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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Its all an illusion.... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| Its all an illusion.... One thing not mentioned in this discussion yet is how much mileage Ikea gets by simply presenting things well. Their products tend to look spectacular in the store, with very well staged pieces against cool colors (actually, not so cool-- reminds me of generic Starbucks interiors!) But my point was that things look great in the store-- but once you get them home, most of the stuff magically reverts back to looking like the usual crap. I admit to having one low Ikea TV bench. It is almost invisible in its simplicity, but I still cant wait to replace it. I only like it because it's "blank". | |||||
| Fortunately, it's possible to have good design | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Fortunately, it's possible to have good design and nice things without breaking the bank and without ever resorting to buying ripoffs of well-known designs. (Or ripoffs of lesser-known pieces, either.) You have to work at it and you probably won't be able to get everything at once, but the hunt can be a lot of fun. Look at any of the "last thing I got" threads (or whatever they're called)---all about great finds for cheap. It's very inspiring. The stuff is out there. I can't afford an Eames lounge chair either, but I do have some other beautiful vintage lounge chairs that I love and that are just as great in their own way. I actually kind of like that my home doesn't look like a carbon copy of a lot of other ones out there where the main pieces are ones you see everywhere. | |||||
| I agree...my biggest beef... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | finch | General discussion | |
| I agree...my biggest beef... I agree...my biggest beef with the popular Green-mindset is that if it's good for the environment, it has to be ugly. It almost makes me think they've kept hybrid cars unremarkable looking just to keep the sales low and keep oil prices steady. I think the thing about the powder coating steel-look is that it's trying to look like steel. Why not just clear coat the brushed aluminum instead? I saw some seven once in a soft white with super high gloss black chair legs around a teak topped table. Looked unbeleivable. | |||||
| So many ideas ... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| So many ideas ... ... and so little skill. Sigh. I love the angled corners, It definately pulls the three pieces together into a coherent triangular form. It suddenly looks like one form instead of three pieces awkwardly stuck together. I got some cheap aluminum yardsticks to lay out the curves and it works like a charm. I love the idea of blue laminate on plywood but have no idea where to find such a thing. I'll start looking. The trickiest part is drilling the holes perfectly straight. If anyone has any woodworking tips I'm all ears. | |||||
| RE: Grete Jalk 118 Sofa & Matching Chair by France and Sons Webbing? | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Divot | Repair | |
| Thank you so much. That makes perfect sense to me given what I have and what was left on the foundation frame. I've cleaned up the frame and will keep it. I really appreciate knowing what I should do. In the interim, I purchased a webbing tool and some elastic webbing for upholstery. I haven't tried to do that myself but if I am not feeling that I'm doing a good job I will go with the eeee springs. I've got the cushions ordered. The only thing that I have left, that I might as well ask you, are the rubber? washers that I had between the frame and the metal frame supports. Were these special in any way? What I have is almost completely eroded. I also read that I should use the same screws? Mine are flat heads which are my least favorite. I'd love to know your thoughts. Thanks again! | |||||
| RE: It's Alive!....Maybe | 1 Relevance | 1 month ago | Herringbone | General discussion | |
| It is clear that the people running the site are a very small operation, possibly just a handful of people, perhaps even a one-man business. Traffic on the site had probably dwindled to almost nothing by the end, which presumably made the whole thing relatively uninteresting from a commercial point of view. The real value, however, lies in the information contained in all those old threads and in the reach that this content can still generate. So the business decision was probably made to make the forum accessible again, but without putting any effort whatsoever into maintaining or updating the system. | |||||
| Best place to sell used modern furniture? | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | End User | General discussion | |
| I was wondering what the best online marketplace for selling used modern furniture is? Obviously there's eBay and Craigslist, but I'm not sure the market is there. Let me explain. For example, say I wanted to sell a used Eames DCW from Herman Miller. I searched the eBay completed items and could not really find any completed auctions for the same thing. This leads me to believe that either there is not much or a market for these used, or eBay is the wrong place to look. This is strange to me because I remember when eBay was hopping with this stuff and now is it dead? Have the buyers gone away with the poor economy or is a used Eames DCW just not that common? Thanks for your input! | |||||
| Really LRF, you should know... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | donsof | General discussion | |
