Store Stuff: New Roost/Old Art

Look at this! Some new (to us, at least) Roost glassware showed up at the store a couple of weeks ago, and I'm liking it VERY much; it's really thick, substantial, Mexican glass... at least it looks like glass I've seen from Mexico.

Aside from a small set of Dorothy Thorpe highballs that Sean bought on Ebay last year, our current glassware collection is a hodge-podge combination of rent-house survivors. I'm not one of those people who thinks everything has to be perfectly matched, but I think it would be nice for our glasses to be an intentional  collection, as apposed to a "this is everything that didn't break yet" collection. Those are the wine glasses up there, next to some Roost carafes with wooden sphere stoppers, and the martini and champagne glasses are below.

Stemware like this is usually so delicate and fragile-looking; I think that's why this girthy stuff appeals to me so much. It also looks like it might not break as easily and thinner glass, and---being the butter-fingered super-klutz that I am---I think that could work out well for me.

And here's something else I thought I'd show you for no good reason: this is an old painting of the Champs-Elysees that's been at the store for over 50 years, maybe longer (I know because I've seen it in archived photos from the sixties). I don't know who painted it, but it is by far my favorite piece of art in the store.

It had been in storage for a few weeks, but I hung it back up in the shoe salon early last month after some temporary artwork went away and left a perfectly-sized vacant space in the wall.

Also back on a shoe salon wall: "Suck It Pete". I'd brought this one back home, but we were at a bit of a loss after all of those other paintings went away, so I decided to hang him again for a spell.

The horse on the right is also mine, but he's been at Miss Jackson's for over a year now. I ripped him out of a painting instruction book that I bought at a flea market and put him in a black and gold frame.

The horses on the left are hanging on the wall in my office, because I'm going to build a horse for the windows next month, and I needed a bit of a map. He'll be made of wood, trash, and papier mache, then laquered in black. I'll post pictures of that as he's coming along.