MCM Boomerang - All Things Mid-Century Modern and Vintage

09/10/2024

Designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfredware , this vintage 1950s Midcentury Modern pair of bookends features an abstract flame motif in metal with brass and copper tones. They measure about 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.25 inches each. The bookends show wear and patina commensurate with age; and they miss the protective...

09/10/2024

Ben Seibel designed these iconic American Midcentury Modern bookends.

Designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfredware , this vintage 1950s Midcentury Modern pair of bookends features an abstract flame motif in metal with brass and copper tones. They measure about 6.5 x 4.5 x 2.25 inches each. The bookends show wear and patina commensurate with age; and they miss the protective...

06/11/2024

02/13/2024

Everyone please stand up! It is now time to do the Nitty-Gritty!

More fun : one of Shirley's catchiest hits. Never a prolific recording artist, she retired from the music industry in 1968. Her songs however, still get use...

01/26/2024

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This 7.5" hand-tooled leather -wrapped glass bottle or flask pays tribute to Chilian poet , teacher, and diplomat Gabriela Mistral (aka, Lucila Godoy Alcayaga ), who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. The decanter features an embossed foil image of Gabriela Mistral on one side and the first....

01/24/2024

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Kyoji Tanaka designed this 1980s Rabbit Tanaka Corp, Ltd. model 09308 desk lamp , which features bold primary colors and whimsical design in the style of Ettore Sottsass and Memphis Milano . The weighted base contains a desk organizer. The lamp is in wonderful condition: works fine; no issues other....

01/23/2024

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Unused in original packaging, these large circa 1980s vintage Mickey Mouse cufflinks were produced by Hickock Manufacturing from archival 1934 dies for Walt Disney Productions . Excellent unused condition. Enameled metal

08/28/2023

David Martin Storlie (1946-2015) heavy solid bronze on metal base modernistic sculpture measuring 12" tall. Storlie (American) graduated with a Master's of Fine Art in Sculpting from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

08/28/2023

The Benedictine Monks of Cuernavaca were renown for Talleres Emaus, their metalcraft workshop, which, mid-century, created abstract and sometimes surreal religious metal and wood wall sculpture, which lent a Modernist vision to Catholic themes. This vintage 1960s religious plaque, an image of Madonn...

04/19/2023

FYI

Home       Current Exhibition: A Special Exhibition atThe Museum on Main Street500 North Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Entomophagous Dining (Eating Insects) Fifth Biennial National Juried Exhibitionpresented byThe International Museum of Dinnerware Design  An exhibition featuring artists and ...

02/26/2023

Louis Poulsen present the ‘AJ Oxford Table Lamp’ series, conceived by Arne Jacobsen for St Catherine's College, Oxford, and now put into production for the first time

11/24/2022

Back in the early aughts, a burgeoning fascination with MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN created a cultural obsession with all things “iconic.” So much so that the shelter magazine where I worked briefly banned the term. But that hardly staunched the craze for Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair or George Ne...