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The Good Mod couldn't operate without our hard-working team. We depend on Daniel, our skilled upholsterer, to accomplish both large-scale custom projects and quick fix-ups for our clients. Daniel is always full of energy and ready for the task at hand - he makes it look easy, but he's meticulous and strives for perfection.
Are your beloved pieces in need of a refresh? Contact our team for your reupholstery inquires!
]]>Consignment is a lovely process, who doesn't like getting rid of things you don't want and making money off them without all the hassle of listing things online? There are tons of people taking beautiful furniture to the dump or letting it sit in a random storage facility. If you are wanting to part with some cool pieces all it takes is these simple steps:
Fun fact: We like to try-out every Ping Pong Table we make, to ensure the bounce of the wood, and the overall feel is just right. Plus - we have a great time doing it. We have one Ping Pong Table in our showroom that is always looking for players - come swing by and show us a thing or two!
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Photo: @ikonkbh on Instagram
Born in Germany in 1886, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe broke new ground with his architectural designs. He started out as a draftsman before striking out later on his own. During World War I, Mies served in the German military. He then became a well-known architect in Germany, creating such structures as the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition. In the late 1930s, Mies emigrated to the United States. There he created such well-known Modernist works as the Lake Shore Drive Apartments and the Seagram Building. He died in 1969.
Designed for the renowned van der Rohe building, the Tugendhat house in Brno, Czechoslovakia, these chairs reflect the simplicity and sophistication of their intended surroundings.
Spencer Staley, founder of TGM, has had this idea in the books for some time. With the slowing of demand during our current climate, the team was able to set aside the time and resources to make this massive dome come to life.
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"The beautiful Swan™ chair was designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the lobby and lounge areas of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The design contains no straight lines, making it look organic and soft despite its simplicity and strong architectural appeal." - Fritz Hansen
The hotel’s top floor featured its Panorama Salon; furnishings included Jacobsen’s Swan Chair, the AJ Royal Pendant Lamp, and the 330 Sofa series.
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If you can't stand the heat, back away from the fire pit - that's the saying, right? A dear friend and client, Sonya Yun, came to The Good Mod with an idea - a large fire pit that has strict angles and a grill attachment. We had such positive feedback on this product that we now offer them on our site.
Sonya and her family invited the team over to hang out around the fire. We installed it, laid some logs, and skated on her half pipe.
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Pepe le Moko, a intimate restaurant in Downtown Portland that offers gourmet bites, came to The Good Mod with a project to restore their stools. The stools required reupholstery and some woodwork to insure their stability for years to come.
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The Good Mod worked together with Vida Design to create custom pieces for The Rodney apartments right down the road from us. Check out the custom, brown leather curved sectional pictured above. We also crafted a custom Sling Chair, two Trillium Stools, and frames for artwork.
]]>Adidas reached out to The Good Mod to create custom seating for their skateboarding division in their new building. Working along side interior design studio, Tamauflage, we were able to create a space the offers casual comfort and sleek design.
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Centrl Office came to us with a challenging project to design and fabricate a 35 foot cantilevered steel and black glulam reception desk. The reception desk had to serve three purposes: a place for reception, a place for refreshments such as beer and kombucha on tap, and counter space for people to work. This desk resides in their office in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
We used Glulam beams because they are stronger than steel- fun fact! It took all departments in our business to bring this idea to life - including metal working, fabrication, and design.
To learn more about Centrl Office, click here.
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The Good Mod held an auction with all proceeds going to The Black United Fund of Oregon on June 23, 2020. The item up for auction was The Channel Islands Coffee Table. We were successful in raising $1,350 for the cause!
The mission of the Black United Fund of Oregon is to assist in the social and economic development of Oregon's underserved communities and to contribute to a broader understanding of ethnic and culturally diverse groups.
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Danner has crafted boots with care for nearly a century. Their boots are built to last - much like The Good Mod's studio line. While TGM does have vintage items in store, custom and made-to-order pieces are also part of our portfolio. Spencer Staley, founder of TGM, was featured in Danner's "Portland Select" series along side one of our old friends, Britt Howard, founder of Portland Garment Factory.
Check out Danner's Portland Select 2019 video below:
Photos by: Dylan VanWeelden
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The standing height conference table was intended to streamline workflow and provide a gathering place for their talented team of architects. This 10-foot table features over-sized finger joints.
Scroll through these photos to see the final product and behind the scenes.
This is the planed solid wood surface before assembly and finish.
The conference table pairs well with the Compass Stool.
The conference table in production.
A detailed look at the over-sized finger joints.
The Good Mod Team has installed and is excited to see the table in use. Stay posted!
]]>Their new space is their second shop, South Lake Union Bouquet situated in the ground level of the Amazon headquarters in Seattle.
The goal: to outfit their new space with beautiful but minimal designs that will be good for staging, storage, and most importantly showcasing their floral arrangements and plants!
What was needed: custom shelving in the form of open faced credenzas, stackable shelves, mounted shelves, benches and tables. With their vision in mind, we were up to the task of bringing it to life. Check out some of the items they purchased here:
See some photos below of their space!
So! When you are up in Seattle, make sure to stop by Columbia City Bouquet's beautiful new shop, located on 7th Ave South Union Lake Bouquet and treat yourself or your loved one to something beautiful!
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Shou Sugi Ban is a Japanese technique developed during the 18th century to "weatherproof" woods (often cedar) using torching and charring.
Find some videos and photos of the process:
The table turned out spectacularly! The client is stoked and so are we.
It is very important for us to continue to learn new techniques and push the materials we work. It was cool to use an ancient practice and see interesting outcomes.
