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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| I like the wiggle fine | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| I like the wiggle fine Buy the damn thing. Make your wife happy! It's worth it. Next time she'll be understanding of that design that you just can't live without (that she couldn't care less about). | |||||
| argh | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | goatfest | General discussion | |
| argh I emailed Kartell and they faxed me a useless four page 'instruction' sheet that's more of an advertisement for the product than a guide to fixing the thing to my wall! Would anyone who's actually put one up be able to tell me how? Thanks. | |||||
| Bed nomenclature | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| Bed nomenclature Now when I was a kid a platform bed wash one of those very modern danish things without a box spring. A bed without the headboard/foot rail was called a "hollywood bed". Maybe that was a midwest thing. | |||||
| You are right Wouter | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| You are right Wouter It is very hard to find anything outside of the already mentioned book. Even on swedish websites there is not much. I guess the best thing to do is to ask Jan himself, his E-mail address is jan@ekselius.se Good luck! | |||||
| Loki, | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Loki, Have you seen this thing? I think it's a great solution for a small space where you don't want everything out in the open http://la.apartmenttherapy.com/la/tables-desks/enook-wallmounted-laptop-... | |||||
| I think KD is often so very... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | b | General discussion | |
| I think KD is often so very... I think KD is often so very 1967-78 granola birkenstockish with socks well traveled prof!,but it can be interesting.Unless rather expensive is is often flimsy.Whats the thing about redoindg MIES designs? | |||||
| RE: Eames Aluminum Chair EA117 wobble | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | Lennard | Repair | |
| I thought I posted a reply a while ago, but something went wrong apparently. Anyway... @tktoo2 Yes, I want to learn how to do this myself (and ignore the label 😉). Before that, I just want to make sure I do the right thing. I can't really find any documentation on this issue though. Thanks! | |||||
| For the love of a knockoff | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| For the love of a knockoff You misunderstand. With hardly any exceptions, it's easy for anyone to tell a real Barcelona (or Womb, or Egg, or 670 or LCW or whatever) from a knockoff just by looking at the two side by side. That's why no manufacturer or seller of knockoffs EVER shows his copies next to the originals. To anyone who owns the real thing, a knockoff is almost always obvious at a glance. But the people who post "Is it authentic?" questions here don't have an authentic piece to compare -- sometimes they haven't ever even seen one in person. To them, all knockoffs look close enough to the real thing, so they have to be told to look at the welds and the cushions, check the number of straps and buttons, etc. It's like... If you're not a motorcycle guy, you probably can't tell the difference between a Kawasaki, a Honda, and a Ducati unless the manufacturer's name is written on the tank. You might not even be able to tell THAT there's a difference. If you asked on an internet forum how to identify a particular bike's manufacturer, you'd be told the motorycle equivalent of "Count the straps and see whether a magnet sticks". Or another example: My mom can easily recognize a Porsche, but I'm pretty sure that body color (and maybe the presence or absence of a wing) is the only difference she sees between a 70's 912, an 80's 930, and a recent 996 Turbo. | |||||
| Thank you | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| Thank you Heath, Woodywood and Mark, Thank you. Heath - My sister is neither handy or resourceful. I appreciate the idea of stripping and polishing the base, but I am not inclined enhance a gift. If I were to keep this unit your suggestion is a must. Woodywood - You and I agree that it has an institutional look. My sisters Herman Miller collection consist of the Eames lounge and ottoman (brown leather is better than nothing for free) and the Elliptical table (black and mint) I have previously gifted her. Mark - I thought the same thing. A POS table is against the wall in the large entry way and this table with two of the chairs you mentioned would be an improvement. I previously gifted her the Fontana Arte Amax (42") suspension lamp to replace the brass "lighting package" chandelier in this same space. Thank you guys for all your input. I will acquire and give this table to my sister and the universal base with white top I mentioned in "the last thing your acquire " thread I will gift to my parents. I remain grateful. | |||||
| Hey, you JHQ fans---are you | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Hey, you JHQ fans---are you keeping an eye out for the white ceramic bowls that are made to fit into/onto some of the cheese boards/chip & dips and I think one of the lazy susans? I have a lazy susan that is missing the bowl and I know I've seen a couple of small white bowls marked Dansk in thrift stores over the years. I just bought one but it wasn't made for the thing I have--it's hair too big and the shape of the bottom doesn't fit exactly into the well in the lazy susan. I got a board once that did have the original bowl and it was a beautiful thing how it fit exactly into the shallow well. I think some of these are later pieces made in Thailand but maybe not all? I'm very lucky to have found one of these chip & dip sets with the original glass bowl, at least. It's kind of like how those little rectangular glass dishes are always missing from Danish teak boards, except I've had way more luck finding those in thrift stores. I can see how those would just get stuffed away in a cupboard instead of getting used and broken, though, since they are really made for smørrebrød toppings and that's far from a daily thing in the US the way it is in Denmark. | |||||
