Vintage Style for Modern Living
Still looking for that special and unique gift?
The Purple Moon is extending hours of operation between now and Christmas and is chock full of fabulous gifts items!
Saturday – 12/20 – 10am to 6pm
Sunday – 12/21 – 1pm to 5pm
Monday – 12/22 – 11am t0 6pm
Tuesday – 12/23 – 11am to 6pm
Wednesday – 12/24 – 9am to 3pm
We hope you’ll pay us and the other locally owned and operated businesses in downtown Charleston a visit.
Porcelain Vases by Kaiser, Heinrich and Kaiser (from left to right) – W. Germany – circa 1960’s
These stunning porcelain vases are fabulous alone but look even better is small groupings. Produced by the masters of porcelain in the Bavarian region of West Germany in the 1960’s these bisque porcelain vases are typically hard-to-find in the United States.
The ones shown here are excellent examples of the Op Art and organic styles these vases are normally found in. The one on the left by Kaiser measures 12 inches tall and features a glorious bursting sun Op Art design. The center piece by Heinrich has a cabbage leave pattern and the one on the right, designed by one of the leading mid-century porcelain artists, M. Frey, for Kaiser has a spectacular cratered moon surface. All of these vases are glazed only on the inside to hold water while still retaining the outside bisque finish.
These vases usually run anywhere from $60 – $150 dollars with some designs going as high as $250. They are difficult to find in the United States however you sometimes can run across them at vintage shops and online. Most found online are being sold from Germany so shipping can be high and slow. The three shown here are currently available in our gallery.
These make wonderful gifts and you can pretty much rest assured the recipient won’t get another one like it.
What a crazy couple of weeks it has been. Since my last post seems like the train jumped the tracks and I’m now working to get back on schedule.
I could blame it on turning 50 last week, or on the horrible infection I got that required massive amounts of antibiotics, or more simply on the fact it is the Holiday season and my routine has been broken. I am a creature of habit and getting out of my normal routine generally puts me behind.
Beginning today and over the next two weeks watch for the annual Just A Modern Guy’s Holiday Gift Guide here – each day at least one great gift idea for the person on your list who loves vintage modern design, art or just really cool and unique things. I’ve also run across some really great vintage mid-century modern furniture lately and will be posting some about those as well.
Mainly, I’ll be just getting back on track.