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	Nice find!	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Fungus Mungus (USA)	General discussion
	Nice find! Yesterday, my friend sent me a pic he took when he was at the dump. It was a Mulhauser Plycraft Mr. Chair (the one with the wing-like arms) in quite respectable condition. "It thought it might be an Eames, but then I realized it wasn't, so I passed". I called him up and told him to go back and get it...these chairs have their own following. He begrudgingly went back for it. The best part was that as he walked up to it the second time, there were a couple of guys haggling with the employees over it: "No, $4 is way too much for this thing". They passed. My friend asked "how much?". $3. Clowns. fm
	my preference is to buy...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	my preference is to buy... my preference is to buy vintage or used. several pieces i have are not vintage, but are used. i have only bought a couple of items new, and frankly i don't like it as well.... there's something about wear that i like. ultimately, buying second hand is the greenest way ... if you care about that sort of thing. if you keep your eyes open there are usually good deals to be had. plus, you sometimes end up with something slightly different than planned. this helps create an "acquired and collected" look rather than a homogeneously over-planned look. you'll find interesting pairings of objects that you wouldn't have sought after otherwise.
	What made me interested in them is this:	1 Relevance	19 years ago	barrympls	General discussion
	What made me interested in them is this: I'm still looking for a 'definitive', yet affordable sofa, and when i made jokes abouit the ridiculous price of the Poul Kjaerholm PK31 sofa from Fritz Hansen, I decided that even tho it was expensive, it certainly is a pretty thing. Modern Reproductions is about the only website that offers a knockoff of this sofa....and I'm wondering if it wouldn't be cool to have a sofa that looks like the $20,000.00 model! Anyhow, it was just a thought and that's why I asked if anyone had actual experience with these guys.
	It seems especially true for...	1 Relevance	22 years ago	b	General discussion
	It seems especially true for... It seems especially true for the mid century period.Now there is talk of spirituality in BROAD non specific terms,I guess that allows you to apply what I call the smorgasbord effect( simply pick what you like of a religion, discard the rest}?You pick the religion to self, not as in olden times live by the tenets.Koen, you seem to be a prime example of the humanistic/intellectual/secular/liberal?Thats a good thing,to quote Martha...B
	Here is my 2 gen zenith. The ...	1 Relevance	12 years ago	difeliciantonio	General discussion
	Here is my 2 gen zenith. The ... Here is my 2 gen zenith. The original x-base broke at a bolt hole opening and after having it fixed only lasted about a year before it broke again so I picked up a low lounge aluminum shell chair base that from a local college here in my town. Its quite low and have only seen 1 other base like it Another thing I like about the zenith shell chairs is how big the fiberglass staws are.
	.	1 Relevance	13 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	. I was looking through images of sofas on lauritz with google image search. Looking for something entirely different, recognized the sofa you were asking about. Complete coincidence. But I learn a lot from looking for random id requests, especially because Google is never so direct as to give you what you actually ask for, so I find all sorts of other things when I set out looking for one thing. example search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lauritz.com+sofa+palisander
	Multiple thoughts...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Multiple thoughts... LunchBox...I am Swedish by heritage and in possession of a Swedish meatball recipe that came over on the boat(literally) with my great grandmother. If you're very nice to me, I'll share it with you. They are simple to make and freeze very well, minus the gravy, which can be made up later. Lingonberry jam is NOT typically served with meatballs, that's a recent addition, and one, personally, that I don't like at all. But let me tell you about cloudberry jam on vanilla icecream...swoon! Whitespike...well I have a Malm bed too and it's holding up quite well, but the hubs and I made a couple of alterations to it to reinforce the slatted support. It's only 4 years old, though, so we shall see. I have a beside table that is birch, but not the Malm series and I've had that piece for ages...about 13-15 years and it's holding up very well except for the part of the top where my night time glass of water sits. It is veneered particle board, mostly but the drawer fronts are curved and cut from solid wood. It's the oldest 'wood' IKEA piece I have and if it weren't for all the midnight water spills, it'd probably be looking quite spiffy. I also had a pair of astronaut like chairs...Romme was the name I think, that are no longer produced. They were so sturdy I actually bothered to reupholster them! Sold them when we moved west and have been missing them. Most of the other 'older' pieces I have are vases, lamps, etc. I also buy a lot of IKEA bedding and have been quite happy with the quality to price ratio. But the bedding is another IKEA thing that you have to be circumspect on. They have widely varying fabric quality. I check them out very thoroughly! I love the idea of a webbed Poang! But that chair has always worried me. Considering the size of some of the folks in my family, I hear splintering wood and thumping arses every time I look at it. Maybe asking a Japanese man to design for a Swede isn't the right thing after all!