| groovydude | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| groovydude thanks for the pics of your trove. So I understand a little better now that you often venture into the world of novelty and pop culture and, well, the simply strange. I can almost smell the musty "there-ness" of all that STUFF! And you are quite right about it selling. Find the right buyer and you're home free. I guess the context of this board might work against you sometimes. An object gets scrutinized indeed. And it IS a design forum after all, so the standard is fairly high (as it should be). So it is ASSUMED that we should have some healthy arguments about design and art, in the same spirit as a critique in any good art school. I knew it was okay with you if I went on a rant. Thanks for that. I know that my rant is the very least of your worries. But I am always willing to talk about art, as it is my primary turf. I look at it as an attempt at a PAINTING first. And as a cool novel thing second. It has to hold up as a painting if it is gonna pose as one. It may be wild and crazy enough for a lay person to enjoy solely for its "wild" gooey paint. But I've seen enough goo that it has to go beyond the novelty of the goo to convince me. Call me jaded. There are standards within ANY approach. Its not a matter of abstraction either. I love a good abstract painting or non referential piece. I have no ax to grind about representational vs non-representalional art. Good painting is simply good painting. (I tried to restrain myself from posting for a short time, but that thing just kept gnawing at me and finally I just had to post! LOL.) My main issue with the painting is that it is neither here nor there in terms of clarity of intent. A painting is supposed to hang together... on some level. So that your nervous system can kind of "sort it out". It is sort of in-between unified "field painting" and trying to poke holes in the pictorial space. (There are paintings that do that in between thing quite well. In the end, it just turns into a big SWATCH of stuff. Thank you for allowing me to be honest, I do appreciate your openness to contrary viewpoints. And yes it is just my opinion. Im sure there are many on the board that love the painting, and think I have no taste. | |||||
| Yes, I think that a certain | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Yes, I think that a certain segment of the population is gonna jump all over this stuff instead of hunting for vintage American-made versions of better Scandinavian furniture Craigslist or in thrift shops like they do now. (Or the real thing if they get lucky.) I don't think it's going to be the people who are in the market for better quality vintage pieces. I haven't been to IKEA since this stuff debuted, but I saw a photo of the back of the wood frame sofa with the gray upholstery. It's got zippers down each side of the back, which makes it look very different from a vintage piece. I don't know if the fabric is removable---kinda think not, because of the way it is made to look like separate cushions. But maybe it is. Anyway, if not, the zippers would elminate a couple of steps in upholstering the back, something that would speed up production if you are doing a million of these. It's a glaring flag of cheapness to me, but it probably won't bother a lot of people who want this look for less $$$. Also, the wood is that icky stuff they use for a lot of their furniture---beech or something with the brown-tinted lacquer or whatever it is. It looks so fake. I like a lot of things about IKEA but this stuff, not so much. But it's a limited-time thing so I doubt will have much impact on the vintage market in the end. | |||||
| I do, Heath | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I do, Heath I go through purges, such as I am now as we ready ourselves to move across country. I give it away, sell it donate or whatever. I like to bring myself to only what I truly need and love and then I still often have the urge to push it even further. I don't function well in a visually chaotic environment. A side effect of being badly ADHD as a child, methinks. In times of stress, and being unemployed, selling your home and moving cross country certainly counts as a time of stress, I seem to want to live monkishly to calm my mind. To speak of your house building idea, we've been thinking a lot on what our place will be like when we've settled in New Mexico. I've learned a thing or two to pass on to you. The first is that making your home energy efficient is paramount and insulating or ventilating according to your climate is most of the efficiency equasion. the second thing I have learned is that going off grid with electricity is a demanding lifestyle so running that werive is well worth the cost. Lastly if you live in a sunny locale, use what it has to offer you, but don't get hung up on using hte currently rendy solar electric systems. the better bang for the buck is solar thermal. | |||||
| I have a 33" hanging cigar | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | MidCenturyMetropolis | Identification | |
| I have a 33" hanging cigar light as well and was researching the exact same thing. I have the same Cleveland sticker with the same File #E 189517 but no box or mention of George Nelson. Google only led me to this result. | |||||
| Thank you for reporting, I | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Ernest Rams | Repair | |
| Thank you for reporting, I guess this is the dream of most people here, a Wegner chair for 25 $. But we should open a new thread entitled "the last thing that you acquired before joining the forum". Cheers Ernest | |||||
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