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| Thanks Jdip! | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| Thanks Jdip! Wow, I never thought I get a reply so fast and from my initial searches I believe you are on target! The desk lamps I'm finding have an very similar make up to my floor lamp's conical bulb layout - same cone and metal rings look. So great lead and one I had not found thus far. Thanks so much J. Dip I will be digging into this tonight. Since you are familiar with the Wheeler designs do you know anything more about them off hand? Only thing I can't seem to find are lamps using fabric shades, the "sight light" floor lamps seem to take up all the google results. -Maria | |||||
| SDR the whole eco green ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| SDR the whole eco green ... SDR the whole eco green has me totally confused.. I believe that we all have a responsibility to be prudent with the things that we could do to save the planet and the the O zone, but i am sorry we can only do so much and some have no desire to do nothing, as that is there belief,] as far as the nelson clocks that was more tongue and cheek speaking..... as i have no doubt that any thing that was produced prior to the enlightenment of damage to the ozone was environmentally safe, cause so many harm ful materials were used in the Eames Era, and that is the main reason that Herman miller was the first to sign on as a green company. as they knew it was a good sound move for their company | |||||
| Peugot was it until... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Peugot was it until... I have always bought Peugot steel mechanism peppermills, thinking they were the best. My parent have two that are over 100 years old that still produce a perfect grind. But lately I've found some ceramic ones that work better than at least one of the Peugots I have. And believe it or not the thing was $4.99 at IKEA. The appearance was very similar to the ones James Collines posted. I thin the smartest way to purchase a peppermill is to insist on tring it out. If the store doesn't allow you to test drive it walk away. The on Peugot I have that works poorly I bought online...lesson learned. | |||||
| Ikea? I think not | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Ikea? I think not I finally went to Ikea here in the Twin Cities and I looked around a bit. Most of the stuff looked like craparoo, so the only thing I was excited about was their wonderful bookends....metal and plastic varieties. I bought a whole bunch of 'em and I'm happy. But their furniture.....no no no no no....why buy from the Wal*Mart of big box furniture stores? Consider how many discarded pieces I've seen in the trash around here since Ikea opened up, I'm not interested. Also...Ikea put a lot of second hand furniture and antique stores out of business..... | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| . I do not think it hard to swallow that a single person designed so simple a product as a ball clock/a slat bench etc...and that person was not Nelson.Nelson of the two was perhaps more accepting of the fact that others were creative and allowed others to design more freely.The trend now in design history,is to include Ray in all aspects of a design that the Eames office created.One thing is certain Eames and Nelson are stellar design figures... | |||||
| 🙂 | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | MrMercutio | General discussion | |
| 🙂 But the form, the shape, of the object is also a sort of decoration. The entirely, natural, unprocessed bowl would be a fern leaf or two cupped hands. When you shape an object, even if you just hollow out a space in a stub so that you can carry water, you are decorating the object. So, since minimalism is quite contrived in my opinion the whole movement is centered around decoration. The point is to remove decoration, and in that sense the reverse happens. The lack of decoration becomes more of a decoration than if the thing wasn't so thoroughly designed. 🙂 | |||||
| I don't have a clue about the | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I don't have a clue about the designer, just wanted to chime in on the fabric. There are indeed a lot of cheesy, cheap fabrics that look like this, both in acrylic and the ubiquitous "Haitian cotton" that was so popular in the 70s. These fabrics are still so prevalent and so awful that they've ruined the quality fabric (the stuff with that same look) for a lot of people. It always makes me think of how the general public doesn't understand the prices for Herman Miller shell chairs because they were so widely knocked off for institutional use. "I don't get why these go for $$$, they look like the chairs in my high school lunchroom!" That kinda thing. | |||||
| ... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| ... A while back I found a 30" Nelson pedestal side table, the top of which was entirely painted black; I picked all the paint off using a hair dryer and my fingernails, and later thought holy cow that would have been a lot easier if I had just used this here razor blade. I am not always the most patient person with these things though, so it was likely to my advantage to use a non-sharp instrument that couldn't fuck anything up. I'd probably just leave this be, but I also have tons of crap that is already spray painted red. On that note though, after you destroy this chair, you can just spray paint it red! insert smiling 'emoticon' thing here | |||||
