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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| baked | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| baked What, I'm not the only one who thinks mod DIY is possible? What a relief. I found directions on the internet somewhere for making a sputnik light fixture out of stainless steel bowls from IKEA and other odds & ends. I was seriously considering it until I remembered the whole Bertoia fiasco. I think I'll just spend the money for the real thing, thank you very much. Way less embarassing... | |||||
| Dear AZ | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear AZ As a chicken you know how painful it is to get the thing out! It takes too much of your calcium to produce teh shell and it requires extreme protective packaging to be transported. I agree it should be taken off the list. As far as philosophy is concerned I have to prepare something better than the design omelet that has taken over my brain space....stay with us, i will be right back! | |||||
| COME ON | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| COME ON I am talking about knock offs/look-A-likes, as close to the real thing as they can make it.I know inspiraton from the past HANS WEGNERS work is an excellent example.Its interesting the ref to high end brand vodkas, in tests few people can discern the differences in vodka brands!!! | |||||
| RE: Danish dining table and chairs | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | JohnQ | Identification | |
| Thank you! This is great! My mind only wen to Borge Mogensen as we just purchased a rectangular table attributed to him and put it together and noticed those similar details. Makes sense that it’s same manufacturer. any idea about the chairs? The closest I have seen to them was a set that was labelled as “hvidt-inspired” which is the sort of thing that some dealers say to catch an eye. | |||||
| In general I think we have... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| In general I think we have... In general I think we have been doing quite well with this project. But I have some concerns. The first one is one of these problems that designers face all the time. Simply stated it is the inability to surprise yourself when you are the one that generates new ideas. The result is often that one expects a kind of surprise and satisfaction that comes with "discovering" a product on a store shelf or magazine. As a designer you never experience that about your own products because the idea develops from an initial start to the final stage through small, intentional and visible steps, which can not be the same as being confronted with the final thing. One of the advantages is that it is never good enough and so one continues. It can also turn into a disadvantage in the sense that it seems a discouraging process. The only way to overcome this is to believe in the process and to try to make that special effort to see the thing as if it was the first time. To compare with existing things, design icons or not also helps. The important thing is that a product should not be made without having a good reason to do it. The good reason can be different things but it has always a link to "improving"...function, cost, shape, etc. I would also like to inject some more professional considerations. The first one is one of professional efficiency. The small diagram shows how a projet starts with generating a large number of possibilities and along evolution in time, different ideas are selected, others dropped in order to reach the end result which is the final product. As shown in the diagram, the earlier a selection is made the less costly the process is. So in design we have developped a large number of criteria to elliminate possibilities that should not be further developped, as early in the process as possible. In this case, we do not have these criteria or very few (technology is of course one). The result is that we continue to go back and forward on the same ideas. If this was a real project, I would try to convince those involved to, either generate more ideas and evaluate them against the core ideas that are in place (holding flowers in position, having flowers at different levels etc.) or develop one, two or three different choices in parallel and see how far we can go untill one or two stand out. | |||||
| Colormum | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Colormum The tub was made of slabs and assembled on site. It was not a do-it-yourself type of project. Just to install this thing involved a structural engineer, a contractor and his team, a master plumber and the guys who actually made the concrete. It was a major big deal. Originally the concrete guys wanted to cast it in one piece and bring it in with a crane, that would have cost even more! So tread carefully, get firm quotes and ask a million questions. As for not doing modern, well Massachusetts isn't real big on that either, most contractors are used to colonials or McMansions that look like colonials. I was very clear about what I wanted and gave them drawings (I can draft passably well, thanks to being the only girl in my High School shop class) and photos from magazines. Once my contractor got the hang of it he was really open to the ideas and came up with a few on his own. For concrete fabricators, check out the link below, there are some in Tennessee! One thing that I learned about after our tub was done was that it is possible to build a frame with wood and wonderboard, sheath it in waterproof sheeting and then trowel on a type of concrete over the surface. It's called patch concrete and is sticky like plaster. It's meant to repair cracks in concrete buildings. Your options for color will be nonexistent, gray is it, but it would be less expensive and considerably lighter in weight. Good luck! http://www.concretenetwork.com/ | |||||
| the role of engineering | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | kdc (USA) | General discussion | |
