The Bonnard Apartment in Paris.

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Herman Miller has released a new limited Asia edition of the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman. This version comes in all black, featuring black plywood framing and black premium leather. The chair is delivered along with a limited edition vintage poster of the chair. Both the framed print and the chair are limited to 100 pieces.

Great space and article found on the Etsy blog.

Looks like a pretty great place to eat breakfast.

(via unhappyhipsters)

Eames Bikini Side Chair by Herman Miller…sexy.

Black leather Womb Chair via Design Within Reach.

I wish the String System was available in the U.S.

Love this image, via Convoy.

Parliament Design in Portland is still in my top three spaces of all time.

(via This Ain’t No Disco)

Eames ES 102 Intermediate Arm Chair 1968

How have I never seen this chair before? Not easy to look at when I am in desperate need of a new desk chair to replace my six year old chair from Staples…

ILOVEDUST X EAMES LCW CHAIRS by the oh-so-talented folks at I Love Dust.

Wow, wow, wow. Wow.

If this room was mine…I’d have a tough time ever leaving it.

As I’ve mentioned, and yes this is the last time (I promise), my modest workspace was featured on the Herman Miller blog “Lifework”. Before this, I had slowly been developing a taste for furniture and interior design. Since then, however, I think some sort of monster for the subject has been created. As much as I am ready to embrace it, I’m scared for the sake of my bank account.

This weekend, for the first time…ever, I headed out to check out a few mid-century furniture stores here in San Diego. First Antiques on Kettner, located in San Diego’s revived Little Italy. If you want something from another time, this is where you go. Everything from antique porcelain dolls to you guessed, mid-century, modern furniture. Eames, Aalto, some Herman Miller pieces all tempted my wallet but I held back and didn’t let myself get carried away right out of the gate. Across the street, next to Mires+Ball—a great design shop here in San Diego, was Klassik. The showroom is full of great, higher-end, furniture. Definitely out of my price range for the moment, but hopefully not for too long.

Lastly, I visited Mid-Century Design, a combination of the other two stores, but the smallest of the bunch. At this point I was determined to find something, anything, to make my day of browsing worth while. Once I got passed the unrealistic idea of purchasing a Noguchi table, I started looking for the less noticeable. And there it was, a great little desk light. With a dark brown box as the base, an antenna for the arm, a hallowed out ball that rotated left, right, and even flipped upside down for the head for $60. I offered $50, and the deal was done. I couldn’t be more happy with my first piece of authentic, mid-century design.

Next on my list of places to visit here in San Diego:
Mixture
Boomerang for Modern
Design One

My father, and my father’s father for that—actually let’s just say my father’s side of the family, have been woodworker’s for both occupation and recreation for many years. Because of this, I have always appreciated quality craftsmanship in the realm of furniture. Unfortunately for me, my current income limits my furniture purchasing to Ikea. But someday, I swear to you, I will own an Eames Lounge Chair. And until today, that was really the only high end piece of design furniture I had set my sights on. Above is a home office desk designed by George Nelson for Herman Miller in 1950. I absolutely love this piece, and although I have always been a fan of big desks, I could see myself feeling right at home (actually, at work) here.

More images, and a lot of other great furniture on the Modernity site.