looking, and so affordable, it's surprising they're not ubiquitous. If only I had a terrace...
http://sitincomfort.com/fopachchwoma.html
Black and Decker "Lids Off" Jar Opener...
Not much to look at, and not perfect in function, but still it is a god send to old persons, like my mother- and father-in-law. Old persons inevitably lose the ability to open jars. If you can't open a jar, it is very tough to cook good food for yourself. Old people deserve better food than prefab crap nuked in a micro wave. This Lids Off helps them continue cooking. Congratulations to Black and Decker. I don't know why they don't advertise it more effectively, so more old persons know it exists.
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I don't know if anyone else does this but opening a tricky jar (if its going back in the fridge) can often be done by piercing a little hole in the top of the lid with the point of an old knife or hitting the edge of the lid a few times with a butter knife.
That looks a very bulky device to accomplish such a simple thing.
Some anonymous things of...
Some anonymous things of mine.
Looks familiar? Folding fruit bowl was my late Grandmothers since the '50s or 60's, we have two and one has Japan branded on the underside. The bentwood shelf, also hers from same period unknown. Believe she got them while living in New York.
White wood bookends a recent addition...old! Probably 20's-40's.
Signed, but illegible, ceramic carp coinbank
Same for the pen holder...
Last is a foot tall ceramic electric insulator.
I agree with heath...
Turning the lid is not the problem, unless you have no strenght left at all. There are numerous small gadgets on the market to lift the edge of the cover slightly so that air can get in...see if I can get a picture with this.
http://www.brixdesign.com/c5x_details.asp?functionx=det&MENU=1&itemidrec...
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my random kitchen utensil -- a generic stainless fork that my parents had in their kitchen from at least the 'fifties. I've had this one for forty years or more -- I used to have two.
Sturdy and, I think, graceful -- surprisingly heavy -- the companion of the generic cast-iron skillet, the concave-sided white ceramic mug, and the plain tempered-glass dinner plate, along with the white-speckled black or dark blue porcelain-enameled tinware. . .
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