Anyone into classic furniture

[MattiThundrrr]

A few mid-century examples here.View attachment 1017522

That's what is great about mid century furniture, it was made to be utilized. I have resisted a living area picture because of the "lived in" quality. Half of the hutch is covered with old birthday cards, the other with Lego and books

 

[fguki]

Real ones? :-0

Absolutely real ones! What do you want me to show?

 

[Lucidone]

That's what is great about mid century furniture, it was made to be utilized. I have resisted a living area picture because of the "lived in" quality. Half of the hutch is covered with old birthday cards, the other with Lego and books

Sounds like home!

 

[Woz]

That's what is great about mid century furniture, it was made to be utilized. I have resisted a living area picture because of the "lived in" quality. Half of the hutch is covered with old birthday cards, the other with Lego and books

Totally with you. Personally find that the "utilised" then gets divided again; what is built for individual use (typically a bit more refined and ornate) vs what is for intensive use (just simply up to task, little frills). I see this over and over again at the second shop, and it applies to so much. I see furniture - particularly wooden being the son of a carpenter - so incredibly well crafted, slaved over even, and well built going for next to nothing. I also see varying grades of the quality of screws and the ability to maintain. I have a bread knife with a wooden handle and stamped stainless steel (INOX) - it must be about 60 years old and never ever sharpened because it is practically impossible to sharpen but it just goes through crusty bread as intended (I scream at visitors who decide to use it for anything else).

Compare that with a new stainless steel colander from Lidl - rusty bottom after 8 months.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I see furniture - particularly wooden being the son of a carpenter

Her dad was also a carpenter. Out in the garage, we have a wooden tool trunk he made, filled with antique tools we kept when we cleared out his workshop.

 

[DKFan]

Absolutely real ones! What do you want me to show?

I have no doubt, no offence, not had real ones pass through the auction house, probably the most copied chair along with the Barcelona

 

[Betsy]

They’ll be in one of his many New York apartments..

Some of them I have just as decoration in my 4th apartment in central New York :-D



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You might be wondering why a fashionable NY apartment is decorated with textured wallpaper like a teenager’s bedroom from the 1980s.. I know I was

 

[winjohn]

In a previous life as a photographer I made this image inspired by the famous one of Christine Keeler in the Arne Jacobsen chair.

 

[winjohn]

I have a few copies of various MCM chairs including the Marcel Breuer Wassily chair famously inspired by the design of bicycle tubing.
I also have a copy of the Bertoia diamond chair and a rather nice photo of it with a superfluous naked model obscuring the full view of the chair so it's not really of any interest to show here.

 

[wynne]

Don't know how "classic" these are, but a few folk/midcentury-influenced bits that have passed through my hands.