So Sylvie

Craig's List in Sleepy Santa Cruz...

Why is it taking me forever to sell amazing things at amazing prices on Craig's List these days? Is it the economy or is it that Santa Cruz has never really embraced great design? My usual customers were 95% of the time from San Francisco but now that I live further afield things have stalled. How will I ever move with all of this stuff??? My mate Dave in London has one word for me: charity. "Ah Dave. Do I have to?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A signed Campuzano original (he's a turn-of the-to mid-century artist from Bilbao, Spain for goodness sake!!):

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, someone needs to come with a big truck and just back it up to my house. Preferrably someone who wants to open a shop! It's all here. Everything you need to go into business...except for the customers! Help!

Blessings from Santa Cruz to Japan

From one land of the earthquake to another, heartfelt blessings and comforting wishes.

My Mid Century Stereo Speakers -- $12 !!!

I just have to share a great thrift find. Lately I've been keeping my eyes peeled for vintage stereo equipment. The kind with soul, usually encased in teak cabinets and weighing about ten times as much as the new stuff. At an auction I picked up a mid century Pioneer tape deck in its original box...!!!... for $3.

 

I love the way the deck is designed so that the tape cassette is reclining in its little window.

 

My latest find are a pair of Harmon Kardon speakers found at the Goodwill that I took a gamble on for $12...!!! It paid off. They are the big sound I've been longong for ever since I traded in my major-ly grand floor speakers some years ago for a pair of bookshelf speakers. Oh the regret. But I have been happily redeemed. Oh how that bass rumbles across the floor!

 

 I was listening to Beirut's song Nantes yesterday. Wow, they really do have a lot of instruments. I could hear them all!

These speakers are really a piece of furniture. I love the knubby linen fabric that dresses them (is this photo too dark?):

Okay. I talked myself into it. Time to go cut a rug!