Any fellow vintage watch lovers also into mid century furniture? I love it for the same reasons - the history and design. Just picked up a Plycraft longer I’m pretty excited about!

 

I’ve got an LC4 lounge, and some other pieces. It’s hard to collect unless you go all out, as if you only have a few pieces everything looks wrong. You have to have everything match the style.

 

This thread led to an interesting conversation via PM - a woman who was researching her new purchase (very rare dining table) found the thread while googling for more information, joined up on OF and wrote to @mozartman, @Skrotis and I


...I am still looking for a good, cheap set of Thonet chairs, even though I've realised that they look better than they are comfortable

 

As a chess player, I enjoy chess sets and the 1920's-1960's really do it for me. My stipulation is that the pieces must be immediately recognizable. Knight. Bishop. Queen. etc. Unfortunately, "all artists are not chess players...." as Marcel Duchamp said, and so a lot of modern designs fail to meet that requirement. Still, the 1950's-1970's was a hugely popular period for chess and chess set art.

Here are some of my favorites.

Lanier Graham Set.
Anri Modern Set
Anri Universum Set
Ohme Set
A set I made on Tinkercad a few years ago.

 

Love the vintage Scandinavian furniture from the 50’s ... as a matter of fact I even sold my beloved early 2447S Carrera to buy some

 

True, but I’ve found, like watches, you can build slowly then before you know it you have a lot (some could say too many... I mean, I wouldn’t say that!)

 

Beautiful! I can definitely see the appeal.

 

Wow, that’s LOVE (haven’t sold watches to buy furniture... yet...)

 

Interesting coincidence. I like mid-century furniture, and a have few examples. I pondered for over a year about a display case for some of my (overflowing) vintage clocks and watch ephemera, and finally broke down and bought a very nice Dieter Wäckerlin design for Behr, circa 1960. As it turned out, I couldn't be happier. The glass lets plenty of light in, though you can't really tell from the photo below.

 

Another big fan of the mid-century / art moderne school here, especially danish early 1960's design. Kai Kristiansen, Aage Christiansen, Frem Rojle... also some of their non-scandi counterparts, Richard Young (Merrow Associates)... I have several original Eames office chairs and a set of Vitra perch stools which are my favourites. This is a great resource https://www.danish-modern.co.uk/

Totally agreed

 

Awesome, thanks for the link!

 

Ummm... okay, I'm drooling! You managed to go into my brain and create the dream! NICELY DONE!!!

 

Sigh. Watches are just a gateway drug to the rest of the vintage world.

Cars
Furniture
Books

 

For a while I was into the arts and crafts style and had a fair number of pieces along with a lot of early American art pottery. Gradually I moved away from this and more into mid-century. I kept most of the pottery and sold off the furniture.

 

Where do you buy vintage watch Pottery

Do they have forums like us, or is that mainly through eBay/Etsy/antique fairs?

Genuinely curious

 

I have bought pottery through eBay before but most of my collection predates the Internet entirely and was obtained the old fashioned way of traveling around to various flea markets and back road antique shops.

 

Makes sense, sometimes I get so caught up with vintage watches I forget about other vintage things that people don't talk about.

 

It IS hard to imagine there are other collectables that keep people up at nights!

 

Love mid century, have a dining table, chairs, credenza and a few other pieces. However when it came time to redo the bedroom we ended up with some brand new mid century inspired stuff as it was very difficult to find full sets (we wanted two dressers), and believe me we looked....

 

Been collecting Art Deco and mid century since the 1970s!!!

A few pics - ignore deckchair in 2nd pic - I was using this when I had a bad back!!!...................