Produced in 1984 by the Danish company Scan-Globe this is about as good as the modern globe lamp gets – teak base with a mix of three allen head set screws and three dovetail joints. The gimballing globe just sits in three slots. Pure elegance!
Vintage Louis Kalff Desk Lamp for Philips Holland……………..classic mid-century modern retro design!
This elegant desk lamp by Louis Kalff c.1955 is a great example of mid-century design, but owes a lot to the German Bauhaus movement and Dane Poul Henningsen’s PH4/3 lamp of 1925.
Vintage Japanese Kamishibai……..or manga Paper Theatre with wooden stage
A complete collection of 80 comic or manga pages covering five chapters of ‘First steps in English’. This set is probably c.1960. The wooden box or theatre is in excellent condition and very typical.
Vintage Ernestine ceramic vase……….Retro style from Salerno Italy
Hand painted Ceramica Ernestine piece signed and dated under “20/3/1954 V.21. 269″. Height 22cm x Diameter 19cm. A great example from the Salerno pottery established by the couple Matteo d’Agostino and Ernestine Virdan Cannon – the ‘mysterious lady from the north’.
Vintage Punk Doll / Retro Badges………..Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols
Origin of the doll is unknown, but things changed forever in 1979….and with the punks came a political agenda – anarchy. It took until 2009 for Barbie to go punk, including “Totally Stylin’ Tattoos”, a symbol of a generation with very little political agenda of any kind.
Johanson Design Tulip Foot Stool ………….Mid Century Scandinavian Style !
Designed by Swedish designer Borje Johanson c.1950 as the Tulip Footstool. Revived by the company ‘Johanson Design’ in more recent times as the ‘Satellite’ and ‘Vinga’ footstool, but some would say, as mere shadows of the original.
Retro Industrial Plastic Orange Juicer………….1960′s Israel
A seriously heavy duty retro manual orange juicer from Israel. I have to say it has definite overtones of 1950′s Soviet post art deco design…..so any information about the designer/manufacturer would be appreciated. And of course there is the unanswered question of whether it is from Jaffa.
