Looking back at a material past (3)

This generic Dutch credenza came from a two floor junk shop in upstate NY. I think I paid about $40 for it and it fit perfectly into the back of my Volvo 245. What is most significant about it is the ex-con fantasy airbrusher who sold and worked out of the basement of the junk shop that the credenza came from. Proudly displayed and available for purchase were bikini ladies with contorted bodies, unnatural skin & machine guns. He airbrushed giant saw blades with tigers bathing in waterfalls and mounted the blades to table legs making the ugliest and most dangerous table you've ever seen. My favorite might have been the Budweiser lab coat.




For a couple weeks I was finding everything I wanted. First I found the Albers print which was too good to be true - as if someone had donated it just so I could find it. Then this set......
Broyhill makes exclusively ugly furniture - with the exception of this Raymony Loewy dresser and side table set. I'm not sure if they licensed the plastic drawer fronts from Loewy or if they just ripped them off and hoped for the best. Either way, when I saw this from across the furniture section of the store I loudly proclaimed my excitement and sprinted as if everyone in the store had their eye on it too. I was almost breathless when I brought the tag to the counter.




I can hardly remember where this chair came from. I suspect it was free on the side of the road and since then I've seen a couple more of them. There's even one at a local gas station sitting out in the rain. I'm pretty sure that these were standard office furniture at some point in time and probably inexpensive furniture at that. However, it's design rivals the best of them. On par w/ the Aluminum Group in terms of style though this one has a unique Bauhaus look to it (or maybe that Gerrit Rietveld chair) with its perfectly square frame and floating back seat. The wood adds a nice natural touch to the arms.
This guy has a company tag from Air Traffic Control Systems in Ohio.




This etching was $10 or $15 at a local group shop. It's hard to tell if it was used to print or not but it's been painted to give it some depth. Who knows. Etched into it is the year 1966 and the initials T.T.





Mr. Zzyzzx has long been the overlord of our household. This Hal-like omniscient robo-man will answer your "yes or no type questions" if you pass your hand over his head a couple of times after asking. He's got about 10 or 20 responses but then every few months you'll hear one that you've never heard before. He even predicted the birth of our first child. In a lot of ways he is my first child, or maybe my father. Either way, I totally fear and respect him. As should you.