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| oops | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | I Clock | General discussion | |
| oops sorry meant to post this under the last thing acquired thread and ended up creating a new one by mistake. Don't post on here very often, so excuse me. Feel lucky that I finally figured out how to post a picture too 🙂 | |||||
| From the | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| From the point of the workers -- if that's what you're interested in -- isn't a job making something -- anything -- better than no job ? I know it's crap -- maybe -- but the Western world led the way in consumerism, and now it's the way of the world, for better or worse. So, what's your solution ? Everybody buy the real thing, new or old -- and the rest of the world can just sit there and starve ? Reality is what it is. | |||||
| Thank-you very much. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | pee_king | General discussion | |
| Thank-you very much. Thank-you very much for all your help.Does anybody here know of a competent clock repair shop who may be able to repair the minute hand.I wouldn't mind sending it anywhere in North America if they could repair it correctly.I know that where I live they would probably destroy the thing. | |||||
| I actually collect the... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Craig | General discussion | |
| I actually collect the... I actually collect the minatures but dont have the eames lounge chair, they are a brilliant thing to collect as I do not have enough space in my house to buy all the chairs I would like. What is the difference from £200 for a minature to £4,000 - £5,000 for a full size one, could you not say the same for that? | |||||
| Bing | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Bing Of Tiny Planets. Bing seems somehow to eat anyway. Although HK is a perfect little thing, I love Bing's buddy Bong as well, we all need a 6-legged spider dog in our lives, especially one that can ride a tricycle. http://www.tinyplanets.com/ | |||||
| just a quick up date the... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| just a quick up date the... just a quick up date they have been on my house laying just the brick for 4.5 weeks and are only half way through, I have no new pictures but will have some soon, as soon as i can get them to clean the mess up . The cool thing is I saw in the new modernism magazine they have a home that Frank Lloyd Wright did in in Western Pennsylvania called one of his Usonian homes You can now stay in the house as it is called the Duncan House and open for public lodging, tours, The cool thing is the stone is the same as mine with the excetion of real cool pattrn about 12 inchs and extended 2 in line , i wish i would have seen this earlier cause it looks way cool, no need to cry over spilled milk but it is cool..... maybe i will use it on another side of the house in the front by the fireplace, i pulled Fallingwood up on line and that is the same way they did the stone on that home also, so maybe i was just not paying attention to the detail and was so excited when the contractor found the crab orchard just like FLW used. I did find out that the original quarries do not exist for this stone anymore. In the 1950's and 60's they were producing it in 2 x 12 2x14 2x16 now all you can get it in is 4 inch and you have to hand saw it ( something these masons do not want to do on a regular bases)but will do it to keep the design looking good, I love this stone and i think it makes a killer look i just can't believe how long it takes to lay as it is like a puzzel I expect the contractor to tell me to stick it any day as he has to have lost money on this job by now, | |||||
| Furniture Reproductions | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I wanted to start a dialogue regarding furniture reproductions because we receive questions about our reproductions all of the time and I know its a hot topic. I understand how confusing it can be when you're searching for designer reproductions. On the one hand, the prices are much better. On the other hand, is the quality the same? This is a conversation everyone has with themselves when choosing between originals and reproductions, whether it is with furniture or art or anything else in between. One thing I like to point out to people is that with furniture, if the original designer isn't alive and making the product him/herself, then everything else out there is a reproduction. There are companies that license the design and make it based on specs and there are companies that make similar products with slight variations (i.e., dimensions might be off 1" or the fabrics used might vary slightly). In both cases, though, they are reproductions. The Bibendum chair you're buying wasn't actually made by Eileen Gray... Think of a painting. If Van Gogh licensed all of his paintings to Joe Smith Art Company, would you say that Joe Smith Art Company makes any more of an original than another company that reproduces the Van Gogh without a license if the quality of the two are the same? If the other company points out clearly that it is not an original and is just a reproduction, why is it that their reproduction is any worse than the one from Joe Smith Art Company? I think this is an important thing to point out. So if both are really reproductions, then the only thing that you should focus on is quality. Now, when it comes to quality, you do have to differentiate between companies that make reproductions. We have spent the past 8 years searching for suppliers of reproductions and I can tell you there are wide variations in terms of quality between the many Italian, Danish, and Chinese suppliers of reproductions. Most of our reproductions come from Alphaville Design, whom we consider to be the best supplier of reproductions in the world, the quality of which exceeds even Design within Reach. We use other suppliers as well but all of our products have to pass our own internal quality control inspections. Despite the stigma, the quality of furniture coming out of China has improved significantly. We have tested from many suppliers in Italian and Denmark that are worse than suppliers from China. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your comments. Mike Edited by Design Addict. No advertising in the forum please !!! | |||||
| You might well come across a | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| You might well come across a good buy before you feel secure enough in your knowledge to pounce on it. That's life. You can learn to recognize good quality stitching from bad (and other characteristics) in photos, but it means looking at a LOT of photos, comparing the real thing to photos of known fakes, and asking questions. Basic knowledge about upholstery in general will help, and that's something you can pick up by studying furniture that you do have access to--in furniture stores, in friends' and family's homes, etc. Buy a yard each of Hallingdal and Tonus fabric, two of the most popular fabrics used on Egg chairs, and study the colorways on Maharam.com so that you can recognize original fabrics on Egg chairs. (1stDibs is not a good place to research prices but it's great for clear detail photos of furniture, including fabric, and for views that you won't see on a lot of other sites.) Study the angles of the curves by comparing photos of a real Egg and a fake taken at the exact same camera angle (compare how much of the base you can see, how much of the seat cushion, etc.) This means hunting through lots of photos but it's the best way I know of to spot differences when you can see them in person. There are tons of Egg chair fakes out there and yeah, they do look exactly like the real thing to the untrained eye. But once you know what you're looking for, the differences will be obvious. | |||||
