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	link below for chair pics	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	link below for chair pics As for fabric, it is possible to tell quality by looking at fabric but you need to know how to identify fiber content and I don't really know how to describe that in words. It's a very tactile thing. Maybe there's a website somewhere with clues. There used to be a site that described how to read results from a burn test but it's long gone. Maybe there are others now, I dunno. If it's loosely woven, forget it. If it's thin and not tightly woven, forget it. Maybe you should talk to a local upholsterer? Someone who knows fabrics? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=eames+small+dot+fabric+chair
	I like	1 Relevance	18 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	I like your sculpture. And I think this is a great topic. I'll contribute, and possibly corrupt the idea by posting something I made myself. But, other than a peculiar leafed branch that I treasure, this paper lantern is probably the thing I most enjoy staring at, in my living room. I made it almost twenty years ago, and never seem to tire of it. It was made of kraft paper, a brown paper bag, and white paper. The particle-board plinth came first. The intention was to make this lantern out of sheet copper and glass. I've not done that yet.
	nope	1 Relevance	21 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	nope not really... a few months ago i wanted to buy the sony t7 (really small digital camera), well it wasn't very easy to use (my greasy fingers where all over the lcd screen) so i bought i slight bigger one... . i do want a really small cell phone (my sonyericssson t600, app 9x1,8x4cm, 80grams) broke but nowadays i cannot find an even small and lightweight phone, due to all those new features like wap gprs, dig camera, dig video, mp3 player etc etc included but i do not need those features. ipod nano, yet another thing to put in your pocket...
	Evapo-Rust will do what you...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	fastfwd	General discussion
	Evapo-Rust will do what you... Evapo-Rust will do what you want, but you'll need to work out a way to immerse your chair in it. Probably best to do one portion at a time in a shallow tub so you can get away with buying just a gallon or so. Afterward, though, you'll need to coat the exposed metal with something to inhibit further rust formation... So are you SURE you don't just want to repaint the whole thing? Nautical rope made from cotton is rare, but you should be able to find some somewhere. If you're searching the web, maybe try "signal halyard" instead of "flag line". Or see whether your local hardware store sells braided cotton sash cord that's suitable.
	.	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HP	General discussion
	. Its my fear that modernism isn't developing because of a creeping nostalgia that made me post. oh sorry whitespike, I misread you, I intended no criticism 🙂 But I do disagree with what you say about re-working, we've lived with modernism for a while now and a victorian re-design or a mcm re-design are now, I think, equally valid or invalid . There is good design out there but so much of it that gets attention seems to be of the green perspex cad file variety or this re-worked silliness (see the audio chair on the blog) What I really admire is a lot of Japser Morrisons work, hes clearly working with principles, a rare thing.
	RE: Curve leg side table with cut outs on lower shelf?	1 Relevance	2 years ago	Herringbone	Identification
	@pompelmo @tktoo Not sure about a drinks trolley. The construction still looks a bit weird to me. But then again I found this table with a kinda similiar setup. Could you maybe post a picture of the whole thing? What does the top look like? By the way: It doesn't look very Danish to me. I could be wrong - as usual - but is this walnut? Attachment: barcart-.png
	Wounded Contour Lounge.	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Mark	General discussion
	The poor thing picked a fight with a falling chunk of concrete, when the floor above me was jackhammered (for concrete spalling). It's my own fault for not bringing in the furniture (I forgot). Replacement or repair to be decided. It's surprisingly comfortable as-is...but it looks real bad. Accidents happen, Aunt Mark
	George Nelson Ebonized Pine Bench spotted	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Tulipman	General discussion
	I am depressed from the Patriots loss in the Superbowl.Therefore,to lift my spirits,I have been bad(shopping again).I don't go into antique stores looking for any particular thing;things seem to find me.This time,I spied a 48"+ George Nelson ebonized pine bench,marked as such from 1950's-60's.I crawled beneath to look for a label/tag,but, alas,none found.Therefore,I am deferring to the fine DA community to steer me straight.Should there be no Nelson/Herman Miller tagging,what hallmarks should I be looking for on said bench? It definitely has a wonderful patina.BTW,the asking price was $895,and I'm confident I can bargain them down.Lemme know?
