February 10, 2012
While not new this big table (a 72 inch by 40 inch rectangle) is in like new shape. It’s in such good condition that it must have been used by a species of near ethereal beings because they left barely any marks on the table top and the chairs. The matching bench, which we’re selling separately bears many light scratches.
There is a chance that it was used to stage a house for sale and our getting it is a sign that the real estate market is slowly bouncing back, in concert with the rest of the economy.
While having a table formerly used by a ghost family might be kind of neat the ongoing economic recovery is more practical.
In all seriousness I haven’t seen a set in this good condition in a long time. Since the table is a solid piece, without leaves we’re selling this with the set of six chairs and have split the bench off for separate sale.
Update: The whole lot has been sold!
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February 2, 2012
Happy February 2nd. It’s also Groundhog’s Day, Candlemas, Imbolc, and/or St. Brigid’s Day. It’s a busy day with all those holidays stacked one atop another. Luckily they’re pretty much mutually exclusive and none of them have any relevance to the subject at hand, namely this vintage love seat.
It’s a decent old piece. The wood work is nice and the upholstery is in fair shape but in a somewhat dated pattern (little flowers, thank goodness it’s not plaid). Generally it is in fair condition.The major strike against this piece are two water stains, one on the far left edge of the seat and on the left arm and one on the upper portion of the left side back.
I gave them both a good sniff and they don’t smell bad or even seem to stink at all. This is a good thing, 1) ’cause I don’t have sinuses saturated in wretchedness and, 2) the love seat can still be used until you can get to reupholstering it.
This piece is about 58 inches wide, 36 inches tall and 32 inches deep. The exposed wood work appears to be mahogany and it has a collection of carved flowers and leaves at the center of the back.
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January 27, 2012
Telephone tables are sign number 437 that things have changed and kids have it too easy.
“Back in my day we had to have special furniture for our phones. It wasn’t some easy thing where you carried around more computing power in your pocket than the Strategic Air Command and could do internet searches for even the simplest stuff, like how to breathe. No, we had to remember phone numbers or look it up in a book. Ever hear of a book kid? It’s not some E-lek-tronik doo-dad, no sirree, its analog and uses paper and you had to know how to spell to use it. Bah you kids!
Wanna play Words With Friends?”
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January 25, 2012
I look at this leather upholstered bar stool and think, “If this were at my drafting table I could sketch cities, build Important Edifices or design untold futures.”
Instead I have an old cast iron and oak stool that’s just a bit too short, the mark of a plonker, a dilettante, someone who’s not, note the capital s- Serious.
But I’ve had that old stool too long to casually toss it aside for a flashy new brunette. I spent a lot of night sitting on it with only a purloined milk-crate for a footrest and a wall to lean against and it suits me pretty well.
This new bar stool is about 48 inches tall with a seat height of 30 inches. It is 23 inches deep and 21 3/4 inches wide, unfortunately we have only one.
If you don’t have a drafting table it’d class up a home bar much better than tossing an olive in your PBR and calling it a martini.
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January 22, 2012
This is a first! I don’t recall ever having a couch like this here at the warehouse but it could have happened when I was sleeping on the job or before my time.
Anyway, this is a rather unusual sofa with a tall back and high arms (I’m sure there is a proper name for this style). The wood frame is birds-eye maple with overlain decoration. The upholstery is in excellent condition. I suspect it is probably a late 19th century piece.
It’s the kind of piece that would be awesome to put near the wood stove or fireplace since the tall back would help conserve heat. You can sit in it in different ways which is nice if you don’t have an external heat source or want to use it in clement weather.
It is 42 inches tall on the high side, 32 on the low, 65 inches wide and 30 inches deep.
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January 19, 2012
We just hooked into a great catch of fine quality furniture, which we’ll be showing over the next several days or until it runs out.
For example we have FOUR of these wonderful and pretty darn comfortable deck or plantain chairs with swing-arms. They have wood frames, woven cane seats and are new but do have minor defects (which is how we got them).
They are about 44 inches deep, 30 inches wide and 36 inches tall. We’re selling them individually.
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January 11, 2012
This set is well used but still has a lot a life left.
The leather is still nice and supple although there is a little wear at the ends of the arm. It’s obviously been broken in, but it’s not broken down.
Unfortunately the glide wheels (a.k.a. clamps) that keep the back in place when you recline are worn out and will need to be replaced (and a previous owner broke an Allen wrench off in one bolt head). You should be able to obtain all the repair parts from your nearest authorized dealer, but they didn’t answer the phone when I called so I don’t know for certain that you can.
Since there is some element of repair and possible risk, we’re offering this piece As Found.