| continued | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| continued What to do, what to do? One thing to do is not to reduce the issue to viewing contemporary America as simply a fascist republic teetering alarmingly close to what happened to Weimar. Another thing to do is not to understate the huge shift toward totalitaianism that has occurred in the USA the last 10-15 years, and do not doubt that this drift will get worse instead of better if persons in all walks of life in America refuse to begin to treat their work as having political and economical dimensions, not just professional and net benefit dimensions. The duty of us all is to find the peaceful path, the path where the recent vicious and unwise excesses of an often great and progressive country are repealed and resolved via a willful, persistent commitment to humane choice in issues great and small, collective and individual, until the often great and progressive country has found its way back toward the advance of representative government and market economies, towards freedom and equality of opportunity and the pursuit of happiness, rather than toward the retreat from these. But have no doubt, however this plays out: design will have a political and economic impact on what occurs. Most certainly, it will. The only question is will design be part of the problem, or part of the solution in the broadest sense possible. | |||||
| Gustavo | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | 50s60s | General discussion | |
| Hello Gugu, hehehe Soo... Are you from Argentina? afff... huahauhauahuah Now we are enemy, huahauhauhauhaua It's a joke... ok... let's talk about soccer at first... In olimpic games Argentina play better then Brazil, when the game started i wanted Brazil win the game, but when it was ending, i really wanted Argentina did more 5 or 6 goals because your players play like men and Brazil play like kids... Argentina's players have claw... I don't know if you understand me, but like... you really want to win, you play to do it and you fought a lot... it's hard to me explain because my english vocabulary is poor, but in few words: you play 3 times better than Brazil... Now... let's talk about design, rs... I LOVE scandinavian desing from this period (50-60) and probably some desing from Brazil was inspirated from Scandinavian designs... I know just a little thing about it.. i just like the furniture... i started my "collection" some mons ago, i have some pieces but i like it a lot... Here in Brazil, in this period (50-60), we had a famous furniture fabric who did amazing, unbeliveable pieces... here in Brazil, a little people know they... out Brazil i think nobody know it. They call "Móveis Cimo" (Cimo Furniture), they don't have famous design, you can't know who (people) designed each piece and each piece have a stamp or a seal just saying "Móveis Cimo". I have some pieces from this company and one day i will take some pictures and post here... And about Argentina? Can you tell me some thing? Some designs? A like to go to google and search in "images"... I put the design name there and tchantchantchan, rs... What kind of furniture do you like more? The thing a like more in one piece is the legs.. especially when it's "pé palito"... I don't know how to say it in english but like when the legs seems like toothpick. Did you know? like... when it's cylindrical, start "big" and after narrow... it finish thin(some expression here i don't know if it's correct because i use googletraslation to some words i don't know). But in abstract: the legs is like a funnel. You have in Argentina some beautifull pieces because sometimes i go to mercadolibre.com.ar and see some beutifull pieces there. I collect old refrigerator too and in mercadolibre do you have some beutifull and different old refrigerators... Do you know some interesting Argentina sites with midcentury furn? Ok, i wrote a lot, now i'm gooing, hehehe bye bye Gugu, huahuahauhauhauha abraços Igor | |||||
| Today's find: Peter Protzmann desk in need of a little TLC! | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| Hey there, DAs. I have an antique dealer friend who decided to get rid of a bunch of stuff. One thing which turned out to be an original Peter Protzmann desk for Herman Miller. There is one thing though that needs attention that I want advice on before I tackle it. At some point a hot glue gun was set on the top resulting in a three inch by ten inch splattering of dried wax, with one little piece of ceramic stuck on. Any advice on getting this off without hurting the beautiful wood? Lastly, as I sit here at the desk typing this I have discovered that this desk is substantially lower than my last. Not only will my Pollock chair not fit under it with the arms, but my legs are also cramped against the underside of the drawer! Anyone else have this problem? I love my desk chair. DO I need to find another lower one, or would you find a way to raise the desk? Amazingly from the bottom of the desk to the floor is only 22 inches! The top of the desk is about 26.5 inches high. Thanks! | |||||
| Interesting, then the only | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Interesting, then the only thing I can think of is perhaps these chairs went to some sort of trade fair or something where Danasco was trying to attract more buyers and so they put their sticker on there? But I am just making nonsense up at this point. It is strange that Danasco, as an importer and wholesaler would even have gone to the expense of printing stickers. | |||||
| You have some utterly | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Kyle Barrett | Identification | |
| You have some utterly remarkable items here Scribeco. I can't say that it looks like anything I've ever seen, but given the beautiful craftsmanship and tambour doors in rosewood - along with other items you've posted, it's yet another ridiculous piece. Mgee is right, the base is really unusual. Usually the thing that would stand out in identifying a desk. | |||||
| Information about Lied Mobler (Norway)? | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | asd | General discussion | |
| Recently picked up a leather chair and ottoman w/ fagas straps made by Lied Mobler. Chunky looking thing, similar to Sergio Rodrigues Mole chairs. Been trying to get a little more information, but not a lot out there. Anyone have any information about that company? | |||||
| Marking on Ico Parisi table? | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Maryanne Scott | General discussion | |
| Hello I just purchased an Ico Parisi dining set.I was just wondering though about the particular markings on the table.On every part of the table there is a one ,and a sidewards nine impressed together into the underside (which looks as though it spells the name Ico).Is this a standard thing on his pieces ,and if so does it give clue to who manufactured the piece.Thank-you for your time. | |||||
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