My light and lamp autism struck again today. I’m on good enough terms with the guy at the architectural salvage that he saves anything weird for me. Not in an official capacity but he usually pulls out a box when he sees me and has something weird in it. Today on a very innocent walk to the book store I popped in and he had these for me. Two of the strangest sconces and ceiling fixtures I’ve seen. A long time ago somebody explained to me how to tell if something is nouveau or deco by asking yourself if it looks like it was made by elves or dwarves. Elves are nouveau and dwarves are deco. These defy that categorization method. They’re vaguely Spanish Missionary but highly interpretative like elves and dwarves collaborated in this project. They might be a bridge between when nouveau was starting to lose dominance but before deco took over. Anyway, I’m going to put them up in the studio and kitchen where a a weird artifact of the 1960/70s Midwestern clown fish is currently residing.
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Went to the op shop to get rid of some excess clothing, undermined myself a bit with this norse projects/elka raincoat. Not sure how much use I’ll get out of it, but if for some reason I must go out in heavy rain it should keep my upper half dry. There were also some oilskin trousers that might have done the same for my legs but they were too small and kind of smelly. Also got some Portuguese chilli peanuts and a rather nice card apparently hand made by a 94 year old Nana, all for less than $20 Australian. I hope that next time I have reason to give my wife a card I’ll remember that I got this one.
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A felted Dorothy doll. I love strange and uncanny things.
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