Posts Tagged ‘Scandinavian’
Friday, April 26th, 2013
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We’ve just spied this beautiful vintage Stavangerflint plate on the web. It was hand painted by Inger Waage in the 1950s/60s. These female faces always make me think of Cleopatra or Spanish señoritas – it must be their huge almond-shaped eyes and big hooped earrings!
She’s currently up for sale on eBay for charity in support of Age UK South Lakeland*
*Age UK South Lakeland offers help and support to older people living in the rural community of South Lakeland, enabling them to retain their independence and choice. We have a commitment to volunteering and campaigning and providing services to all people aged over 50.
Tags: Inger Waage, Norway, Norwegian, pottery, Scandinavian, Scandinavian design, Stavanger, Stavangerflint, Stavangerflint Pottery
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
We often speak of living with things for a while before they reach our shop – and this is a case in point. We steadily added glass vases to the windowsill on our landing over recent years, building up quite a collection. We’ve enjoyed looking at them each time we passed – the natural light enhancing the gorgeous olive green colourway & highlighting the different shapes… but now it’s time to let them go. Here they are pictured sitting atop a 1960s teak bookcase in our Picture House Antiques pitch – they look great grouped together.
They’re all produced by Finnish glass company Riihimäki in the 1960s. For the sake of accuracy, we should attribute them to Riihimäen Lasi Oy as the company was renamed in the late 1930s, but they’re still often referred to as Riihimäki vases. The company had some very notable designers such as Aimo Okkolin, Timo Sarpaneva, Helena Tynell, Nanny Still, Tamara Aladin and Erkkitapio Siiroinen.
We’ve got them priced up between £15 & £35… and of course we’ve started a new windowsill collection!!
Tags: Aimo Okkolin, art glass, Erkkitapio Siiroinen, Finland, Finnish, Finnish design, Finnish glass, glass, green, green glass, Helena Tynell, Nanny Still, Riihimäen, Riihimäen glass, Riihimäen Lasi Oy, Riihimaki, Riihimaki glass, Scandinavian, Scandinavian glass, Tamara Aladin, Timo Sarpaneva, vintage
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
Here’s a selection of vintage homewares that we added to the H is for Home webshop this weekend.
Some lovely Scandinavian pieces for kitchen/dining including the cow milk jug produced by Arabia and the Daisy cup & saucer by Figgjo Flint.
Also, this red enamel coffee pot designed by Anti Nurmesniemi for Finel – such a classic piece of Scandinavian mid century modern!
Moving a short distance across Europe to Germany – this trio of vases were designed by Cari Zalloni for Altenkunstadt Pottery. They’re from his Cirkel range and the Op Art pattern is really striking. We’ve listed them separately, but they do look great grouped together. If you’d like to “re-home” them as a family, then we can do a special price on the three together!
These Babycham glasses were a good find. You quite often come across them looking a bit tired (well, they have been partying!). The logos & gold rims are often well rubbed, but these are absolutely mint in their original display box.
A bit more advertising ware. These milk bottles were popular in the 1970s & 80s – much more exciting that a drab Tetrapak carton! You could decant your milk into them to brighten up your morning cereal – or they’re perfect for cut flowers too.
We’ve been picking up a lot of industrial vintage items recently. These staplers fit in very well with that theme adding a vintage touch to a desk or shelf whilst remaining completely functional.
Tags: Altenkunstadt, Arabia, Babysham, Babysham Party Pack, Brooke Bond Tea, Cari Zalloni, Cirkel, coasters, Figgjo, Figgjo Flint, Finel, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Ready Brek, Scandanavia, Scandinavian, tin coasters, vintage, vintage homewares, West German, West German pottery
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
Oslo-based design studios StokkeAustad & Andreas Engesvik have collaborated for a second time. On this occasion they’ve created “The Woods”, a beautiful glass sculpture inspired by the forests & lights of the north. Made from hand blown glass, each sculpture consists of seven trees – joined in two separate sections… Just exquisite!
Tags: Andreas Engesvik, design, glass, Norway, Norwegian, Oslo, Scandinavian, sculpture, StokkeAustad, The Woods
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
This week’s Tuesday Huesday image is from an apartment available for let in Malmö, Sweden. The mix of strong, bright colours and patterns is just right – not jarring in the least.
Have a look at the estate agent’s website for more gorgeously decorated Scandinavian properties!
Tags: colour, colourful, daybed, Malmö, pattern, Scandinavian, Sweden, Swedish
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