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	nostalgic modernism	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HP	General discussion
	Whitespikes dislike of having the television on display got me thinking. Its quite a common thing, there are other symptoms of it too and I wonder if for all our designerness and so called taste if we are really that far removed from the taselled colonial stripped pine burbs, both camps retreat into something that lets them feel very comfortable, all the gen xers who criticised the taste of their parents seem to reaching back for it themselves. I do it myself. But I think its an attitude that is blunting the honesty of good design, much as I dislike most peoples taste I'm going to stop criticising them for it. A danish chair and a Victorian wingback...not so different.
	.	1 Relevance	18 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. its more of an oblong than an elipse I think, Elipses good, oblongs bad. The extended top looks cheap (like a commercial particleboard office table), the base is lovely and I think he should have foregone the extension in favour of making a fixed top which echoed the shape of the base. Looking closely I think the carved cabinets above are cnc cut. Not sure how I feel about that. I have seen some very good carving done through a laminated board of 3 different woods, it takes a lot of skill to pull that sort of thing off. The 'about' page on the site is a good read about the history of US studio furniture.
	Eastern Fork	1 Relevance	22 years ago	Marksab	General discussion
	Eastern Fork I have a fork from Eastern Airlines that is quite nice. It has a flattened end, with the logo stamped on it with lines running up to the tines. It has the forgery's stamp on the back "THC Stainless Korea", but does not Eastern on it anywhere. It got me started collecting airline sliverware years ago, mind you , from flights I was on (I've just admitted to stealing things off of airplanes), not realizing that they would evenually go away. Although I did comment to someone once how amazed I was they voluntarily gave us sharp objects. I guess I was not as naive as I was innocent. Anyway, I love this thing, and would like more!
	I gotta side	1 Relevance	18 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	I gotta side with that approach. This is an unusual piece of glass -- more like a vase than a top, all things considered -- and Riki had it right from the top. (There is really no such thing as "green-edge" glass. The "green edge" is simply the result of a certain degree of tint in the glass. The thicker the glass, the more edge there is to see, AND the more the glass reads green. ) The shape, edge-grind and possible signature are all reasons to just get it from HM, in my opinion, particularly as the table apparently has a sentimental value for these owners.
	And in case the fake-looking	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	And in case the fake-looking mark isn't enough, the end of the cushion is indeed different than that on the real thing. The end piece is a flat circle of leather on the fake one, whereas the on the real one it is a strip of leather that is gathered into pleats in the center. The button on the fake one is also smaller in relation to the diameter of its cushion. (This makes it look like the cushion is too big in diameter but it's actually correct if you compare it to the thickness of the big cushion. Unless that's too thick, too...)
	I.P.	1 Relevance	22 years ago	koen	General discussion
	I.P. It is a characteristic common to all I.P. legislation that the ownership of the intellectual property stays with the inventor/ creator. The only thing that can be subject to a transaction is the use of the I.P. But "use" does not give you full ownership. I guess it is public knowledge that Michael Jackson owns the use of a number of Beatles songs. Unless it is specified in the selling contract it does not give him the right to include a recognizable part of the music or lyrics in his own music.Under which other conditions these rights to use are transferred is up to the two parties involved. As far as Shooter's comment is concerned, I fail to see why the function of the invention or creation should make a difference. Right now, music, both lyrics and the music, all kinds of texts, from simple instructions to literature, from scientific papers to advertising slogans, commercial names,pictures, illustrations and paintings, movies, etc. they all are subject to the copyright laws, and yet their functions are quite different. Within the patent law a same general rule applies. A life saving drug falls under the same rules as any trivial (but functional) invention. A patented process in industry is treated the same way as a G.M.O. My argument is that the protection society gives to the result of an invention or creation is dictated by the appreciation society wants to show, (an appreciation that turns into an encouragement for the inventor/ creator and the means to live from it) on one hand, and society's eagerness to disclose the "secret" of the invention on the other. The fact that society was not that eager to allow free use of music, movies or any other work under the copyright law, has resulted in the opposite effect. It has allowed that industry to get extravagant benefits. So the person that will cure cancer (I guess their will not be such a thing, but just as an example) will be less rewarded by society for that contribution than say the author of a successful series of children books.
	Sorry, forgot to say that yes	1 Relevance	8 years ago	Spanky	Repair
	Sorry, forgot to say that yes you should do side panels for the head cushion if you go with this shape. I just stand it on end on a piece of paper and then draw around it---simple! You might want to look up how to do a boxed cushion. I usually topstitch the seam allowance for a really finished look, for instance. There's also some clipping and trimming needed as you go---just basic stuff when sewing curves but it makes a huge difference in the appearance of the finished thing. I think you will might want to do separate pieces for the back and the front, too. It will help a bit to define the shape, especially at the corners when you're placing the hanging loops.
