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Vintage Spotlight – Folk Art Carved Penguin

Alyssa Zukas — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:05:55 +0000

Another vintage find! This super cool carved modernist penguin with brass beak and feet made of pine soft pine. Reminded me quite a bit of Hagenauer’s carved pieces. Love the sectioning of the different pieces of wood.

Vintage Spotlight – Carved Folk Art Partridge

Alyssa Zukas — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:41:39 +0000

Found this cute lil mid century guy recently. Reminds me of the Partridge Family! He has oxidized legs and little feather on its head with carved eye. I originally thought the body was inlaid but it seems that it was artfully stained in sections.

Vintage Spotlight – Sascha Brastoff Alaska Ceramics

Alyssa Zukas — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:47:52 +0000

A few original Brastoff ceramics from his Alaska series. The painting is so ahead of its time, it totally fits in with Fleet Street Scandal, Shag, Adam Cruz from House Industries and Sanjay Patel from Pixar. Even looks a little pinstripey and spray-paintey with the beautiful gradients. If the cool painting wasn’t enough, most of his items also have gold gilding throughout.

Brastoff seemed to be quite a prolific and interesting character and fellow Los Angelino! He was an aspiring film star and quite the socialite in the 50s. He is still relatively undiscovered as of late so you can get items pretty cheaply. I definitely see sky high prices in the near future as more people discover him!

Tiki Mug

Tiki Planter

Igloo Bud Vase

Go Team COCO! CONAN O’BRIEN and ANDY RICHTER with Snake Dolls

Alyssa Zukas — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:27:29 +0000

Go Team COCO! Body and suit are made of 100% wool felt. Features black glass bead 3 button suit with white shirt collar and cuffs. Ties are hand painted on silk ribbon. Snake is hand painted with white on its belly, metallic green diamonds on its back and a red string tongue.

Conan is 15″ long x 4″ wide and Andy is 6.5″ tall x 7.5″ wide with 10″ long snake

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