My vintage typewriter collection has outgrown my home’s desks, bookshelves, and even stacked vintage suitcase “tables.” While some will eventually find their way to other homes, I still need to find a way to showcase my beautiful collection without starting to use my dining table and kitchen counter as displays!
How about literally writing on the wall? With brackets, typewriters become beautiful wall art, yet still retain their functionality for short bursts of upside-down typing, and I especially enjoying viewing them from a different perspective.
magicfly adds splendid “color to the corridor” with this collection of cheerful typewriters. It looks like 1D paintings now have some competition!
How can you display your typewriter collection if you have more than a dozen of these treasures? If you are a writer, you should showcase them in your bedroom, which will certainly bring the power of typewriter osmosis to your dreams, as seen on HGTV.
Talk about a new perspective! Before seeing them on a wall, did you ever know about all the facial expressions typewriters could exude? Highlux did and captured this fantastic typewriter display on a wall at the Lyttelton Coffee Company.
Spotted by Kazi Noor at Anthropologie, even one typewriter displayed on the wall creates a charming and whimsical (written) conversation piece.
What do you think of displaying typewriters on the wall? Where do you keep your typewriter(s)?
21 responses so far ↓
1 carol // Feb 3, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Talk about thinking outside the box! I like the first picture the best… the more modern, colorful ones x3 on the wall. The older ones I like the single one more as a vignette… they look so heavy I find more than one too much! I could also see an old one on a sleek pedestal with a spotlight on it, like a sculpture. I think that would look cool…
2 Cherry@NewburghRestoration // Feb 3, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Yeah I think I saw one of those rooms on Small Space Big Style
3 please sir // Feb 3, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I LOVE this idea! My grandmother gave me an old typewriter that I can’t wait to display.
4 Krissy // Feb 3, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I just want one vintage typewriter to display, but multiple!!? lovely
5 Suzanne // Feb 3, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Grace! This is fabulous! I love the typewriter faces ~ that should be a greeting card. What a great way to say, “Stay in Touch.”
Ciao bella.
6 gracieK // Feb 4, 2009 at 1:06 am
wow ! What a wonderful and inspiring post. I just have my typewriter out so visitors can type on it when they come to our home,
7 Grace // Feb 4, 2009 at 4:13 am
Thank you all for sharing your great ideas!
Carol, the sculpture on a pedestal sound beautiful, quite a fitting place for the mighty typewriter.
Suzanne, you are totally right about that photo making the perfect greeting card! I wish I had a collection of typewriter faces!
8 Margie Oomen // Feb 4, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Great idea but I would want it to be easily removable so that it could actually be used as well. Any ideas on how to do this and still have it securely fastened. Also I am not sure I would want to have them on my wall if I lived near the fault line of California
9 Rachel // Feb 4, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I will forever be searching for the face in old typewriters now! i love how they look on the wall!
10 Lauren K // Feb 4, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I absolutely adore this idea. I only have one vintage typewriter. It was a gift (the coolest I’ve ever received) and it sits on display on my night stand! You have such a lovely blog!
11 Anne @ The City Sage // Feb 4, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Grace, I could listen to you wax poetic about typewriters all day long! I love how much you love them—it makes me love them too!
12 Jessica@thehomebound // Feb 6, 2009 at 8:54 pm
It’s like some vintage typewriter alternate universe.
13 Barry A. Smith // Feb 7, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Another fantastic share. Thanks Grace.
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17 Signet // Oct 6, 2009 at 12:07 am
AWESOME. I would worry that they would fall.
However, since I have 27 of them on the dining room floor, and my mother has already STEPPED ON AND BROKEN my Royal Quiet-Deluxe (EUROPEAN keys no less. Brand new. my BABY.) Anyways, nice solution!
18 james@wooden blinds // Jan 18, 2010 at 9:24 am
Great photos, someone’s been writing a lot of letters.
19 tex@bps // Jan 30, 2010 at 1:25 pm
What an amazing idea!
20 Ged // Feb 2, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Any one know how these were wall mounted ?
hooks & wire ?
21 Tim Mundorff // Mar 10, 2010 at 7:56 pm
I just started collecting in December. Have 11 machines.
All I can say is I know what I am doing this weekend. Fantastic idea.
Love this blog so much I think I’m gonna cry.
T
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