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| Architecture is discussed | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Architecture is discussed We do talk about architecture here on DA. And I have wondered why we don't do it as much as we do furniture. I think it's an accessibility thing. We all have chairs but we don't all have great buildings around us. AS you mentioned on another thread. Paris doesn't subsidize plane ticket so we can all og and visit. (dang!) Furniture is just closer to peoples lives than a great structure is, I think. | |||||
| First, the cord gets tangled | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| First, the cord gets tangled because the strand you pull on gets caught on another loop and pulls that away from the roll inside, then it pulls the next one and the next one and the next one and pretty soon you have an unbelievable mess. I have spent many hours undoing the tangles that have resulted from this. I don't know if laced or unlaced is more likely to do it. I don't think so. I think one of those--I never remember which--is just smoothed out after twisting, not twisted that much tighter. The way I have finally conquered it is to pull verrrrry carefully out of the center. I watch to make sure the cord is not catching on other loops and if it does I just undo it immediately. A lazy susan or other easily-spun device helps to keep the cord from twisting tighter as you weave but I don't think this has anything much to do with the loops getting caught. I turned my spool religiously and still had huge tangles until I finally just learned to stay on top of it. So! That's that. Soap treatment: it's on the board somewhere but it's easier to just explain again. LuciferSum, who isn't on much anymore, first mentioned it. You can buy a product called Soap Flakes but I just grate Ivory bar soap---essentially the same thing. The recipe is 2 tablespoons of soap flakes in 1 qt warm water. Let it sit a few hours to dissolve. Then simply dampen the whole seat with it and let dry. It should not be dripping, though I did that with my first one and it didn't seem to make any difference. Make sure you get the whole seat damp, no dry areas otherwise you'll get water marks. To clean spills, use the same mix. The soap acts as a wax, sort of, and it repels dirt. This is the same thing used on soft pine floors in Scandinavia for centuries. If done regularly, the floor never needs refinishing. | |||||
| I scan CL at least once or... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Fungus Mungus (USA) | General discussion | |
| I scan CL at least once or... I scan CL at least once or twice a day. I used to be much more vigilant. As far as furniture goes, it's simply not practical to buy, say, a Wegner sofa and try to flip it. Unless, of course you are a dealer, which I am not. That's why I try not to get too worked up when I see the flipping that goes on on CL. It makes me chuckle when I see someone try to flip something before the body is even cold, particularly if it's something BIG like a sofa. Most of the time, they ask such ridiculous prices that it sits there for weeks before they give up. When I think about that Wegner sofa sitting in some guy's garage with his wife yelling "Get that thing out of here! I want to park my car", I smile even more. My wife has a rule...I find something I like on Craigslist, I buy it. But something else has to go. Seems like a reasonable rule to go by...neither of us can stand clutter, though I have more of a tolerance than she does. So, yes, I buy incredibly cool, often poorly-described, expensive furniture on the cheap on Craigslist. If it needs it, I put in some elbow grease to get it looking good. And then I evaluate it..."is this Grossman coffee table a better fit for the space than the Florence Knoll coffee table?" If this answer is "yes", the Knoll goes up on CL. If not, the Grossman goes out on CL. (for the record, I have neither, though I do have a sweet 8' FK t-angle bench NOT acquired through CL). I never gouge on CL...nobody ever responds to it. I sold several really nice Eames aluminum group chairs (I'd bought as a set for a song) for well-under dealer prices. I ended up keeping one. But I didn't give them away...the trick is finding a price point that makes people think..."hey, this is still a good deal". I more than made up the cost of the one chair. The one thing that does raise my ire is when someone posts something with no intention of selling...they do so to find out what it's worth to people. When I smell this practice, I just tell them "not worth more than $50" and move on. fm | |||||
| It's twue. Incompwehensible. | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | SDR | Off topic | |
| It's twue. Incompwehensible. We need Dave Letterman back, just so he can make fun of "that thing on Donald Trump's head" as he used to do. As for the frightening Carly Fiorina (whom I blame every time my HP all-in-one has a senior moment or I have to pay $40 for three grams of printer ink), I need a button on my TV remote that issues the sound that accompanies every appearance of Frau Blucher in "Young Frankenstein" -- you know the one. And I don't care how sexist/lookist that suggestion may be . . . ! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . Lucky you for the tulip! Yup Janes Addiction. That is not a good story Olive, though I think the irony with these anecdotes is that as much as we consider ourselves addicts actually doing something like that is agreed to be apalling. I have to wonder about the stolen art market, to the dodgy dealers is it just another commodity? I think it would be rare to find someone who loves antiques be prepared to do this sort of thing, they just see the money. There is something slapstick and Benny Hill like about a couple of charlatans walking out with Barcelona chairs though. | |||||
