1950 S Furniture

Does anyone have any ideas where i can find 30's 40's or 1950's furniture?

Jul 31, 2009 by Lauren | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling

Im looking for 1930's to 1950's style furniture im a huge fan of those time periods and i absolutely love the vintage ornateness and style of it!

At an antique store.
Even a Thrift Store Might have things you like.

Furniture City USA, 1950s

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Antiques and Collecting: An antique garden rabbit to fool your friends

19.05.12

If you don't already have rabbits hopping around your garden, you might want to buy an antique garden rabbit to fool your friends. The wealthy English and French of the 17th century liked formal gardens with paths, fences and planned flower beds. They put urns, statues, fountains, sundials, gates, furniture and odd pieces like finials and wall sculptures into their gardens. In America, ornaments and furniture were being used in gardens by the 1600s. A brass sundial from 1630 is the earliest American garden piece that still exists. A wooden bench from the 1700s is the earliest known wooden piece. Gardens first had wrought-iron furniture and gates in the 18th and early 19th centuries. By the mid 19th century, most garden pieces were made of cast iron, not wrought iron, because cast iron was stronger. Gardens were filled with iron ornaments and fences. Full-size deer, dogs and other animals, tiered fountains, iron benches made to look like twining vines or tree branches, obelisks and sundials were all made of cast iron. So were armillary spheres that help map the "movement" of the stars around the earth. In the 1930s, there was even more interest in cast-iron objects. Inside houses you could find cast-iron doorstops, bookends, planters, hardware and toys. And in today's gardens, life-size rabbits, squirrels, frogs and even alligators and tall birds are among the many iron guests. Many of these figures were made years ago and have survived with just a little loss of paint. A vintage rabbit or squirrel can cost from $50 to $200 today. A full-size deer or dog sells for $500 to $2,000, and a three-tier iron fountain with a bird pedestal and leafy edges costs $3,000. Look in backyards when you go to a house sale. You might find a garden figure no one noticed.

Source: The Daily Jeffersonian

For one group of Sacramento teenagers, something as old as their parents is good – if it’s a piece of furniture.

The teen leaders of the VIBE urban lounge are on the hunt for mid-century modern furniture.

They’re looking for donations – or inexpensive purchases – of the living room styles that were popular in the 1950s and ’60s.

They aren’t looking for perfect, they’re looking for character.

“It’s kind of like the style we’re into,” said Julia Hidalgo, the outgoing youth chair for the nonprofit VIBE Foundation. “We didn’t want it to be cold classroom (style) at all.”

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