Vintage

I’m currently in High Point, North Carolina, covering the High Point Market, and with the Lin Morris excitement around Milan, it’s easy to forget our true love for vintage. Bobo Intriguing Objects has become one of my must-visits while in High Point, for its rummage-able mix of authentic antiques and reproductions. I especially like their power in numbers mentality when it comes to lighting and decorative accessories, setting groups of like-items together, creating a new identity for what otherwise might be an underwhelming or easy-to-miss piece.

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Flickr user Lynne’s Lens recently posted photos that she developed from 35mm negatives purchased at a flea market. Expecting the standard of people lined up and smiling at the camera, she writes of her pleasant surprise to find a set of vintage photos from the 1930s of New York City. “Every vintage 30′s photo is a gorgeous delight, and, after looking at the first couple of scanned images, it was quite obvious that the photographer knew what he/she was doing. There are some great portraits, people working in an office, some great shots of NYC, and, even better, a big group of shots of the New York World’s Fair.”

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Charles and Ray Eames made this film for their friend Eero Saarinen so that he could concisely tell the history of his breakthrough idea for Dulles Airport in Washington DC. Saarinen had only two hours to meet with the heads of the major airlines and he had found in rehearsals of his presentation he used most of that time setting up the history. Charles and Ray did it in less than ten minutes, and lacked nothing in charm and appeal.

These photographs of 1950s New York by Saul Leither, an American photographer and painter, are currently on show at a major retrospective of his work at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany. Born in 1923, Leiter came to New York in 1946 and, with no formal training, made his living as a photographer shooting fashion magazine spreads for publications such as Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. In his spare time he walked the streets of the city photographing everyday New York life, often with an expired roll of color film, which created the distinctive, muted colours.

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