Bill Backus: I spent months online looking for the right pieces. It was fun sourcing the furniture myself. We visited several different antique stores in Manhattan that carry mid-century modern furniture, and we found either the prices to be relatively steep or the selections too limited. I found Vancouver–based Sugar Barrel Antiques via eBay, and they were helpful. They source their products directly from regular buying trips in Europe and make the inventory available online at competitive prices.
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Articles
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Chilean Wine Barrel Breezeway
In Talca, Chile, over 50 wine barrels started a second life in 2006—though neither as planters nor avatars. In the grape-growing region of Maule Valley, Macarena Avila Burdiles of…
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Marimekko at Crate & Barrel
This week, Marimekko launched its fourth and fifth shops at Crate & Barrel in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The two companies have collaborated for four decades so it makes sense that…
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Crate and Barrel's New Shop-in-Shop
Crate and Barrel's newest addition is a shop-in-shop at their SoHo location featuring products by Finnish textile and design house Marimekko. While they have been partners since the 1960's, their…
Products
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Wicker Bread Basket
Call us crazy, but we love when a restaurant brings out a basket of bread before the real deal meal begins. Elicit that same cheap thrill at home by carrying your slices to the table in this…
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Rocks Sugar Container
Dutch designer Mara Skujeniece gives this ceramic sugar cube container the rock candy treatment in her Amsterdam workshop. The faceted matte porcelain, which looks like a crystal on classic…
Dwell Collections
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eBay Picks
Once upon a time, you used to have to dig through mountains of junk at swap meets, sift through dusty barns at estate sales, or luck out at a goodwill to find desirable collectibles. Nowadays all…
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Mid-Century Finds
Los Angeles–based furniture dealer and mid-century scholar Sam Kaufman shares the design lore behind some of his most recent acquisitions.
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