Syd?s auction, name your favorite item
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- Blade
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Wow! Did I ever enjoy seeing all of the items in Syd's auction. What I adore the most is the basic simplicity of his furniture pieces.
Some of my favourites...
The bread box...
...was incredible - it's rough silence screamed such a wonderful statement - I am a bread box, nothing more. I am a place to store bread, that is all, and that I do. It doesn't matter that I am not fancy. I assume he used the clothespins to clip the bread bags shut. I love it.
His garden bench...
...moved me. I imagined what it was like to sit on it. It was very peaceful and comfortable. A wonderful place to reflect on the garden he enjoyed planting so much.
His notebooks...
...would be the items I would have bid on. I want to read his random scribblings more than anything. It looks like he was working on a history book.
Someone mentioned his teddy bear earlier in the post.
I didn't see any teddy bear...?
It sounds like it would have been a wonderful item, though.
His wheelbarrow...
....should be in a musem as a great piece.
The wear and tear on it is wonderful.
It is gorgeous to look at and I would love to see it on display.
His little shelving unit where he took out the top shelf to fit taller things...
...I like that piece of furniture a lot.
I think the pillow case sold for far too much.
And I don't understand why his orginal blue bike sold for less than his new red one. I think the blue one is beautiful and isn't that the one he is riding in some of those later photos of him?
Some of my favourites...
The bread box...
...was incredible - it's rough silence screamed such a wonderful statement - I am a bread box, nothing more. I am a place to store bread, that is all, and that I do. It doesn't matter that I am not fancy. I assume he used the clothespins to clip the bread bags shut. I love it.
His garden bench...
...moved me. I imagined what it was like to sit on it. It was very peaceful and comfortable. A wonderful place to reflect on the garden he enjoyed planting so much.
His notebooks...
...would be the items I would have bid on. I want to read his random scribblings more than anything. It looks like he was working on a history book.
Someone mentioned his teddy bear earlier in the post.
I didn't see any teddy bear...?
It sounds like it would have been a wonderful item, though.
His wheelbarrow...
....should be in a musem as a great piece.
The wear and tear on it is wonderful.
It is gorgeous to look at and I would love to see it on display.
His little shelving unit where he took out the top shelf to fit taller things...
...I like that piece of furniture a lot.
I think the pillow case sold for far too much.
And I don't understand why his orginal blue bike sold for less than his new red one. I think the blue one is beautiful and isn't that the one he is riding in some of those later photos of him?