Friday Obsession- Vintage Champagne Glasses

I have to admit, I never really need a special occasion to break out a bottle of champagne. Like using good china for a weeknight meal, I think champagne should be enjoyed whenever the mood strikes...

That being said, drinking champagne out of a nice glass is essential. I have been more than a little obsessed with finding vintage champagne glasses. I love the wide brim and the classic, refined look of these glasses. They're perfect for summer entertaining. Here are a few of my favs...

(Photos: Octavia & Brown, Shorely Chic, EthanOllie, Rustbelt Threads, AttysVintage, Diantiques, Octavia & Brown. All shops are on Etsy.com)

Friday Obsession- 1920s Vintage Typography

Lat weekend, I went to see a great design exhibit at the MoMA. The exhibit featured graphic, colorful ads of Czech, Russian, German and Dutch designers from the 1920s and 1930s.

During the so-called New Typography movement in the 1920s and 1930s modernist designers, "rejected traditional arrangement of type in symmetrical columns, [and instead]  organized the printed page or poster as a blank field in which blocks of type and illustration (frequently photomontage) could be arranged in harmonious, strikingly asymmetrical compositions."

 I would love to get my hands on a print for my apartment...

The exhibit runs through July 26, 2010 at the MoMA