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!