Get Him What He's Always Wanted

Last Minute Gift Ideas and Stocking Stuffers for Him. Please visit our site for more Ideas . Happy Holiday's! see more photos here

New hand picked inventory!

The visionary in The Good Mod triumvirate will be returning tomorrow with a truck full of hand picked delights from across the states!

The Public Isolation Project

A friend of the Good Mod's, Cristin Norine, "will spend one month living within the confines of the bSIDE6 Gallery—in total view from the gallery’s windows. Her isolation will be alleviated solely by digital interactions with the outside world. Viewers of the piece will reflect on their own expanded accessibility that technology has brought them."





Learn more about and follow along with this interesting project on their website: http://www.publicisolationproject.com

"Cristin Norine exhibits: The Future of Socializing

Technologies like social media and smart phones make it easier to correspond with others more frequently, but could these forms of communication replace analog interactions completely? Cristin’s communication restrictions will allow her to explore this idea and determine how it affects her physically and emotionally. "

Grand Opening Open House - Saturday, Oct. 23, 6:00-8:00PM

You are invited to our GRAND OPENING Saturday October 23, 2010 11:00am-8:00pm. Free food and drinks provided from 6:00pm-8:00pm

We are proud to announce our new mid century and industrial modern warehouse! Your source for incredible vintage, industrial, mid century modern, and interesting design furniture and decor.

4701 SE 24th Ave.
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 317-7009

Find detailed directions HERE

Mention this post and save 10% store wide!

New and Extended Hours

Be sure to check out our contact page to find directions and look for our new extended hours.

How Not to Reupholster Classic Furniture

Oh no he didn't. We just picked up this sofa compact from a guy who had put there own "funky touch" on a iconic piece of furniture from one of the greatest 20th century designers . Bad move. Faux leopard skin? I don't think so. That stuff is coming off and being donated to one of the many funky shops in town.

Our theory is: when reupholstering any of this mid century modern or clean, minimal designed furniture, stick with something solid or at least not distracting from the form of the piece. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no faux leopard skin EVER!

We will be recovering this gem soon. Any ideas for materials, textures or colors?
We always want to hear your feedback. Please leave comments!

Also, as always, this piece is for sale and can be customized with the fabric you want. And as always, we are here to help. We have a in-house upholster and on-site design consulting to assist. Come see us!

The "ART" of Making Wicker - Beautiful!

Writers Wanted!

Do you have a favorite designer or manufacture that you enjoy talking about? Do you enjoy writing?

We are looking to expand our content on thegoodmod.com to include information about unique and hard to find designers and manufactures. In order to make this happen we need a few fans to put together some bios and information on various designers, manufactures, or furniture companies.

We are looking to go beyond Eames or Herman Miller, think:

Designers:

Sergio Rodrigues, Percival Benjaman Lafer, C. Jere,
Hans Olsen, Joe Colombo, Kipp stewart, John Keal,
John Kapel, Yngve Ekstrem, Jean Prove, Finn juhl,
Hans wegner, Richard Schultz, Edward Wormley, etc.

Manufactures:

Morreddi, Drexel, Bruksbo, Widdicomb, Brown Saltman,
Svend and Madsen, Laurel Lamp Co., Toledo Industrial Stools,
Knoll, Baker, Dunbar, etc.


It return you will be published on our site AND you might even qualify for additional discounts at our store.

If you are interested in writing please send us and email at thegoodmod@gmail.com for approval and guidelines.

Thank You,
The Good Mod Team

How To Make Your Own Beeswax Furniture Polish

At The Good Mod we love to find a piece of mid century modern or industrial style furniture in original conditions, but in reality many items need reworking and refinishing. We take great pride in our build and refinishing projects and if you have been to our warehouse you probably noticed our workshop and DIY room. We really appreciate a fun DIY project so just our luck to stumble upon a great tutorial explaining how Amber Dusick makes her own beeswax polish.

It is simple project where all you need is a cheese grader, oil, and beeswax. Click here to read Amber's full instructions:

How to Make Beeswax Wood Polish (woodmouse recipe)

Stop Motion Fun with Austin Enterpises Chess Set

This is a recreation of a epic battle between 13 year old Bobby Fisher vs Donald Byrne in 1956. Some have called it "the battle of the century". Used here is a Austin Enterprises Aluminum Chess set dated 1962.

Our Furniture in Fall 2010 Pendleton Catalog

Apartment Therapy Feature

We are happy to announce that we got a pretty darn nice write-up on Apartment Therapy!!!
Check it HERE!


Also they have a great feature on Portland in their "Green City Guide"! We are honored to be a part of it.

Check that HERE!