	No, the clouds accumulated	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Eameshead	Off topic
	The clouds just continued to accumulate South of my location, I think…. (I am about 15 miles north of San Francisco in a little hippy town) and yes I saw the quick change this morning and took another photo just a few minutes later, below. Even clouds have perspective in them, and this morning it was glaringly obvious in the cloud cover you mentioned. Hard to beat your sunsets SDR! (But then, there is no such thing as a bad sky!)
	Why don't you ask them what	1 Relevance	12 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Why don't you ask them what documentation they have on it? Aage Christiansen for Erhardsen & Andersen would be an odd credit to pick randomly, which is to say that the perception that it is true wouldn't add much value to the piece to a low knowledge buyer (or to put it another way, they say Finn Juhl for Niels Vodder). And the bit about it being "Model A" would be some imaginative story telling if they don't have an old catalog for it. Or possibly it has a tag that says maker, designer, and model. The one thing that is suspicious is that they called the company "Eras." They company went by "ERAN" Could just be a typo. Or it could all be bogus. But if they want to sell the chair with that story, they ought to be prepared to substantiate it.
	"EAT" was funny	1 Relevance	15 years ago	fastfwd	General discussion
	"EAT" was funny but the rest just seems pointless to me. What's he trying to say... That interior-design cliches exist? Big deal. And if that IS all that he's trying to say, he could do it a lot better. I mean, there are HUNDREDS of photos on the web of generically-styled loft apartments in which the Noguchi coffee table is the only standout design. He could have used one of THOSE rooms for his titular photo, rather than a spectacular room in which the furniture -- which includes a Conoid bench, FFS -- is perfectly integrated with the table. Oh, and how come he knows the names of the most conventional mainstream midcentury furniture designs, but not the name of a single other thing? That's weird. Does he work at DWR?
	.	1 Relevance	15 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. Unfortunately I think we approach making things from very different perspectives so perhaps can't communicate too well. If I had thought that breaking a piece of concrete and then re-assembling it with resin was something to try the first thing as usual I would have thought was 'should I?'. People know concrete can break, confirming knowledge already held doesn't make art nor does using slightly clever sounding language. ...so many other reasons and thats where it would have stopped along with most of what I come up with. Personally I go for a less and better approach to life and working. If in 10 years time you are still pleased with these works th\en good, but frankly I think pleasing yourself is the major motivation here.
	Modernesia - Mint Rope Edge Eames a Plenty	1 Relevance	16 years ago	asawa	General discussion
	Modernesia - Mint Rope Edge Eames a Plenty This ebay seller is a major scammer. He buys his parts under the name Malihini and switches bases around and restores shells, then sells under Modernesia. It looks like he even makes fake labels from time to time. After all the switch a roos and shenanigans he claims everything is 100% original. He's also pulled this same sort of activity with at least one Nelson clocks and now it looks like he's moving into the lamp business. The sad thing is that it looks like a successful business model.
	SDR	1 Relevance	16 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	SDR The first thing I did was google for info about finishes and that's where I got all the conflicting information! One site said to never use polyurethane but the guys who made the table top for me recommended that before anything else. I used the rub-on polyurethane on the jatoba top in the photo and didn't have any trouble with overlap, but I did have to do seven or eight coats before it had an even sheen. Maybe the unevenness is what you are calling overlap. Your oak looks great with the filled grain in green, but I definitely want just the natural color of the wenge. The pieces I chose have the really dark brown-black with lighter brown graining. I'm picking it up tomorrow. I can't wait.
	Heh, Gustaf, about the flowers - because me too	1 Relevance	18 years ago	dashes	General discussion
	Heh, Gustaf, about the flowers - because me too There was a time when I made of point of bringing flowers in regularly and it was really nice - but then they die and you have to start all over. So, I stopped, lol. Even then though, I used an ice bucket I had as the vase - in fact, I should go dig that up and check it out, it could be some vintage thing that I never noticed (it's metal though). Riki, I know what you mean about the grain lines on the bottom. I'm pretty sure that the guy I showed it to (who knows his woods) thought it was teak, but now I'm not positive. And doesn't that dust under the knob just drive everyone nuts!? Why didn't I clean it up before taking photos! LOL -- I might just have to go clean it and oil it and then repost new photos...
	That's weird...	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	That's weird... ...the part that would be hard to copy is the curved plywood back, but that looks pretty accurate. The easy parts would be that front rail that is much too high and not notched out on the chair that you posted, and the point at which the side rails connect to the back rail---inset quite a bit from the legs on the authentic ones, whereas yours are pretty close to the legs. And the arms, yeah. The arms are not the only thing different about it. I wonder if someone rebuilt it long ago. It doesn't seem likely that it's a knockoff.