FIRST OFF… IMPORTANT WORDS ON VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AND MADONNA
A very happy 30th birthday to TOP TIER kink-home coffee table accessory, Madonna’s iconic “SEX” book. So many for resale, as per, in so many languages. Bonus points for “SEX” with the orig mylar cover. BOOKS ARE GODS.
And, R.I.P. to the exceptional clothing provocateur (and accused tax evader?) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD. Who, it must be noted here, also had famous “SEX” - in her case, it was a shop in London (also called several other things). AND ushered fetishwear into the mainstream via her styling of the SEX Pistols. (There’s that word again, folks!)
PLEASE GOD, IF YOU ENJOY ANYTHING ON THIS SUBSTACK EVER, PLEASE TELL YOUR PALS TO SUBSCRIBE. OR SHARE.
*As per, all based in LOS ANGELES + ONE FROM LONDON
THREE CHAIRS:
1. The MARCEL-BREUER-FOR-KNOLL B-33s sold by @dons_jonson aka FOR SCALE pal Jacob, of which he has/had SIX, aka a full table’s worth (in our books). Delightfully corsetted at the back, but also has that chrome FETISHY CORPCORE appeal.
2. And, here’s another chrome number, with its little black booties, and a kind of sinewy and ergo kind of MESHY-FLESHY seat and back – care of quickly-becoming-a-favorite-source, ROLEPLAY L.A.
These are late a ‘70s design by David Rowland, and they STACK because D.R. was OBSESSED WITH STACKING!!!! He is responsible for the 40/4 CHAIR which you will absolutely know – called such b/c forty stacked chairs only reach 4 feet hight which was a mega coup in the stacking world.
3. REPORT FROM LONDON: these are “across the pond” (say that in the most annoying way you can) but prob worth the shipping to wherever you are because they are TRADEMARK KINK, ultimate AESTHETIC PRISON ROLEPLAY, and are from the ever-so desirable TWENTY TENS. By Oskar Zieta - most famous for his PLOPP STOOL (WHAT A NAME!!!!)
1. Another banger from Roleplay L.A. and DELIA DEETZ COSPLAY PERFECTION, it’s a kind of zig-zaggy, Steampunk dungeon-esque console table. It should be noted that the console table is, like, THE MOST SUBURBAN category of table, which makes this kinky aberration even more newsworthy.
2. A more SUBDUED KINK, here we rely on the powers of transparency to transform traditional into something a little PEEK-A-BOO and kind of SECRETARY (2001) fantasy-in-glass.
It’s Italian, which we love; it’s post-modern, which we love IN DOSES; it’s sold by VINTAGE ON POINT.
3. And MORE TRANSPARENCY, this time a kind of FOOTSY-FOR-ALL-TO-SEE dining scenario but in a flattering **smoked glass**. This one was MADE IN CANADA - one of the world’s least outwardly-kinky countries, so we have to question, WHAT WAS THE INTENTION HERE? The result, to us, is very 80s NEW EXECUTIVE SEDUCTION.
1. OK, this is SOLD but we 'j’adore’ this little kind of peeping cutie of a task lamp that kind of gives us “HEY, CAN I JOIN YOU?” cyclops vibes. USE IT AS A GUIDE TO FIND OTHERS LIKE IT.
2. And, TOUCH. Touch is the BODY LANGUAGE of furniture – IKEA told me that! - and the hand chair phenomenon is surrealist-kink because you’re like SITTING in the grasp of inanimate-cy – human-as-object.
The OG hand is a ‘60s Mexican design, this one comes from a decade later. Sold by GOOD USED VINTAGE.