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Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This score deserved it’s own Thrifty! post.

For all the crappy art I buy, and all the time I spent in art school, and all the time I spend working in art, finally – FINALLY, I found some actual art from an artist I was seriously lecturing about just a few weeks ago.

Welcome to The Brick House Josef Albers, White Line Square IV, 1966.

This is a three color lithograph, and is number 79 in an edition of 125. On the left bottom corner you can see the pencil marking it W L S – IV 79 – 125.

On the right bottom corner it’s signed and marked ’66.

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Then on the back it’s embossed with the Gemini G.E.L. ‘chop‘.

I found it at a very out-of-the-way Goodwill in a strip mall in Cathedral City. Framed in a awful gold frame but calling out to me in all it’s modernist glory – for how much? $4.99!

Holler.

One of the first gigs I got out of art school was working for a gallery/print workshop. I got to know a fair bit about printmaking and have a real appreciation for the process and people who do it. Gemini was founded in Los Angeles in 1966 and over the years have done some of the most amazing print projects including my new Albers litho, whose series friends are worth some $$$ dollars.

I’m pretty excited and can’t wait to find a nice safe place to hang it (out of the sun).

Thrifty!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Besides the fancy new Danish light in the living room I picked a couple of other things up this weekend.

Nothing is better than cheap discontinued Ikea at a thrift store. Well actually, there is a lot better than that…butter pecan ice cream, back rubs, puppies, butterfly kisses…but these IKEA PS VÅGÖ chairs from the 2001 PS collection are still pretty rad.

Also found my first piece of vintage Rosti. I’ve been on a mad hunt for this stuff for awhile, but these babies just keep alluding me. Now I have a poo brown mixing bowl. The hunt continues…

Thrifty!

Monday, 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.