A little progress.

I finally got a round to painting & staining the Form Group pieces the other day.  I painted the pieces for the base (base, 4 legs & leg supports) in black, & stained the pieces for the table top & seat.

Next step, gluing everything together, varnishing, then onto making cushions for the seat.

Some photos of the mock-ups in the living room. Both a 2 + 3 section combination (first photograph), or a 2 + 4 section combination (2nd photograph) seem to work well in this room.

Later this week I should be receiving V&A Pattern - The Fifties by Sue Prichard, which I'm very much looking forward to, I've also been looking at the 1940's & 50's wallpaper in the V&A's online archives recently for ideas & inspiration for the Gothenburg (+ I'm just a sucker for textile & surface design).

Links to some favourites in the V&A's archives:

Aagaard Anderson - Diana Armfield - Preben Dahlstrom - Lucienne Day - Jacqueline Groag - Roger Nicholson - Folke Sundberg - Shinkichi Tajiri - Mary White

Fueled up with coffee & ready for action.

My spare room is a mess of Mames, dollhouses & miniature furniture, & it's really holding me up from getting anything more done on the Form Group mock-up in basswood.  Time to stop procrastinating & get organised!

Apples & Unikko & Spectrum, Oh, my!

It's been lovely & sunny over the last few days, so yesterday I took advantage of the light & took lots of photos of the living room in the Mame's first house.

It's been a work in progress since September 2009 & still isn't quite finished (mostly little things & finishing touches), but it's getting there slowly..

The furniture is a mixture of Playmobil, Lego, Mattel & Vero (well.. a Vero copy as far as I know), & the smaller accessories are mostly Re-Ment, Megahouse, Playmobil, Marx & Jean of Germany. It's a bit of a hodge podge of scales, but it works for the Mames & looks kind of right together (I hope).
The picture frame is from Ikea, with Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum 1, from 1953, in it, though I rotated it because I preferred the bands of colour going horizontally rather than vertically.

The living room is one of the first small rooms I started putting together for the Mames. The "wallpaper" is a Japanese fabric (the green with apples & branches) & some white handmade paper I had in my stash, both spray mounted onto thick paper.  The wallpaper is one of the things that still needs work - I'm thinking of attaching it with strips of flexible magnetic sheet, as even though I don't plan on changing the room, I don't want to glue it permanently into place.  For now it's just lodged into place & held on with a little white tack.