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Once upon a time, long long ago there was a dressing table. It was the fall of 1912 and this dressing table had an oak framed beveled edge mirror.
The year passed and one day, about 100 years later the mirror ended up on the wall of the Community Warehouse Estate Store.
We’ve no idea where the dresser went (or when) which is a shame because this is a very nice mirror and we presume the rest of the piece was nice too.
Such is the way antiques become rare . . .
The mirror is 19 by 23 inches. It is in good shape and has a wire so that it can be hung on the wall. If you really want it to stay put it retains the original mounting hardware so it could be screwed into place too.
This is a neat old piano stool / chair. The seat height is adjustable thanks to a big iron screw thread. The letters cast into the iron are too faint for me too read so I don’t know the manufacturer of this component.
The rest of the chair is wood and is generally simply styled except for some patterned veneer in the upper chair back and carved claw feet. Unfortunately one of the chair back uprights needs repair (see slide show below) but otherwise it is in good condition. The top of the back is about 37 1/2 inches tall.
Mr. Chair is sitting at the Community Warehouse Estate Store West waiting for you. He is all alone, wondering if he is just too ’50s for this modern world. Mr. Chair was designed by George Mulhauser and made by the Plycraft Co. of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Although Plycraft was well known for attempting to “borrow” Eames’ stylings, Mr. Chair was a design of their own.
Mr. Chair is almost 3 feet tall, likes to recline, swivel and provide much needed relaxation time. He is in good shape for his age and reclines with only slight groans. Are you the one to bring Mr. Chair home?
Come visit Mr. Chair and more at Community Warehouse’s new west side Estate Store on Friday through Sunday 10-4.
It is decent to look at in regular light, but it is especially nice when back lit! The wooden frame is in good condition but could use a coat of paint. The glass panels are in good shape overall with a few cracks (most notably in the red flower center) but no missing pieces.
It measures roughly 36 x 24 inches and there are screw eyes already in place along the top so it will be easy to hang in convenient sunbeam.
This is a great piece. It’s especially interesting as it provides a diametric counterpart to our last Scandinavian modern styled bar cart and shows how good design can accomplish the same goals but end up in radically different places in the process.
At first glance this is just an unassuming, squarish wheeled stand. However it is finished in fine rosewood veneer with a black colored laminate top. Then, the front door opens and tucks back inside so you can access the revolving mufti-tiered carousel / lazy Susan. It is a compact yet elegant solution to a storage problem.
The cart is about 17 inches deep, just over 17 1/2 inches wide and stands 30 1/2 inches tall. It is in fabulous condition and there is a manufacturers label on the base that I didn’t decipher except to read that this item was made in Denmark.
This vintage table was made by the nationwide specialties company of Chicago and features a pseudo-Japanese/Chinese print under the glass.
This was a folding table but it has been modified top be in a continually fixed (open) position. I’m unsure of the original finish but someone spray painted it black at some distant point in the past. The print has some slight wrinkling from atmospheric moisture but overall it is in good condition.
It is 21 inches long, 15 inches deep and slightly over 16 inches tall.
There is little space between the island of genius and the raging sea of madness. In fact, the sandy shore where they meet is characterized by crashing waves of wild white horses.
Wild White Horses is the title of this work and it was originally executed by Violet Skinner in the early 1960′s.
It measures 37 inches by 22 inches and originally sold at Meier & Frank so it was a mass-produced item not a kitschy one-off.
Genius or Madness?
Art?
Take a look at the slide show below then vote in the poll. Remember to vote early and often, it is an election year!
The rules of the road in working woodlands are pretty simple: no matter what you’re doing, if an over height and over loaded truck carrying timber is careening down the road in your direction you are responsible for getting the H E double hockey sticks out-of-the-way.
If you don’t you will very much regret it, perhaps most when meeting the maître d’hôtel in a very warm place (Hi! My name is Beelzebub and I’ll be your server tonight, and every night. Smoking or non? Just kidding! Every table is smoking, as are the seats and you will be too.Salut!).
Luckily these log trucks are a little more forgiving since they are toys and only measure 5 or 6 inches long.
Arts & Crafts style rotating book case. Great display piece for a store or a good way to squeeze a lot of books into a small space (just don’t over water the plant on the top shelf!).
The book case is roughly 20 inches square and stands 35 inches tall.
It is in great condition and was probably made in the 1970′s.
This cabinet is a good functional cross between table and a display cabinet. The inside has two glass shelves which are lit from above, so you can show off ‘precious things’ while the top is still low enough that it can be used as a table stand for something else. As an added bonus it has two shallow lined drawers. It is in very good condition and measures 30 1/2 inches wide, 18 1/2 inches deep and 41 inches tall.
