Search – Page 267 – Design Addict Forum

Search result for: the-last-thing-you-aquired-

Search in Forums:

Search in date period:

Sort Search Results by:

Search Phrase:

Search Type:

Page 267 / 490 Prev Next

#	Post Title	Result Info	Date	User	Forum
	Daisaku Cho	1 Relevance	16 years ago	ite (BE)	General discussion
	Daisaku Cho .. is the japanese guy who designed the chair. Habitat UK re editioned the chair in beech, under the name "Daisaku Chair" (yeah, no points for original naming strategies). I think it was more than four years ago though - I am pretty sure, as it must have been around the name that I first started to take an interest in this sort of thing. Mr Daisaku is prob better know for another chair in the west: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/japanese-designers-101
	I loved this house I fi...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	I loved this house I fi... I loved this house I first saw it almost 40 years ago while a undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma it certainly influenced me to always be on the look out for some thing unusual in Home Architecture. Although it took me almost 40 years I found my own Frank Lloyd Wright,Richard Neutra,Marcel Breuer,Elliot Noyes, style home The Goff home put me on the track ,
	No Maker Wild Modern Windup German Clock	1 Relevance	12 years ago	NULL NULL	Identification
	Hello,I'm at a loss as to who made this wild windup clock and what decade it's from. It says German on the face and made in Germany on the rearThe whole thing measures about 5' long by 3.5' tall. the clock itself is about 12" across.Thank you all for your help
	Why are some of you guys so	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Snaaf	General discussion
	Why are some of you guys so much against making a little profit from time to time on stuff you've bought? Is the world supposed to be more idealistic or so? A lotta people make their living, and create livings for others, by earning profit on things.... I know this chair is scarce, and since I daily pay high prices for things that are scarce, from special food and wines to furniture, why can't I do the same thing?
	There are some Pearsall...	1 Relevance	13 years ago	cubby01	General discussion
	There are some Pearsall... There are some Pearsall designs I like but honestly most of them kind of turn me off. Someone (many) have said good design is a combination of aesthetics and functionality. In my very much laymans mind there's too much fashion/fad and not enough aesthetics in most Pearsall pieces. That may not make any sense to anyone else but that's what came to mind reading the thread title. Another thing is didn't Pearsall come pretty late to the game? I mean isn't he a generation or two after a lot of prominent MCM designers.
	I also think that you have some lovely pieces there	1 Relevance	15 years ago	danielmpoole	General discussion
	I also think that you have some lovely pieces there I agree with several of the points already made: Move the ottomans away from the sidebord and give it some space. Limit some of the artwork Limit the amount of cushions There is one thing that looks out of place for me, and that is the sofa/couch. The style and colour just doesn't work in my opinion. It's a nice couch, but I don't think it compliments the rest of the pieces. Again, this is just my opinion so please don't take offense!
	Too many drive by ID's and re...	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Sound & Design	General discussion
	Too many drive by ID's and re... Too many drive by ID's and readers and not enough substance. Too much take, little contribution. Not to say that ID's aren't welcomed, just the substance of, and motivation for aren't always welcomed. I know Google isn't as resourceful as it once was....it is still revealing. Like when random new members request ID's, only to learn their hidden motive is selling it...which is tacky in its own way. The kind of thing regular contributors to DA get tired of. See link below. http://tinyurl.com/68fj9dw
	love to see book	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	love to see book I a m surprised that Leslie Pina for shiffer books has never written a book on the clocks of George Nelson . This woman has written on every subject on the mid-century design and then started writing on what she left out she must have at lest 50 separate books in print on Every thing ever done by, for, or about Hermann Miller, Alexander Girard and others dealing with furniture and design,
	The Software and Hardware of Designs	1 Relevance	19 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	The Software and Hardware of Designs Digups, thanks for the pics of the miscellaneous metal cabinets. These are uglier and more like what was in my aunts kitchen. 🙂 These Loewy cabinets, however, are extremely right. In fact, this rather idiosyncratic company called Ludysign just seems generally very cool to me. They seem to be packaging these cabinets and all manner of modern (knock offs?) with what I would call insincere irony--a step forward from the recent phase of sincere irony. Frankly, it seems yet another hybridizing of modern and post modern. I would call it INSINCERE MODERN, not as a criticism, but rather as a debunking of modernism's sometimes high seriousness about subordinating persons to rational materialism. Let me try to clarify this. Post Modernism addressed this issue of modernism's occasionally unfortunate subordination of the individual to rational materialism by taking modernist design form language and affixing to it historical revivalism and eclecticism via adoption of ornament and sincere irony. But, as a result, post modern