Thursday, April 1, 2010

Flashback in Asheville

As our visit to Asheville winds down, we were driving around today looking at old homes in different neighborhoods. In West Asheville we visited a cool neighborhood bar, the Westville Pub, and also dropped in on some art studios and galleries. While driving on Haywood Road I stumbled onto a vintage shop I hadn't found when first planning some things to do on this trip.



Flashback Vintage Modern is a small shop with lots of atomic, mid century and danish style stuff. We quickly learned that the proprietor, Loraine, is not only from Northern Virginia but also lived for a time only a few miles from our current home in Annandale - the small-world law proves true once again! After a few minutes in the shop, I was wishing I had my truck. If I had, I would be bringing home a lot of stuff. As it is I had to settle for a great danish teak ottoman that should match up very well with a couple of Selig Z-chairs I haven't gotten around to writing about yet. Sorry for the tease.  I'll get shots of the chairs and post them with the ottoman after I get back to the Uncle Atom Ranch.

Here are some shots of the other things now at Flashback.  If you see a must have, shoot me a message and I can give you Loraine's contact information.


A great Heywood Wakefield piece







There were two of these danish end tables with ceramic tile accents




This was my favorite of several really great lamps in the store - and obviously it's a Loraine favorite too, since it's not for sale.  Loraine and I were guessing that since it hangs on the wall, it was probably meant to be used above a bed for reading.  She has a red bulb in it, which gives the white shade a pink tone in one photo.   Killer lamp!













More great lamp porn - sorry I didn't get photos of everything, there were several pole lamps and tension lamps that I forgot to shoot



This hutch is one of my favorites, and would be on the truck if I had the truck with me



Three of these Paul McCobb dining chairs (no idea what may have happened to a fourth to make a set) with nice original pink vinyl were priced at $95 each - they look very similar to the construction of my wrought-iron, wood-armed sofa, don't you think?  


I've never found any markings on the sofa, but now I suspect it may be a McCobb piece.  I'll have to learn more about that guy.




This great desk was another piece that was hard to walk away from






6 comments:

  1. The sconce lamps are so sweet, they are like jelly beans in an Easter Basket. The Hutch is killer! Its like a cross between the Jetsons and Madmen. I'm gawking at all the good stuffs!

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  2. Oh boy, I wish we had a store like that in our neck of the woods. On second thought, probably good for the pocketbook that we don't. Fun stuff for sure!

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  3. Yeah, I was kinda hoping there would be a store like this in Asheville, sure glad I found it.

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  4. The chairs and your sofa are not McCobb pieces, this is a very common error in attribution, unfortunately I have no idea who actually made them.

    Check out my blog at http://paulmccobb.blogspot.com for more info on Paul McCobb.

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  5. Thanks Jonathan, I was doing some ebay searching for McCobb and found one listing that talks about Clifford Pascoe. The backrest of the four chairs I saw at the antique mall in Asheville had hidden fasteners, but I didn't notice underneath what the structure looked like. The seat bottoms, as you can see in the photo I used, are not padded, so I would probably go out on a limb and call those McCobb chairs. Wish now I had bought them, but I have no room for more dining chairs right now. Nice blog you have, and thanks again for clearing up this misconception.

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  6. We have a new website and we will be selling world wide at www.flashbackasheville.com

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