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

Nesting Matryoshka Dolls

A couple days ago I was given Russian Nesting Matryoshka Dolls as a gift, they are darling little things.  Hand-painted and slightly different from the larger I can appreciate the artistic quality and the effort that was put in to producing these cute figures.

Nesting Matryoshka Dolls consists of usually 5 or more dolls, one contained inside the other.  The largest of the dolls being the outer most layer of the dolls, it is opened to reveal another smaller doll inside itself which then is also opened to reveal another smaller doll and so on and so forth, the smallest doll being unable to contain any other dolls is made of solid wood.  The dolls are usually hand-painted and can be very elaborate in design as well as different.  Paintings on the doll could be of either gender but typically a women is drawn in sarafan.

Church themed Nesting Matryoshka Dolls

Russian Politicians Nesting Matryoshka Dolls