| ...ah 3d modellings a boon an... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| ...ah 3d modellings a boon an... ...ah 3d modellings a boon and a curse, so often I think its easy to mistake the model for reality when you do it too much (I dropped a cloths peg a while ago hanging a out laundry and mentally tried to 'undo' the action) and there is always a suprise, usually unpleasant, when it comes to really making the thing. But reading the article it seems it has been made... Anyway, I think the bend might be do able with compwood but never having used it I'm not sure if the compression technique they use weakens the wood too much for that sort of application. Lamination probably would be preferable, a flexible UF adhesive in a 10mm thick lamination that I used to use could take amazing weight. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . Looks like very good quality gear but nothing that will slice a log from what I could see. Heh, that was a great job, sitting at the computer and reminicsing... it was run by a mad methodist family and you could eat off the floor, loading the logs via various conveyor belts was really fun with this joystick thing but at the end of the day you'd start switching off...which would often result in a GIGANTIC log being loaded on top of another one, rolling off the conveyor system, crashing to the floor and potentially taking out a forklift and/or coworker. I loved that job but the place was closed down because my idiot government thought an FTA with Malaysia or somewhere was a good idea. | |||||
| I fixed the picture link and... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | GuruJ | General discussion | |
| I fixed the picture link and... I fixed the picture link and have the lin at the bottom to the new blog post. Thanks for the links. I was impressed with some of the Knoll & found some Joseph Noble that was killer. Their fake leathers were amazing. They had some suede looking microfiber thing that was really nice & looked real. I used to be in the design world (dad's business) and got some samples. I already know I can't afford their retail prices. I will be ordering my swivel mechanics tomorrow so I need to get some fabric going! thanks again.... http://modern-hippie.com | |||||
| Thanxalot, MidMod! | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Thanxalot, MidMod! I'm planning to buy the Vitra book, which probably won't be available for sale here at the Walker Art Center (in Minneapolis, where the Saarinen exhibition is currently) until the first of the year, but I plan to buy one. No one else seems to have it for sale in the US that I can find. Thanks again for the useful information. Isn't it strange that Howard Miller had (apparently) no interest in the reissues that went to Vitra? I'm certain they would've done 'em if they had wanted to. O...one more thing, MidMod, if you want to email me privately (barrymn1@msn.com), I'll be glad to send you my Excel spreadsheet on all of the Nelson clocks I've been able to locate by number and description (over 300 by now, including variants....) | |||||
| exactly... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| exactly... as is the nature of wood, some movement throught the seasons. Things which consideration of grain direction, mating material selection, finishes etc. can reduce that to a non-issue, or rather a controled issue. So far the table has been through all 4 with no appreciable movement in the leg joint, and that with no mechanical fastener. ...so far so good Thanks for the link. Now I just need to find some manufacturing, quite a hard thing to do in wood filled Canada actually. I might just have to start my own shop to make these pieces (been doing cabinet/carpentry work for 20yrs so far) | |||||
| Thanks again everyone for... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Fungus Mungus (USA) | General discussion | |
| Thanks again everyone for... Thanks again everyone for your responses. So it seems that some people are less than thrilled with the current versions of the Series 7 chairs due to poor finishing on the legs. For those of you who have had problems with sturdiness of these chairs, how would you compare the Eames DCW chairs? I am also considering these which are a little cheaper. Also, I noticed that Room & Board has a copy of the Series 7 chair called "Jake" which is only $79. Has anyone had any experience with these? I feel like I would rather go with the "real thing", but if these look good, and are sturdy as the Fritz Hansen chairs, I could save a bundle and have a little cash for a decent mid-century desk. Thoughts? fm | |||||
| Shooter | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Shooter I originally posted this question because i hadnt had a lot of experience with the 670 and I wanted to know some tips about purchasing a used one. For example - $500 is a heck of a price for an authentic 670, but in the higher range for a Plycraft version. Something like the tilt mechanism is a great way to know you're dealing with a vintage fake - especially if you havent gotten too close to an authentic Eames chair. In the end I bought a Plycraft version because it does look nice, was cheap, and is comfortable. And I would never attempt to 'pass' it for the real thing. Thats just deceptive, and will only bring bad karma. 😀 | |||||
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