Is this more fun than a barrel of monkeys? I don’t know because we’re fresh out of monkeys but it is a neat piece none the less. Some one took an old barrel and made a custom one of a kind bar out of it. The barrel bar features a built-in ice bucket accessible through a trap door in the top, lined receptacles for glasses and bottle, casters so you can move it around, and a hasp on the doors so you can lock it to keep honest people out.
It stands just under 32 inches tall and is about 24 inches in maximum diameter.
This is a great old table which, if just a little care was given, could last another hundred years. It appears to be pine or a similar coniferous wood, has two drawers and two suspended flour bins. Unfortunately the original slide out cutting boards are gone, but someone made replacements from bamboo that are pretty nice. If you’d like a different look another set of cutting boards would be relatively easy to fabricate and it’d be a great chance to put your stamp on the table for future generations to admire.
It is in good condition with mostly age appropriate wear and some recent marker marks on the table surface due to exposure to children (see photo’s below).
The table measures 48 inches by 26 1/2 inches and stands 30 inches tall. The drawers work well, as do the bins.
Linear geometry, robust construction, limited ornamentation and the use of natural woods and rustic finishes are some of the hall marks of Arts & Crafts period furniture.
For instance this sideboard. It is a medium-sized piece, spanning 44 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 38 inches tall to the top of the 3 1/4 inch back splash. It is in good condition and as you can see in the pictures there are two storage compartments on the far sides, two small central drawers and one large, full-width drawer below.
That particular piece was a commercial production item, possibly British, so they did take a few short-cuts. The top for instance is oak veneer over a cheaper substrate and the door panels are similarly made. As a result it is actually pretty light for its size, which you may appreciate if you need to carry it up stairs.
My understanding is that these wonderful nesting tables, made by Vildbjerg Mobelfabrik of Denmark, were designed by Kai Kristiansen around 1960. All of them are in great condition with no major flaws and are made of solid teak.
They nestle together nicely as nice nesting tables necessarily do.
The biggest of the tables is about 2 4 1/2 inches wide, 15 1/4 inches deep and 17 1/4 inches tall. The smallest table is about 18 1/2 inches wide, 15 1/4 inches deep and stands 14 1/2 inches tall.
The carved wooden elephant ($5) is 3 3/4 inches tall and about 6 3/4 inches long. The glass house is 8 3/4 inches long, 5 1/4 inches tall a 9 3/4 inches high (with roof, without it is about 5 inches tall; $20).
Rustic or homemade zither in a similarly made carrying case. In OK condition, missing some strings and could use a tuning, but it’s a zither and it’s not like you’ll find one sitting on the curb any time soon.
The carrying case measures 28 3/4 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 4 inches thick. The zither itself is 26 1/ inches long and 17 1/2 inches wide and we have the tuning wrench.
Cool old reclining platform rocking chair, upholstered in deep red vinyl. It’s pretty comfortable and in good condition.
Something, but I’m not sure what, makes me think this would be an interesting barber’s chair, or at least a good place to recline for a hot towel shave.
It is about 27 inches wide and 36 inches tall to the top of the upright back.
The [blasted] lights in the little room make everything look like it’s eaten far too many carrots, or squandered the rent check on a barrel of spray tan. In other words, things aren’t as orange as they seem.
Vintage serpentine front dresser made of oak; It has two full width drawers with two half width drawers above. The top, mirror frame and mirror harp are solid oak, the figurative serpentine drawer fronts are veneered. The dresser is in great condition although it was probably refinished at some point.
It measures 38 inches wide, 20 1/2 inches deep and 66 1/2 inches tall to the top of the mirror.
Today is the day! We’re pleased to announce that we are formally opening our new west-side Estate Store in Tualatin. It’s located in the same facility as our donation center at 8380 SW Nyberg Rd. We’ve been taking donations for a few weeks but it’s time to get our lazy-bones up and working so the store will now be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm (Of course the donation section is still open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm as well).
The Heywood Wakefield model 710 lounge chair and ottoman you see above were pretty good incentive to get this started. It is in fair to good condition given that there are some flaws (one hole on each arm and some torn stitching in the seat).
Barring upholstery issues this chair and ottoman is pretty darn comfortable and the wood and metal bits are in good shape. The best part is that it still has the separate head rest piece. Since this is not attached to the rest of the chair it’s usually long gone.
