This is a pretty cool table (red formica)

[fatfutures]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.com/antique-storage-room-find-1950s-and-older-pick-up-only_W0QQitemZ280043486059QQihZ018QQcategoryZ12QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]Red formica table[/url]

[ha_asfan]

Great photos but where is the red formica table ???

[fatfutures]

Oh! Sorry Robert...Click on Red Formica Table... that's the link to the auction.

[ha_asfan]

LOL, I really should learn where to click...It never stops amazing me how the designers of the Machine and Modern Ages took such simple forms and new materials and created such wonderful daily use objects. What a wild [for the time] concept to take chromed hairpin legs and a Formica [still a relatively new product] top with a wooden skirt and call it a table for everyday use in your home. The next big shift in design came with the introduction of plastics but the impact was more on practical use than on appearance. The Modernists really knew what they were doing !

[fatfutures]

I have to say that I thought you might appreciate it. If I were closer... I might pick up that lot. I am really digging that twin bed/crib. Not sure what I'd DO with it... but, I likes it!

The tablewon't work in our place. I found an old pine table and chairs. It came from Sante Fe and is entirely handmade. In the early New Mexico, carpitero style ( [url="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/tips/southwest_furniture/"]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/tips/southwest_furniture/[/url] ) It is very simple, not as ornate as some pieces in this style and actually has an Arts and Crafts feel to it.

[ha_asfan]

I'm a firm believer in appreciating good design, whether Ilike the particular design or not. To know the movement the item is from and to know the preceeding movements always exposes the design roots. Arts & Crafts closely links to Latin styles and even to Vienesse Secession in purity of form. The global transmutation of styles is fasinating as locals adapted their techniques and materials to the new movement's products. I have a keen collection of Israeli Ceramics dating from the early 1930's through the mid 1970's and the earliest pieces are urely Western European, mostly German in appearance, Art Deco. Even thoughthey are Israeli by virtue of where they were made, they were made by the first wave of German immigrants [Bauhaus] who came to Israel and with them, they brought their knowledge and culture and continued to work in their style. The evolution into a purely Israeli style took years and the trail is clear to the eye. I guess that's a long way of saying, if you know you're design history, you can see all the elements of the items historic roots. I still love the truly over the top MGM musicals of the 30's and 40's for their totally skewed and exagerated sets and costumes, not to mention use of language!