Three Incredible Finds!

[Femme1]

SeSo, I must have that bag     No, but really, I'm glad you found it     (Thrift envy is a terrible thing.)

You've had a run of great finds. The chair is great, the lamps are wonderful, and we won't talk about how incredible that bag is. You must be propitiating the proper thrift gods and goddesses!

And I have to second the mention on Persuasive Percussion. I found that album some time ago and bought it for the Albers cover, as well as the music. I have a cool collection of interesting album covers (some kitschy and some just great design), and need to get them up on the wall of our music/pool room (my husband plays in bands and we have guitars and congas and amps all over the place.

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Femme1, merci du compliments!

During the holiday week, I gave away much stuff freely that would make the thrifts lots of $$$, if it ever even hit the floor. I didn't think about it or analyze it, I Just did it with no attachment. I released it with feeling that it would go on to it's next karma, adventure,flow, place in the universe.

I found all this stuff within a month. It's not a lot, but it's perfect. The stuff I released was plentiful and $$$$ but it no longer served.

I try to keep movement, flow going.  Even if I hadn't found anything, the lightness of being after the release of stuff is ENOUGH. More than enough.

Having said all that, this is all so groovvy!

Now your collection of album covers sounds great. There are some LP folk here with great LPs and covers and last summer we had a thread or two going about that. Would love to see your favorites. I know that sometimes I might have to buy an LP merely for it's cover art, lol!  What kind of music does your DH's band play?

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Thank you for all your kind and enthusiastic comments; to answer your questions:

1. The upholstery is in original, excellent vintage condition, complete with Sears Tags.
It is a tackeeee greeny-blue/burnt orangey-red tweed, which sounds dreadful but appeals to my sense of playfulness in my home decor. No, I am definetely not changing it. It's original! Somebody probably listened to Martin Denny in that chair, or watched "All in the Family" or read David Rubin in it. It stays.

2. Scott: alas, my pic is not Bernard Buffet. In all probability, it is massed-produced wall-art for the 60s-(early)70s mid-brow masses.  But I don't care...I LOVE it. This pic captures, for me, the spirit of the times.  Martinis, anyone, before we watch "Burke's Law"?   Here's a pic for your viewing pleasure:





It looks great with gerbera daisies, my current bontanical passion

Ciao, Bellas!
SeSo

[foutchie]

Remember the "big-eyed" prints of the 60s?  I remember my mom having two hanging in the hall, two big eyed girls wearing argyle looking plaid and tights.....

[SecondhandSophisticate]

I do remember those prints! Didn't those girls have pigtails and flowers? I had four of them with alley cats in different colors. I got 'em in 1967. I guess they're worth some $$ cash now. Do you still have yours?

[oceangurl]

I also remember those prints of the big eyed girls, some I recall are with the animals and some holding flowers. I love those and I think at one time Mother had them for us girls, I have 3 sisters, I'll have to ask her, thanx for jogging the ole memory, but also atlas I do think their gone if indeed she did have them in our rooms, I also remember the girls with argyles! How funny!

[foutchie]

I wish!  Unless they are still in dad's attic - which, knowing how full that attic is, is entirely probable!   I'll have to ask........

[Femme1]

SeSo, that print IS reminiscent of Buffet---the same spikey brush strokes. Is it a print or a painting? I really like it.

[Scott]

SeSo, that print IS reminiscent of Buffet---the same spikey brush strokes. Is it a print or a painting? I really like it.

I agree. It does utilize a lot of the same kind of techniques Buffet was known for. From the photo, it looks to me to be one of those "factory" paintings from the seventies. Probably not one of a kind, but distributors would pay painters to paint hundreds of the same painting, which would be sold through department stores and whatnot as "couch art."

It is great -- definitely says "SeSo" to me!