The meaning of owning a vintage

I like vintage chairs, and the first chair I bought is more than 25 years ago. The first time I bought it was at the L.A. Rose Bowl Flea Market. The chair, which has a silhouette that looks exactly like the side shell of Eames, has a large opening at the waist, which is not often seen in Eames. It was a time when I knew Eames somehow, so I had never seen an Eames-like shell with X-base feet, and the price was $75. " Isn't it a rare Eames shell chair!? And I was excited by myself. That's the beginning with my vintage chair.

Recently, vintages have been exhibited in studios and galleries, so I have encountered more and more local vintage lovers as if they were calling friends.

There are many times when I talk to customers who come to the store after seeing the chairs on display, and meeting people through vintage is truly a once-in-a-lifetime meeting. I always feel that this is also one of the ways to enjoy vintage.

In such a situation, what I have been interested in recently is deals (transactions) through Internet mail order. With the spread of the Internet, while it has become easier to obtain things from all over the world, there are fewer opportunities to obtain by-products such as "encounters with people" and "anecdotes related to things" that occurred when acquiring things as before.

In the past, when buying from a shop or dealer, it was easy to get things such as how you got the product and your thoughts on the item along with the item, but on the Internet, the condition of the product and I don't know much about the price. Values such as how to get rare things that everyone knows cheaply occupy a lot of people, and I feel that there is almost no talk about "where did you buy it" or "from whom you bought it".

The best part of old things is the history related to them. Not only superficial things such as which brand or what age it is, but also what kind of historical background and genealogy the item was born with, and what kind of history it followed to reach your eyes. Old things always have a history, but only the value of things remains in the broken history. It doesn't matter whether a thing without a history is real or a fake, all that remains is how much the price is.

There was a part that I was very interested in in an old magazine article that I read recently.

It's a story about Larry Schaefer's "House of Rudolf Schindler" at the "OK" store in L.A.

Larry said he got this house in 2009, but there are many people who have visited the house built by a famous architect in 1935 on an architectural tour before, and they know every corner of the house. At that time, Larry said, "If you think about it, this house existed decades before I lived, and it will continue to exist even after I was gone. In other words, even if you buy it, it means that you only own a part of the long-term time of this house.

When I read this part, I thought, "This is exactly what it means to own a vintage." ... At the same time, "The same can be said about the new things you will own from now on."

Until then, I had never thought so deeply about things, and in some respects, I also thought, "Since I bought it myself, you can throw it away or do whatever you want." Moreover, I have rarely thought about where the thing comes from and where it is going.

In the article of Dr. Noritsugu Oda, an honorary professor and furniture researcher at Tokai University, whom I respect, often see keywords such as "polite life". I feel like I finally understood the meaning of that recently.

By the way, the first chair I bought more than 25 years ago at the beginning is still at home. I gave up most of the many Eames shell chairs I bought after that during the mid-century boom, but only that chair, whose original background was unknown, is still used with memories of that time.

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