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A Visit to DC’s Hunted House

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I had the great pleasure of visiting our nation’s capital last week smack dab in the middle of the Fourth of July activities. While checking out the White House and the National Mall was fun (and insanely sweaty during that heatwave), my visit to resale shop Hunted House stood out as the trip’s highlight.

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How could I not stop in? Mid-century furnishings strung together with security wire on the sidewalk will always catch one’s attention.  Up one flight of stairs and I was smack dab in the middle of vintage heaven.

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Lil-Century Modern: Contemporary Furniture Classics for Children

I love other people’s children. But I’d love them even more if they were snuggling atop an tiny Eames lounge or enjoying a coloring book in a Saarinen womb chair.

Turns out, I can get my wish. Little Nest is an Australian company that makes tyke-sized modern kids furniture. Even more adorably, they give each model a kiddish twist on the name: so the Swan chair becomes the Cygnet, the Egg Chair the Yolk, and the Bertoia wire chair the Little Bert.

There are lots of understandable debates in the mid-century communities about originals vs. knockoffs, respecting artist works vs. their extremely high prices, etc. But these things are so adorable, you’d think Charles and Ray and Eerio and Arne might just be okay with it.

[See them all at Little Nest]