Beauty in suburbia

Though I’m pretty sure those living in Collingwood would prefer not to be called ‘suburbia’ … perhaps beauty in the inner city …

gorgeousness at Cibi

This taken at Cibi, one of my favourite cafes in Melbourne.

Beauty in suburbia

My beautiful art deco home still sometimes gifts me with lovely surprises…

afternoon shadow play

Lovely.

The amazing sky

This was the sky this morning as I walked to work … perhaps around 7am ….

-> to the east

east morning sky; no photoshopping at all

-> to the west

west morning sky; rainbow above my rainbow yarn-bomb

A beautiful way to start the day and it made me smile so much.

Chairs. I want to know more.

My beautiful chairs were deconstructed recently – as I posted.

In this state, I noticed they’re stamped with numbers (in the middle of the front piece on the base):

chair 10

chair 16

This intrigues me. I want to know more.

All I know is that their Danish – well, they were bought in Denmark (by Ed from Grandfathers Axe) recently. We think they’re between Art Deco and Modernist … maybe more mid-century, maybe not even Danish.

beautiful ... bringing sexy back ... yeah!

I wonder how many were made…
I wonder who the maker was…
I wonder how I can find out more ….

I did a little bit of reading a found a similar shaped chair, perhaps a precedent, attributed to the Scandinavian Art Deco period [here] … but I want to know more!

Update (29th December): I emailed the store with the similar shaped chair and they replied in super-speedy time (how great is that!). Their advice is that my chairs are likely Danish and from around 1930-55. Cool! Though my investigation continues….

Chairs. Deconstructed.

My new favourite home objects are my beautiful chairs … Danish, thought to be 40s or so, perhaps earlier, perhaps on the cross-over between Art Deco and Modernism…

The upholstery is the original, an amazing apple/acid green, gorgeous though difficult to capture in photographs well.

The woodwork is beautiful when the cushions are all off …

my beautiful chairs

They’re low and smaller than you would imagine from the image … I adore them.

Beauty in suburbia

A long-awaited visit to a little cafe in Coburg North … I enjoyed beautiful food at Little Deer Tracks (no, this is not a food blog!), but they have the most striking light fitting I thought worth sharing.

light fitting at Little Deer Tracks