booker street

i am not vain...i just want to find my vanity

when it rains it pours, i suppose. i found another vanity - although this is more likely a desk - on ebay that i fell in love with. alas, i was outbid. i prolly would have bid more had shipping not been estimated at $165.00 from british columbia. seems to me that ohioans, pennsylvanians, and british columbians have a real corner on the danish modern ebay market. anyway, here it is in all it's glory. it trumps the malmsten by bodafors if you ask me. but it slipped out of my grip...


no matter, i will find my vanity someday. in other furniture related news, i did score 5 danish dining chairs - mfg'd by farstrup mobelfabrik - at local shop circa yeasterday.
they are very similar to these: upholstered in black pleather, in pretty bad shape. but i think i can easily redo them. and for $75 bux, i couldn't pass 'em up.
i don't even think i could find a single nice chair for the price of all five of these.

i also scored a small print by rosado - not as moderately priced as the chairs. not sure who he/she was, but i have seen a few other of his/her pieces that i quite like and think i found a real treasure. now if only our walls were painted then we could hang our ever expanding art collection. soon...it must be soon.

not much other news to report. embarking on january is scary to me. it's such a financially long month. dj husband has a number of gigs coming up which should be fun. he's thinking of calling his gigs either "popscene" or "town & country" - i'm more fond of "town & country."
some job interviews coming up - maybe 2006 is the year for me. we'll see.

hope you're all very well. happy new year. xoxoxox

posted by bls @ 12:54 PM 1 comments

in keeping with that theme

i swore to dj husband that after buying the bench in the previous post (it's mine, all mine) that i was done scouring ebay and other proprietors for furnishings. but i just can't help myself.
and lo and behold, what did i find? the piece of furniture that has been eluding me for months. don't misunderstand, i wasnt aware that it existed. but i knew, just knew, that out there somewhere there had to be a dressing table that fit my image of what a dressing table should be. simple, small but well proportioned, elegantly crafted, with a small mirror and not UGLY!

"let me see it," you demand? well, alright. it's not like any of us can afford it!

so there it is - my dream designed by Carl Malmstem and manufactured by Bodafors. oh how i wish it could be mine, but at $1250.00, it's not even remotely possible. at $125.00 i might be able to justify it - you think i could talk to the seller down? hmm, doubt it.

just to give you all an idea of what's out there and what makes this beauty stand out, have a look at this one by Heywood Wakefield:

could the two be any more opposed? i am so not into the Heywood Wakefield look of blond maple, top heavy pieces. there seem to be two schools of mid-century fans: those who love chocolately teak and walnut and those who love blond maple. i am firmly among the former! blond maple - YUCK, i say.

anyway, now you see that i am utterly addicted to furniture. add curator of modern furnishings to top 5 careers of all time.

shumai, glad you like the bench. i was wondering where the hell you'd been!

posted by bls @ 10:14 AM 1 comments

the bench in question

the bench in question

what d'ya think?

posted by bls @ 10:57 AM 2 comments

knowing is half the battle

friends, i have a problem. i am addicted to furnishing. i love furniture. i covet chairs, couches, lamps, tables and art. seriously, this is turning into an obsession. i visit the local overpriced junk store every weekend and find a new treasure that i want to rescue from its retail hell and give it a good home on booker street. currently, i am the high bidder on a mid century slat bench for our entry. i should not even be considering purchasing this piece, but i bid on it anyway because i was compelled to have it. that's an addiction isn't it - when you can't control yourself. the bench longs to be in my home, i know it, and i long to enter my home and close the door and sit on it to remove my shoes and don slippers.
(for god's sake, you can't wear shoes on our new floor. heathen, what are you thinking?)

often when i fall in love with a piece i'll scheme to get a friend to buy it. that way, i'll know it has a good home and be able to visit it often. this has actually worked and i'm pleased to say, the pieces have a good home and look fabulous!

perhaps, in addition to my new calling as a men's stylist, i should also take up interior design. i'd be so good at both and have a way to deal positively with my addiction.

posted by bls @ 4:10 PM 0 comments

dear lord

will someone please kill me. i do no - repeat, do not - deserve the torture that is this job.

why oh why am i so forsaken by the career gods. please someone help me...

posted by bls @ 8:51 AM 0 comments