"I painted it for my son"

"Can you imagine me painting a nude?! I painted it for my son Tom, I love to paint. I did not know Sandra took my picture. The angle makes the nude ALL legs — She has flowing red hair." July 28, 1970


Photo found by elizabeth_huey (via instagram)

FLAT SPOTS

Bertoia Family Barn

Community Helpers

Super rare set of Antonio Vitali's Playforms available on eBay.

Update: And a family too.

EA

By Evelyn Ackerman (at Sam Kaufman)

Finnish Line

Available at Talo (Rakuten)

Borge Bunks

Bid now: Børge Mogensen: Etageseng af teaktræ (Lauritz)

At Work

Robert Rauschenberg (via Wo & We)

HORSE

@ Mondo Cane's Kids Chairs! show.

:-)

Both photos by Elaine Constantine, in Vogue Italia (August 1999, top) and The Face (August 1999, bottom).

Skateboard in the 1960s

Photos: Bill Eppridge for LIFE. More here.

13-year-old sees a vinyl record for the first time —

Athena vs. the LP (whatever via kottke.org)

T

via Design Community

DAZE

I Need All The Friends I Can Get (1964) —

Happy Birthday R$.

Some names from the deep branches of my family tree:

Miles Green
Wilkerson James
Adkin Christopher
Thomas Wesley
Jack Ervin
L. S. Silas
Hamp Cleveland
Ruby Mae
Maude Mae
Sampson Davis
Jasper Tillman
Ada Lou

Thanks Mom!

Related: The Peregrine White Cradle

c. 1982

SUPER GOOD DEAL

A few years before I was born, my dad placed this classified ad to sell his car. My mom reports that "he actually paid $1400 for it, and when we sold it for $1600, we thought we made a good deal."

LA ENDURO

COCO-0191

Exceptionally cool kid's bike. Cantilevers on 22" knobbies. We put on new tires, tubes, saddle, some cables, tuned it up. Very cool. No matter how cool kid's bikes are, they just don't sell. This is half the size of an adult's bike but is the same quality and much rarer but we will have to wait a long time to get $150 for it. Unless you are a very discerning parent...

Coco's Variety
2427 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles, California 90039
Email (323) 664-7400 Map

PLAY —

Creative Playthings, 1964