“You don’t have to call me sir.”  “No, I don’t have to… I forgot your name.”

(For those who don’t know, the late Peter Gzowski was Canada’s most beloved CBC TV and radio interviewer.

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Proof that the 70s and 80s meet in 1977. In the Hollywood film Bobby Deerfield, Al Pacino plays a troubled race-car driver who leaves his girlfriend, a weaving artist, for  a dying European jetsetter whom I found annoyingly shallow, juvenile and capricious.

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These are a mix of glass and lucite, past and present. The bottom 3 pieces are from the 70s and all of the pieces at top are contemporary. Transparency puts furniture into the realm of the future or the imaginary, even when it also automatically harks back to the 1970s.

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The big glasses everyone’s been wearing for five years? Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers, 1975. More here.

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