	Hm.	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Hm. Lots of things are still in use but no longer made. That said, IKEA makes a ladies' dressing table! Or at least what I think you mean by that---a table where someone can sit and put on makeup and jewelry? It's part of their Malm line. One thing that was probably never in common use but should be, and thankfully is still made are pants stretchers. They are springy metal rectangles that are adjustable in length and you stick them in your cotton chinos out of the wash and hang them up to dry. They stretch the fabric taut and make a nice crease at the same time. Eliminates ironing. Everything else is overrated! Well, maybe not incandescent bulbs.
	Personally..	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Robert Leach	General discussion
	Personally.. I think the best policy is to ignore anything that bothers you, but that said it's sometimes easy to forget that people are newcomers, probably haven't bothered to read the posting guide and probably won't revisit. The posts on threads several years old indicate that. I don't know if Patrick & Alix take potentially unkind sounding comments aimed at newcomers personally, I should imagine they have a sense of some sort of community like the regular posters do? I've always thought a good way forward is a contribution to the site for a poitive ID, especially when it's for commercial purposes, but it's a difficult thing to police.
	I think that the most famous ...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	tchp	General discussion
	I think that the most famous ... I think that the most famous such instance was Kenneth Walton's Ebay auction for the forged Richard Diebenkorn painting 10 years ago (see link to old news story). The only thing that got him in trouble was that he and friends shill bid to drive up the initial price, to attract attention to the painting. He acted as a naive seller, and he did not make any claims about the work he auctioned. It was the shilling that got the FBI involved. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/09ebay.html
	.	1 Relevance	18 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. it might seem obvious too but remember that with a lot of heavily foamed chairs the actual seating height could be as much as 3-6 inches lower when sat in, good point about age and generally you might want to consider obesity too, an office near my work has a row of Eames towers bases and theyre looking quite diminutive relative to the many larger people sitting in them. One thing you could do is take a large piece of cardboard and trace the profile (if its a 2 dimensionally curved chair, like say an Aalto). The profile alone is not the design, you could save yourself a lot of work by standing on the shoulders of years of knowledge.
	.	1 Relevance	18 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. marble would be better than the original but if thats what you want its not a problem. This sort of thing either comes as mdf or particleboard with a melamine coating, Formica/laminex do hundreds of colours and patterns, just choose the one you want at any office furniture manufacturer and they'll cnc it for you, the black vinyl edging wedges into a slot cut in the circumferebce, or it is glued on with an edgebanding machine. I can't tell you how many of these tops I've manhandled, edged and assembled, they are nothing special. Other than that they might be proper formica over mdf or even ply, with a balancing sheet on the other side. Again its nothing special, but of course it is thicker and more robust. I can't believe HM would want to charge you that much, they could probabaly spit a top out every 25 minutes.
	.	1 Relevance	19 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	. The second pair is a Room Divider; again the sketch shows a broad and overhanging top, more in keeping with organic principles of design -- if there is such a thing, and if they apply to Nakashima. Not that there is anything wrong with an orthodox "box." The "Conoid" base is unique, of course, if derived from constructivist work of an earlier time, perhaps. The "Greenrock" side table was designed originally for the Nelson Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, NY, according to the site. It's hard to believe this sort of work would fail to appeal to lovers of modernist design. . .
	Seminal point	1 Relevance	23 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Seminal point I have been reading all of this with interest, thanks for the great discussion. But, one thing that keeps gnawing at me is, that we as inventive beings, and as creatures that learn from observation, must almost by definition, apply and reapply functional concepts. We can't help it. If we see that doing this, this and this leads to a positive result we will repeat it to gain that positive result again. Think of the Pavlov's dogs experiments. So I am thinking that Koen's comment that one would be hard pressed to mention a product that had no precedent. Even the wheel was preceded by rolling logs. So how can we separate design from redesign?