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	The item was listed as being...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	The item was listed as being... The item was listed as being by David Falker for Merrow Associates so I presumed (maybe wrongly) that this could be proved in some way and didn't question it (hindsight is a great thing). If the seller had listed it with "probably is by" or "in my professional opinion it is by", then I wouldn't have a problem and would have known but I feel the seller mis-sold the item as the only evidence he could provide was his opinion. The difficulty would come if I were to sell the piece as all I could say was "the guy who sold it to me told me it was by Merrow".
	Pegboard, thanks for your help, but...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Pegboard, thanks for your help, but... sadly...this forum just ain't what it used to be. I miss the the old crew and I'm beginning to realize why so many of them aren't here any more. I guess I'm a foolish optimist. This used to be a place where folks talked, exchanged ideas and shared knowledge and experience. Now-a-says its all snarky one-upsmanship, snotty putdowns, design pretension and just plain mean spiritednes. So thank you, I appreciate you giving me what I was asking for. Constructive input, useful criticism and new focus on a problem that has stymied me for a long time. I've been stuck on the Noguchi but unable commit because somehow it just wasn't the right thing, but I couldn't see past it. I am refueled with new ideas, which, Fastfwd, is what I was looking for...
	I get the politics and I get...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HP	General discussion
	I get the politics and I get... I get the politics and I get the irony (who couldn't?) but its just not enough, nowhere near enough, to warrant any praise. If his entrepeneurship is what excites people than a man who adds roast chicken pieces onto takeaway pizza to one-up the competition should be recognised too. I've lived with two artists in the last two years and the amount of shmoozing and bum licking and the searching for a gimmick that hits the spot is nauseating. Beauty and dignity and timelesness have been trounced by an art market that can't see beyond the next big (small) thing. Its on a very fast round-about that has quickly forgotten the 1980's lesson that Basquait and Koonz taught us, hyperbole can never replace class.
	Homosote	1 Relevance	22 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Homosote I hope I spelled that correctly. Anyway, back in my I-just-graduated-and-am-working-for-pennies days, a friend of mine, in a noisy student area of Cambridge, MA, solved his acoustically challenged digs by utilizing homosote. He took large panels of it, upholstered it in funky shades of pink, purple and blue spandex and mounted them on the walls with drywall screws. It worked amazingly well and made for a really cool dartboard! Some thing more tasteful in the same vein might work for you? Also, thanks for making me laugh with your witty post!
	I usually use the plastic	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	I usually use the plastic hanger that comes wrapped with free polyester braided rope at the big box hardware stores. It's only $3 plus you get all that rope! Before I discovered that one, I used one that I cut myself out of 1/4 plywood (dimensions below). You don't have to sand it and make it perfectly smooth and splinter-free the way you do for shuttles used in weaving fabric, which would be like the two you pictured. Paper cord is tough stuff and can stand up to unsanded plywood. The important thing is that the shuttle is thin itself because it needs to go through some tight spots and it can be quite thick when loaded up with paper cord (which is thicker and less compactable than most yarn/thread used in weaving fabric). The shuttle in your first photo is the type used in weaving fabric and I think it is actually thrown through the weft threads on the loom, at least when the fabric is wider than arm's reach. The second one is closer to what you need for paper cord, though i wouldn't go with the curved cutouts. Straight is better---you can wrap the cord in straight rows on it to get the most compact thickness when full. You want to be able to load it up with as much cord as possible but still have it not be too thick to pass between rung and rail. (I like the black plastic thing because of the super handy notches on the ends--you can unwind a yard or two to work with and notch it in place, then throw the shuttle around as needed without a whole lot more coming unwound and getting tangled up.) eta: this is all on the the 2nd edition of the seat weaving thread, wherever that is.
	Pardon me, the correct name...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	Pardon me, the correct name... Pardon me, the correct name is 'Asterisk' The one thing I notice is that one of the Howard Miller's hands are a whole lot longer than one of the hands on the Vitra edition. Also the Vitra clock's hands are held in by a brass piece and Miller's uses a black piece. Anyone have any old photographs/catalogs to compare Asterisks to Asterisks?
	the other value factor	1 Relevance	16 years ago	niceguy	General discussion
	the other value factor flyingpatricio, The other value factor is if a person "needs" the money or "wants" the money. I have sold many items on eBay over the years for several thousand dollars each. During that time I have had the usual people offer much lower prices, even though there is no "best offer" listed, and I always tell them the same thing: Thank you for your question and I want the money I do not need the money. The price is as listed. At thirty or forty cents a month I can leave things sit on eBay forever and wait for the buyer. Being under-capitalized is always a poor sales position!
