Sandwiches

Attentive DoubleButter watchers, of which we suspect there are a very small handful, will recognize the name from a "Design Graveyard" post some time back: Sheepadillo. Part Sheep, part Armadillo, pure winner. Here's the first real-live, built, production-ready version. Sure, it's basically our SB2 sideboard with our production-style wood legs, but what the hell? It still feels new to us. The first of many: soon, a wardrobe, plus a version with a steel base, steel sliding doors and steel drawer faces. Fresh, all, to be sure. More images, plus an animated gif, after the jump; pricing and ordering soon in the shop section of the site.

Can something so fresh and new be called a classic? We think so, for sure. Five years old and still looking like the new day, this is the original Grasshopper lounge chair in brushed and blinged cold-rolled steel and an especially dapper brown cowhide. We sold a few in this style before settling on the powder-coated hot-rolled steel, but we gotta admit, this one's still our favorite. P Design (where this handsome beast made its debut) may be dead and gone but this original lives on, temporarily on loan to a friend who claimed to be in need. But fair warning, friend: as soon as this post comes down off our home page, we're coming to repo the chair. It's a prize and we want it back. Word on the production Grasshopper follows after the jump.

A last look through the fine eyes of Hansel Tillman. Cheers, lad, until next time.

So why didn't we hire Hansel Tillman? Clearly, from his portfolio and obvious skills in the shop, he's qualified. No doubt we'd have learned more from him than he would have from us. But seriously, the dude is hell bent on slaying imaginary foes. Republicans, immigrants, Mormons, lawyers, building inspectors—they're all out to get him and take what's rightfully his. You too, probably. We certainly felt that way after negotiating terms for his employment. He was so convinced that we were out to swindle him—out of what, we were never sure—that we were convinced he was out to swindle us. The fool who is tirelessly preparing for an imagined onslaught is the fool who'll shiv you when your back is turned, no doubt. Anyway, no hard feelings at the end of the day. A perfect companion for a pint at the pub, a hale fellow on the jobsight, a nightmare employee. Classic Tillman.

We've gone on about this before—the spec house we were planning to build out of them near Mile High (that'd be Invesco Field to you defenders of corporate naming rights), the two we've got in the yard, the stack we're scheming for our offices—and we're sure Hansel Tillman knew a bit of this given how he went on about his familiarity with all things shipping container in his interview with us. Excuse us, not shipping containers but "boxes" or "connex" or better yet "corn chex." Whatever. Apparently the company he works for up in Alaska moves their equipment from site to site in containers and as proof he offered up this handsome bit of container porn.

Folks seemed particularly jazzed by that last post from Hansel Tillman's Alaska portfolio—particularly the photos of that strange plane—so we're throwing up this bonus plane photo today (with a rainbow to boot!) just to keep the Sandwich-eating public happy.

So that's not Hansel's plane (though he is buying a plane, now that he's got a strip of property long enough to land one—God help us) but that strange orange skiing tank is one of his Alaskan rides, the specific origins of which we never got the straight dope on. Purportedly there was a bit of bartering involving a muskox and borrowed crane that somehow ended up at the bottom of a lake. Anyway, we thought these rides among all the strange vehicle photos Hansel Tillman submitted with his portfolio gave off a very Tillman odor.

Just for the fun of it, the first in a short series of posts on the sometimes strange vehicular world of Hansel Tillman, Swiss cousin of Darnell and Clovis Tillman of Horsehead Crating Company and former candidate for a spot on our crew. Here, what appears to be a Land Rover Defender converted into a pontoon car. Brilliant.