Nice Things

[Double 0 Soul]

With a 3rd lockdown looming we're all spending a lot more time at home so lets see the things around the house you love..

It doesn't have to be anything expensive, if you love it, post it, i'll get things rolling..

Model 1227 c1938 Anglepoise (Herbert Terry & Sons) British lamp design at its best, original everything even down to the grommets, it's just had a sympathetic re-wire.

 

It's sat on top of my mid-century wallnut and teak sideboard by Gunther Hoffstead for Uniflex

Some geometric origami made by a local artist

...he was loosing his sight, couldn't paint so made origami

I couldn't decide which side i preferred so i mounted it in a frame with glass on both sides, i can turn it around when i get bored

Phlegm's Fight or Flight

Kid Acne canvas

The original at Park Hill

There are numerous prints from this but only one canvas

Mandy Payne's 'Everything of Value has Been Removed' I own some of her work, as does Alexei Sayle  

As you might have gathered, all the stuff i collect reflects the city in which i live, there will be a lot more to come if the thread takes off...

Edited December 29, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[julian-wolf]

Hell yeah, neat thread idea—excited to take some photos of some cookware when I make it home

Edited December 29, 2020 by julian-wolf

[freshwater]

Great thread.

Well no surprise with my first offering. Original first press Rough Trade distributed copy of Gangsters. This first pressing came in a plain sleeve hand stamped by band members Terry Hall & Horace Panter. 

Edited December 29, 2020 by freshwater

[shredwin_206]

My other expensive hobby is guitar. Here are a couple photos. 
The acoustic guitar is a Cole Clark Fat Lady 2. It’s made in Australia with sustainably sources wood. 
It is Queensland maple and bunya. 
I had a good friend of mine do the artwork on the guitar. 
The bottom guitar is a telecaster style made here locally by Joe Riggio. He is the go to for vintage guitar restoration he builds them the old way. How they were built In the 1950s. 
This is completely built to my specs. I chose the hardware, neck shape, body color, amount of wear/aging, pickups, etc   
Think of it like your custom made to order CSF. Every detail can be made custom to your liking. 

Edited December 29, 2020 by shredwin_206

[Duke Mantee]

10 minutes ago, freshwater said:

Great thread.

Well no surprise with my first offering. Original first press Rough Trade distributed copy of Gangsters. This first pressing came in a plain sleeve hand stamped by band members Terry Hall & Horace Panter. 

Jeez - I had that ...

[Double 0 Soul]

Tell us something about them Edwin.. i know next to nothing about guitars

[shredwin_206]

4 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Tell us something about them Edwin.. i know next to nothing about guitars

Updated with details  

[smoothsailor]

Cool stuff, we/you I presume are not done after a nice pair of jeans. It’s the whole kittenkaboodle.

I have a few pieces from local artist.

The woodblock print is from a local lady , she is a patient in psycho hospital and friends with my mother in law, who is an artist too.

its called : Friday morning in the harbor brothel.

the big white piece is silicon kit on a big panel , I think it weighs 80 kg.

also by a friend from my mother in law. We have it for about 15 yrs and never bores.

plus a painting by my mother......

[smoothsailor]

Forgot about another local, you might know of him. Mr handydenim, he repairs and hems jeans. He had a good gig going I believe, but I guess gevist a typical artist. He now is also doing woodprints.

My father in law also an artist, sculpter .

he made big stuff. The stuff you seen on roundabouts . On the mantle is by him.

there,s more , but that’s for later

[Double 0 Soul]

7 minutes ago, smoothsailor said:

I have a few pieces from local artist.

The woodblock print is from a local lady , she is a patient in psycho hospital and friends with my mother in law, who is an artist too.

its called : Friday morning in the harbor brothel.

Lovely stuff! i particulary like that^ woodblock print.

Have you moved house since the old forum days Paul?

[smoothsailor]

Thanks Neal, no same place. In the picture with the silicone piece, behind the door there I took many shoe pictures

[Unnmd]

Oh I like this idea! 
Easiest thing to start off with is the skateboards. All are from Bulldog Skates in Huntington Beach, CA from Wes Humpston who was responsible for most of the hand drawn decks that the Zboys from Venice/Santa Monica rode back in the day.

The one on the left here is a 1 of 1 hand drawn with paint markers that he allowed me to have a little input into the graphic. The one on the right is from a series he started to do where the base layers are all car paint from his buddies shop that restored/built hot rods.

These were done by a friend in Boston whose art I’m just a big fan of.

The ghost glows in the dark

These are the creatures that make me enjoy being stuck at home most of the time.

[Double 0 Soul]

Damn, those^ boards make my kids (Chocolate/Indy/Bones) set up look like junk

...also, this is a beauty!

19 minutes ago, Unnmd said:

 

 

[Unnmd]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Damn, those^ boards make my kids (Chocolate/Indy/Bones) set up look like junk

...also, this is a beauty!

 

Nothing wrong with a good popsicle! 
 

Yeah, he has a really clean aesthetic. I suppose I could get a better pic of it so you can see the detail of her jumping rope with the thread.....but then I would have to move haha

[JDelage]

Hmm...  I'll start with custom knives. I've been collecting custom knives for 20+ years.

This first one was made by Don Fogg, who was my favorite maker and is one key focus of my collection. He's retired now. That piece was hand forged out of a simple carbon steel called 1095 and differentially heat treated to reveal a hamon (which my shitty photo skills can't really render). The handle is a piece of fossil walrus ivory.

