My best find...
I found this Time Life chair for $5 at Goodwill one day on my lunch break...I had that fluttering feeling in my stomach, mind racing... "OMG I've gotta act fast, how has no one else seen this, why is it still sitting here!!??" It isn't in perfect shape, but it makes me happy, that's what matters!
I felt I got a pretty good deal on this...
Its an old oil by some guy named da Vinci. Five dollars. I had it checked out and it turns out it is the original. It was stolen from the Louvre in WWII by some Nazis who smuggled it to Montevideo. Around 1970, the guy died and it was picked up at an estate sale and found its way into Argentina. The Argentine that bought it decided to escape the crazy Peronistas and moved to San Diego, CA. No one believed him in San Diego that it was the real thing, so he hung it in his metal fabrication shop for 35 years, as a kind of a conversation piece. He died and his kid gave it to the thrift store. I bought it as soon as I heard that the kid have given it to that thrift store. Unfortunately, someone at the thrift store stripped the original frame and sold it before I got there. What the heck? You can't have everything. 😉
The notion of 'best' is such...
The notion of 'best' is such a modern day nerve-wracker, let alone that very heavy 'ever' word. I think I'd have to say I bought Infinite Jest for 8.99, 1st Edition, by David Foster Wallace, used, May 2001, from a local Nebraska bookseller.
And so it goes/went.
Some seventeen years previous I found Who's Next in mint condition at Dirt Cheap Records - a downtown Lincoln store now long defunct a couple blocks off campus - on sale for 99 cents.
Dylan was about to release Infidels.
You are loved.
Goetz Reproduction?
Jiveturkey - if you don't mind me asking, where did you purchase the Goetz Repro? I've been looking all over the internet for weeks and have only found 1 place selling a repro (NJModern). Unfortunately I am in San Francisco and have no way of judging the quality of the repro.
Pretty happy with my $75 buffet and china cabinet
I got two (or three, depending on how you look at it) pieces of Broyhill Brasilia a couple of months ago. We got a 54" buffet and 56" base and china hutch -- in very good condition, too! I know it's not high design, but we like it.
$30 for Cassina Miss C.O.C.O chair by Starck
The picture in the ad looked all weird, kind of purple, but for that price I figured it was worth a look and they were in the neighborhood. The nice old woman explained it was a gift from her daughter years ago, but not so comfortable for her and her husband anymore. In reality, the ad colors were just the result of bad lighting, it was standard starck yellow, circa late 80's/90's. Not a gorgeous piece but worthy of picking up and ebaying if I changed my mind later.
two b&w lithographs, 8 by 12...
two b&w lithographs, 8 by 12 or so, by Fairfield Porter; early 1960s, nice simple wood frames. $3.99 each at a Salvation Army in Somerville, MA. the frame job caught my eye first, so I grabbed one out of the bin, looked, double take, triple take.....it was fun to walk into the Harvard library with them both in plastic grocery story bags and match them up to the illustrations in the catalogue raisoneé!
Fantastic! He's one of my faves!
Here's one from yesterday-Paul McCobb Planner Group dining room table,with 2 chairs,circa 1950.Black Lacquer over Maple or Birch.The table is(54x36x29") the one with the angular spindles beneath,set up to accomodate a leaf(missing).Real solid and clean.Needless to say,I am thrilled.Now I have to ponder whether I need to have all black breakfronts credenzas,etc. in mky dining room now!
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