OK, that title makes no sense but stay with me… As a clever new way to drive the price of their Quistgaard mills even higher, the nice folks at Danish Mafia have created an HD video of the 11 mills they currently have for sale.  Ten of the mills are JHQ Dansk mills, and the […]

An amazing Frank Lloyd Wright home is for sale in central California, near Los Banos. It was designed in 1954 and contstruction finalized in 1961.  I highly recommend checking out the site – the photos are amazing.  Just look at those details.  The glass!  The wood!  The tiles!  The pool!  Every inch of the interior […]

I’ve seen these signs a few times and today got a chance to experience them up close.  They aren’t far from my house, in the South East corner of San Francisco.  Very cool.  I think Sacha liked them as much as I did (probably for different reasons). I wonder when they were put in? How […]

Did you see the new poster for the upcoming Gary Hustwit film Objectified?  If you liked his film Helvetica, you’ll love this one!  The poster is super cool and show a great range of amazing objects from throughout the history of Industrial Designer.  I don’t see any Jens Quistgaard pieces in there, but is that […]

I got my scanner out for some more old Grateful Dead photos, but these are REALLY old.  I did not take these.  They were taken (probably in New York) by the late jazz photographer Raymond Ross.  He used to live above the original Knitting Factory, and they were purchased directly from him in the late […]

I just found that there has been a book written about the late Mary Nohl, who is the misunderstood Witch of Fox Point, Wisconsin.  She had a home that was covered in and surrounded by her art.  It was located right on Lake Michigan in a small exclusive suburb of Milwaukee.  You had to go down a […]

I was highly amused by this eBay listing today.  Under a photo of what is clearly (to my eyes) NOT a Dansk pepper mill: I’ve looked everywhere for a marking on this awesome 7” tall teak combination pepper mill and saltshaker.  I know the newer ones were marked with a transparent plastic label, and is […]

For three short hours today you could have bought this nice pepper mill collection for the low low price of only $1,250.  Well, maybe the price isn’t that low, but considering that two of the 14 are rare enough to be worth prob $250 each, and over half have early metal grinders, it starts to […]

I was going through my old photos this weekend and came across some photos that I wanted to share.  In the summer of 1987 I sat front row at 4 Grateful Dead shows in a row at the Alpine Valley Music Theater in Wisconsin.  I took advantage of all the skills I had acquired in […]

It’s been a while, but its time for a roundup of recent (and one present) auctions on eBay.  Between the holiday and the economic crisis, there hasn’t been much action.  A few cool things here and there, but it has been slow.  Prices are down a little, but holding.  I find myself surprised at both […]