Anthropologie vintage items gone gadget friendly?

As a lover of all things vintage I get unusually excited when I see stuff like this... and by this I mean vintage items that are user-friendly to today's gadgets.  This of course means that I do not need to turn my carefully vintage decorated home into a modernized sleek flat to suit the looks of today's gadgets, but that I can keep it the way I like it and simply add vintage items that are gadget friendly.

The USB Typewriter.  How can you not appreciate or fall in love with a restored vintage typewriter than you can plug your iPad into and use as a keyboard?  But that's not all... Unplug the iPad and feel free to use as a regular typewriter as well- 2 for 1!  I know if you didn't love it before, you love it now.  Typewriter case is also included along with instructions, iPad stand attachment, USB cord and additional ribbon.

USB Typewriter, Royal @ Anthropologie

USB Typewriter, Underwood @ Anthropologie

Even use as a regular typewriter!

iVictrola, Upside Down @ Anthropologie

The iVictrola is even before my time, not that I'm that ripe, but still I find it fascinating, even more so now that you can dock your iPhone, iPod or other music player and listen to your music through the vintage Magnavox horn that sounds your music acoustically.  Okay, so you have to be a real vintage fan and a real fan of sound to appreciate this beautiful item.  I know you guys are out there... well, here it is.

The horn is made from carved American walnut

Antique Tube Radios @ Bryan Radios

Monarch Hi-Fi - Red
6.5" length, 4" wide, 4" height

If you've been following my posts for some time now it won't be a surprise to you that I'm actually from a time long ago, I often say that I must have been born in the 1920's or 1940's in my previous life because my love of vintage things are completely out of control!  Let me just say that the decision to rent the 1920's flat I'm living in now was made because I fell in love with the vintage 1920's stove in the kitchen.  

All this jibber-jabber is an introduction to the Antique Tube Radios I'm posting today, sold by Bryan Radios.  They are absolutely beautiful! 

Silvertone 101-808-1C
10" tall, 13.5" wide, 7" deep
Volume, tuning, tone and on/off control knobs
also has 4 pushbuttons for auto preset stations

Emerson - Radio Phono
14.5" x 13" x 9"
Listen to AM radio, 33/45 rpm vinyls, Iphone and mp3

View Bryan Radios' complete collection of Antique Tube Radios

Dispela Antiques

Now I know where to go if ever I need antique lighting.  I was drawn by the lamps and lighting in the window from the 70s and the chairs that lined the outside of the stores which also were from the 70's.  But when I went inside to take a look the amount of lighting hardware in the store clearly overshadowed a great deal, anything else that was being sold.  On the floor, downstairs and upstairs, were tables, cabinets and chairs and on those tables, cabinets and chairs were a sea of lamps and wall sconces.  The walls which you could barely make out were lined with wall mounted lights, electric candelabra lighting, and mini chandeliers.   On the ceiling which you could also barely make out were hanging with chandeliers large and small.  And needless to say, everything was an antique.

In the back of the store there was a section much resembled a cave with low hanging chandeliers

459 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036-3523
(323) 934-9939

Crosley Tech Turntable

Loving and having a fascination for all things vintage I unsurprisingly stopped and stared at this Tech Turntable by Crosley.  Isn't it beautiful?  It's so wonderful to see something old merge with the new to create something so... well, "user friendly" I suppose is the word I'm looking for.

The Tech Turntable is not only for listening to your vinyl records but also allows you to record your records as MP3s onto a USB drive!  And!  That's not even the last of it, the Tech Turntable features an AM/FM stereo and playback for your pre-recorded MP3s as well as comes PAR ready to succumb your every needs even if it means allowing you to plug in it's evil more modern-tech brother THE IPOD.

*sigh... isn't it just wonderful?  I think so.  It's THE perfect vinyl record player.

Crosley Tech Turntable
Materials:  Wood style casing, mirror front face-plate, streamline dials
Components:  3 Speed turntable, USB/SD Card reader & encoding, portable audio ready, AM/FM radio, stereo speaker, remote control
Price:  $129.95
Check below for lower price on Amazon

Mix Furniture Store

There is a huge store in Los Angeles on busy La Brea Ave called MIX.  Well, there are many stores on La Brea and many of them just happen to be stores selling furnishings, lights and antiques and things for the home.

The Mix in my opinion is Emperor of all these stores on La Brea Ave.  A huge warehouse-like space filled in no specific order with all things you would imagine an east trading company to bring.  A great amount of large wood items such as wooden masks, bowls, starburst-like wall decor, tables of all kinds high and low, a huge bed frame with stacked orb posts, statues... daybeds with beautiful carvings!  Walk in and out of the many rows and aisles and continuously become enthralled in a store offering furniture and decor you think are only possible to get in the east somewhere.

 

The price matches the quality which seems to be great, but I don't seem to mind it, the price seems fair for these pieces.

MIX
442 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323.939.7500
Mixfurniture.com

tini. This Is Not Ikea

On 515 S. Fairfax Ave a busy street in Los Angeles with much traffic, with my car in the traffic, I had as of late seen an enticing store.  In large red rounded block letters above the doorway it reads "tini.".  My affair with vintage items  leads my eye to the store every single time, at the front of the store laid out in a row are retro looking seats, boxes of old pictures, lamps, large funny signs, a myriad of distinct and unique general decor all vintage-e, all whispering for me to come take a look inside.  It wasn't until  today I stepped in with the utmost excitement.  Inside, at the top of the doorway a sign reads "This Is Not Ikea", it certainly is not, one could see that right away.  

A maze of of various items stacked on top of each other: furnishings, kitchenware, an old LP player, clocks, retro chairs, rustic looking tables, old faded magazines, mirrors, a lava lamp, old radios, old fans, large signs!  Manikins?!  Traffic lights?!  A bust?!  An interior designer's dream and a set designer's heaven no doubt.

When I arrived home and looked up their website the 'about' page described their items as "retro, modern, vintage... unique.  Pieces that all spoke to them was how all the items were chosen"  needless to say, they spoke to me too.

tini.

515 S. Fairfax Ave

LA CA 90036

323.938.9230

thisisnotikea.com