Category — Vintage Collection

This is my little vintage & junk collection. The wooden shelf used to be a thread organizer that I picked up at a flea market for only $3.

From the top of the shelf: diorama display kit ‘birds at home’ from small stump.

Top row (left to right): tin cat toy from schylling penny toy, wire bird from my friend, A matryoshka doll in 70’s and salt & pepper shaker from the flea market.

Second row: vintage porcelain mushroom, mushroom candle and apple, black welcoming cat, another matryoshka doll and vintage message cards.

Third row: vintage porcelain cats that I bought from a lovely old lady at the Pasadena flea market and another mushroom.

Three Potato Four is a selective vintage online store. As soon as I found out that this cute apple container was sold out, I started looking for something like this on ebay. It didn’t take me long until I found exactly the same apples that came with four different sizes.

Because they are made of aluminum and have been aged, some of them shows some belly button dimples. Nonetheless, I personally think the dimples are a charming feature on vintage items. They are located every corner of my place as a container for candies, sewing buttons, and some gadgets.

Picture 01: Three Potato Four Picture 02: Modern Findings

If you are luckily enough to be in Tokyo now, you still have a chance to see this amazing retrospective of Verner Panton.

‘This exhibition is the retrospective to present Panton’s extensive and diverse work that the Vitra Design Museum planed and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery originally organized. This exhibition focuses nearly 150 works of furniture, lightings, textiles, models, sketches and videos, etc., from the Vitra Design Museum collection, between the mid-fifties and the mid-seventies during which time he had a substantial influence upon the direction and development on international design. This exhibition, which presents his total space design, would provide the opportunity to look back on the past and look to the future in the modern design.’

Hurry! The exhibition will end on Dec 27th!! More info : Verner Panton Exhibition in Tokyo

Here are my vintage collection of globes and world globe banks. It’s interesting to see how the geography of the world was when these globes were made.  Germany was still divided into east and west, Korea was one nation, and Africa was still ruled by France.

It’s still a mystery when the globe was made but from the geographic information, it’s most likely made before 1960.