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At the beach.
This ice bucket is almost forty years old. It was designed in 1973 by Martin Roberts for Conran’s Input line and is in Moma’s permanent collection.
The great thing about vintage plastics is that many people do not even think about plastic when they are searching for good stuff at thrift shops and yard sales, so you still have a good chance of finding some treasures. At Goodwill, plastic items are all displayed together, so you might find something like this, in there along with the dish drainers, Tupperware, and football-shaped popcorn bowls.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Tupperware, by the way. I’ll be showing off some of my 70’s Servalier cannisters soon enough.
(from Treasure.Spotter)
I have always loved thrift shops, flea markets, and yard sales. Sure, high-end antique stores are great. But everything in them has already been curated, cleaned up, and marked up.
What intrigues me is finding a gem among the cast-offs and transforming it into something special and beautiful — changing its context by wanting it and appreciating it.
Over the years I have developed a pretty good eye, so that I can spot a color, a shape, a glaze; and know instantly that I’ve just found another treasure.
Usually I’ll buy it, sometimes I won’t. I’ve given many things away to family and friends. But I always take a picture.
And now I’d like to share these things with you, one day at a time.
photo: Small wooden bowls are plentiful and cheap. Most of them were originally snack bowls or part of a salad set, but they’re great for change, keys, bobby pins, jewelry on your dresser. The woods are beautiful and feel so nice to the touch. They’re mostly made of teak, walnut, or monkey pod wood.
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