designs mostly descended into an emphasis on surface that yielded heavyness, and an emphasis on empty ornamental allusions that produced a bastard trivialization of modernism. What the Ludysign persons seem up to is to change the way modernist design is packaged rather than change modernist design itself. To whatever extent this may indicate a zeitgeist of the times, it indicates an emphasis on the software of design, rather than the hardware of design. Think about this for a moment. All design has a software and a hardware aspect to it. By this I mean, one can change the physical design of a thing to attain a functional and aesthetic effect, but one can also change the way (i.e., standards of aesthetic perception) the thing is marketed and perceived by persons. Ludysign seems takes the traditional modernist designs and repackages the software of the design; i.e., it says we do not have to change the design, rather we can change the sensibility through which we perceive the same design. Hence, Ludysign uses models that are edgy, slightly grotesque caricatures of the woman or man of the 50s and says, "See? This stuff is so good it is right even for our wacked out times." They are redesigning the software of modern design. There is no more zeal to its mission of change. There is no more sincerity that this is way persons should be made to subordinate to rational materialism. There is the winking awareness that this stuff is just the best there, not some thing that is going to change the world. And yes, you have to be a little bit freaky, idiosyncratic and insincere to get into 50 year old hardware, but, hey, in the face of the contemporary world, this is your best alternative. They imply, look, we can't improve on the hardware yet, but we can rationalize it for you through rewriting the software that surrounds the way you perceive it.
	Does anyone actually like or buy this stuff?	1 Relevance	16 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	So much student flat pack so little enthusiasm...The stuff is breeding and I really wonder why design colleges are so keen on getting people to work with sheet goods in this manner, very occasionally its done well but I don't know anyone who has ever bought any of it. Sometimes they even display the left over sheet as some sort of interesting thing to look at and all the supposed efficiency of production is often revealed to just be a lie, the components so badly nested in the sheet that half of it goes to waste. I mean no personal offense to the designer of this piece, its just not to my taste.
	Evidently you don't really	1 Relevance	11 years ago	retrolampguy	General discussion
	Evidently you don't really understand. An appraisal, valuation, comp or fair asking price are all synonyms for the same thing. That is taboo here. Not to be mean or make people's life difficult but because if it was allowed you would see the following breakdown of every 100 posts: 90: how much is this piece of crap I just got at goodwill worth? 9: who designed this piece of crap I just got at goodwill? 1: pic of Aunt Mark in some fabulous pants. It had been pointed out to search SOLD eBay listings. That is your best bet.
	I was told hot glue, but I am...	1 Relevance	15 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	I was told hot glue, but I am... I was told hot glue, but I am only taking the original owners word for it. That was when I got the thing, beforehand he said wax. WOuld the ice pack idea work fir either of these, knowing that the exact substance is in question? Ideas for raising it 4 inches elegantly without altering the piece? thought about maybe cutting a two by four to the exact dimensions of the legs, maybe even slightly smaller and painting black to set it on... maybe using rubber furniture pads to keep it on.
	Well...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	DudeDah	General discussion
	Well... design SHOULD be about solving a "problem". ART on the other hand can be beautiful* just for the sake of being beautiful. MY TAKE is that a chair that is sculptural yet uncomfortable to sit in is a failure as a chair but may be successful* as a sculpture. It's easier to do one or the other than it is to do both, and successful* ventures at doing both are to be more highly regarded than just doing one. *AW HELL...it's ALL subjective but EXPENSIVE ITALIAN sculptures pawned off as chairs PISS ME OFF!! But so does that shuttle-cock thing I saw at Moss...crap now I'm starting to get all rustered...
	fun	1 Relevance	18 years ago	Riki	General discussion
	fun Lloyd, it is fun. Every day's a treasure hunt. I must admit that after doing this antique stuff for profit for so many years, one kind of gets jaded. (You can only sell so many bow front mahogany chests). But this MCM stuff is still out there undiscovered down here in my neck of the woods and it's kind of given me a kickstart where before I was feeling a litle burnout. Barry and Lloyd, I haven't forgotten you re: the Random House book clock editor email thing.
	i'm not convinced	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	i'm not convinced I'm not convinced Green as a label is a bad thing. Words have a lot of power! Being sustainable, being simple, being eco-friendly all fall under the greater umbrella of...what? Its true, Green gets a lot of superfluous lips service, but if it works in a way that allows a broader number of people to grasp a complex issue, I'm all for it! And to answer LRF's question: What does green mean to you? Green is making responsible decisions. Everything we do is a choice, and usually there is one way of doing something that is better than the other - not necessarily easier, just better.