Vintage 1950s/60s Finnish modern ceramic pitcher/vase, a chic tabletop centerpiece for a shelf or table. Signed made in Norway plus the dollar sign (this is likely an artist signature that I am not familiar with). 10-1/4" tall; 4" belly width. The colors are lovely. The shape is sublime. Finnish pottery is relatively unsung in the market.
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Chip Cordelli, Brooklyn, NY
About
me: I am a NYC-based photo/ video prop stylist, set designer, and
interior decorator for magazines like Real Simple, Instyle, Modern
Luxury and others. I have lived in NYC for more than 30 years (since the
late 80s) and have been in and around high fashion and luxury retail
for decades. Through the years I found that sourcing items for specific
events, photo shoots, and interior design projects was a valuable skill
in a city that produces images, events, and interiors that influence how
style is seen throughout the world. That said, I can say that I am a
stealth shopping/ sourcing powerhouse, and can locate an antique or a
special prop for a photo shoot, movie set, or fashion shoot with my eyes
closed, and relish in the idea of discovering gems in the rough, and
shining them up to have new lives in new closets, homes, and photo shoot
sets.
I
started my career in New York City in the late 1980s dressing display
windows at Henri Bendel and Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in the
glory days of true innovative story-telling windows in the days before
the internet and Instagram. It was there that I learned the fine art of
styling designer clothing & creating an aspirational & romantic
mood with merchandise and propping that helps build a relationship with
the clothes we wear, and the emotion that people have with properly
presented merchandise. I had access to the finest luxury designer
clothing like Claude Montana, Pauline Trigere, Coco, Mr Beene and
others, and learned about expert seam construction, the feel and
distinction of well crafted fabrics, the details that matter, and the
high tech fabrics that were constantly being introduced that were/are
constantly innovating the marketplace. It was also a time (the 80s) when
the shift in the social food chain (read: society) began to change, a
time when the Ladies Who Lunch began to be replaced by a new moneyed
group of vulgarians who changed the way retail was conducted. Shopping
was a sport not an event; it was about consumption but not mapping out
the way clothes could be worn and the appropriacy of different looks,
for day, for evening, for events. I witnessed the last gasp of the days
when shopping—even at the mid-level—was an event, a treat, and *madame*
was served champagne in dressing rooms and the clothes were explained
and the ways to wear them were explored. Now we shop from rounder racks
in discount departments for the best prices on designer clothes that we
buy for the label, not necessarily for the efficacy of utility in our
lifestyles.
Being
around such glamorous clothing it was hard to not learn about what
separates quality clothing from fast fashion, and I bolstered my fashion
history knowledge with constant learning about the names of yesteryear
and the designers who were the innovators in the 1940s, 1950s, and
1960s, and am always learning more, to learn how modern clothes spring
forth from their predecessors. My grandmother Gladys Schuck ran the
Cancer Association Thrift Shop in Westport, CT in the 1960s and as a
child I helped sort boxes of donated clothing, and she would tell me
stories about the designers—Claire McArdell, Anne Klein, Anne
Fogarty—and the fabrics (“say Duchesse satin” she said), and I learned a
great deal about vintage clothing from her; my mother, after raising
her children, was an antique dealer and auction and estate sale maven,
so I learned from her all the time. The torch was passed.
I
started buying vintage clothing at flea markets & estate sales on
my own, and have built an incredible collection, much of it coming up
for sale here (along with consignments from my fashion industry and
magazine industry cohorts). My mother also wore lots of Bonnie Cashin in
the 1960s and 1970s so I was aware of the modern minimalists, and
sought them out for her when I found them.
Since
I’m shopping constantly, and love fancy estate sales and sample sales, I
scour them regularly and with great skill; the result is an online shop
that I consider a finely curated collection of vintage clothing, home
accessories, & mid century odds and ends from high end homes in the
New York City area.
I
also take consignments from fashion stylists & fashion editors I
know in NYC who have packed closets filled with designer garments they
bought, received as gifts from designers, or used on photo shoots and
are in perfect condition--all sold here & ready for new fashionistas
to enjoy them.
I
have proudly sold tons of clothing & props to film & television
prop & wardrobe departments including most of the new Netflix shows
shooting in NYC, M@dMen, Masters of Sex, The Mysteries of Laura,
Boardwalk Empire, The Carrie Diaries. I also sell to designers looking
for inspiration clothing to base new designs from, and have many
garments not listed that I show privately.
I
love finding stuff, and love helping source stuff, and just KNOW that I
have tons more stuff than is listed here, so if you are in film or
television production just ask for specifics and I will probably have
something for you, or be able to understand what you are looking for
without wasting your time. I have been in the biz and know how it works.
That said, I am happy to serve film production wardrobe departments and
set designers and set prop people, so contact me with any queries about
specific items you are looking for. I am a good and reliable resource.
Cheers!
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Chip Cordelli, Brooklyn, NY
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