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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Waht do you think of this | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | jbtirza | General discussion | |
| here is a link to a sale on ebay claiming to be one of the most rare Barcelona chairs. The berlin workshop. Only a couple known to exist. The thing is: This one looks chromed: the original ones weren't so that is a big big warning. Also, look at the price: why does this guy not offer it for auction at a proper place?... exactly.. What is your opinion! http://www.ebay.nl/itm/muller-metallgewerbe-stiegler-1-Barcelona-chair-mies-der-rohe-bauhaus-knoll-/261250387833?pt=Design_Stil&hash=item3cd3bc8f79 | |||||
| opinions on this design | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| This is the sort of thing I'm working on at the moment, using reclaimed timber, shellac and remnant saddle hyde. Its more about craft than design for production but nonetheless I'd be happy to read any suggestions or thoughts. I have followed this autocad/3d max model pretty closely and just have to drill the holes for the legs and make the cushion (it drops into a depression in the top) which hopefully I'll get done next weekend. I might post models of variations of my own or of any suggestions anyone cares to make. Thanks, Heath | |||||
| ?waste is really a design flaw? | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | room606 | General discussion | |
| There is a lot to learn from this article, so I am sharing it for those interested. I read it as a source to inform the debate on the 1) the current trend of designing so that the thing can be regurgitated eventually as something else vs. 2) designing with regard for permanence. I'm still stuck on #2 but it is nice to see that significant value is derived still through material recycling. This article points to the economics of where that value lies and hints at other topics relvant to this board. http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249262 | |||||
| Polar opposite sky here! | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| Polar opposite sky here! Usually the summer humidity in my beloved mid-Atlantic state is so dense that colors are muted and bland at best. So i was quite surprised to walk outside this afternoon and see this. I thought I might have to use a filter to get the photo to look like the real thing, but the camera recorded it exactly right. I thought I was in Colorado for a second. | |||||
| Kate Kaplan, since you are in | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | _ | General discussion | |
| Kate Kaplan, since you are in Los Angeles, besides SCI-Arc downtown, also try contacting The Art center College of Design in Pasadena, Woodbury School of Architecture in Burbank and UCLA Graduate program in Architecture or museum libraries at LACMA, MOCA, the Hammer, the Norton Simon Museum and also the Huntington Library to see if anyone will be interested in your catalog. Or maybe start your own foundation of your father's work by applying some of the grants available to do this kind of thing. | |||||
| why yes | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| why yes The Eames ESU desk is my only "recent Herman Miller reissue" piece. Bought it new as a floor model in 1999 or so, when a local store was going out of business because the MCM thing was slowing down. It has one big file drawer on the right. I like it. Its great if you like a lot of desktop space at 60 inches by... what, 30 inches? But it is not a small desk. Whats cool is that the colored panels can be interchanged, so you can go neutral or eliminate a color you don't like, or whatever. Someday I might still try to get a vintage one, but our cats might keep that from happening. | |||||
| Spanky, well I suppose its p... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| Spanky, well I suppose its p... Spanky, well I suppose its potentially a difficult thing, I googled a bit about it and these right wing groups go crazy about it. I don't know if pigment is added to the plastic granules prior to molding but if it is I can't see why a whole range of skin tones couldn't be produced by altering and mixing the amounts, then just let the kids or parents decide, after a while the packers in the factory would get an idea of what the right mix is for each retailer they send too. PS I'm thinking about contemporary dolls of course, not the ones you posted. | |||||
| It's a passionate... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| It's a passionate... It's a passionate explanation, whitespike, and I like it, but I'm thinking it could be gutted pretty easily, almost point by point. I honestly had no idea that displaying formerly animate life was such a Southern thing. I sense it's a part of -- and possibly nearly exclusive to -- an American heritage in general (you'll find your disembodied deer heads on fine walls all over this land I bet, from Malibu to the Adirondacks) although I don't know for sure. I don't get out much. It is, I agree, a very interesting topic for discussion. | |||||
| Thanks for posting the new link to this video-- | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | william-holden-... | General discussion | |
