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Industrial Machine Bases for Custom Dining or Confernce Tables and Store Displays
A client asked to see what interesting bases we had for tables. Here is a small sample of what we had. We just received a huge load of African hard wood called Anigre. We have possibly 100 large tables worth of wood here! Some boards are 2.5″ thick x 12″ wide and 14′ long! We are now taking orders for custom tables.
Hans J. Wegner
The works of Danish born architect and furniture designer, Hans Jørgen Wegner, exhibit a love of natural materials and a studied understanding of the necessity of furniture as a marriage of function and beauty.
In his youth, Wegner developed an affinity for the material properties of wood, working as an apprentice to respected cabinetmaker H.F. Stahlberg. This experience instilled in Wegner an understanding of the tectonics and craft of traditional Danish carpentry. This understanding of workmanship was supplement with a formal design education when Wegner entered the Copenhagen School of Arts & Crafts in his early twenties. After receiving his architectural degree in 1938 he began working with renown Danish designers Arne Jacobsen and Erick Møller before establishing his own practice in 1943.
Throughout his career Hans Wegner was responsible for over 500 unique chair designs, making him the most prolific Danish designer to date. Perhaps his most well known design, the Round Chair, gained international notoriety in 1949 when Interiors magazine declared it “the world’s most beautiful chair”. The beauty of Wegner’s genius is seen in his designs as the manifestation of a remarkable combination of designer and craftsmen.
Big Big Big Event
Mark your calenders on July 31st. The Good Mod is having its annual blow out garage sale! a lemonade stand will be set up and some talented artists in our building will be selling their work. Do not miss this. 
Get This Look
Black & Chrome $5345
Howard Miller Clock – $1495
Stainless Locker Room Bench – $675
Jack Cartwright 20/123 Club Chair – $1433
L-1 Luxo Light – $287
Sterling Silver Candle Holders – $55
CP Price Black and White Relief 2 Piece Painting – $1400 (coming soon to shop)
*Coming Soon* Bud Vase, Jere Bird Sculpture, & Coyote Pelt
Brown & Brass $19,654
Sergio Rodrigues Mole Chair – $12,745 (pair)
Peter Hvidt Interlocking Tables – $4245 (set of 6)
Caribou – $1869
Articulating Industrial Work Lamp – $795
*Coming Soon* Mesh box, Antique Books, Pelt, & Lab Set.
Mid Century Modern Portland
We have had the honor and pleasure of working with a great family recently; Cynthia and Linda and their 2 sons. They just bought a jaw dropping mid century modern Portland home. Their new house was so perfect for them. Their 2 sons have it made growing up with a back yard, more like a park, and a kidney shaped swimming pool. They bought a stunning newly upholstered Danish modern sofa from us that just hit our showroom floor, a industrial dresser for their son’s room and they are looking at a rare 102″ George Nelson slat bench that we just got in. Please enjoy this virtual tour of the house.
Inspiration 6/28/2011
Here are a few designs that inspired us recently.
1. Moon Sofa for B&B Italia design Zaha Hadid
2. Chieftain Chair by Finn Juhl
3. Gio Ponti Shelf System. – My Friends have this and many other incredible pieces in their home. Including a Valet Chair that The Good Mod may be lucky enough to consign for them.
4.Valet Chair by Hans Wegner
Mid Century Modern Furniture Portland Oregon
We are The Good Mod. We have a passion for design. We have a burning inside of us for quality and well designed furniture. We crave the unique. We are the antithesis of disposable. We have an eclectic mix of Mid century modern furniture in Portland Oregon. The Good Mod offers a wide range of styles but the common thread connecting our hand selected items is personality, quality, rarity and invest-ability.
We truly are a diamond in the ruff located in southeast’s industrial district. Our warehouse is stocked to the rafters with sought after designs that will be coveted for years to come. We are your shop, whether you are looking for unique items that will set your home apart from others or the perfect gift that exudes personality.
Mario Botta
Born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1943, Botta trained as a technical draftsman before attending art school in Milan. From 1965 to 1969 he studied under Carlo Scarpa at the Institute University of Architecture in Venice. In this same period he was also an assistant to Louis I. Kahn and LeCorbusier. Botta then proceeded to open his own practice in Lugano, Switzerland (1970). Botta built exclusively in Switzerland during his early career, gaining international acclaim for such buildings as; the Capuchin convent in Lugano, the Craft Centre in Balerna, and the Administration Building for the Staatsbank in Fribourg.
Many of Botta’s projects have been single-family houses. For him, the single-family house includes the problems and the objectives of the entire discipline of architecture. Carrying on the ideas of Kahn, Mario Botta believes in the organization of the relationship between man and nature and the distinctive characterization of man in relationship to his own environment. Botta is keenly interested in history and in the study of man’s habitat through time. Because the home has been the one constant through the evolution of history, he feels this architectural type deserves both study and elaboration. It is not only individual needs, but also the collective requirements of societies that fascinate him. Another theme pervading his single-family houses is the search for the roots of a design and man’s identity in a particular place. Cultural traditions are important throughout his projects, and his forms are derived from – but not copied from – “the environment as a testimony of history and memory”. Because of this Botta is often identified with the Italian neo-rationalist group, Tendenza. The houses he designed during the early 1970s established the Ticino school and changed Swiss architecture dramatically. In the 1980′s he secured international commissions such as the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California. During this time (1980s) he designed for Alias. Botta’s innovative work has inspired and promoted a generation of Swiss architects who are internationally acclaimed.
Sources: architect.architecture.sk http://www.bookrags.com/tandf/botta-mario-1943-tf/ http://www.botta.ch/Page/Recenti_en.php