| Really LRF, you should know... Really LRF, you should know better. Did you only buy an upholstery shop and hire all the work out? Or buy a functional business? Its a later production version (1970's?) thing Knoll did. I have never owned one of the diamonds with the edge protection, but its simply there to protect the top cover, and take away some harshness to the edge. If you are going to use the chair with no cover, you could probably get it off. Heat guns soften glue if it won't let go easily. This could get messy, or it could be cake? If the chair is plastic coated, you may need a safe solvent to get glue residue off. If you are buying a new cover, I would leave it alone, and put the new cover on. | |||||
| the look of knoll | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| the look of knoll i was told that it was solid stainless steel by alivar i also heard from the same gal that she had heard now that knoll is making the chrome and the stainless steel and she said she thought that one was being made in CHINA of all places . This whole thing with this company really intriges me No one slams they cause they make reproductions they praise them and say how wonderful there stuff looks although the brno did look a little puffed up in the seat like they might have used to much foam, since i do won the original i could pick that one to death but the Barcelona's looked great!!! or just as good as Alphaville the one i think is great also. | |||||
| Yes that is the same detail | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | Identification | |
| Yes that is the same detail as on the top of the legs of the Great Dane seating. The Grete Jalk designs that preceded models 127 & 128 had a different detail there: a conceded domed top. So that is a Charles France detail. You could build an argument on this fact that this coffee table is entirely Charles France. One thing I think we can say for certain is that it will take a new discovery on vintage documentation to say anything much further. And I would not be surprised if vintage documentation did confirm Charles France as the designer. | |||||
| drexel viewpoint 70 | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | 1sweetp | General discussion | |
| drexel viewpoint 70 I will try to post a picture. I just don't know what the wiring was for. There are 2 switches behind the armrests on the outside ends. Also, in the front middle of the headboard is a 12 inch empty square that may have held something, if you feel in the top of this square there are 2 places to plug something in. Maybe a clock? I agree with you that it is a functional peice, I just wish I knew how or what the wiring is for so I can fix it. I am sure it is drexel because the chest that matches it has it stenciled on the back and when I took the plastic back off the headboard, the drexel tag fell out.Thanks so much for trying to help me with this. Haven't found a thing about it anywhere. | |||||
| Dyson | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Z M | General discussion | |
| Dyson Best looking vaccuum? Yes. Best working Vaccuum? Not really. I have some $300 Hoover type thing that you get at Sears. It's fantastic, quiet, does what it should, great tools. It's a nasty Purple, but oh well, I just hide it in the closet and only bring it out when no-one is around. Ok, I dog sat for a friend who has a dyson. I of course, vacuumed his house a few times while he was away. Great looking vacuum but if I had to think about it, I would actually give the advantage to the Windtunnel. Perhaps I have more cooperative dust bunnies at my house, but I think overall, the Dyson wasn't any better than my vaccuum, if not a bit underpar actually. Wow. What a long rant on vaccuum. I didn't think I had it in me. | |||||
| fiberglass vs. barc | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| fiberglass vs. barc correct. the barcelona is more important in a status seeking or 'collectors' point of view, while the fiberglass chair IMO is more universal in its functions. The funny thing is the people's answers to this question define more their personal definition of 'importance' than the actual importance of a chair. To me, importance is based on the overall effect it has had on the planet, and how long long the one design has solved the problems it set out to solve ( on its own, without the 'collectors' influence). | |||||
| Thanks alot for the advice.... | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | cwoo | General discussion | |
| Thanks alot for the advice.... Thanks alot for the advice. So far I have tried 2 different polishers (Silvo and Autosol) with similar, ok results. The shine is back, but the "pitting" (maybe they are called something else?) is in fact only on the chrome, i.e. if I had a few weeks time and possessed fingers of steel, I could use my fingernails to scrape them off individually. So the steel underneath is fine, its really just surface pitting, assuming there is such a thing. My next attempt will be to try some extra fine steel wool in an inconspicous spot and see if there's an improvement there. | |||||
| I like Eames, but personally... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | phoebe | General discussion | |
| I like Eames, but personally... I like Eames, but personally I thought touche with what was said about Eames. The ESU was the first or second thing I bought along with an Eames shell (for a disabled family member--it's the best chair for her, I believe, in the world). I loved the humility of the Mondrian-style 4 x 2. The other reasons were the film The Architect and the Painter and a short video about the Valastro family's set of Eames furniture that moved with them from state to state. I hope you all never stop posting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRsehNK7lU | |||||
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