Speaking for my brother here..
...the one who drew the comic strip that i posted above.
This photo is of my brother in 1954. He just posted it on Facebook, and the chair he was sitting in as he posted it is the one in the photo, a Paul McCobb Planner Group chair. My parents had two but only one survived. I think it's one of my brother's favorite things.
I've been thinking about...
I've been thinking about this for a couple of days now. My "favorite thing" changes regularly (monthly, weekly, even daily. I remember ten years ago, it would have been something Italian and plastic...perhaps an Enzo Mari Timor calendar. A year or so after that, a Timo Sarpaneva glass vase. A year after that an Evelyn Ackerman Mosaic, then maybe a Lagardo Tackett cookie jar. You get the idea.
These days, I find myself attracted to organic, minimalist designs in wood- turned bowls in particular.
That said, what I'm really digging today is my Buff Brown walnut cutting board. There are pictures of a similar ones below. It will probably be something else soon....
The saga continues...
Well, subsequent to my acquiring the sculpture I first posted in this thread, I managed to get in touch with the artist Charles Farkas. I began corresponding with him and his daughter. He is currently living in Rome.
I found out all about the history of the sculpture and discovered the title is "Human Tower" which is interesting because it had reminded me of the "Town Musicians" sculpture in Bremen, Germany. I was delighted that I was able to reach Mr Farkas and he seemed pleased that I like the sculpture so much.
They contacted me last month about the pieces they had here in the States and offered me the opportunity to buy them. I could not afford both pieces, but I did manage to purchase this one. It is titled "Angel" and I think it lis a great piece and looks fantastic in our home with "Human Tower".
They have a few of Charles' pieces still and may be offering them for sale in the future. I'd encourage anyone who has the chance to see these in person to seize that opportunity and if you are able to purchase one, I think they are just spectacular and well worth the investment.
It's been a while
... since this thread was added to and I'm sure there are others who would have a contribution, so I thought I'd bump it up and add this piece to my list of favorites.
It's a bird sculpture by Donald Drumm. It was a gift from friends of mine who knew about our bird collection and it's perched on the coffee table in our family room where we enjoy it every day.
To me it looks like Don Drumm took one part Aldo Londi, one part Dr. Seuss, a pinch of his whimsical surface treatment, and mixed it all with his molten aluminum to make this fine fowl.
No purpose,
just decorative. 3 "prongs" are just brass rods with little balls on the ends, the other 3 are brass rods with red plastic spears.
If my ceiling was flat, I could spread them out more, but with those beams in the way, I had to kind of point them down toward the floor more.
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Yesterdays favourite thing, I used to put a radiused edge on boards with a router but sometimes thats probematic and is never as nice as a shaved edge, this wonderful tool does it faster and better, is virtually silent, costs nothing to run and just by angling it gives different results without having to buy seperate expensive router bits, the blunt fingernail edge is so slight but feels totally different to the fingers than a flat.
Riki, can you paint your interior woodwork?
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