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January 5, 2012
These chrome frame chairs with metal seats and backs make me think of the darkened restaurants where sweet looking little old ladies would congregate which are among my first memories.
Those same ladies would spit hell-fire and damnation and roundly scorn their husbands and humanity in general while occasionally slyly handing a free soda to the bug-eyed kid standing dumbfounded on the other side of the counter.
They’re are all long gone now and I’m sure the old shell-back green and yellow metal chairs we sat in have since been turned into SUV’s or kitchen accessories.
This set of four chairs probably once sat in a similar kind of establishment. The smell of old smoke and cooking grease that probably once coated these is long gone scrubbed away and covered by a newish coat of paint.
They’re in good condition and measure 32 inches tall to the top of the back. I’d guess they were originally made in the 1950′s.
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December 18, 2011
This is a slouch-tastic chair and ottoman set! It’s even great for reclining in while you listen to Synchronicity II on repeat after a hard day at work.. You can put your feet up, relax and use your laptop as a drinks coaster on the floor beside you.
What ever you do this chair exudes relaxation. You won’t feel compelled to check your email while managing your linked in account all while working on next week’s big presentation. Next week will come soon enough and you’ve got some important lazing about to do.
The chair is 36 inches deep, 25 1/2 inches wide and 36 inches tall. The foot rest is about 22 inches square and 14 inches tall. Originally sold by America The Beautiful Dreamer the set is in very good condition.
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December 17, 2011
This reclining lounge chair was designed by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin of High Point, North Carolina. This is a little different from the last one we had. Most notably the arms are far nicer and ‘sculptural’.
Since ours does not have the original label I questioned if this was actually a Thayer Coggin piece at first but with some basic research I found not one, but two others that still had the original labels.
Of lesser importance, someone reupholstered it not so awesome not mid-century fabric. At least it is a redeemable flaw. The vaguely southwestern, possibly 80′s era fabric is in good shape but could use a little cleaning. What it really needs is replacing with appropriate looking/ period fabrics, but that’s outside our current abilities.
When, like tray tables at landing the chair is in the full, upright position it is38 inches tall, 28 inches wide and about 38 inches deep. When fully reclined it is about 60 inches long.
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December 8, 2011
This cherry table and chair set is handcrafted in the style of the Joinery and other fine custom wood-shops.
The table is 42 inches wide, 60 inches long and has two 18 inch leaves. There are six comb-back style Windsor chairs and two of them have arms.
I’ve no idea who made this set. The table is marked J711214 and the chairs are unmarked. The table could be an unlabeled Joinery piece, but the chairs seem too delicate.
Regardless, it is one of the nicest dining sets I’ve seen this year. All pieces show some signs of use but there are no major flaws.
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December 4, 2011
Even if you buy sustainably harvested fair-trade locally made furniture you’re still buying new stuff.
Stuff that has a cost on the environment.
As a greener alternative we offer this vintage green upholstered chair with tufted back. As an organization we give basic household items to people who need it, but we also serve a reuse and recycling role.
What’s greener than reusing something for which the costs of producing this piece are long since paid for?
This vintage chair is in quite good condition, it is about 30 inches wide, 30 inches deep and 28 inches tall and is pretty comfortable.
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November 19, 2011
This chair falls into the class that I’d call ‘sculptural seating’. You can sit in it quite comfortable but it’s also pleasant to look at and there is a lot of tactile appeal as well.
This is the Model 84 chair by J. L. Moller of Hojbjerg, Denmark located just south of Aarhus*.
The model 84 chair was designed in 1976 by the company’s founder and lead designer N. O. Moller. Ours is teak with woven paper fiber seat, although others were produced in oak or beech and upholstery was an option too.
According to the manufacturer the dimensions are Width : 50 cm. Depth : 50 cm. Height : 78 cm. Seat height: 44 cm. Seat depth: 44 cm.
For those who aren’t immediately conversant with the metric system the width and depth are 20 inches, the back is 30 1/2 inches tall and the seat height and depth are just over 17 inches.
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Apparently Madness was wrong and Aarhus is in Denmark, rather than in the middle of the street.
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November 16, 2011
Vintage Charles and Ray Eames fiberglass Arm Shell chair. This model was also known as the DAX chair (D = dining height, A = arm shell, X = four point (rod leg) base) and it dates to the early 1950′s. The color is officially known as Sea-foam Green and was introduced in 1952
The earliest DAX chairs were made in the late 1940s and have been updated steadily over the years. This chair shares some traits of the earliest models as well as some of the later revisions, pretty securely setting it in the early or mid 1950′s. For instance this has early traits such as the large diameter shock mounts and the x-base legs. The large shock mounts were later replaced with smaller ones and the base later changed to an H shaped one.
