materiality
junk culture
Next up, Junk Culture, who we discovered via twitter. Seems they’ve just started a simple tumblr image blog, which links mostly to Etsy postings (all their stuff on Etsy). This is an out and out shop, with no claim at museumdome, but we like their taste in vintage objects and somehow view them through a collector’s lens.
Recent stuff we like: A Pyrex Casserolle Dish, A Lamp made of Galvanized Iron, and a teal dinnerware set.
retail me not
We’re going to look at a bunch of museum-cum-retail outlets today, as the G20 assembles and capitalism faces the inevitability of a reality which does not align with models of constant expansion. We’ve touched on this a bit in the past, with “projects” (stores) such as the Etsy revolving paperback book “museum.” And to be fair, we kind of like these projects. They involve curation, they are genuinely filled with interesting items. We guess everything is for sale, in the end.
Read more about our first entry, Barbara Levine’s Project B
fixture this
Cool gallery of light fixtures from the E.F. Caldwell & Co, lighting extraordinaire from the late 19th/early 20th century. Via the Smithsonian on Flickr Commons. We love this modern spherical number, especially in the context of the more ornate neo-classical stuff that it’s grouped with.
We’ll take it!