| Let's get outside of the box... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | finch | General discussion | |
| Let's get outside of the box... Let's get outside of the box on this one a little, eh? Whatabout something in a poly velour? I'm thinking rusts and reds...maybe an autumnal hunting scene print. Accessorize with cigarette burns and maybe a sweaty soggy gym sock draped across one arm. Maybe a broken crayon and some pistachio shells under one cushion. If you could make the whole thing smell vaguely of french fries... That $9000 Knoll is suddenly looking pretty promising, eh? | |||||
| No, I don't have more | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | DrPoulet | Identification | |
| No, I don't have more pictures but I found the same model on a French website: http://www.design-market.fr/9549-ensemble-de-6-chaises-scandinaves-en-pa... I have finally asked and they are unmarked. The thing is I had no luck with a google search in english or danish but found them easily in french. I guess they are french then or maybe belgian / dutch... | |||||
| Loop table coffee table | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | lionel | General discussion | |
| Loop table coffee table Hi, many thx for your reply, at least we know something now... 😉 the only thing is: this table has a different(much more thick) alu border for the topplate as the pics I can find when googling... also the countertop is made from emaille-metal.not wood. looks interesting.maybe this is a later production or are you rather shure its about 1945-1955?also the base is a bit different mounted on the topplate(or are there many different ways about mounting it on it?). many thx! | |||||
| For deliveries outside of the US... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Austin | General discussion | |
| For deliveries outside of the US... For all of you who really want to order a Hermann Miller and who don't live in the USA... Try this :www.shopthestates.com You have to register (free). They'll give you a US adress (I do have one in Pittsburg...so will you I guess), to order in the US just as if you were IN the US. Their job is to reroute your parcel from your US adress (which is probably a warehouse adress) to your home. The retouting service is only 4.95$. The expensive thing is the transportaion cost, you have to pay USA-> and then USA->your house. +taxes of course. But can be interesting. | |||||
| RE: Pirelli Straps vs Elastic Webbing? | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | DCNZ | Repair | |
| If you can get it Pirelli it's always better and outlasts the modern elastic type. Pirelli only needs a small amount of tension for it to be supportive compared to elastic, meaning you have to pull it less when fitting it which is less stress on you, the timber joints and the staples ect. your Reenskaug chair is a lovely thing which deserves ordering new Pirelli. Cheers Dave | |||||
| Ok.... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| Ok.... Well sorry for arguing with you. You can just really get me wound up sometimes. But the "all I know is all I know" had me laughing so hard, I wished we were friends, so you could have seen me. I'm laughing now just writing it.. The thing is she's a girl that just bought some chairs she was stoked about, was already trying to match cushions, and probably wanted them to be nice. That's what I read from her tone. I don't know what kind of girls you hang out with, but most of them I know don't like rust. They look nice. They wear nice clothes. Their friends dress nice. They love white. They're not seeing the rust. Just the prettiness of the chairs. Until it gets all over a nice white dress or something, then they're pissed. When I mentioned the white pants, it struck a cord with her, and she let us all know right there that rust was not her friend, and didn't want it on her clothes. So in this situation I don't think my advice was that far out of line. If there was a little staining only, I would have said to just clean them, but they already look kinda rough from a low resolution, cloudy picture. I can only imagine right there in front of your eyes. And she wants to keep them for generations to come with as little cleaning effort needed as possible. I didn't mean to take away from the originality of the pieces. I know that's the most important thing, but sometimes it's ok to take away a little of the originality for the greater good of longevity. It's not the chairs fault, and it's not her fault. It's just something that needs to be done sometimes. And it's ok. We can't save them all by just wiping them down. The next person might want to roll around naked in the chairs just like they are. Maybe even snort the rust. Others may not. There's a reason those 6 coca cola machine brought $70,000. They would have brought $2,000 in the condition of her chairs. It says it's ok to restore things sometimes. We can't tell every person to only buy things that need no restoration, or to never clean anything to keep it original. If a few wires were broken, would you tell her to not re-weld them? At what point does a person keep things so original that they slowly let them fall apart before their very eyes, before saving them from starvation? | |||||
