MARCH BY SNOW AND GRAHAM

STICKING TO IT – RULES ON ART AND FURNISHINGS

At first I struggled, finding the amount of available furniture oppressing, but then I realized that it takes a certain weight off and allows for exploration in different areas.

L pointed out that if you look at books with modern design from the 40s, you find that interiors were not uniform with respect to eras. Modern furniture will be mixed with antiques, whereas starting in the fifties, interiors became all one thing, Eames, Danish, or…

Slightly torn between dreams of modern Italian and Scandinavian furniture from the fifties and sixties, two decisions were reached:

1.     For additional furniture, we will stick to items that were available in the thirties and forties.

2.     The art we display will be by our friends or people we are acquainted with.

“It’s All Good” by James Fish and Coffee Tables by Frank Lloyd Wright

Copyright L. Schaffer

Painting by Dorian La Padura

A DESK IN EVERY ROOM

The house came with a built in desk in every room, along with a dining room table on wheels, several chairs and a sofa. There is an additional couch that needs to be restored and an armchair that was disbursed off and sold a number of years ago.

It wasn’t until I saw a lone Schindler desk at a spectacular 20^th Century design store in Stockholm, Sweden, that I realized how special it is to have most of the furniture, built for this house, intact and here. So I decided to start looking for alternative ways to make the house feel like home.

Please note that these desks were made using new and inexpensive materials. They are mostly plywood, although some contain wood.