The other day I went to an auction and came home with this great little red bench. I liked the color, the shape of the legs, and the fact that the legs were metal, not wood. So someone had saved them from something else, probably a circa 1930 kitchen appliance; an ice box, one of those new fangled electric ones, or a range - "Now your cooking with gas!" I like home made, make-do, one of a kind pieces, and when I turned this one over, it had this important message written on the bottom - "MADE JUNE 15, 1961." The man who made it might forget exactly when he did it. Who made it? that goes without saying. Where? that goes without saying too. By 1961, someone was ready for a new kitchen appliance, and someone else was not quite ready to let go of the old one. And that guy, whoever he was, made this great little bench.
