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	Thanks...	1 Relevance	13 years ago	onegroovydude	General discussion
	Thanks... It has kinda grown on me. It does make people take a second look, and that's cool. They must think it's a funky ceiling sculpture or something, because the first thing someone says any time they see it is: "is that a ceiling fan?" Ya. Then it's: "Does it work?" Ya. Kinda funny... Oh, and mark. Please take my opinions like all others, with a pinch of salt. I was gonna say the shirt tucked into the Hawaiian board shorts needed to go, but I chose the fixture instead...:)
	hahahah	1 Relevance	16 years ago	MadHaus	General discussion
	hahahah it was deleted! I knew something was fishy... two ESU's for that cheap...even a family with no Knowledge would sell them for something more like 100 dollars a piece I would say. And places like Salvation army or Savers wouldn't even mark that at 80...those would sell for about 85 a piece in a thrift shop. The best thing I have ever gotten on CL was my 670/671 but I could see how someone could mistaken that for a crappy old chair. The ESU's just look too nice to toss out without question...
	Its that strange little bo pe...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	Its that strange little bo pe... Its that strange little bo peep sort of 70's illustration, probably the next retro cool thing. This stuff is too highly stylized to be anything more than illustration really, but its ok, I do cherish the plate, its has an egg cup too and has 'made in Rhodesia' on the back so its a little bit of personal history, my Dad worked at the ceramics factory for a while. That bear has post traumatic stress disorder.
	Yes,	1 Relevance	16 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Yes, the time is off by a noticeable number of minutes, a symptom that appears quite quickly. Never had any trouble knowing when to change the batteries and always have a reliable alarm when the power goes out. Which, both back in MA and here in NM, seems to happen regularly! The thinking yourself awake thing does kinda work. I rarely need an alarm, pretty much only when I need to get up at an unusual time.
	spanky	1 Relevance	17 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	spanky I have numerous Lock around the house, including the bathrooms. Very neat, economical lighting option. However, one time one of the plastic clips spontaneously snapped and the glass cover smashed on the bathroom floor into a million pieces. Good thing I was not in the bathroom at the time.... That could have been ugly.
	So...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	sue	General discussion
	So... You're funny, woodywood. If you want to copy the prototype design, feel free 😉 I think we may purchase some new Eiffel bases for the armchairs. What to do with the Krueger/whatever side chairs though? Maybe the best thing to do is sell them to fund fixing up the armchairs? I don't know enough about Krueger to know if they'd be worth something, especially considering they have those "fancy" holes drilled in them. They look pretty cute all cleaned up.
	Ah yes, Hello Kitty	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Ah yes, Hello Kitty one can never have too much of the little darling. My niece has the full kit, including a Hello Kitty sewing machine; it's the cutest thing ever. She's not going to be making upholstery with it, but it's fine for making little girly skirts and pillow shams...out of HK fabric, natch. I have HK hand towels for my powder room, never fails to get a smile at parties.
	DCWilson--	1 Relevance	18 years ago	william-holden-...	General discussion
	DCWilson-- The Cuisinart's reservoir is a plastic bucket-like thing with a handle that lifts out for cleaning-- simple. While I don't consider myself a coffee aficionado, I'm capable of perceiving "burnt" coffee, and the Cuisinart doesn't burn it. I'd recommend it unreservedly, were it not for the occasional leaking issue. Perhaps they've fixed this bug in the current production?
	thrift store pot	1 Relevance	19 years ago	kdc (USA)	General discussion
	thrift store pot i suppose the thing that intrigues me the most about this whole deal is that the aforementioned chicken will be cooked at the thrift store. that's a neat idea. [please ... don't get me wrong, and don't be upset; i'm not trying to be a wise*ss and belittle your conversation; i actually find it informative and worthwhile. i just couldn't help myself when i saw the sentence structure in your original post!] respectfully...