However it once had the ‘second phase‘ boot style glides which have themselves been replaced with cheapo modern slip-over rubber caps. Luckily one can still see a faint mark where the boot glides met the leg so their presence can be deduced even though they are gone.
There is an inventory or property tag glued to the bottom where the label should be so I presume the Herman Miller label was removed when the metal tag was put on. The x-base bears a stamped letter ‘D’ at the center crossing, which may or may not be a useful identifying mark. One screw is missing and the remaining three are the original single slot screws.
The chair is 24 inches deep, 24 7/8 inches wide and 29 3/4 inches tall (it’d be slightly taller with the correct feet).
The chair is in good to excellent condition. There are some slight scratches and tiny cuts but there are no cracks or repairs.
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November 9, 2011
“Oh give me a home
where the Visigoths roam
and the Vandals and Iceni play
and if you can’t stand the stench
have a seat on this Roman bench”
That’s not exactly Home On The Range but this isn’t exactly a chair, it is a style of seating is sometimes known as a Roman bench. They seem to have been especially popular in the late 1920′s and 1930′s.
Our specimen was made by the Crocker Chair company of Sheboygan, Wisconsin which went out of business in the early 1930′s. It is in good condition and appears to have the original upholstery. It is 23 inches wide, 23 inches tall and 15 1/2 inches deep.
If you’re into furniture history I recommend looking at the furniture catalogs available through University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. There’s hours of wasted time to be mined there.
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October 30, 2011
For a few days I’ve envisioned this in the corner of my living room. Unfortunately the plant in the corner of the room is a small tree so I’d have to do some serious rearranging to get everything to fit.
This is a single section of a teak log which has been turned into a tall table, although it could be used as a stool too.
It stands 27 inches tall and has a maximum diameter of 13 1/2 inches. There is a hollow void in the heart of the log. Careful work by the carver has exposed the void lower on the log. I think it helps lighten what could be a visually heavy piece.
With that in mind, this is a heavy piece and weighs about 75 pounds.
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October 28, 2011
This one of a kind stool was made by Travis Pond of Steel Pond Studios. Travis is a local Portland sculptor who makes a variety of things our of recycled and salvaged metals. I suspect he works somewhere in the North Greeley area as I’ve seen his large sculptural pieces on a trailer there.
This stool is about 31 1/2 inches tall with a seat made of three pieces of hardwood (and it spins). Given that it is made of recycled iron and steel this is a heavy item. It’d be good if you have a place where you always need a stool (or a tall table?) but probably not a good fit if you’re going to carry it on the bus to your weekly singing lessons.
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October 23, 2011
We’ve had a good year for chairs.
It started out with the Milo Baughman recliner and was followed by the Saarinen Tulip Chairs. More recently we had a Paul McCobb Planer Group chair. Just this week we had two Verner Panton Chairs and now we have what might well be the highlight of the chair year, a Harry Bertoia for Knoll Diamond Chair.
This is a vintage specimen and it is in great shape. We even have the magenta cover but the cover is pretty rough. A cat used it as a scratching spot, but even worse the interior foam dried up and turned into a powdery dust. We’ve emptied it out as much as we can, vacuumed it and saved the skin so that you can re-stuff it if you’d care to. Consider it a form of mid-century taxidermy.
Even after vacuuming the cover still leaves small traces of fine powder around so it’ll need washing or something like that before being re-filled. I was tempted to toss the cover, but it seems that finding replacement covers is as expensive as buying just the chair so keeping it seems like the wise choice.
The chair is 33 1/2 inches wide, 30 1/2 inches tall and about 28 inches deep. Knoll Industries is still faintly visible on the cover cushion label.
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October 22, 2011
We have two of these iconic chairs. They were designed in the late 1950′s by Verner Panton and were the first commercial single-material, single-form injection-molded chair.
Commercial production didn’t start until 1960 since it took some time for manufacturing techniques to catch up with the demand of the design. The materials and manufacturing processes were revised several times over the course of production and they’re still being made.
From what I can tell this set probably dates from 1971 to 1979.
According to the online archive established and maintained by Marianne Panton (the wife of Verner Panton)
. . .the third series model [was] made of coloured thermoplastic polystyrene (Luran S). The chairs made of this material can be identified by the ridges below the bend between the seating area and the base.
Manufacturer: Vitra; in the USA until 1975 Herman Miller.
Unfortunately these don’t have a label that clearly specifies that they are actually authorized copies. They do have reinforcing ridges underneath the seat and a devotee could tell at a glance if these are the same as the ones on the 1970′s chairs.
