Highland Row Basement Sale This Weekend!

Highland Row Antiques is having their monthly Basement Sale this weekend.  If you haven't been yet, you need to see all the great mid-century gems they have.  They will have a ton of furniture loaded into the basement and most of the dealers will be there!  Mingle, meet some cool people, and bring home some awesome mid-century furniture!  Sale starts at 10 a.m.!  Look for Justin's booth!

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Vintage Vera and Marcel Breuer...

I love vintage Vera Neumann textiles, and have been collecting Vera scarves for a while now.  There is currently a resurgence of Vera prints coming out at in the likes of clothes, stationary, accessories, bedding, and table linens.  This is all thanks to the licensing deals that The Very Company, based here in Atlanta, are making.  They house all the Vera archives, including tons and tons of screens.  Vera made at least one new design a day up until the time of her death.  I adore a vintage lady screenprinter especially since I studied printmaking in college!  There is also a wonderful book coming out in September that chronicles much of Vera's work and is written by Susan Seid, who saved the archives from an uncertain future.

Vera was also friends with Marcel Breuer who designed her home, The Neumann House 1952, as well as her New York City Showroom.

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V is for Valiant...

Overall, this summer has really been a crazy one for us!  Between my huge career change from installation art to modern real estate and putting on all the social events at Northcrest Swim and Tennis Club (don't miss the LUAU this Saturday, with hula dancers!) we have barely had time to think about anything else.  Things keep getting crazier and better here in Northcrest.  I swear we feel like we've lived here a decade, and it has only been 2 years.  One of our dreams was realized recently by happenstance, and it happened all right here in Northcrest...you don't have to go far when you have such awesome people living in your neighborhood!

Jeff and I have always wanted an old car and as long as I can remember I had my heart set on an International Scout....until I found out that they really didn't make an automatic and well, I just can't drive a stick shift.  I never learned how really, and I'm fairly certain I would be terrible at it.  I moved on to wanting some sort of 50's-60's something, with fins or bullet lights, but those are huge and I'm not awesome at parking big things.  Hmm...oh well, it didn't seem like buying a vintage car was going to happen for several years, so it didn't really matter.  But this changed recently when Jeff saw our neighbor Ken at the pool (coincidentally, Ken is domoREALTY's amazing home stager and all around art director...it really is a neighborhood affair!) and he was thinking of selling his 1960 Valiant.  Long story short, we now are the very proud owners of an awesome 1960 Valiant with a slant 6, four doors, push-button automatic, power brakes and steering, original red interior, and of course, dual ashtrays in the backseat!......and I can actually park it.  Thanks Ken!