| Thanks for posting the new link to this video-- it's a better version, to boot. I'd looked for this several weeks ago (in need of a fresh dose of "The Chair")and was disappointed to find it'd been removed. (Sigh)... what a beautiful thing The Chair is. I'm also tickled by the slightly ominous & very Teutonic last lines of the narration: "The leather is vegetable tanned and has received no surface treatment so it is very, very delicate. But over the years it is very probable that the chair takes on the patina that The Chair and its owner DESERVE." | |||||
| You broched a subject that... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Sound & Design | General discussion | |
| You broched a subject that... You broched a subject that truly needs attention. Herman Miller and Knoll are industy leaders in the global efforts towards a healthier, greener world. They deserve to be supported for this. They have also spent considerable resources researching and developing products to meet consumer needs. This takes lots of time and money to successfully accomplish. The kind of thing most Knock-offs companies don't do. Actually, quite the opposite. | |||||
| I sympathize but... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I sympathize but... Good for you for not buying the knock off. I agree with those that hold out for the real thing. However, I'm with you on the overpriced-ness of the mid-century market. I can't bring myself to fork over that much money for a furniture piece. My solution is to look elsewhere. Craigslist, garage sales, and trash dumps still hold hope and I've had success in each of these. Take your time and look. One may not find an Eames lounge but one can have hope. This past thread of yours has been on my mind. It's an interesting topic for collectors. | |||||
| Story time kids! | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Story time kids! When my wife and I were dating,we took in a stray Siamese cat that was so lithe and elegant that we named her Coco - of course after Coco Chanel. I belive we got the cat in 1989 and the damned thing simply will not die. Unlike the timeless elegance of the Channel dress, an anorexic,geriatric cat prone to vomiting and howling looses its charm after a while. But she's simply too lovely to take to that "last trip to the vet". Sigh... ' the sufferings of an incurable aesthete. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| . The climate on DA is generally PC,you may have trouble. We had on DA a long "thing" (yes due mainly to me)it seems many think the unusually large number of famous gay designers is meaningless and that there is little/nothing that links gay people to design in any special way. EXAMPLE:The very popular USA television show QUEER EYE for the straight guy is based wholly on the widely held belief that gays have an edge /eye in design matters...and that "real"men/males generally do not...good luck with your research,please post your findings... | |||||
| Perspectives | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| Perspectives Every new day, new directions thinking comes to mind... Perspective is the key word?... ONE) A perspective (from here). If I have to tell you much about Brazilian mid-century vintage furniture, Sorry, but I will disappoint you, I have not much more to tell you. There is one thing that I found really-very different, that wanted to comment it before, and this is provably the best moment, is: One of the huge differences that I saw, between ,,,here,,, and ,,,there,,, is the fascination with mid-century/vintage furniture, the prices, and the Is it reeeal? (because if mine it,s real, that menas that your,s is unreal?) That you have there. When I visited this forum for the first time 5 years ago, I didn?t understand that idea, and to me, although I,m also fascinated whit some great stuff, it,s hard to me to share those feelings, even today. Here, Nobody, design related, designers, design aficionados, design schools, I said nobody, have at all this idea on mind, it,s from another planet. Why? Well, I,ll risk some conclusions, Maybe... 1) Well, first and above all, there are no originals. Why?, well, long story, and have to think it well, but foremost, industries and designers, most of the times 'Fail to be happy marriages'. 2) Are absurdly expensive. (and I mean let's say 2008 Vitra's originals, not to talk vintage) 3) Other needs and other reality. 4) We are living other reality/thing. Well, now you have to do the effort to imagine, to understand 'this' reality. This is THE moment of the new design. (and, at least in Argentina) in this moment is emerging an authentic local design, that ,,condensing,, many local ,requirements. Very strong, after devaluation. And this may make a bit of shadow over the past. VINTAGE NOW 1) There is but a shy one trend. 2) A smiley little story related: A friend, from a film producer studio said: those Europeans, are fascinated with vintage, when we live in a vintage reality every day!! : - ) 3) There is a small vintage signature market (originals)...., and this small findings could be cheap, but I repeat it,s not the main route. Too little stuff and too big effort. | |||||
| Goodwill Tulip Chairs | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | modernistical | General discussion | |
| Goodwill Tulip Chairs A few says ago I found 4 black armless Eero Saarinen Tulip Chairs for $5 each at my local Goodwill. Knoll International Stickers intact - delivery date stamped on the cushion label. - Feb 18, 1971. Moderate wear... 4 great chairs. It's a good thing that I live in such a dump - anywhere else they would have never gotten to the floor or been given to Goodwill in the first place. | |||||
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