What s your best bargain ever.. (part 2)  

Thanks 🙂 I was obviously...
Thanks 🙂 I was obviously happy to bid (and did) a lot more for it, so I gave her the extra cash and half of it to the church fund where she was helping out. No harm in paying extra even though I could have walked away with it for £2.25 I would have felt bad.

Pretty good sofa find
Saturday-morning estate sale. Sleek Scandinavian-looking 7-foot sofa in the garage, heaped with cartons of old Christmas decorations. Very simple, crisp, low slung, Florence Knoll kind of lines, black leather, loose cushions. Straight legs, apparently teak, levitate it neatly off the floor. House and contents c. early 1960s. Sofa: $25.00.
Silver sticker on base reads:
Bara en Kvalitat
Den Mistra
[logo in red letters: "Fre"]
Industri Antiebolag
Skillingaryd
Made in Sweden
Tag stapled to bottom fabric says:
Winston Palisade Base
Anyone have a clue about date or origin?
Thanks.

knoll bruno 100 bucks flee m...
knoll bruno 100 bucks flee market today black leather great
side shell with revolving base most perfect shell i have ever seen said Jan 73 20 bucks

Geo...
I've never heard...
Geo...
I've never heard of a furniture manufacturer named 'Fre', but there is one called 'Ire', which was founded in Skillingaryd in 1939. I don't know what designers they were working with earlier, but today most of the sofas are designed by Carl-Henrik Spak, who is also one of the current owners of the company.
http://www.iremobel.se/english/om_oss_historia.htm

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The 'Infini' sofa on the page above is sooper sooper nice, Barry should be told.

Thanks to Alexandersforum (sofa)
Brilliant! The "ire" logo on my piece is rendered in cursive with a swoopy capital I that I mistook for an F, apparently predating the current all-lower-case signature. My couch looks a lot like Spak's "Epoka" model, and -- get this -- the company offers replacement upholstery covers, which could solve my spouse's issues with the moderately distressed cushions.
Your input greatly appreciated.

Lightolier Eclipse Lamp
I was coordinating a church auction and dug a Lightolier Eclipse lamp in original packaging out of a box. I about fell over from the shock. I gave 2 bucks for the lamp

Sirlampsalot--
You're the embodiment of every thrifters' most cynical suspicion: a collector who volunteers to organize church bazaar charity auctions. Conflict of interest!

2 bucks ?......highly...
2 bucks ?......highly commendable....

Excellent Scandinavian finds
I live in Finland and you mostly find Finnish or Swedish stuff here but occasionally you stumble upon international finds as well.
I started a blog post of some of the things I've found over the years. There could have been much much more but there is simply no more space..
http://designofthecentury.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-will-start-new-kind-of-...

$10 - found this chair last...
$10 - found this chair last year in that back of a thrift store, in worst part of town. had a bunch of old junk sitting in it. Plan to get new cuchions and refinsh, one of these days. Don't know make.

I enjoyed looking at your...
I enjoyed looking at your blog Jef.
Neat chair Jaxon, looks super comfy!

The quest for the greatest find
Thanks Luna
I started the blog post in January for fun and this other day I found this great, great forum. Keep the finds coming folks.
There will be more on the blog shortly.

C. Jere Table Sculpture
$20...best find ever!

Poul Jensen Z chair
I got a Poul Jensen "Z" chair the other day at auction for $30, including tax & premium. The Selig button is missing and someone stapled jute webbing to the seat frame, but I have elastic webbing to replace it with. I also have some nice quality wool upholstery fabrics for new cushions since the old ones were all hard and crusty.
I'm crazy about the chair, though... don't care for the walnut with the glossy varnish finish. So I'll just sell it after I restore it. But I was chuffed to get such a deal!