Before I explain, the big question: what can you expect on this blog? Vintage stuff? Industrial? Or both?
I am gonna show you the end-product and the creation of those pieces of – mainly – furniture that I have upcycled or created recently, and are of vintage and / or industrial style. A plumbing lamp, a pallet coffee table, a lamp I upcycled from an old radio, a bedroom lamp I created from the used sprocket of my (motor)bike, a coffee bag „painting”, applying foil to my speakers that made them look super vintage, an upcycled garden set made out of a table and four chairs.
You will also find from time to time articles related to vintage bikes built in café racer and scrambler style, articles about restomod cars.
First real article is coming up soon, further down you will find my – maybe super-boring – intro to why I like vintage and industrial garbage.
But before that, let us clarify what vintage means.
Vintage has 2 meanings:
Vintage has 2 meanings:
- an object that is at least 50 years old
- a new item that looks old, A.K.A. vintage
So why do I like them?
They are dirty, sometimes smelly too. Obsolete, childish garbage, they belong on a scrap heap.
They may do, according to some. But they mean so much to me! I always loved walking around in the storage and the attic of my grandparents’ house. A vintage bicycle – more to come on this soon, a military footlocker that was hand-made by one of the many brothers of my grandfather who never returned from the First World War. Vintage candlesticks. All of them belong to a long-gone age. It is a strange, yet a cushy feeling to know that these things were used by people who I am not able to meet any more, still, there is a bond between us.
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| „The Lake House” - a time travel movie, full of ugly logical hiccups. Still, the couple that never meets (Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves) but keeps contact with each other via mails only, generates similar feelings in me when I grab a vintage object – something connects us |
„These had still had great stuff within” – a phrase heard a lot in automotive circles (as well). Well, in case great stuff means the lack of plastic, or a limited usage of them, it may be true. Wood is real, not a colored piece of plastic. Glass is not plexi – old racecars may get a pass on this one. Metal is not a cheap-ass, painted knock-off piece of plastic. And what a treat for the eyes!
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| The brilliant warning in the beginning of the articles of Zsolt Csikós, the well-liked classic car journalist of Hungary’s popular automotive site Totalcar |
Nostalgia, another typical motif. It is a great feeling to bring back our youth. The roughneck, sometimes daring self. The never-ending stories of picking up chicks. The pride we felt when we got our hands on our first car or bike.
I totally get it, it is not the case with me (yet). The things of the 80s and 90s which I grew up with, do not appeal to me at all. I find them hideous. It may be the lack of aesthetics compared to those of earlier ages. It may be the time travel effect the reason that I gravitate towards the stuff from my grandparents’ age or earlier.
Well, that’s why.
Check out my first real article coming up this week!
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