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Sunday’s Best – Jazz LPs

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I woke up yesterday morning to maple tree buds all over my car.

What a dream, this early early early spring….

An early garage sale here in Michigan is usually at the start of May. But we found several this weekend. We lucked on a big collection of gorgeous mid-century Jazz lps. We have been working our way through them, listening all weekend.

A couple of hard to come by 10 inch lps with famous covers designed by David Stone Martin. We are just now listening to the Charlie Parker and it is pretty clean, maybe a little better when its been dusted properly.

We are huge fans of Miles. This record has scuffs, so not the best find. But it is a good day when we find something not already in my husband’s collection, which is pretty substantial. And I love this cover.

Ouch! What a cover! The original owners of these lps frequented Detroit’s famous Bakers Keyboard Lounge, which is the world’s oldest jazz club, in its mid-century hey dey.

This is some sort of compilation.

Baker's Keyboard Lounge today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Keyboard_Lounge

Mad Men Era Wednesday

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We have become heavily invested in some classic mid-century items recently. So expect some Mad Men type glamor in our store suddenly.

George Nelson for Howard Miller cigar shaped bubble lamp (rah!). I love this designer. He was quite a character and very devoted to his trade (though not very committed to giving credit to the designers on his team.) He credited the design of this line of lamps to not having the $125.00 to buy a silk Scandinavian lamp for his office.

George Nelson Sunburst clock. This was actually designed by Irving Harper, who worked for the George Nelson Design Studio and designed some of the most iconic products of the company.

The big teak wood sculptural ice bucket designed by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk.

Tangle toy sculpture designed by Richard X. Zawitz.

A Copco skillet designed by Michael Lax. I think this is one of the most (if not the most) beautifully designed skillets ever. I especially love the dark chocolate glaze on this one. I would like to do a post on this line in the future because it is just so gorgeous.

This Dansk Kobenstyle pitcher (Quistgaard again) is already for sale in the store now. I just like to look at the aqua with the brown.

Marimekko fabric in the Lokki pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1961. This little quote about this particular design from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maija_Isola:

Lesley Jackson, in the aptly titled chapter Op, Pop, and Psychedelia in her textbook Twentieth Century Pattern Design, writes that “from Finland the exuberant all-conquering Marimekko burst on to the international scene” in the 1960s; she illustrates this with one pattern by Vuokko Nurmesniemi, and three by Isola – Lokki, Melooni, and inevitably Unikko.[12]

Of Lokki, Jackson writes “Isola revolutionized design with her simple, bold, flat patterns, printed on a dramatic scale. The design, whose title means ‘seagull’, evokes the lapping of waves and the flapping of birds’ wings.”[

Some modernist book covers to look at and not for sale.