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The Jawa motorbike factory
On our travels in the former Eastern Bloc we see some incredible industrial buildings in various states of disrepair. The legendary Jawa motorbike factory once employed a whole town but has now reduced to a work force of just 150, operating out of a small building at one end of the massive crumbling factory complex. An air of faded Communist glory hangs over the place. Very little remains internally, but we were excited to find some of these plan chests in a small room on the top floor, each bearing the Jawa logo
Vintage is our area of expertise but historians we are not! Nonetheless, when it comes to glass we do feel it’s important to celebrate this incredible material, to consider how long it has been in existence even in its crudest of forms, not to mention it’s supreme versatility; and to do this, we must look …
Have you ever walked into a restaurant and experienced a lovely warm feeling, something in the atmosphere and yet you can’t quite define what makes it so special? There’s no doubt in that initial moment you experienced a pretty strong sensory assault – a heady combination of smells and sounds, but of course what you …
“Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials”. Frank Lloyd Wright We often get calls from people saying they have vintage industrial lighting they’re looking to sell and would we be interested, but these calls rarely result in an actual buy for us – it has to be …
The Jawa motorbike factory
On our travels in the former Eastern Bloc we see some incredible industrial buildings in various states of disrepair. The legendary Jawa motorbike factory once employed a whole town but has now reduced to a work force of just 150, operating out of a small building at one end of the massive crumbling factory complex. An air of faded Communist glory hangs over the place. Very little remains internally, but we were excited to find some of these plan chests in a small room on the top floor, each bearing the Jawa logo
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