| the role of engineering very nice work, heath. i trust i won't be considered out of touch to say that i think the beautiful project could also be used as a handsome side table with some slight modifications to the top. aside from that, the only noteworthy thing which comes to my mind has more to do with engineering than design, namely the load-bearing properties of a piece with splayed legs. obviously the heft of your piece, the density of the wood, the angle of the legs, the details of their attachment to the base and their amount of grip to the floor work in concert to create a very sturdy-looking stool. my question has more to do with how far you can safely push the degree of splay before you begin to see the need of a secondary support system [greatly altering the aesthetics, most likely] to keep the legs from spreading further under an increased load. is this a trial-and-error thing? experienced intuition? informed by lots of sophisticated math? part of your 3d modeling application's capabilities? other? i suppose i'm one who is intrigued with the interaction of engineering and design, such as a building's cantilever which to even a semi-informed eye appears precarious but is actually very well supported and thus safe. or even calder's work wherein the delicate balance of visual mass is discretely camouflaged, instilling a sense of wonder in the viewer. thanks in advance for whatever comments you can offer. | |||||
| Gee, wow, thanks! | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Gee, wow, thanks! Very very good input. I've been looking at our new home for a bit now and wondering what I wanted to work on next and sometimes it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Honestly I am not really caring about the AT comment, some folks really don't like or understand modernism and AT has its fair share of those...'haters gonna hate' as was said above. Don't care what they think, but I really wanted to understand what they meant! The feedback here is more educated, a far more knowledgable criticism, and therefore much more helpful. I appreciate it! Riki...don't worry there's more orange! Behind the bed in the master, and if I get to do a full spread for AT then you'll see it. It's called "Spicy Tomato" so I completely understand the urge to want to eat it. It's a really fabulous color and I love orange! I wanted to use it back at my other house but it was just too too...ya know? One thing that's been pointed out a couple of times is the space over the fridge. It's funny how hard it is to capture the depth of a space and understand why/what/where. The fridge we have is a honking big sucker and quite deep. And since we're quite tall in this house the counters and the cabinets are set high on the wall. If I put set over the fridge, I, my big 6ft self, would need to go up several steps on a ladder to even get to them, a step stool would not be enough! So, it's just not a practical option. But the space does kinda look empty. I've been working on what I want to put up there. Right now I have a lamp and some bowls...and meh, not really thrilling me. I might move the Pinata from the living room to hang in the corner...just not sure yet...I think I want light up there somehow. Anyhow thanks a lot, I will probably incorporate some suggestions before I do a photoshoot for the big AT thing, if it happens. I want the place to look it's best. I'm working on ading that 'soul'! | |||||
| re: soapstone | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| re: soapstone Another fantastic thing about soapstone is that you can cut and install the stone yourself. I just did this in my new house with soapstone from the Alberene quarry. Even cut holes for an undermounted double kitchen sink (black fire clay). Came out absolutely beautiful. | |||||
| tynellbuye | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| tynellbuye i have a friend who has a Girard chair one with arms and checker seat just the coolest thing , he wants 5000 for it, if you have a interest let me know, if I had the money it would have been gone but it was a big year for me last year with all kinds of cool stuff, so a little slow starting out this year. | |||||
| My Bad | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| My Bad OK, I had to go take the top off of one of the BluDot boxes just to be sure I'm not going senile. Seems that I am. The BluDot is indeed MDF. My IKEA CD storage unit is the one that's particleboard, I mixed them up; guess it's time to start taking ginko-biloba. So, Ludo, MDF is really a better thing for them to be made from. And again, I think BluDot is just great. | |||||
| RE: Tips and Tricks For Identifying Furniture Marked With Numbers | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Nancy Ingram | General discussion | |
| Hello, I am a newbie on this site, came across it trying to search for help identifying a chair I have. The only thing I have on this chair are these #'s: S18930, that's all I have, no company name at all. I'm attaching a photo of the chair, it is leather and wood, you can raise and lower the seat, it swivels. https://ibb.co/CznLdzD | |||||
| This is what another person | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Ernest Rams | Repair | |
| This is what another person suggested me too, but what's the risk that some old threads will break soon? Also, I see that in 2 chairs most of the old threads will need replacing, so I would end up with 2 chairs looking a bit different. The interesting thing is that the chair with the most broken seat is the one without crack in the leg. Cheers Ernest | |||||
| Evernote | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Killian | General discussion | |
| If you have not heard of "evernote" look it up, its free and its great and its incredibly useful for keeping links and notes on your computer but because its web based you can log into your notes from any computer.....best thing Ive downloaded in ages....just thought I'd share. | |||||
| I don't have any idea, but Mo... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Norman Chaney | General discussion | |
| I don't have any idea, but Mo... I don't have any idea, but Mortimer Adler in his How to Read a Book, the first thing, said to find an uncomfortable reading chair so you wouldn't fall asleep. Adler's suggestion is sacrosanct to me. | |||||
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