| the story of vitra. about the Eames Lounge Chair | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| After spending hours and hours on the internet looking on the internet for Eames Lounge Chair i decided to send an email to vitra. I am confused; there we have the vitra. version of the lounge chair for about € 6800,- (palisander & ottoman) but also replica's of appr. € 1200,- / € 1750,-. The copies i've seen are almost not to tell form the real thing, i've seen them side by side, had my pictures with me to compare, but some replica's really are just like it should be (according to my eyes at least). If it's illegal for other company's than vitra. to sell the chair, why can they just advertise without problems, even regular shops sell these chair, with warranty and all? I don't understand, if it's illegal it should be easy to make tehm stop selling the product you are the only rightfull licensekeeper of. Also the price difference is enormous, no matter how you look at it, appr. € 5800,- difference is a lot, i really want to know what makes this difference. I decided to send vitra. an email with my questions; are they the only rightfull owner of the right for the chair in Europe and if so, howcome so many other companies are selling them? What is the difference between them? What makes a vitra. stand out? Before i proceed i must say that i would not buy a chair which is illegal. If vitra. indeed is the only one who are the rightfull seller of this chair, this just means that i will have to save more money. Today, very fast reply, they called me. The funny thing is that she didn't give very good arguments for their case. The person i talked to said that they cannot stop the other shops from selling them, i asked her if what the other shops are doing is illegal and she responded with a 'no'. Then we started talking quality. She mentioned the palisander wood; but could not say anything about what the difference might be between the palisander wood of vitra. of that of the other shops. Also concerning the leather she could not say what the difference is, i asked her about the kind of leather the use and the quality, but she couldn't say. Finally she said it's a matter of emotion; if you want to own the real thing that is approved by the Eames foundation you buy that one. If you don't really care about the feeling, you buy the other replica. I am confused; is it really only the emotion/feeling that makes the € 5800,- difference? To me it doesn't make a lot of sense. Is there anybody who can clarify this to me? if it's just the eames foundation, i would happily donate some to them, but not € 5800,- per chair! If there indeed is a difference in quality (woon, leather (thickness, kind) i would really like to know. Thank you for your advice! | |||||
| We care about Konstantin... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| We care about Konstantin... We care about Konstantin Grcic and Renzo Piano and many others. We write about them and we comment about them, but we also do not try to drive them into the square holes of our sense of the past. We try not to freeze them in time before they are even done with their careers. We try to be good brothers and sisters who recognize and praise new excellence and who boldly call shit shit when we see it being passed off as the latest thing. But after we have seen timeless greatness, after we have seen genius act in the propitious moment, after a few of the old survivors have told us of the master craftsman tradition and taught us of the convergence of historical movements that yielded the flowering of mid century modern, after we have seen what it takes to be great design, after we have been to the Cranbrook and Denmark of the mind's eye, how ya gonna keep us down on the farm with Zaha Hadid and Phil Starck? They lack high seriousness and their humor is sophomoric. We learned from the masters to eat high seriousness for breakfast and expect wit with a razor's edge. We try not to presume to know how the tradition should evolve, because we know that most of us are not the actual gifted designers that will labor to bring the unprecedented from silence to light. We know that the worst thing we can do is tell these brave designers out there operating courageously between enlightenments to design like the mid century moderns did. We know we must recognize when they do of their own volitions and imaginations. We know we must recognize even more when they push the legacy beyond where it has been, or the legacy will die of schlerosis even as we preserve and protect it. We are interested in a living legacy, not an embalmed one. The legacy is only alive, if we let it be alive. The legacy is protected and perpetuated, only if we let it be. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | ite (BE) | General discussion | |
| . Hi Gustaf, I hear you. The only thing is: the alu management chairs that are adjustable in height usually come with castors. Personally I don?t think that the castors change much to the look visually, but if you think it will bother you, perhaps best call a dealer and inquire after the adjustable height/ no castors combination. It is a great looking chair either way. Good luck ! | |||||
| Yes, it has some resemblance... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | alexandersforum | General discussion | |
| Yes, it has some resemblance... Yes, it has some resemblance to pieces by Svedberg, but I have not seen anything that is close enough so far. Another thing that points towards Svedberg, is that it can be taken apart pretty easily. Svedberg was the designer who came up with the series Triva for NK in the 40's. Triva was the first furniture line that was designed to be assembled by the buyer. Something IKEA later borrowed and made their trademark. | |||||
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