EBAY FINDS: October 11

 

 THIERRY MUGLER DESK. circa late 1980s

 'FROZEN SPHERES' by FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (T-Shirt)

 POSTMODERN SALT & PEPPER SET by DAVID TISDALE circa 1988

 

 'MISS DORM' ARMCHAIRS by PHILIPPE STARCK circa 1982

MODERNIST CUP & SAUCER by SUSIE COOPER circa 1932

JOAN CRAWFORD by HARRIS. Oil on canvas. Mid Century. 

 

SUNGLASSES. France, Mid-Century.

SCISSORS (1990)

I just saw a Sharon Stone movie called Scissors. I love Sharon and it's its cool(ish) movie and all - basically a possibly schizophrenic Stone is caught between a rock (her hunky neighbour and his pervy twin), a hard place (her pervy, maybe, shrink), and a really hard place (repressed childhood memories of a pervy man with a thing for ginger chin-beards, glove puppets and er, little girls), but design-wise there's not much going on. 

Initially the most interesting thing appears to be the production company's cryptic-yet-denotes-power Gold Pyramid & Tiger(?) logo:

The logo actually hints at the design later to come, when Stone is lured to a mysteriously abandoned apartment:

The apartment is decked out in a Post-Modern style, but is a lot more muted than the brighter tones seen earlier in the 80s. The terracotta/gold/peach, white & blue colours, alongside quirky features like tables moulded to resemble material-covered Roman columns, lend a slight Mediterranean feel (they also had Wi-Fi in 1990... who knew!)

Stuck for days, she attempts to escape but the gold Egyptian-style doors are locked...

...all the Post-Modern furniture is bolted down...

...and the Deco-style phone is dead!

Nothing in the Deco-style bathroom either:

 ...and when the weird lighting system kicks in...

...the Modernist Mobile/Sculpture is no help.

 It all freaks her out and she crashes out on the 1930s Constructivist floor.

 Then a load of shit goes down involving the ginger chin-beard dude, a talking raven and Stone doing an 'is she/isn't she insane' routine. Check the picture below and maybe you can decide, either way I think the door's cool.