Mid-Century Monday: Eames Shell Chair

Oh this? Just an original Eames Herman Miller shell chair that I found in a construction dumpster in Manhattan. #dumpsterdiving

Philadelphia Punk Rock Flea Market

Thanks everyone who stopped by my table today! A lot of moms are getting terrariums and succulent plantings for Mother's Day, apparently.

Mid Century Monday

Wyo Theater, Laramie, WY

Mid Century Motel Monday

Motel Fontana, San Antonio, TX

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The Vogue Theater, Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, IN

Mid Century Motel Monday

Villa Motel, San Antonio, TX

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Smitty's Grocery Store, Lebanon, MT

I like the typography, I could do without the stupid Toyota

Mid Century Monday

Glendale Tower, Indianapolis, IN
1968

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Medina, TX

Mid Century Motel Monday

Siesta Motel, San Antonio, TX

House Stalking

So yesterday I parked my car by the park in Oak Hills and walked around taking pictures of houses. When you are walking a dog, you can pretend that you are not a creeper who walks around taking pictures of other people's houses, and you are just doing a legitimate and wholesome activity. I feel like people might get bummed out, regardless of how innocuous and architecturally-admiring my intentions might be, so I try to not be completely obvious. 

I discovered part of this neighborhood right after we moved to San Antonio, when I accidentally took Eloise for a 3 mile walk because there was a giant country club where I thought there would be a road, so my loop ended up being much longer than I intended. I walked across Callaghan road through Oak Hills, but I never went into the main section of the neighborhood until this year, when I became intrigued by a house with a butterfly roof and decided to drive up Winnetka road and see what that was all about. What Oak Hills is all about, it turns out, is having a whole bunch of great mid-century houses. Some of them have had really bizarre additions or been updated, but the majority seem to relatively original. We have gone and driven around several times, and this is one of my favorite houses. Really, it had me at the teal door, but look at those windows! You can see through the house! I love it! 

Also please note the limestone exterior panelling? Trulia says it was built in 1959. 

The whole back of the house is floor-to-ceiling windows. And, oh, is that just a kidney pool in the back yard? Yup. Are those some teal butterfly chairs? Yup. Do I know this because I walked into the empty lot next to their house and took this picture through a crack in the fence? OBVIOUSLY. 

I was never really a big fan of butterfly chairs until the past year. I had one in my dorm room in college, and it was too big for the space and always in the way, and also always covered in crumbs, and I think it really soured me on the whole idea. However The Brick House and her lovely leather chair covers have changed my mind. 

                          Via The Brick House

Now all I need to do is find frames, and chair covers that are made from heavy duty vegan fake leather that gets nice wear marks, and are also very affordable. That exists in the world, right?

Speaking of The Brick House, today she posted on there about this:

It's basically a thing where you decorate a dollhouse before December 15 and post pictures of your progress. I'm thinking about doing it, and given my recent infatuation, I was thinking about using the Oak Hills house as a basis for my design. We shall see. 

Mid Century Monday

I like blogs that have themes for each day of the week, so I think I'm going to try out Mid Century Mondays.  

Art's Atlas Muffler Shop, San Antonio, TX

Vintage Pyrex

I love vintage Pyrex bowls. I am so tempted to buy even super beat-up ones that I see at thrift stores. I don't know what exactly is so appealing about them.
I have to really resist the urge to get into collecting this stuff... although I did have to pick up this turquoise Butterprint pattern mixing bowl at Goodwill today. It is so cute! I love this pattern! It is in pretty good shape!

My only other old Pryrex thing is a bigger Early American print gold on brown mixing bowl, but it is packed away right now. It is a mixing bowl with gold leaf bellows and eagles on it, how can you not love it? One day, one day I will have a collection of decorative mixing bowls....

For some reason I always think of the Kaj Franck enamelware bowl in this kitchen... a little bit of my dream house, I love it. Not everything about how they have it decorated, but I like the layout and the ceilings a lot.

                             Via D magazine

Also near the top of my list is a Hanova of Pasadena enamel bowl. I need to figure out a job that involves going on extended trips to California and only going to thrift stores and succulent nurseries several times a year. And the beach.

                                                                    Via Flickr