Posting (somewhat) DAILY from the fair city of St. Louis Mo! Keep up by subscribing! See the madness evolve before your very eyes! (Click The Pic Above To Go To The Main Page!)
Showing posts with label Green Shag Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Shag Market. Show all posts
So, when I picked up the Danish daybed / sofa I featured a couple days ago, the seller asked if I'd be interested in this clock they had on the dining room wall. You Betchya! I can't say no to a beautiful sunburst wall clock.
Man, I hate me some winter. The cold just sucks the life outa' me. Last winter wasn't bad and it hasn't been too bad this year, until January. This is why Mom-tomic moved to New Orleans.
Funny story: before making my way downtown to pick up the Ikea set I featured yesterday I stopped by a Friday morning estate sale that happened to have a Pearsall sofa and couple of chairs. I didn't go out early or anything and consequently the set had already sold. I wake up Saturday morning, check craigslist and find This set! What are the chances?
I don't know if this piece has any particular designer name attached to it (I couldn't find any while at work today) but I think it may be manufactured by the same company that made my LC3s that I still have. Anybody ever seen this style before?
I almost passed on this beauty when we first spotted it at the Wentzville flea a couple weekends back. We actually did an entire run through the flea before coming back to it for a second look.
Is that a Maison Jansen rocking chair? Why yes it is! And it's been freshly re-upholstered in black suede. Black and chrome...classic! Stop by and take it for a spin...or...rock, or whatever.
It's been ages seems like since I've had such a nice haul from any of the local flea markets. Belleville has shone me no love, the new St. Louis Swap Meet hasn't quite found it's footing (but is still quite enjoyable!) and I think we've just been getting to Wentzville to late. But finally, Booty!!!
My buddy Jeff had one of these desks a while back. Actually, he showed it to me the day we first kinda met. I was buying a couple of Herman Miller sofas from him and, like me, he has lots of other stuff sitting around. A desk just like this was one of them.
Yeah, this sucker was rough! I found it in the garage / shop at an estate sale a few weeks back buried under paint cans and whatnot. For the price I figured, if nothing else I could save the hairpin legs...but I decided to try to recycle the whole shebang as is.
Wow! There's so much good stuff down at The Green Shag right now! If you've not been there in a little while you might not recognize the joint! New vendors are everywhere and lots of new items abound. So much that I ended up taking more than 30 pics!
I picked up a nice pair of vintage '50s vinyl and chrome armchairs last weekend and although it took me over a week to post them, I've already got them down at the booth in The Green Shag Market.
Dang but I had a lot of lamps hangin' around here waiting to head down to the booth at The Green Shag Market. I say "Had" 'cuz I finally took a load of them and some other good stuff down there just this afternoon.
Yup, the Polar Vortex has gone home for the year (we hope) and the sub freezing days with it. This whole week it's been fantastic here in St. Louis. Sunday was the criagslist bonanza day for me last weekend. Along with the Drexel chest I featured a couple days ago I managed to bring this beautiful set of Eames Shell Stackers home too.
In the strictest definition andirons are used to hold firewood up off the hearth floor and to prevent the logs from escaping out of the front of the fireplace upon shifting during burning. While yes, this pair of Donald Deskey designed andirons could do all of that, their purpose is much more in the vein of aesthetics.
After reading nothing but "Turn your butt around and go get that Kagan sofa"s from you guys, I finally did decide to do so. Alas, it was too late. The sofa was gone. But all was not lost, looky at the purdy nesting end tables I brought home in their place!
My first instinct was to paint these plastic sailboats by Syroco...well, that's not entirely true. My FIRST instinct was to leave them behind, but I thought better of it and grabbed them up. I thought it might be a good idea to have something really inexpensive in the booth down at the Green Shag Market and I'm sure somebody will appreciate the cut of their jibs...so to speak.
I haven't had time (actually, it's just either too cold or rainy out) to give these matching and somewhat intriguing end tables the cleaning they deserve. I may just have to do it in the booth as I did with the last set of Broyhill Sculptra that I had at Creve Coeur. It's not ideal, but it ain't gonna get done in the cold or rain!
Damn, looking at this combo again now, hours later, I'm kinda wondering if maybe I should be keeping this! I've already got a Florence Knoll dining table and I think this would fit nicely in the kitchen as my computer desk. Hmmm.
I've had Seven of these Erik Buck dining chairs floating around here for ages now. You know I can't stand having uneven sets, right? So those Seven have been pushed both to the back of the garage as well as my brain. Not so anymore.
Sorry, I know... No no, I haven't been avoiding you! No really, it's not you...it's me. I've been kinda lame. Once it got cold I just stopped. Pretty much stopped everything but going to work and keeping the booths stocked.