When I lived in Brooklyn, I was forever seeing empty suitcases. Many were stunningly well-preserved 1960’s era Samsonites. With their sturdy functionality and mod high style, they were pretty well begging for me to bring them home to our 675 square foot apartment with no closets (that’s NO closets – not small, or few closets [...]
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Le porte-pique nique
Posted in A Sense of Place, La Bonne Vivante, Object Making, Objets d'art, Objets trouvés Also tagged 1960's style, Assemblage, Brooklyn, cast-offs, collecting, Design*Sponge, green space travel case, junk, Man and Nature, Mod, Modernism, Paige Russell, pastoral art, picnics, Retro, Samsonite, Sidewalks of New York Leave a comment


