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Best High-End Retro Housewares
Vikki
STAFF PICK: Searching for the perfect coffee table or lamp to complete your swinging pad? Vikki, a recent addition to the downtown shopping scene, specializes in high-end furniture and accessories from the '40s through '60s. The slick, narrow space gleams under gallery track lighting, with lots of shiny chrome, geometric shapes, and primary colors. Take a seat in one of a pair of 1960s Italian chairs, constructed with a network of intersecting, chrome-coated steel rods. They look as if they were made from shopping carts, and are just about as comfortable; but hot damn, they're spiffy! Another recent acquisition is a pair of first-edition Charles Eames wood chairs, the envy of any self-respecting modern architecture student. A hard, orange, plastic rocking chair is actually a "nursing chair" made by the Herman Miller Company in the late 1940s--specifically designed for the company's female employees, and then later offered to the public because of its immense popularity. You have to see these crazy forms and shiny baubles to believe them.
Sheflin has 20 years of experience dealing in wholesale furniture
and decorative arts. He named his store after the singer Vikki
Carr, because he "just loves her." He's based
in Phoenix and picks up a lot of his inventory there, as well
as in Los Angeles, and even offers a finder's service if you know
what you want but can't find it.
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