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  modern design auction at wright, chicago

  10.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A few years ago when I was living in Chicago, I attended a Wright auction. Wright is located in an nondescript warehouse, just southwest of the loop. I’m sure I stuck out like a sore thumb in the relatively small crowd but I enjoyed the auction nonetheless. It was pretty thrilling to see so many [...]

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  a few quick finds…

  09.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m posting a few local finds from The Apartment and some vintage pins bought at X-21 Modern in the Mission. I wish we had room for a few of these things, especially the locker. It would make for a nice place to display an awesome show collection.

  $1 each

  vintage locker, $375, The Apartment

  tall wood case, $325, [...]

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  kids’ house by studiomama…

  09.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ll confess I saw this on Oheedoh (apartment therapy’s kids’ edition) but I had to highlight it as well. Studiomama a London-based designer named Nina Tolstrup designs furniture and spaces. I love the Kids’ House (show below). It includes a sleepy area, lego wall, and exterior blackboard wall. I built forts of all kinds as [...]

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  mega-dwr sale, fort mason

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I hate posting about dwr sales. It’s the ulimate yuppie embarrassment to get up early on a saturday morning, coffee-in-hand to wait in a long line full of other suckers. However, this looks like a colossal sale and probably worth attending. I don’t mind scratches at all, especially when it knocks $2K off the price [...]

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  new Blu Dot catalog…

  07.10.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here’s a fun video of the photo shoot for Minneapolis based design/furniture company, Blu Dot. A long lost friend Matthew Rezac designed the catalog and it proves he’s still a rock star designer. Having spent 4 years in Minneapolis, I really enjoyed seeing real Minnesota snow in the video as well as a few familiar [...]

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