This one's also from Don, but it was photographed by someone who knew how to show the hamon:

Those two folders were made by Tim Wright, who's still active. Contrary to the above, they were to hand forged out of carbon steel. They were made by stock removal out of a block of stainless steel (not sure of the type of stainless here). Tim is a maniacally precise maker. Both those pieces can be taken apart for clean up with the provided brass tool.

Finally a beautiful, but tiny, "dagger" carved out of a single piece of stainless steel. The maker's name is Wolfgang Loerchner. His work is now completely beyond my reach.

Edited December 30, 2020 by JDelage

[smoothsailor]

That last dagger looks pretty cool .

 

print by Kumi Sugai, Japanese artist I recently found out about, great stuff.

 

photo by Stephan Vanfleteren , Belgian photographer. Makes awsum work, 

my wife made contact with him to buy a picture, he said he was going to be in Amsterdam to photograph a culinary recencist, we could rendezvous at a cafe. So we met and the culinary guy was there too, we all had lunch. The culinary guy could make or brake your business.

anyway the picture is from an old Belgian sailor his weatherd hand

[Double 0 Soul]

@JDelage I few years ago i stumbled across a program while flicking through the channels late at night, it was called 'Forged in Fire' i watched a couple, it was on one of those 'bearded men channels' they got a few black smiths, give them a forge, a press and wot-not, some random chunks of scrap metal and a selection of raw materials for the handels and they forge a knife... the judges then test them out. It was nuts but quite watchable

A screenprinting friend of mine has a sideline in acid etching, it's pretty much the same process on a smaller scale, he gets some lovely knives in to etch often made from damascus, he etches scenes into the blade but i get the feeling that as beautifully crafted as they are, they're really just ornaments, i bet nobody ever uses them.

Ive bought a few bits n'bobs from Ray Mears bushcraft site over the years, i use a plain old Morakniv for camping but he used to sell (maybe still does) a very plain looking bushcraft knife, hand made in the UK by Emberleaf Workshops, the blade was tool steel, handle was black, it didn't look remarkable in any way so i assume it was made to be used...but it was nearly £500 and the waiting list runs at around 4yrs.. what the flip!

[Maynard Friedman]

1. Trellick Tower silkscreen print from Gerry Buxton, a London-based artist. I bought this for Mrs F as she’s a West London girl and grew up close to it.

2. Beatles prints from 1968 to promote the release of Yellow Submarine in the US. I bought these for Mrs F as she loves the Beatles whereas I’m indifferent at best but like the colours. We never managed to acquire Paul unfortunately.

[Double 0 Soul]

Todays offering.. Phlegm's Luxuria

It's Phlegm's interpretation of Pieter Bruegel's Luxuria...my sis in law bought it for me from KBR in Belgium, they were running a celebration of Bruegel's work at the time.

I only buy artwork from Sheffield based artists, the art world is vast and even more tempting but with limited wall space and even more limited funds i call those my parameters plus it's a creative city so it churns out a more than enough to keep me happy.

Edited December 30, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[Maynard Friedman]

Original Bakerloo line map from an Underground train (the glass is very reflective) and Galadriel cushion stolen from one of The Hobbit premieres (can’t remember which, there’s Bilbo, Legolas and one other knocking around the house somewhere too).

[MJF9]

Enjoying this page, some great items

Arne Vodder FD164 teak lounge chair with reclining backrest, c1960s

A mid-century furniture chap I know sourced it for me

Retained original cushions, albeit reupholstered

The curved arms and grain of the wood are winners for me

The footstool came later so they’re not an exact match… but hey don’t tell anyone

[Flash]

And no chance of indigo stains ...

[MJF9]

Haha yes a carefully selected colour... you wanna see my white desk chair

Edited December 30, 2020 by MJF9

[JDelage]

Those mid-century armchairs are remarkably comfortable.

[Double 0 Soul]

Todays offering..

Waingate Sheffield, original photograph

...a slightly earlier Waingate/Castle Market period postcard

Hole in the Road photograph from digitally scanned negative

Park Hill...same

...and an old black and white photo which i took on my Leica probably 25 yrs ago, ive always had a passing interest in urban decline

 

[Maynard Friedman]

Lovely stuff Neal. A few more from our walls:

1. Brick Lane Beigel Bake

2. Rice paper art from Laos

3. The Guffaw

 

[Double 0 Soul]

I love that Beigal Bake (i'll not say owt about the spelling ) is that a print or a photo or what?

[Duke Mantee]

20 hours ago, JDelage said:

Those mid-century armchairs are remarkably comfortable.

My nephew thinks that style actually called middle-aged not mid-century ... uncannily accurate in a muddled sort of way

[smoothsailor]

3 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

urban decline

My favorite part of town. 
 

a few more from my walls

photagraph from a friend 

Pencil drawings of ww1 prisoners of war if I remember it right

a print that I bought in London for my boy,s bedroom

[Maynard Friedman]

3 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

I love that Beigal Bake (i'll not say owt about the spelling ) is that a print or a photo or what?

It’s a photo Neal and the spelling is spot on (mine not yours , pronounced buy-gall, none of this bagel nonsense), in the dark hallway by the stairs so I didn’t get a great picture. I also meant to include this picture from my son’s room - Smoothsailor’s great post reminded me.