]]>It was a fateful day when Bimma came into the showroom to discuss hosting an event, I knew our encounter was the catalyst for future collaborations and connections. Bimma is a Global Product Manager at Adidas, as well as founder of Claima Convos (an interview series featuring underrepresented entrepreneurs in PDX).
Above: Bimma (@iambimma), second in from the left, alongside Kait Hurley (@kait.hurley), Laura Elizabeth (@laura_elizabeth) and Drae Slapz (@thedraeslapz) photographed their promo photos in our space!
A few weeks after our initial introduction, Bimma had the insight to connect us with Todd Adams, the brand development manager for the Trailblazers. What an exciting connection! This was shortly after we had released our customizable TGM B-Ball Hoops.
We were made aware of the upcoming milestone victory for longtime standing successful Coach Stotts. His 300th Win with the Trailblazers.
January 18th we fabricated three Custom Basketball hoops for Terry Stotts, head coach, Neil Oshey, executive and manager for the team, and executive Harry Glickman.
We had the privilege of making these custom mini basketball hoops that now hang proudly in their respective offices.
See below for the art, renderings, and final product.
These hoops are done in black walnut, with a black powdercoated rim, and black net. Custom art work and engraving available.
Click here to Find the TGM B-ball Hoop!
Here is an image of our B-ball Hoop hanging in the #ehdportlandproject designed, curated and styled by the super talented @em_henderson
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]]>Originally designed in 1956, when this vintage Hans Wegner Circle Chair first came into our workshop this past April, it was looking every day of its age. In fact, at some point in its storied life, this CH20 broke on through to the other side. So we called upon our in-house expert, Emily Scheltgen, to weave her magic. Literally.
"The biggest challenge with this piece, and with re-caning these older pieces in general, would be the materials. Sourcing them is somewhat tricky: furniture caning is such a niche discipline; it can be difficult to find the specific materials you're looking for. And for this particular Wegner chair, there were thick, curved cuttings of rattan along the bottom edges to cover the nails. Nobody sells that anymore!"
"So we brainstormed a little about different solutions, and ended up making a very thin piece of ash in the shop to replace it. Working with the caning itself can be a little complicated too. It's a natural product and therefore has some defects and variances, it breaks easily if you don't process it correctly, and it's really difficult to color-match if you don't buy enough at once.
The chair itself was in great shape, but the seat had totally broken through the frame, it was barely hanging on in the back corner, and most of the wraps had come loose. Luckily, I was able to find some reference photos online of other restored pieces, and some originals, and through taking it apart, and comparing to the photos I was able to come up with the pattern and match it almost exactly."
This same technique, craft and expertise is on show in Emily’s re-caning of the matching Wegner stool.
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How do we approach the connection between architecture and fashion? How I conceptualize is by way of historical reflections: the first exhibit coming to mind being the ethereal work of fashion designer Issey Miyake. Miyake designed an environmental, floating UFO dress, made possible by his invention of a technology that heat pleats clothing. Heat pleating imprints onto textile a “memory” of form that allows for strong structural geometry and easy storability.
Issey Miyake Flying Saucer Dress, 1994
The concept of Issey Miyake's clothing has been reified by architects such as Kengo Kuma. Kengo Kuma designed pleated sky scraper adornments, offsetting the hardness of buildings with textural softness. Both platforms, Issey Miyake's clothing and Kuma's buildings, represent the beauty of moveable and breathable form and space, allowing light and fresh air in through their geometric crevices.
Kengo Kuma Shanghai Tower Adornment, 2015
Re-situating ourselves in beloved Portland, BORA architects takes a slightly different approach than Miyake and Kuma. BORA has a relative idea of “movability” when they speak about their own textile/architectural concept. BORA's movability explores our cultural and physical opposition to the natural world. This negative relationship is human isolation within closed spaces and excessive shielding from our swaths of blue sky. BORA imagines a different world through a lens of how possible airy textile, and thus building, can really be.
BORA ambitiously subverts the hard-exterior building in their own way. Their structure, in the end, takes a natural form with multiple entrances and openings, welcoming an ecosystem of people and environmental factors, becoming a community space.
The Good Mod was so lucky to take part in BORA's project by assisting in the fabrication and assembling of the structure. Special thank you to Marziah Rajabzadeh at BORA!
]]>The ubiquitous plastic chair is recognized globally. Do we have a collective memory of them? Groups in overgrown gardens, indoor event spaces, humid places or around a dinner table- most have deep associations with them. They sink into flowers overtime or are taken from spaces as fleetingly as they arrived.
After we brought a group of them into the shop recently, we were prompted to investigate their origins.
Photo Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum
Mid-century: new and evolving plastic technologies allowed for chairs to be sculpted in one mechanical motion. So, the plastic chair really represented the idea of iteration- one million movements would equal one million chairs. A French engineer, Henry Massonnet, was the first to use this technology to design this "million" product, naming his creation the Fauteuil 300.
Henry Massonnet Chairs at The Good Mod
The Fauteuil 300, literally, means a wooden and upholstered open armed chair. Henry Massonnet's version, however, was an innovative plastic counterpart that we have come to know so well today.
The design of plastic chairs is highly functional. They are storable, moveable, weather retardant, and affordable. They are as ephemeral as a chair frame might be imagined.
Magis Cricket Chair at The Good Mod
We are as used to seeing plastic as we are a candy wrapper, both representing familiar notes of mass consumer production. This streamlined and affordable product, thus, becomes egalitarian. As far as affordable solutions go, the plastic chair now comes in a variety of designs and levels of accessibility. Take a moment to consider the high/low attitudes of the plastic chair, floating in its own self-curated dimension of function and idea, politicized as it is physically present.
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