Lest We Forget

We just got back from spending Christmas with our family and we realized that we forgot to wish everyone a festive Yuletide holiday! Here's wishing you the best and we hope to see you again next year!!

GG&S

Get Stuffed

In honor of Small Business Saturday, our handmade mod Naugahyde pillows are on sale at 20% off, now through December 15. Please buy handmade and support your local businesses this holiday season! You can access our design shop by clicking here. Thank you! 

Prints and zipper pouches are also available.

For Your Pleasure

Hey pals, looks like this will likely be our last image dump, as the kind folks at Instagram have opted to make individual web profiles available via the internet. In case you're one of the many (few) who've been missing our infrequent blog updates, you can dull the pain by following us via our robust photostream located right here.

Time Of The Season

Seeing the seasons change in the South is one of our favorite annual events, so we seized the opportunity to take in the scenery, and headed through the mountains last weekend. We hit Chattanooga and Nashville and scored all manner of incredible stuff, including some vintage Bertoia chairs (with matching Knoll pads), a Lane coffee table, a 50s lamp by C. Miller, some mod Scandia planters by McCoy, as well as a slew of other things. However, our favorite purchase is still the gigantic Rya rug pictured up top.  

Both the coffee table and the lamp are already in our booth at Highland Row Antiques, and several of the smaller items will end up there or in our Etsy shop. Make sure to check 'em out, if you have the chance!

Do The Clam

The Clam! 

We're quite smitten with 'em. Alan Fletcher's iconic receptacle designed in 1968, fashioned from melamine and produced by Pentagram. These were later redone in plastic by Mebel. Finding the reissues isn't easy, but turning up an original set is next to impossible ...at least for those of us in the states. Unsurprisingly, we're pretty stoked to now have three Pentagram editions to call our own.

Many thanks go out to our pal Jay for recently furnishing us with two of these elusive design objects. Also, thanks to Jessyca who sold us our white specimen many months ago! 

Does anyone have an orange/yellow or blue/green Pentagram set for sale? Please get in touch, if so! 

Plastic Palace People

We've spent the past few weeks clearing out our office for its upcoming renovation, and we quickly realized that we'd accumulated a lot of vintage space-age plastic items since the last related update. We figured we may as well photograph these now, as they're likely to be in storage (elsewhere in our home) for the foreseeable future. Not even sure how long some of these have been kickin' 'round the house but, without further ado, fix yer spinning orbitals on the following!

A white Artemide Giano Giano Vano side table designed by Emma Gismondi Schweinberger in 1966 is a semi-recent arrival, as are the large, vintage orange Componibili storage units designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell (thanks again, Marc!). Ferrieri was also responsible for the tall white domed container (also for Kartell) we discovered for $2 at a thrift store in a remote part of Georgia. Another Kartell product is the yellow Gino Colombini designed wastebasket Valery turned up at a local flea market. Japanese designer Makio Hasuike created the miscellaneous bathroom containers for Italian company, Gedy, in the 70s. Lastly, we're not sure who designed the space age tape dispenser pictured above, but a sticker indicates that it's from Italy as well.

It seems as though we really can't get enough Kartell products. Here's a round trolley cart designed by Franco Anonni that we purchased from our Instagram buddy Melissa. Thanks again! We've also had great luck turning up these Italian desk caddies designed by Rino Pirovano for Rexite in 1970. Thanks again to Danny for the white one!

Danny was also kind enough to hook us up with a white Telegono lamp designed by Vico Magistretti and produced by Artemide in 1967. We lucked out and found an orange example buried in the internet's depths a few weeks later. Lastly, our buddy Amy sold us her red version, successfully rounding out the trio!

 

Amy also kicked down her old Bacco bar, designed by Sergio Mazza and, again, produced by Artemide in 1967! Thank you so much, Amy, we love it! Our buddy Marc also came to our aid (again) by purchasing an orange Kartell KD27 lamp (designed by Joe Colombo) from a dealer in Germany and shipping it to us. Coincidentally, a week later, we discovered a red KD27 on Atlanta's Craigslist and purchased it in person! Now, if someone could just help us locate a yellow one, we'll be all set!

Here are a few more plastic items that require electrical power! A yellow Weltron 8 track player in pristine condition, an orange Boston pencil sharpener and a green Philips compact floating hairdryer. 

Astute GG&S readers will have no doubt noticed that we had an orange Kartell Rocchetto stool (designed by brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni) featured above. Many thanks are due to Trish, Martin, Damian, Maddie and Lady Frito Lay for their help in getting this pair from Melbourne to Atlanta (by way of Chicago). It may have taken over a year to accomplish, but it was well worth it! We're also grateful to our buddy Zack who stumbled across the blue specimen featured above! These three will all end up in the office once it's done. 

