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	Waaall, let's see. Assuming	1 Relevance	12 years ago	tktoo	General discussion
	Waaall, let's see. Assuming the base is solid rosewood and the top close to an inch thick, the whole table has got to weigh in excess of 200 lbs. That amount of weight on what is essentially a sturdy tripod would make the structure inherently stable, right? So the question concerns quality of the joinery. By this point in Noguchi's career, he'd had plenty of experience sculpting hard materials on this kind of scale. I've not seen nor heard evidence of poor craftsmanship in any of his work. In fact, only the opposite. I do love it, though. Love it, love it, love it. There's so much tension in that sphere, we can feel it across the decades and even in two-dimensional images squeezed through the intertubes. In the period B&W photo that SDR posted above, Noguchi's work completely steals the show. Just try to take your eyes off of it. Now imagine being in the same room with that thing!
	That was thoughtful, SDR	1 Relevance	22 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	That was thoughtful, SDR Thank you. I agree with you. While a person's total self likely influences their work, in any profession. Reducing originality and creativity to a 1-dimensional aspect such as sexual preference is disrespectful. The affect of preference does, indeed, seem to be a valid point as, for an example, so many men in the design/architecture world are known to be gay. But, I imagine that these men are also brothers, sons, even fathers. So just the fact of their being gay is not the only facet of their beings that would contribute to their gif ...
	RE: bypass sliding door tracks	1 Relevance	5 years ago	tktoo2	Repair
	I'd go ahead and use the deeper upper track. They're made that way to make the sliding door installation a bit easier (dimensional tolerance less critical). So it protrudes a little bit. They are made of brown/tan-colored plastic, no? Mounted recessed from the front edge on the underside of the top, it'll always be in a shadow. No one will ever see it at that height unless they're on the floor and, if that's where your guests end up, they'll be too drunk to notice anyway!
	Other tables are not solid	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Identification
	Other tables are not solid wood. They are veneer over a dimensionally stable substrate, probably particleboard with edge banding all the way around.
	The DFQC stamp means it is no	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Identification
	... style. Maybe the 1980s? And it is not solid teak. The construction requires veneer over a dimensionally solid substrate. Considering the weight (as sign of particle board) and era of manufacture, we can conclude with 99.9% certainty that it is particleboard under the veneer. This is a hard era to find information. Odds are pretty good that it isn't a "designer" piece either.
	The misperception	1 Relevance	12 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	... appropriate material choice, perfected in the last century. Solid wood is a resource best employed for appearance pieces, and for frame structure, both visible and hidden -- but not when a uniform and repeated grain appearance is required. Each member of the furniture-making palette has its place. Visible (appearance-grade) solid-wood tops are one thing, while a sub-top under a stone panel is another. A veneered surface must have an appropriate substrate, which will not be solid wood because of dimensional and flatness issues -- now that we have useful an ...
	thanks tktoo	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Eameshead	General discussion
	thanks tktoo Yeah, you might be right about the awkward placement... Maybe I was just trying to be polite. (Thats a laugh huh?) But in my own defense, photos never seem to reveal enough of the entire situation to make too keen of a judgement about room composition in three dimensional space. For instance, in your web photo, I find myself reacting as much to the flat-space composition of the photo itself-- than to my ability to see what is truly going on in three dimensions in that room. The photo ends too soon! Your point about "free floating" the splint fro ...
	Although	1 Relevance	14 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Although this development is a surprise to me, I find I'm quite pleased with it. Solid black is perhaps the only modification to the original material specification that I could think of approving. A monochrome treatment to almost any three-dimensional object is a way of reducing its effect to that of form only. You wouldn't try this with the Mona Lisa or an Alexander Girard fabric -- but how about any piece of Eames furniture -- for instance -- or a Calder mobile or a Porsche Carrera ? Oh, wait -- those might already be solid black ! None of the materials of the Eames Lounger is alien to the color black; that is, there is nothing intrinsic to plywood, leather, or cast alloy which would prevent them from appearing in a natural way with a black finish. DCW/LCW parts have been made in black almost from the beginning, and parts of the Lounger base -- as well as the leather, of course -- are already black. Paisley, or calico, or flocked -- no. Gold-leafed ? No. But black is so . . . normal, in modernism. What's the big whoop ?
	Weight of solid teak vs particle board	1 Relevance	14 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	... bow or otherwise deform unless the grain is vertical (quarter-sawn) and straight, which would be an expensive problem to discover after the shipment has come off the boat. The Danes frequently used teak veneer over "lumber core" (thin strips of pine laminated together so that any grain bending tendencies in one strip will be overcome by the glue and counteracted by the random tendencies of the other strips) for this sort of situation where strength and dimensional stability is required. Plywood could also be used if less strength was required. For a cabinet ...
	True rosewood	1 Relevance	15 years ago	tktoo	General discussion
	... have a nasty reputation for dimensional instability, however, especially in solid pieces displaying other than straight grain. I suppose a varnish barrier might help the wood to acclimate more slowly to rapid changes in relative humidity. Due to rosewood's tendency to warp and check as it dries, as well as its scarcity, we see it most commonly used only as thin veneers, if at all, anymore. Veneers on surfaces exposed to heavy use or excessive UV I can see benefiting from a topcoat of varnish, but a chair made from solid stock? If the wood seems stable, as i ...
	It makes much more sense that	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Identification
	It makes much more sense that the sides would be a dimensionally stable substrate. I am surprised that they are lumbercore, both because it sounds very likely the top is particle board substrate and 1966 seems late enough that the factory would have gone to particle board by then. I am glad you got this rather extremely rare piece and are restoring her!
	I very much doubt that the	1 Relevance	9 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Identification
	I very much doubt that the sides are solid teak and the top is particle board. The wood movement equation does not work. From you description of the bubbling, it is certain the top is particle board, therefore the sides must be something dimensionally stable. It is interesting that the legs are Afrormosia. That narrows the field substantially. I will think who might fit the bill. Did you get any more photos? That would certainly help.
	Whatever you plan, do a dry	1 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Whatever you plan, do a dry run first. Are you going to try and open the bucket up more so that you can repair the remainder of the crack around the bottom. (I love the appearance of this design, but it was not a good idea to have attempted such a large scale design in Mutenye while ignoring the rules of wood movement. It might have been more durable in dimensionally stable teak).
	Oh, and it is actually a bit	1 Relevance	11 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Oh, and it is actually a bit surprising that the bottom has bowed upwards. I expect the case is made of particle board, or plywood, which is to say a dimensionally stable material. Of course stability is a question of degree, but that is quite a severe distortion. (It would be a pretty sever distortion even for solid wood, which is NOT dimensionally stable). I would think that something out of the ordinary happened to cause that bowing. I am just curious, but is there really no indication of what happened to it?
	What's so great about wood?	1 Relevance	15 years ago	fastfwd	General discussion
	What's so great about wood? Wood has adequate strength-to-weight, adequate toughness, adequate stiffness, adequate dimensional stability, and adequate durability. It's also incredibly abundant, harvestable by anyone with an ax, easy to work with hand tools, easy to fasten with adhesives or dowels or screws/nails/bolts, easy to stain or paint, easy to repair, and when you're done with it you can burn it to heat your house. It's easy to see why we used to build everything out of it. But look at what's been happening ever since alternatives to wood became avai ...