	Working for DWR, I wasn't an...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	reactcreative	General discussion
	Working for DWR, I wasn't an... Working for DWR, I wasn't an expert on leather, but I can tell you this. HM dropping that base HM leather is a good thing. We had one in ivory and black in our studio and the leather did get all shiny and like plastic, and we took good care of it (cleaning products, leather conditioner, etc). I realize we had high traffic, but both chairs had bad signs of wear after 2 years(some major cracking). I would always try to get my clients to use a Spinneybeck or Edelman. So... if you can afford it, certainly go with the Spinneybeck. Hope this helped in some manner.
	Clocks	1 Relevance	19 years ago	James-2	General discussion
	Clocks They are nice clocks and anyone worried about ordering from them should think twice. Like I said before, look at the white on white pictures and then order them from All World. You can't lose at the quality and prices(I sound like a TV ad). A lot of the furniture they sell is not my thing, more ultra modern, but all of his classics are higher quality reproductions. They also source out stuff on their own and skip the middleman(I.E. Alphaville). Basically you can have a really nice clock wall for around $250-$300 USD. If you ever descide to sell, you could easily get your money back on Ebay at these prices.
	I hope this is appropriate to	1 Relevance	11 years ago	staceyneil	General discussion
	I hope this is appropriate to report (if not, I'm sorry 1st dibs!) but we were invited to join them last year. If I recall it was going to cost us $500 per month and some setup fee (I seem to recall it being over $1k but I'm not sure.).. I don't believe there were fees beyond that. I suspect the monthly fee varies depending on the inventory size of the dealer. As we are quite small maybe that's why we were told $500 rather than the $1400 noted above. I really have no idea. I do know that the dealers I've talked to who sell there said they will often accept 50% of the asking price. Like others, I value them as a research resource, although I will say I've seen many incorrect attributions over the years, so I take everything with a grain of salt. The frustrating thing for me is when I'm speaking with people about selling their pieces, or estates, etc, and they look at 1st dibs and think they can ask those sorts of prices from me!
	Nice trucks guys	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Pegboard Modern	General discussion
	Nice trucks guys When I was younger I used to roll in a long bed Chevy C-10 with a straight six, three on the tree, and a camper top to keep things cozy and dry. Crossed the country a couple of times in that thing, sleeping in the back. Then I began moving furniture and art all the time and needed more room so I had to switch to a van. I have since become a devotee of the Ford Econoline. I'm on my second. This once has concessions for the kids like a bench seat in the back with seat belts and windows so they can watch the world pass by. Otherwise, it is stone stock and no frills. Like my man Mike Watt, "I jam econo".
	I just got this chair	1 Relevance	13 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	I just got this chair which was redone in Maharam "Radiant"--a nice fabric but not a good choice for how you have to do this one. It made it harder to avoid the bagginess, I think. Anyway, this one doesn't have a label but I have seen in person another one with a Bramin sticker. And after my exhaustive Google image search using every possible keyword, the only thing that popped up for me that looked anything like it is Hans Olsen's fried egg chair---same style base, very similar shell though of course symmetrical in this case. Anyway, it is SO comfortable. I'm going to redo it in Maharam Tonus 122, which is an inky dark blue with green undertones. And then I'm going to keep it forever and ever, amen.
	.	1 Relevance	15 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. Did you read the blurbs? Wincemeat, it was excruciating. A lot of it looks like that cheap leather that is basically just polyurethaned and then 'distressed'. The sort of steam punk thing they are trying for isn't all bad by any means but if they are buying Chinese copies and then quickly reupholstering them with cheap or found materials (which is what I suspect they are doing) then their production costs wouldn't be that high, just look at the quality of the stitching on the Swan, done quickly with little regard for accuracy but much for romantic affect. Don't worry about the lack of connection with reality SDR, pendulums always swing back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicast_leather
	My 2 cents worth	1 Relevance	21 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	My 2 cents worth I'm not sure I feel equipped to comment on the McM 1.0 vs M 2.0 concept, but, I can say without a doubt that I feel over-technologized and overly impacted by the globalization of the 'corporate agenda'. Branding/marketing activities these day can almost make me physically ill (read Wiliam Gibson's- "Pattern Recognition"). I have gotten to the point where I won't wear or buy thing with visible logos, I remove as much labeling as I can from just about everything I buy. I've also run away from my own corporate career and am now self-employed. I think another movie industry machine assualt like the "Fantastic 4" with toys, fast-food gimicks, websites , etc. might just be enough to send me catatonic.
	Vitra vs. Herman Miller	1 Relevance	19 years ago	barrympls	General discussion
	Vitra vs. Herman Miller How in the heck can Vitra be allowed to gouge their dealers by charging nearly twice what Herman Miller charges for the same thing in the US? It's outragious, and considering that Herman Miller owns the rights worldwide to these products and has an arrangement for Vitra to make and distribute certain HM products in Europe, you'd think that HM would be as involved in the pricing as they are in the basic quality of Vitra products. Sounds to me like HM dropped the ball and Vitra refuses to pick it up.