At least four of these vintage space-age light fixtures will also end up providing some much-needed illumination in our upcoming project. Despite the fact that these are regularly attributed to Luigi Colani, we're skeptical about the connection. Still, we love 'em and we were overjoyed when we bought four mint ones from a dealer right here in the states ...and for cheap! The fixture with clear panels came from our buddy Darrell and will end up in our master bathroom.

Well, we thought this update was over, until we remembered that we had actually picked up a vintage, red example of Dorothee Becker's Utensilo (that replaced the white one in Valery's dressing room). Our office will feature joint work stations, so it's likely that the previous one will end up in Valery's area. OK, that's really it for now! Whew!!

 

Cry Cry Cry

Being surrounded by friends and family was the salve that dulled the pain of turning 37 last month ...or something. Or maybe it was the awesome gifts Valery showered upon my undeserving self, like an assortment of vintage wind-up Hopping Horrors (complete with box), a marimba record featuring an overly festive (fellow) Mexican and a carved bird reminiscent of those feathered fellows fashioned by Couroc?

As if my senses weren't overloaded enough, Valery also delivered Mike Markesich's exhaustive TeenBeat Mayhem!, a rumored tome many years in the making, and a release highly anticipated by fans of raw n' primitive 60s recordings. Make sure to secure yourself a copy today!

Last but not least, my pals Mike and Damian were swell enough to hook me up with a triply stamped copy of the first Victims single and a clean copy of the third Eyes 45, respectively. Seeing as how I already owned the Victims, I sold my previous copy to a buddy (thanks again, Trey!) and directed the funds toward a tasty example of Jerry Lott's epic, Love Me, on Dot. A Happy Birthday to me, indeed!

And before I forget, many thanks to Tim, Cristina, Kevin, Amye, Susan and Corey for making it out for an impromptu birthday dinner (and thanks again for the LP, too, Tim—I suck!).

With A Girl Like You

One year ago today, I married my best friend.

Tired of Waiting

It finally happened yesterday: all ten feet of the Lightolier lamp we turned up via Los Angeles' Craigslist appeared on our front doorstep! While it's certainly true that pole lamps aren't especially rare, finding this 1959 example (designed by either Gino Sarfatti or Gerald Thurston), with its signature triangular shades, proved itself a daunting prospect indeed.

Here it is at home in our den. Now we just need to pull up and replace the hideous carpet, paint the ceiling, and we should be about done with this room.

We'd really like to extend our deepest thanks to our buddy, Lewis, for picking this up for us (and negotiating a much nicer price) and my brother, Enrique, for storing this in his Los Feliz garage for the past six months and shipping it to us! Well worth the wait, we say!

Little By Little

A month and a half ago we were at a local antique fair/flea market and spotted a couple of gems hidden amid all of the shabby chic, country style wares. We managed to score a Paul Mayen for Habitat table lamp and a Danish Modern teak planter chest by Arne Vodder. It took about an hour and a half of elbow grease to get the lamp cleaned up, and it now resides downstairs in our record room, providing a cool lunar glow.

Unfortunately, the Arne Vodder planter chest was missing its plant bed insert, so Valery wracked her brain coming up with a cheap DIY solution. She did a fantastic job! The planter chest now resides in our foyer. Now all we need to do is re-paint the room and it should be finished!

Dressed In Black

Here's another quickie to let y'all know that Valery has just added three new prints to our GG&S Designs shop. Dig in!

We hope you like 'em and thanks for your support!

Come See Me

Well, the blog's been up and running for the past three years now, and we figured it was high time that we took the next logical step: opening up some Etsy shops where we could sell handmade and vintage wares to, you, our dedicated readers! The entire GG&S empire can now be accessed through a handy landing page located at http://gonkedglookedandslurped.com

Valery has been hard at work creating a host of characters, fashioned out of Naugahyde and available for immediate purchase via our GG&S Designs shop. Here are the items that are currently on offer:

These unblinking owls respond to the name Horace and come in 5 different colors. Does your Nauga need a buddy?

This forlorn molar's name is Mortimer. We hope that you can provide him a good home, so he can stop worrying so much!

And this is Percy the attentive elephant. We've found that he looks really good adorning a couch or bed.


Valery's also made a handful of zippered clutches in various mod patterns!


Over the years, we've fielded numerous requests for some of the items we've showcased on the blog, so we figured we'd start picking up extras and other similar objects for those interested. GG&S Vintage will be updated regularly, as we're still sifting through our inventory, separating duplicates and, of course, we're always turning up more tasty items. 

In spite of the fact that we hadn't yet publicly unveiled these shops, we've already made several sales, so we'd like to extend a big thank you to our unexpected customers! We'd also like to thank Ryan and Trey for helping us navigate the technical vagaries involved with setting this whole thing up!