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Decor plastic servers Japanese tray

Sadly not 1956 iconic Danish designed Herbert Krenchel Krenit salad servers. They’re 1970s Decor plastic made in Australia. Replica but vintage.

So what’s vintage? 20+ years is the general consensus. Being old isn’t enough to make something valuable, but it does help. Observe the Zoo Line Kay Bojensen ‘inspired’ AKA knock-off teak monkeys circa 1950s, now selling for almost the same price.

I doubt these cute orange plastiques will ever appreciate that much in value but until I feel comfortable paying in the vicinity of $75 for a pair of the original salad servers [which is probably never] I do appreciate their useful good looks.
I’m quite fond of old Decor, [but not as much as this guy] and the deceptively cool, genuinely retro faux bois [fake wood] Japanese tray.

Fake it til you make it? What do you think of replicas?

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And to finish…for your viewing pleasure comes more classic faking. Enjoy xx

Seinfeld: The Mango 1993, Season 5, Ep 1

 

I won’t ask about that one…

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Retro vintage Pineapple products for saleIf You Like Piña Coladas….
you may like these pineapples in stock at URBAN RUSTIC
Get a taste of my pina collager thinglink here

Pineapples tick a lot of stylish boxes. So hipster cool, iconic retro, Hollywood Regency Palm Springs glam and beachy summer chic. Also just quirky yummy fun. That crazy spiky top. I wouldn’t mind a pineapple head.

And they are a symbol of hospitality and welcome. Every home should have at least one. Both real and unreal.

Happy weekend people. Make one here. A Piña Colada, that is, but it might make a lovely start to a happy weekend anyway.
I’m not much into health food, I am into champagne.
Cheers.

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I was tired of my lady, we’d been together too long
Like a worn-out recording of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleepin’, I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns there was this letter I read

‘If you like Pina Coladas, getting caught in the rain
If you’re not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
I’m the love that you’ve looked for write to me and escape’

I didn’t think about my lady, I know that sounds kinda mean
But me and my old lady had fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad
And though I’m nobody’s poet, I thought it wasn’t half bad

“Yes, I like Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain
I’m not much into health food, I am into champagne
I’ve got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape
At a bar called O’Malleys where we’ll plan our escape”

So I waited with high hopes and she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady and she said, “Oh, it’s you?”
Then we laughed for a moment and I said, “I never knew”

“That you liked Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean and the taste of the champagne
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
You’re the lady I’ve looked for, come with me and escape”

Escape [The Piña Colada song]
written by Rupert Holmes 1979

British Plastics blue tartan band canister sq
Not so out of the blue, but I can hardly contain myself,
urban rustic is about to

vintage blue bakelite Thermos sq
open a STORE! At Newport Beach NSW Australia. Yay!

Moldex blue plastic vintage bread bin sq
It’ll  be fresh, and fun. So fun. OMG I hope I am not crazy.
Staffordshire pottery canisters blue brown x2 retro
All that dreaming, my head in the clouds,  it’s becoming a tangible thing. Finally.

Clouds waechtersbach canister on grey
I am in various measure, full of…

 

Nally Bakelite canisters photoshoppedStacks more to come,

vintage red blue rustic cake containers
watch this cake, um I mean space…
xo

PS click any image to see it in the urban rustic store

What the font? Another bug I have picked up…

design stencils maths templates

An occupational hazard for designers and such types I suppose.

graphics old protractors overlay colours

Protracted it from some strange sector…Do you concur?

On that note, I’ll leave you with some Leo overlay. Happy Friday

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x = me2


My son came up with this title, clever little guy. Especially since he didn’t know there was such a thing. But then he broke one of the handles on my set of 5, whatever, now I have an even set of 4. And some spares.

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Vintage Green Bakelite plastic Picnic Set, includes cups, saucers, plate & tumblers [6]

Small porcelain teapot with strainer, made in Japan

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Vintage Tupperware Pink

Vintage Tupperware & plastics in gorgeous 1950s gelato colours.

Standby for icey blues, green, yellow and white.

A little bit of green.

The cutlery tray is Gayware. Yes, Gayware. It was the 50’s.

A Sydney product too, fittingly.

Just the tip of the ice [blue] berg…

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