There is an H with two arms logo embossed on the base (see picture below) that could provide a clue. Many of the Herman Miller chairs were made by other suppliers (for example these 1972 chairs by Fehlbaum of Switzerland), so they might have only had a paper label or no impressed mark at all.
Basically I’m not sure who the molded mark belongs to which in turn means I’m unsure if these are legitimate or unauthorized vintage copies.
The are approximately 33 inches tall, 19 1/2 inches wide and 22 inches deep.
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They are dense painted plastic and the painting is a high quality job using a very nice glossy metal flake black. Both chairs are in good condition with some minor wear.
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October 9, 2011
This is the sort of thing I’d expect to find in one of the upstairs rooms of the University Club.
Or, one of the things I’d except to find if the bulldogs who are paid to keep the riff-raff out weren’t watching the side entrances and I could sneak in.
It’s a very comfortable dark chocolate brown leather. The chair is 36 inches high and deep and 39 inches wide. The ottoman is 24 inches by 27 inches and 19 inches tall.
There are two rubbed spots on the foot rest, otherwise it is in excellent shape.
“I say, would you pass me a cigar and a $100 bill to light it with? Oh yes, I’ll have another on of those endangered species sampler platters. Quite tasty.“
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October 9, 2011
Ohhh, now this is a comfortable lounge chair. I was worried I’d end accidentally up spending the night here, but this chair is proportioned for taller folks than I.
The top of the back is about 38 inches high, and it is about 34 inches wide.
The leather is in great shape except for a little wear on the seat, which make sense as that is the most load bearing part.
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October 7, 2011
Sometime in the early 1950′s my mother worked as a secretary in a big insurance company. This chair probably comes from that era, when stenography was an essential skill for office workers and the kind of chair you had was a symbol of social status in the organization (which is something that hasn’t changed much).
Given that this chair doesn’t have arms and has a hard wooden seat it was probably used by a typist or someone similarly low in the office food-chain.
It is in great shape which I take to mean that they spent as much time as possible elsewhere. It adjusts for height and the back is adjustable too.
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October 2, 2011
My favorite chair is a Windsor rocking chair that was a wedding gift for my grandparents. My second favorite chair is a sewing rocker, much like this one but in much rougher shape. I bought it thinking that it’d be a good porch chair but it is too comfortable to leave out in the weather.
Like this chair and sewing rockers in general it has a low seat. This one has a curved back made out of a piece of veneered bent wood and it finished in a mahogany colored stain. I’m not sure what the underlying wood is. The chair is 38 inches tall and 27 inches deep ($90). There are faint traces of writing in chalk on the underside of the seat but I can’t quite read them.
It looked a bit lonely when it was sitting out in the hallway waiting to come into the store so I took the opportunity to use it as clean seating for one of the giant rabbits we recently got.
The bunny rabbit is by Dakin. It is a very large Lou Rankin Friends Beatrice Bunny. The bunny stands about 24 inches tall. The one in the picture has been sold but we have another that is still in the original plastic bag ($25).
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September 29, 2011
Sweet 1960′s dining set!
There are six chairs two with arms, a nice table and three expansion leaves. The chairs are in very good condition. The table has seen some use but it’s in decent condition overall with one scuff and a few subtle rings only visible in side light. The leaves have been wrapped in newspaper since 1984 so they’re in near new condition.
I’m unsure of the maker of the set (but it’s model 1655). The table is 60 inches long and 40 inches wide. Each leaf is 12 inches wide.
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a set like this!
SOLD!
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September 21, 2011
I’d call this a medium sized table (32 inches wide by 48 inches long). It’s a good size for having a nice supper and then a game of scrabble with friends. You’re close enough that everyone is in the front lines for conversation, but there’s sufficient room so you don’t knock over your drink when wildly swinging your arms around as you try to explain that ‘vug’ is indeed the word for a small cavity in a rock (because explaining small things sometimes take big gestures).
Perhaps you play games with folks who are particularly wild in their gestures, or are bad losers? Luckily we’ve got two 12 inch leaves for the table and they’ll give you some stand-off distance which could save your life (or that of your beer).
Another cool part of this table is the built in silver drawer at the end (a.k.a a dump for letter tiles you don’t want) and the carved and painted details (I especially like the painted ‘flutes’ on the legs).
I suspect these pieces are from the 1920′s, they’re in pretty good shape and have some age appropriate wear. There are partial paper labels stuck to the undersides of the two chairs from Revell & Co, purveyors of Furniture, Rugs & Draperies in Chicago. Revell & Co was actually Alexander H. Revell & Company, founded in 1876 and operational through 1950 when their assets were liquidated. I’m not sure if they were also manufacturers or just distributors who house branded their products.
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