For whatever reason, we often find that there’s often a “theme” to our thrift finds. We’re not sure if it’s subconscious or not, but it seems to happen quite often!

In any case, here are a few more of the thrifted items that we’ve come across lately. The theme here seems to be yellow and white glassware, though we did pick up one or two other things that didn’t fit with this photo. So I guess we’re cheating a bit. =) We’ll save them for another post.

First up are the sunny yellow, plastic lidded Heller Designs glass canisters in the back. We have to admit that we’re still unsure whether or not Massimo Vignelli was involved with their design (Ebay sellers seem to think so, but they’ve been known to spread incorrect information before, so we’re on the fence about it). The plastic seems to be softer than on Vignelli’s Heller Max items we’ve come across. In any case, they’re wonderful canisters for use or decoration.

To the right of those is a nice sunny yellow #502 Pyrex refrigerator dish from the “Citrus” set. This one has a chipped lid, so I think we might keep it. Plus, we already have the larger orange #503 refrigerator dish and one lemon yellow #501 refrigerator dish from the set so we thought we’d try complete the set.

The five goldleaf fruit glasses next to the refrigerator dish look a whole lot like they might be Georges Briard, but they’re actually Culver glass. We believe they were part of a cup / pitcher set. Maybe you have the pitcher? =)

Our favorite item from this batch was the squiggly Alvar Aalto “Savoy” vase which was actually made back in the 1930s. While this amazing, wavy vase is still being made today by Iittala, it’s still rather collectible and we’ve been searching for one at thrift stores for ages. Could not believe it was still there when we came across it!

Lastly we found 4 elegant Rosenthal Continental China teacups designed by Raymond Loewy. Loewy is probably one of the most famous designers that you’ve never heard of – he’s known as the Father of Industrial Design. He designed the U.S. Postal Service emblem, the Greyhound bus logo, the Shell logo, the Lucky Strike packaging, the skinny Coke bottle, the Exxon Logo, the Studebaker Avanti, the GG-1 electric locomotive … the list is just too amazing.

OK, hope that you enjoyed this thrifting roundup. We’ve got a couple more to go before the new year. On that note, we’re probably going to be closing the main shop over the holidays starting the middle of this month. Our Etsy shop will remain open – however, we won’t be shipping any items that are purchased until the new year.