As the store gets up and running we’ll be featuring more stuff from there here at Estatestore.org and eventually we plan to set up a separate page for it, much like the Garage Sale page (which you should take a look at!). Until then maybe we’ll see you there
This antique secretary desk with storage drawers is an unusual find. It was made by the Grand Rapids Furniture Company (of Grand Rapids of course).
The fun question is which Grand Rapids Furniture Company?
Historically there are at least three companies with the name operating from 1877 to 1890, 1897 to 1906 and 1905 to about 1950. I’ve no way of telling, with the limited references at hand which one this was made by but my guess, based on the Art Nouveau inspired scroll work and the use of solid oak is that this dates to about 1900, plus or minus a few years of course.
Anyway it’s a great piece with an upper compartment containing a variety of pigeon holes and an ‘aftermarket’ added drawer within one of them. The door to this cabinet acts as a fold down writing shelf and can be secured by a lock, which came locked, but for which we didn’t get a key. Luckily we found one among our stash of ‘things that aren’t currently useful but might be someday’. Contrary to the often held belief that someday never comes, in fact someday did come, it was several days ago and not unexpectedly, the lottery tickets we didn’t buy didn’t win.
Below this cabinet are two full width drawers, they work well, are in good shape and seem to retain the original drawer pulls. These drawers don’t have locks so you never have to worry about being locked out of them.
This piece stands 53 1/2 inches tall, it is 32 inches wide and 15 inches deep. It is in good condition.
This set of five ornately carved Chippendale style chairs probably date to the late 19th or early 20th century.
The chairs are unmarked except one bears a faint chalk number 236, which is probably the pattern number. They are made from solid straight grained mahogany and they are all in variable condition, but with a baseline of ‘good condition’. Two of them are absolutely perfect, the other three have minor flaws, most notably missing* trim pieces (You can see an example of what I mean in the slide show below). If you were an enterprising sort of person you might be able to take the five chairs and make four near perfect ones by switching parts around.
The seats were redone in vinyl at some later time. Given the use of a sort of burnt pumpkin orange color material my initial guess was the 1970′s. However upon looking at the seats closer I noticed that the support is canvas webbing and there is a thin veneer of rust on the nail heads, so perhaps the 1930′s would be a better fit.
The top of the back is about 40 inches tall.
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*Personally I like the story that missing parts tell about the history of an item. In the broadest sense it is tangible proof of the passing of time and possible witness to what happened. Things like the decline of empire at the turn of the century (both British and Ottoman), the rise of the automobile and the decline of the ice man, the end of the age of Morgan** and the rise (and fall) of the trust-busters.
On another level missing pieces tell of the time when great-uncle Albert and Aunt Grace loaded everything into a Model T and hit the road in the summer of ’35, like so many families did. It reminds us how they only made it as far as Jersey City on US Highway #1 before their will gave out and they decided to settle down in East Orange. Somewhere on that brief journey the car rattled and jumped so bad that they lost one chair and pieces of others too. They turned back when they realized it was gone but all that was left were splinters in the road. Albert always claimed he could have made something out of them, if nothing more than a ship in a bottle. Grace usually walked out at this point in the story, she’d heard it before, besides she knew that the sight of a ship, boat, or even a dingy in a bottle would make Albert seasick.
** The photo of J. P. Morgan in the slide show was taken by Edward Steichen in 1903. This is the first picture I remember seeing of him and it left an impression of Morgan that no other photo has dislodged. The story of this picture is interesting in itself and can be found by following the link here.
For some reason I have a hard time conflating those two styles in my mind, but that seems the best way of describing this piece. It even makes a certain amount of sense; just because folks were broke in the 1930′s didn’t mean they didn’t want stuff in the popular style of the Art Deco era.
So they made things like this cabinet and bookshelf combination.
I’m not sure if it was home-built or factory-built on the cheap. They did a decent job either way and used good materials (unlike certain modern flat-pack retailers).
It is 42 inches wide, 12 inches deep and stands 36 inches tall. The cabinet and drawer pulls are wood and there is about 10 inches between the shelves, so you could put ‘real’ books in there, not just mass market paperbacks.
This is in great shape much like that early 1970′s Chevy my grandmother only drove to church on Sundays and to visit the grand kids in the suburbs.
And maybe to the odd Saturday night drag race, but not so much that there was undo wear and tear.
But this is about the buffet: It is 66 inches wide, 21 3/4 inches deep and the top of the back splash is 40 3/4 inches tall. It is in great condition.
There are several nice features including two shallow half width storage drawers and three cabinets below that. Best of all there is a full width linens drawer which is a feature I’m especially fond of. I admit though that the closest I’ll probably ever come to needing a linens drawer is when I need a place to store that new blue tarp I got on sale.
