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Vintage Design Inspiration – Snapshots from an Antique Store

Chris Collins — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:53:02 +0000

Music (play this for extra inspiration)

Old Book

Einstein got all the credit. We worked together and now my books are rotting in an antique store. We’re both dead, yet he will live forever. It’s nonsense.

Color Scheme

#544145
#cbceb9
#9baf94
#cdc199

Farberware

This broiler burned a man. For that it was condemned to a life of obsolescence. It aches for love.

Color Scheme

#171635
#e4ecbb
#7c2337
#384349

Jane

Jane was a kind girl. A thinker. She had brilliant ideas, but was never allowed to speak among a world of sexist men. Now she is dead.

Color Scheme

#43222d
#921a26
#ece3b8
#cebb6c

Dishes

Likely brought light to someone’s life. Now they sit in darkness, waiting for you to look at them. Waiting for someone to look at them.

Color Scheme

#766b7b
#bbaa74
#aa5a65
#c8cabc

Cups

For drinking out of (or looking pretty on a shelf).

Color Scheme

#b83024
#555384
#6da07f
#f4fee3

Leather Strap

…on a desk. He didn’t beat his children if that’s what you were thinking.

Color Scheme

#230622
#6d5d4e
#e6cfa3
#85634a

National Bank

Sometimes it’s okay to round the numbers. Nobody ever notices a couple of cents here or there.

Color Scheme

#3e3232
#865a3d
#d0a769
#eee5d6

Clock

Hey! It’s 4-sideways-o’clock thirty!

Color Scheme

#3d313d
#b07148
#9f925b
#d3d0ad

James

More beautiful on the inside, not that you’d notice…

Color Scheme

#644952
#f0ecc7
#a0ba97
#871f40

Hillside Dairy

Bullshit! There’s rice in there!

Color Scheme

#794339
#b2a459
#cdd8ca
#a3161f

Boric Acid

The American Druggists Syndicate sounds like the best thing that ever existed, right?

Color Scheme

#1b227d
#c8171f
#c7cbba
#b6ae5d

Pure Ground Ginger

A sprinkle of this mixed with with a sprinkle of arsenic, and my dashing husband goes right to sleep.

Color Scheme

#195c52
#ca161f
#ccd0c1
#cebc1c

Scrabble

Betty Draper’s first modeling job.

Color Scheme

#c4201e
#d89b1e
#e5d486
#d3f2b7

Rusty Gear

Your next band name: Rusted Doilies

Color Scheme

#616163
#f7e9c4
#c79c57
#cc602f

Old Box

Never been opened.

Color Scheme

#3e3e60
#acd7bb
#dd8790
#f0ecd3

Painting on Chairs

Priceless art is forgotten while sweaty humans grab at quarters and dimes.

Color Scheme

#53484c
#b7ae61
#d8e5ba
#f9f0b9

Lion and Lamb

Whenever the dark thoughts come back into my life, I always can turn to my chastity.

Color Scheme

#4d2c35
#edd58f
#a7c7ee
#b66f69

A Terrible Picture of a Bowl

It tries to shine as bright as it can.

Color Scheme

#030201
#95735d
#332f3d
#efe4ce

Tangled Yarn

Or is it string? !!!!

Color Scheme

#4d66ac
#d74c1f
#ffed52
#b4c97e

Iona Cocoa

(not delicious)

Color Scheme

#503e4c
#8a9a8e
#f6d56a
#fef5d3s

Special thanks to Instagram for the great photography filters and the Trading Post in Amherst, MA.

Which color scheme is your favorite?

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