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	Wow-you dodged a bullet!!	1 Relevance	16 years ago	Tulipman	General discussion
	Wow-you dodged a bullet!! I had the same thing happen on a group of (6)Eames shell/ Eiffel base chairs which the guy advertised on CL for $50.00!I emailed that I was on my way with the cash,he gave me the address,and in the interim,he received a dozen emails offering much more for them.He had second thoughts about even selling any of them by the time I arrived.After much bellyaching,I managed to pry two of them away for the $50 bucks.Not bad,but not like the deal it was.And to think,he told me he was thinking of leaving them on the curbside the day before!
	Exactly	1 Relevance	18 years ago	ID Guy	General discussion
	Exactly I was cringing, I had the guy put a blanket over the dolly, personally I would have just carried it but what can you do. Very frustrating! It received even more scratches on the way thru the back to the loading dock. I had the same thing happen when I picked up my Nelson CSS, guy was DRAGGING the walnut display case across the concrete, I almost had to take the guy out! That is the problem with finding people who don't know what they have; on one hand you can get good prices, but on the other they won't treat it with the care you know it deserves. But we all like the history in a vintage piece right???
	I agree with	1 Relevance	19 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	I agree with Koen's material pairings. Could this be a generational thing ? It's justifiable I think but just feels intuitive to me. I've never seen the Russel Wright chair ! How funny to compare it to Aalto (for instance). It has the earnest modernity and slight awkwardness of some "Early American Modern" -- shared with Jens Risom (later), perhaps, and Gilbert Rohde (earlier) ? It took a while for Saarinen and Eames, and others, to get us up to speed. SDR U S A
	OUT OF...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	some1	General discussion
	OUT OF... Out of all the "stuff" i own , the only thing that makes sence and i will buy it again and again is Kaj Franck Teema plates/dinner set.(Arabia/iittala) I already gave away my h.miller and knoll pieces (they are plain americana circa 50"s - they've made my granny modern but are not for me - sorry) i also kept my Adolf Loos chairs (Thonet) , my Aalto trolley (Artek) , and Jasper Morisson's Elan sofa (cappellini)
	OOps.. been away for a couple weeks	1 Relevance	12 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	OOps.. been away for a couple weeks This is one of the best threads I've seen on DA in a while - no offence to the Mahogany Association ID thread 🙂 I especially like EH's comment: "Authenticity is about vision and invention as much as mere craft. Craftmanship is a highly valued thing, and a worthy goal indeed, but its not the only thing when one is measuring authenticity." I think you've stumbled onto an interesting distinction between authenticity as it relates to 'functional design' and to art. I've been reading a monograph on Finn Juhl. There's an interesting critique of his furniture design skills: he basically drew the Pelikan chair silhouette and let Vodder figure out how to make the internal structure. Expression isn't defined by craft. Comparatively, someone like Wegner is intimately familiar with the structural qualities of his materials to the point where the expression and craft influence each other reciprocally. Since much of DA is concerned with 'functional' design - i.e. furniture, objects, lighting etc - I think we all are prone to entwine expression and craftsmanship in terms of 'authenticity', or what Heath pointed to as the licensing issue. While Wegner's Peacock, Folding, and China chairs draw from historical precedents I think we all agree that he morphed them into something new and distinct. Philippe Starck has peppered his career with the same idea, albeit with more PoMo irony. No one would look at his Ghost chairs and think "thats a knock-off Louis XVI" Perhaps part of the answer to authenticity lies in intent. Neither Starck, nor Wegner are trying to deceive one into thinking their designs were anything other than what they were.
	Carlo Jensen for Poul Hundevad Tea Cart	1 Relevance	11 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Reamie: I noticed your tea trolley in the last thing you acquired thread, but it is a bit buried. Here is the trolley again:
	Series 7 mystery	1 Relevance	17 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Hi all, Thank you for welcoming me to your forum! My first post will be a few questions about these series 7 chairs I've had for some time. It seems like they have been "modified" in that they look like the armchair variant but with the arms simply cut off? Another thing about them that puzzles me is that the steel plate underneath has a diagonal rod that I haven't seen on other series 7 chairs. The Fritz hansen sticker says "1166" - is that the manufacturing date? Maybe someone here could enlighten me?
	When I saw the signed copy of	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Ernest Ting-Poohsay	General discussion
	When I saw the signed copy of Snooki Polizzi A Shore Thing for Gallery Books the seller said she had a balcony fit for Shakespeare. I enjoy architectural books.
	Your chair is an "inspired-by	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Your chair is an "inspired-by" design. The shape of the seat and the finished seat surface are the two most obvious clues. Here's what the real thing looks like under the cushion:
	Nope. Nice chair, though!	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Nope. Nice chair, though! This is the real thing: http://www.fredericia.com/ProductDetails.aspx?id=400
	Eames Evans DCWs	1 Relevance	14 years ago	analogdialog	General discussion
	Eames Evans DCWs Posted in a dilemma thread yesterday - the biggest souvenirs I've picked up while on vacation. I found a set of 6 Evans DCWs (5-2-5 pattern) for $165 a piece. A dangerous thing, Craigslisting thousands of miles away from home. http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th...
	Ive never seen the Martin	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Killian	General discussion
	Ive never seen the Martin Luther King, JFK and Robert Kennedy triptych before, here in Ireland its JFK, Elvis and the Pope. Crosby's house wins the all round prize for style but the plastic see through fitter covers on the sofa in Richie Havens parents house wins the best thing dans la maison award.
	I believe he's saying that he...	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	I believe he's saying that he... I believe he's saying that he only bought these items because he'd just seen the same thing somewhere else with a high price tag on it. He did not particularly like or want them, he only bought them because he knew that someone else thought they were valuable. He is asking if that is buying for the sake of buying or is it greed (though i'm not sure what the difference is). I think it's the beginning of a hoarding habit! Be careful! Or you will get into selling stuff as a hobby or maybe as a part time job. Either way, it's a black hole. And yes, it's very hard to walk away from deals like that.
	All true.	1 Relevance	15 years ago	fastfwd	General discussion
	All true. I'm just saying that for me personally, the image of shiny camo-pattern paint on my car wasn't charged with any of those meanings, just as the olive-drab leather on Alfie's chair isn't. That's why I brought up the camo thing in the first place: as an example of my own blindness to those connotations. Clearly, you and others see more -- or at least differently -- and I'm glad to have had the obvious-to-you meanings explained to me. With luck, maybe I'll be able to see them for myself in the future.
	It's an odd mix of artifice a...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	It's an odd mix of artifice a... It's an odd mix of artifice and rusticity, if it saves resources and helps European manufacturing its got to be a good thing, would be unfortunate if it's a fad though, taken up in 10 years time because fashion has changed. My great grandmother had compacted cowshit floors, apparantly years worth of wax and kerosene would bring it up to an almost black mirror shine.