Vintage Finds - May
Friday, May 25, 2012 
It's been a while since I posted any vintage finds and I've had a lucky week so here are a few of my more recent acquisitions.
Graham bought this 1950s French radio a couple of weeks ago at The National Vintage Communications Fair - a proper enthusiast event for men who are usually found lurking at the bottom of the garden in sheds. (Cost: £8). The vase on the right is the Dartington Daisy design by Frank Thrower and was a junk shop find. (Cost: £1).

I picked up these brass Dansk candlesticks on ebay. Don't you love it when you find something you really like that nobody else bids on? As for the vase..... it's a green faceted Murano sommerso vase. A very heavy piece of glass and in perfect condition. Bought from our local tip shop for pennies... pennies I tell you!

Also from the tip shop, this Stag C range chest of drawers designed in the 1950s by John and Sylvia Reid. I've been after one of these for some time. It's a great simple design, but also my grandparents had this furniture range in their bedroom when I was growing up, so I admit there is a bit of nostalgia going on here too. Cost: a fiver. It's seen a bit of wear and tear and the top has some staining but Mr P is, as I write, cutting out a nice panel of white acrylic which will go on top to cover up the stains and give it a slightly more up to date feel at the same time.

Finally, and yet another tip shop find... an old deck chair, reupholstered by me in some stripy fabric we bought in France a few years ago just after we got engaged. The fabric was bought for just such a purpose and has been patiently sat in a drawer waiting for a suitable frame ever since.
If anyone needs me I'll be in the garden......
PS - feel free to share your own favourite vintage finds below.
Images: Design Hunter
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