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Collecting “junk” is hotter than ever, Now, with Big City Junk, the undisputed Queen of Junk explores exciting junking opportunities within city limits.
In chapters such as “Tie-Died and Gone to Heaven,” “Fifis on Fifth,” and “Storage House Rules,” Carter celebrates all the stuff that imaginatively challenged people deem to be junk but that can look like found treasure if given a good homelike yours. For everyone who can see the decorative possibilities of cast-off office supplies, hotel dishes, deco furniture, and city souvenirs, Carter offers advice on where to find the best items, what you should pay, how to think like an urban forager, and how to display your finds in true junk style.
For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.
In chapters such as “Tie-Died and Gone to Heaven,” “Fifis on Fifth,” and “Storage House Rules,” Carter celebrates all the stuff that imaginatively challenged people deem to be junk but that can look like found treasure if given a good homelike yours. For everyone who can see the decorative possibilities of cast-off office supplies, hotel dishes, deco furniture, and city souvenirs, Carter offers advice on where to find the best items, what you should pay, how to think like an urban forager, and how to display your finds in true junk style.
For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.
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Collecting “junk” is hotter than ever, Now, with Big City Junk, the undisputed Queen of Junk explores exciting junking opportunities within city limits.
In chapters such as “Tie-Died and Gone to Heaven,” “Fifis on Fifth,” and “Storage House Rules,” Carter celebrates all the stuff that imaginatively challenged people deem to be junk but that can look like found treasure if given a good homelike yours. For everyone who can see the decorative possibilities of cast-off office supplies, hotel dishes, deco furniture, and city souvenirs, Carter offers advice on where to find the best items, what you should pay, how to think like an urban forager, and how to display your finds in true junk style.
For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.
In chapters such as “Tie-Died and Gone to Heaven,” “Fifis on Fifth,” and “Storage House Rules,” Carter celebrates all the stuff that imaginatively challenged people deem to be junk but that can look like found treasure if given a good homelike yours. For everyone who can see the decorative possibilities of cast-off office supplies, hotel dishes, deco furniture, and city souvenirs, Carter offers advice on where to find the best items, what you should pay, how to think like an urban forager, and how to display your finds in true junk style.
For city dwellers and their visiting country cousins alike, Big City Junk proves that America’s urban streets can be fertile ground indeed for decorators and bargain hunters.
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大好きな愛読書です。もともと、ﾌﾘｰﾏｰｹｯﾄや骨董市へはよく行きますが、これが本場のアメリカンジャンクなのかと、いつも丁寧に読みます。特にお薦めは、ｐ２２８から始まるjunk guideで、ロスやニューヨークなど有名都市のジャンクショップやフリマの紹介がのっていて、地図やガイドブックを見ながら夢をふくらませています。。今年の１月には念願のサンフランシスコのalemany flea marketやcookinへいってきました。。そういう意味でもこの本は私の大切な教科書で、暮らしの中に、キラッと輝くこだわりのお気に入りを探す楽しみを教えてくれます。
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12 人中、11人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Not Your Typical Style Book
2003/2/7
形式:ハードカバー|Amazonが確認した購入
BIG CITY JUNK, which was probably in production on September 11, 2001 (it arrived in bookstores a couple of months later), carries a special resonance because of the events of that day. What would otherwise be a lark of a style book appealing to the collectibles crowd becomes a small shrine as well for a piece of the New York lifestyle and psyche. In the course of celebrating the cast aside and disposable, Mary Randolph Carter, the author and photographer caught a lasting, brave, prophetic comment about fear and city living rendered in the temporal medium of a sidewalk chalk message. But she is also onto something else that is so very much a part of the economy and ecology of the city: the cycle of "stuff" in a population intensive, small place. The sociological angle raises this volume in Carter's Junk series above the others.
This is not to say the book isn't fun. It is fun. And it is very fair: Carter gives very specific information about how much things cost (or don't) and where they were found. She provides lists of flea markets and thrift shops in the major metropolitan areas she covers. Her method is to focus on individual collectors in locales like New York, San Francisco and LA, profiling how they find their stuff and what they do with it.
Like a novelist who succeeds in creating a world and staying true to it, Carter has established a vision that makes junk matter. I need open, less cluttered surfaces in my own environment, but when I read the Junk series, I can certainly enjoy that collectible urge.
12 人中、11人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Fun with Trash!
2001/12/7
形式:ハードカバー
I love this book, and I will admit, I am the subject of one of the chapters in the book (Lost and Found). But I was a big fan of
Carter's books before I met her 2 years ago. I remember the excitement I felt when I saw "American Junk" for the first time.
A woman after my own heart! (I have been making art from junk for the last 6 years.) Thank you Carter (she prefers to be called that), for helping us to see so many fun ways to decorate inexpensively and recylce, reuse, and clean up the environment.
Carter writes in an inviting, cozy manner that makes you feel like an old friend. And I really enjoyed watching her photograph
for my chapter, no fussy rearranging of things, she captures the
images as she sees them and moves on. Packed full of inspiration!
Carter's books before I met her 2 years ago. I remember the excitement I felt when I saw "American Junk" for the first time.
A woman after my own heart! (I have been making art from junk for the last 6 years.) Thank you Carter (she prefers to be called that), for helping us to see so many fun ways to decorate inexpensively and recylce, reuse, and clean up the environment.
Carter writes in an inviting, cozy manner that makes you feel like an old friend. And I really enjoyed watching her photograph
for my chapter, no fussy rearranging of things, she captures the
images as she sees them and moves on. Packed full of inspiration!
5 人中、5人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Junker's Dream
2002/5/13
形式:ハードカバー
Mary Randolph Carter, aka "Carter", is Queen of all things Junk! Others may use that title, but Carter owns it. The fourth (!) book in her "American Junk" series, "Big City Junk", finds our heroine Carter trapsing through the junk yards, stores and flea-markets of more cosmopolitan outposts. As usual, Carter's unique gift is her ability to photograph junk in its "natural state", and giving the discarded, outdated and seemingly unimportant the artistic presence it deserves. Subconciously, every compulsive junker has always understood the "power of junk", and Carter's "Big City Junk" is a celebration of that understanding. Particularly poignent in "Big City Junk" are Carter's photographs of various paintings, sketches and souvenirs of New York and The World Trade Center. Odd and touching how a few photos of humble junk express that which cannot be said in a million words.
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