Thrifty!

November 16th, 2009

Welcome home little knock-off, you are replacing the huge yellow lamp for a more understated lighting statement.

I love me some Poul Henningsen, and this little light is a lovely 1970’s knock-off piece of Danish engineering. This baby is super solid and heavy, and after going to the disappointing DWR warehouse blow out sale in Palm Springs and picking up all the chintzy, poorly made and overpriced lights, this little fresh white cloud of awesome made me remember why I love vintage so much. Quality.

I found it at this place called JP Denmark in Cathedral City. If your a frequenter of the Rose Bowl Flea Market you may recognize the husband and wife team with the plethora of amazing Danish items. Well, they have a warehouse. An AMAZING warehouse that I must have passed a million times (no website, no phone listing, in a weird little industrial strip mall – it’s like a design mirage) filled with vintage Danish pieces they import directly.

Pricing can be pretty good, but obviously your not going to get a total steal. Of course they had some really nice vintage PH lights that were out of my price range and all the dressers and credenzas? OMG. Bananas. Teak heaven.

JP Denmark is located near the Perez Design District in Cathedral City. Ask the guys over at Hedge and they can point you in the right direction.


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Lazy Saturday

November 14th, 2009


Sun spots for Iggy butts.

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NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO

November 13th, 2009



Painter’s Chair. Why? WHY? WHHHHHHYYYYYY!!!

Urban Outfitters, why do you always screw up anything that has the slightest possibility of being rad? Really? Fake paint splatters? On this Arne Norell chair knock-off! Really? REALLY?

I haven’t felt this much spite and hatred since I spotted the Old Navy Women’s “The Flirt” Paint-Splatter Boot-Cut Jeans. And yeah, I was at Old Navy this weekend, that’s how I f*ing roll.

I’m not an authenticity snob or anything, I love a good knock-off, but for some reason this “paint splatter” thing really grinds my gonads.

Urban Outfitters can take things a step too far into some horrible hipster downward spiral of douche baggery. The thing is, I sometimes kind of like some of their things, but this Painter’s Chair is just killing me. I might have loved the chair if it was paint free…but still, at $235 I seriously would never have bought it. Have you seen UO’s quality? Awful. Come to think of it I’ve never really bought any home goods at the big UO because it’s always sort of overpriced and bad quality. But sunglasses? On sale? Hell yes.

Good god, I still want a Safari chair ssssssooooo bad. I’d even take a knock-off if the price was right (and if it didn’t have douchey paint splatters).

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