	The ottoman is a very odd	1 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	The ottoman is a very odd thing. The 1949 exhibition photos of the chair, and all subsequent advertising literature that I've ever seen (and that is probably a few dozen catalogs with the Chieftain in them) never show an ottoman with it. I think Baker offered an ottoman in the 90s, and they may have offered on in the 50s. I have a few pages of a 50s Baker catalog with the Chieftain in it, and it is not shown with an ottoman. Another page however offers a 'bench' that looks like a Chieftain ottoman with side stretchers and a cross stretcher for extra strength to hold a person instead of just feet. This same bench design, made by Niels Vodder, has been sold by Bruun-Rasmussen as a Chieftain footstool. Regardless, I have definitely seen more Baker footstools than Niels Vodder ones. Bruun-Rasmussen has auctioned at least one other Niels Vodder Chieftain with a footstool (not the 'bench'), so we know that Niels Vodder did make such a thing. I attribute the lack of footstools accompanying Chieftains to advertising as I mentioned above. I.e. people tend to want just what they see in the photos. Perhaps Americans are more fond of footstools/ottomans (hence there are more Baker footstools), so your grandmother made a point of ordering it. I am afraid that it is probably not helpful in terms of dating it. At least not with the present level of information that I know of. I have a Niels Vodder catalog from 1956 and it does not show the footstool in it anywhere. Perhaps if there were more known Niels Vodder catalogs one would show it, and that might, maybe be suggestive. But I would not be surprised if the footstool was never in the Niels Vodder catalog, and you just had to know to ask if there was a matching footstool you could order too.
	A side note on Sgt. Peppers...Pt. 2	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	A side note on Sgt. Peppers...Pt. 2 It turns out that the Beatles were not alone in doing this. Bob Dylan had been up to much the same thing for a longer period of time, as his recent autobiographical volume "Chronicles" reveals. Dylan's idea of creative expression in his music was to take some lyrical theme, or melody, or rhythm, or style of music and invert it. He took folk and country music into urban folk. He took urban folk and electrified it. He took electrified folk into country western. He took country western into gospel rock. And so on. The object of the game was to invert whatever he had been doing into the next thing. I'm going on here, because I trying to lay out what was being done by these musicians, so that others more knowlegeable of design than me can say whether this act of inversion is inimical or characteristic of post modernist process and resultant artifacts. Is Robert Venturi, or any other post modernist architect or designer you can think of systematically inverting modernism, or seeking to embody its antithesis? Or are they, as Venturi suggested in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, simply trying to reintroduce some pleasing complexity and contradiction into modernist forms to take modernism to the next evolutionary step.? I ask these questions, because it seems to me that the Beatles and Bob Dylan, for two examples from mid to late 60s rock and roll, were rather single mindedly focused on producing the opposite of what had come before them, whereas Venturi and post modernists sought something more evolutionary. Or perhaps Venturi et al were far more revolutionary than I gave them credit for. Thoughts?
	A lot of floor lamps	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Majick	General discussion
	A lot of floor lamps Well I have a lot of Floor lamps I need to sell off. I have a thing for fixing them up and selling them off. Everything from Chrome to brass floor lamps. Just depends on the style you like. S
	i despise sleeping on futons	1 Relevance	20 years ago	jdot	General discussion
	i despise sleeping on futons if you have shoulders or hips at all a futon is not the right thing for you (well... you may be 19 years old, so it might be ok for you for a year or two when it is all compressed and hard as a rock) In my opinion a futon will always look and feel like a futon. You are better off getting a daybed of some kind. With your budget, however, i don't know how much luck you will have finding something appropriate and comfortable, I can't think of anything I would recommend at that price. Good Luck.
	i have	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	i have always been astonished if a woman opend her hand bag. unbelievable what they all carry with them and the best thing is; once it is 'full' they buy a new one! Glad i do not need one, not even a 'murse'. a little tip; i buy tiny stuff: very very small gps; loox n100, very small gsm, ver small dig camera, and since i am very poor i don't carry any money or wallet ;-). Is this were civilisation is going? the need for a purse because of all the new technological gimmicks we all need to have?
	I do not understand	1 Relevance	16 years ago	niceguy	General discussion
	I do not understand onegroovydude, By your own writing you purchased this piece make a profit by listing it on your eBay Store (a true misnomer) and now there is a problem sending it to the "one person" who can say yes or no, and for a "price" put it in writing. This is called "the cost of doing business". Stop looking for people to do your homework for free. Your writing seems to indicate many excuses, but no reasons for not doing the next right thing. It is tedious.