Part-Time Employment Opportunity

The Good Mod is currently looking for a part-time (as needed) employee at our SE Holgate & 24th Ave location. We are looking for an energetic self-starter that is comfortable selling various products to diverse types of people.

We need a retail sales person who is available to work weekends and possibly a few hours during the week. We would like to hire someone who is as passionate about the mid century and industrial style as we are, someone with a basic knowledge of designers and manufactures. Retail and sales experience is a plus, but we are willing to train the right person.

MUST be available on weekend and have some flexibility during the week to help out when needed.

This position will be on an as needed basis that has the potential to grow into more hours.

If you are interested, please send us an email telling us a little bit about yourself. thegoodmod@gmail.com

If Only Detroit Had More Eeros...

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was a Finnish born architect who spent most of his life in the Detroit, MI area. He is famous for varying his style according to the demands of the projects. Saarinen brought together many types of disciplines to create new architecture and furniture with the notion of bringing all the different parts together to create one beautiful thing.

He helped to define 20th century post war architecture creating both very simple/elegant (Orthodox Modern Architecture), as well as super expressive and sensual designs. He was constantly reinventing and inventing, while asking the tough questions like "Why does a chair need to have all those legs?" (Tulip Chair)

There is a lot of information and videos on Eero, but here is a short video for you.

New Blog

For those of you who do not know yet - we have a redesigned website.

On our new website we have a new blog incorporated. From now on we will be posting our new posts there, and when we remember will will still also post here on blogger.

We also hope to be sending out monthly (or so) newsletters about changes, updates, sales, and just things we are plain excited about, so be sure to sign up for our 'Mailing List' if you are interested.

Thanks for your support and feedback through all our changes.

-The Good Mod Team

Updated Website

We are excited to announce our new website! We have drastically updated the look and feel of the site and are currently working hard to upload our inventory. Keep checking it in the next few days and watch for changes and new inventory.

Please let us know what you think!

http://www.thegoodmod.com

A little project we have been working on. Enjoy!

The Good Mod (stop motion) from spencer staley on Vimeo.

Here is a little write up we got in the Sellwood Bee

(about 1/3 way down the page)

Updated Photos

I hope everyone had a great Easter.

We have been busy the past couple weeks, working on expanding and remodeling. It has been an ongoing project that should improve everyones experience at The Good Mod - both online and in the warehouse.

We have been receiving some great feedback from everyone. One recommendation we received was to improve our Flickr as it can be overwhelming to sift through. So we have cut out over half the images - there are still a LOT of photos, but we hope that this has simplified things.

We are also working on improving our image quality - fewer images with better quality.

Please keep the feedback rolling in! One thing we really want to do is revamp our website, so if you know someone that has experience building retail websites let me know. Feel free to email me at thegoodmod@gmail.com Thanks!!!

Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames

New Life for the Noble Tree

Check out this interesting video about an auction about to be held by Sotheby's in New York:

New Life for the Noble Tree: The Dr. Arthur and Evelyn Krosnick Collection of Masterworks by George Nakashima

The video showcases some of George Nakashima's greatest work for the Krosnick family, including the beautiful "Arlyn Table."

George Nakashima was an Japanese American woodworker, architect and furniture designer born right here in the NW, in Spokane, WA. Nakashima was one of the leading innovators of 20th Century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement.

It is very easy to become inspired by the natural beauty and simplicity of Nakashima's work. We, at The Good Mod, have so many beautiful burl wood pieces in our warehouse and shop. Some already built into tables, while others are waiting for you custom flare in our DIY room.

Chair Stacks

These chairs came from U of P. They were used in 35+ years of graduations consultations congregations and other organized groupings of people in rows. I love these for cheap functional stack-able inter-lockable seating. Sure, they are no knockout drops designs but for $40 each or a package deal they are hard to beat! We had 80 of them but we sold 3 sets of 4 this weekend. Available in 4 flavors.

D.I.Y. Room

We are very excited about our new "do it yourself room", or should we say, design it yourself room. We have gathered lots of fun, strange, interesting, and useful elements that could, would, should make a great ______.?. We of course will put it together for you. We are also making and creating lots of stuff over here and you should come peep it out!

Happy New Year

It has been a busy couple of weeks here and we are just starting to catch back up. I hope everyone had a great holiday season and that you were able to find that great mid-century piece you have been looking for. Our inventory is constantly changing and we are excited with what we have in the warehouse - remember we are open Saturdays and by appointments.

I thought I would share this SUPER unique mid-century glass top table. This table has a really cool design with a glass top that exposes an angled book/magazine shelf below.

In amazing condition!

Dimensions: 60" L x 24.5" W x 16.5" H