	Minimoma - here's another	1 Relevance	8 years ago	Spanky	Repair
	Minimoma - here's another strange thing. While looking at the drawing you placed here i noticed that all 3 horizontal lines (stretcher, seat rail, armrest) are positioned differently than the distances I took out of a real world chair. In the diagram hereunder - at the left hand side: your drawing and highlighted lines on top At the right hand side - same lines taken from a the photo at the center. please advice..
	I hope not Spanky, because	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Spanky	Identification
	I hope not Spanky, because the fabric was not inexpensive and is a Kvadrat product. I chose it based on their reputation so fingers crossed. It does not look like fabric that would pill or shed as it sits on the couch. It is well constructed and has a nice hand. Years ago I had a couch with a washable wool felt cover and that thing was a champion...never shed or pilled and not nearly as nice as this fabric....hopefully this will be even better 🙂
	Shame on me-I think I got taken-fake Castiglioni Arco lamp	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Tulipman	General discussion
	Well,serves me right for not researching the details,but I thought I was getting a real vintage Castiglioni Arco lamp without the marble base.You know how a seller can weave a web around something.Bought from a couple who had it since 64,the base was broken in a move,yadda yadda yadda.Turns out it has a rounded arm,not square like the real thing.Unless they made a rounded arm version.Anyhow,I should have researched more thoroughly.-Shame on me!
	I am actually looking for two	1 Relevance	11 years ago	gropius	General discussion
	I am actually looking for two of these same parts. SDR referred to this as a "bullet catch" in an earlier thread here: http://www.designaddict.com/forum/Repair/Sliding-Door-Hardware , but the bullet catches I was able to find do not have slotted ends like yours, so I am not sure that is quite the same thing. I thought I might modify some bullet catches if I couldn't find anything closer. Can I ask who made your sideboard? I have one that is unmarked that uses the same hardware, so if there is any name or identification on yours I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
	could a list of adjectives...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HP	General discussion
	could a list of adjectives... could a list of adjectives amount to a formula? Light, strong, cheap, flexible? Eames definitely had goals if not a formula, I think it amounts to the same thing and he was successful. I admire his entreaupeneurial spirit thats for sure! Formula vs formulaic? Theres a difference and I think its evident in the La fonda chair, which is one of the few products Eames produced which could be accused of the latter. Thanks for the stimulating posts.
	room606	1 Relevance	19 years ago	glassartist	General discussion
	room606 i hope you dont think that not using personal attacks in any way would make this forum p.c. or staid or boring. you can talk about any subject under the sun and be in complete dissagreement with anyone else without a personal slight. these ideas of yours do not follow it seems to me. the only thing being civil would restrict is venting and personal attacks. those i find boring, uninformative and in the end destructive to this forum. and breaking a dish would be so much faster.
	alaphville	1 Relevance	20 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	alaphville They make nothing in Union city CA Just the warehouse . Every thing they make is from China they have 3 or 4 representive companies with internet stores that partner up with them to make furniture in the factories in China. The more they can make the cheaper it is . The reps sell there merchandise to brick and morter stores around the USA so does Alphaville . There products are the best they use the best materials and they try to get it right here in the U.S.A the rest is left up to the manafactures in China.
	Hi Minimoma.	1 Relevance	9 years ago	My Panton Home	General discussion
	Hi Minimoma. Thanks for digging up my thread among all the Chinese spam! I agree with you, it does look like a marriage and the Nelson link does look very much like this top. Pulls are the same, slightmy different construction of the caninets and a little thicker top. But Nelson and Miller are at least in the same circle of friends. There was licensed production of Eames and Knoll furniture and they sometimes differ slighlty in construction and materials. But another thing that speaks against this being original is that the height is stated as 78cm which is about 8cm to high for this timeperiod and i attribute that to the thick top.