Future Vintage

This thought provoking piece, aged to perfection, about how a couple of 21st centurty gadgets from two iconic US brands become 'vintaged'. Although we are used to the worn aesthetics of everything from natural dyes to plastics and how their colors fade and their surfaces erode - we have yet to appreaciate what might happen to current materials - in this case worn silver paint revealing black injection molded plastic.

American Rustic

There's a cool article with slideshow in the NYTimes about early 20th Century design that articulates well what is an aesthetic focal point right now for American Vintage.

a simpler, more rustic and American-inflected style that is more general store than taxidermy-appointed lodge, and that emphasizes objects that are well-made, durable and useful: wire storage baskets, machine-age metal tools, leather couches, canvas bags, colorful woolen blankets and interiors made of barn wood.