Vitra products at gabrielross.com will be on sale November 11-17! This vendor authorized sale will feature a 15% discount on our favorite Vitra products such as the Panton chair, Nelson wall clocks, the Eames House Bird (also one of our Christmas gift ideas, and currently in stock), Frank Gehry’s famous Wiggle chair, the Bouroullecs’ plastic modular Algue, Hella Jongerius’ Polder sofa, Jean Prouve’s Standard chair, and much much more …

Panton Chair, Verner Panton 1999

George Nelson Wall Clocks, 1950's

Eames House Bird

Wiggle Chair, Frank Gehry 1972, Algue, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec 2004

Polder Sofa, Hella Jongerius 2005

Standard Chair (1934) and Gueridon Table (1944), Jean Prouvé

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Vitra Miniatures Studio 65 Bocca Chair, 1970

A neighbour in my apartment building has two fake stuffed crows in his window that curiously peer out at me while I fill up my watering can.  At first glance, they were a bit scary … but after meeting their gaze a few times, I’ve grown to like them … a lot.  Crows get a bit of a bad wrap in our culture – like when you refer to a group of several crows, it’s called MURDER. 

That’s harsh. 

MURDER

Also, they eat garbage and that’s no good for their rep.  The other day outside of Zellers I noticed a MURDER of crows trying to bust into an entire bag of bagels with a series of teeny tiny punctures inflicted by their pointy beaks.  It seemed as though they had been working tirelessly at this for hours, so naturally I sympathized.  I bravely approached the MURDER to rip open the bag and free the yummy circles of doughy goodness and all traces of bagel disappeared within seconds. 

It was amazing.

 

Anyhoo… Apparently Charles and Ray Eames also had an affinity for the black bird (maybe not crow specific).  On one of their many travels they picked up an American folk art object … a black wooden bird and brought it home to live in the centre of their living room. 

Vitra has re-produced the Eames’ beloved pet as a beautiful smooth black bird with the very same skinny stick legs and round eye balls.  It’s elegant and endearing and makes a nice alternative to a feathered friend of the live variety.  Against a back-drop it becomes a graphic image and on the carpet in the middle of room it’s just sweet and loveable.

 

Eames house bird

MURDER of house birds