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| One thing that I suspect | 2 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| One thing that I suspect trips people up here when they try to post photos: There's that button that says "CHOOSE PHOTOS". Click on this and find the photos on your device that you want to post. Easy enough, right? But if you are posting more than one photo, you must select them all at once and then hit UPLOAD... ...OR select them individually and hit UPLOAD for EACH. If you select them individually and only hit UPLOAD once at the end (which kind of makes sense to do), only the last selection will upload. I disagree with Zephyr, by the way---there have been discussions of American furniture brands here. Not to the extent that Scandinavian or high end American design is talked about, but certainly as much as the equivalent from Canada, UK, Australia, etc. But you really need photos to illustrate whatever it is that you're asking. Hopefully you'll get that figured out. And do review the Basic Rules for posting, which appear just below the comment field, in case you are hoping that someone will tell you what your pieces are worth. | |||||
| Use that interwebs thing. | 2 Relevance | 16 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| Use that interwebs thing. Google ( http://www.google.com) will show you lots of places to buy Maharam fabric in retail quantities. Here are two: http://www.modern-fabrics.com/store/store.php?pg1-cid42.htmlhttp://www.frelis.com/by-brand/manufacturer/maharam.html Maharam makes a few hopsack-weave fabrics. Here's one: http://www.frelis.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=messenger and if you want it in red and don't need more than 5 yards, you can buy it for $12/yd here: http://www.modern-fabrics.com/store/product-info.php?pid1072.html http://www.google.com/search?q=maharam+messenger | |||||
| Happened upon this thing | 2 Relevance | 12 years ago | Rogue01 | General discussion | |
| Happened upon this thing today for what seems like a reasonable price. Any ideas on how to date production based on the label? Leather has seen it's day but I rather like the worn appearance of it and won't be rushed to have it recovered. Thoughts? | |||||
| Interesting thing about the Eames bases, | 2 Relevance | 18 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Interesting thing about the Eames bases, is that for years, all I ever saw was the standard H base or the office pedestal with casters. I never saw a single Eifel or Dowel base until they were being reproduced. In terms of sheer elegance, I think the dowel is the most beautiful, followed by the Eifel and that low wire base. I think of the H as just being standard, not office-y, but 'the default'. I can certainly understand you're not wanting the pedestal with casters, 'cause they ARE office-y. However, I DO have two-tone brown vinyl and hopsack fabric covered shell chair with the office pedestal on wheels in my living room and I like it alot! Go figure. | |||||
| Another thing abou the Nelson bench | 2 Relevance | 20 years ago | DavidDC | General discussion | |
| Another thing abou the Nelson bench I use it as a tv stand. Not a heavy tv - a standard 24 inch tv - 80 pounds. As a result of the tv weight, though, the ebonized paint has cracked along the slat joints. Maybe that's why they stopped selling the fully ebonized bench - and only sell benches with ebonized legs. I try to buy the best that I can afford. However, given the specific purpose for which the bench is being used for, i.e., a tv stand, next time I will opt for a cheaper knockoff should the bench break. I hate to say it, but there is a certain cheapness to the paint quality on the nelson/herman miller mfg bench. I recently told a friend that the finish on ikea and crate and barrel products i own have lasted longer. | |||||
| Nakashima's not my thing but | 2 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Nakashima's not my thing but I do understand why some (many) people consider his stuff the bee's knees. I think of him in largely the same way i think about Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gearey.....supremely talented, visionary, far-out and occasionally bizarre, but surprisingly not commercial. Some of the better designers had the habit of stepping off the escalator of reasonableness and diving head-first into the ole Twilight Zone. Call me a traditionlist, but many designs from the above three (and add Kagan too) are a bit too much for my tastes. Gimme a Flo Knoll sofa and perhaps a Noguchi table in front of it, but not a Nakashima hand made table with those spiney legs. No uncomfortable FLR furniture or those silly Gearey cardboard creations, either. Ho hum....we'll see Nakashima, Frank Lloyd Wright, Vlad Kagan and Frank Gearey in the museum (or funny papers). | |||||
| The other thing you need to | 2 Relevance | 10 years ago | _ | General discussion | |
| The other thing you also need to look at is which upholstery version is it, partial or full? Your frames look like the wider ones with full upholstery. You can go to the Knoll site for that and google some images to look at. Knoll and the Knoll dealer probably will be more helpful if you ask if you can buy replacement upholstery from them if they are available and if not, you need to widen your search to the nearest big city like Seattle for a re-upholsterer that have worked on Platner chairs but whichever way you choose, the replacement upholstery will be costly. Good Luck. And also these chairs will look great with plain weave solid color fabrics (Knolltextiles) unless you are the adventurous type, then go for a vintage Jack Lenor Larsen with a psychedelic swirly pattern, but it is all up to you. | |||||
| Well, for one thing, | 2 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Well, for one thing, a lot of his upholstered furniture was of rather poor quality construction. I've reupholstered a bunch of different pieces with curved backs and they're just a piece of plywood screwed to the edge of the seat frame with a bunch of wood screws, and then a couple of screws on each side going into the arms. If they've been reupholstered before, the plywood parts are often chipped and have extra holes drilled and screwed where the original holes were too worn to be used again. Seriously, the bare frames look very homemade, not something professionally designed and produced. I think a lot of the lounge chairs with high backs look rather Jetson-y. They veer just a bit too far towards kitsch for my taste. Same with the sofas. I do like the solid walnut bases on a lot of the chairs and sofas though on some pieces they're a bit overdone and look clunky. Other pieces are just too derivative of Kagan and probably some other designers. I think Pearsall is popular because it has a very definite MCM look and it's more affordable than Kagan, or Danish furniture. I just don't think it's of the same caliber. (And now I shall duck and cover.) | |||||
| Honestly, the first thing... | 2 Relevance | 17 years ago | ite (BE) | General discussion | |
| Honestly, the first thing... Honestly, the first thing you want to do is decide how you will fill your shelves. Seriously, it has a large impact on how the room feels. As these are mainly open shelves, everything on it is constantly on display, and therefore is constantly a part of the architecture of your room. If it's messy/ chaotic it will ruin visual serenity & detract attention from your main pieces. The CADO shelves are very architectural, and look their best when treated (and filled) as such. What I mean is: create dense visual "blocks" or "rectangles" that stand out + leave open space that delineates these rectangles. Practically, that often means filling shelves with books ( the "dense blocks") AND leaving some shelves (fully/ partly) unfilled to create a "visual gap". Think of it as drawing a pleasing constellation of abstract forms on paper. (Here, the wall is your paper, and the abstract forms you create by grouping objects together.) Often, a "visual gap" is left just above/ below a group of one or more shelves filled very tightly with books. Alternatively, a "visual gap" is often left between books and a cluster of decorative objects if on the same shelf. You'll find these ideas reflected in the way bookcases are styled in ads for Italian brands such as Minotti/ MDF Italia.... They quite often feature great examples. Quite often, they leave some shelves (partly) unused to help create a more pleasing whole. In your case, I already truly love the way you've put objects on the shelves. The globe light makes the bird silhouette stand out, and the darkish vase above the bird reflects the dark shape. On the other side, the grouping of small white/ dark shapes looks good together, and ensures you've got something decorative on either side. Also, I think that you made a smart choice by not putting much stuff on your boxes. I'd keep it as it is now: it looks great as it is, and it seems very handy to be able to put down a book, or a cup of tea, or pc on the ledge of those boxes when you are sitting in the sofa. I wouldn't change any of it, I would simply fill the three shelves on either side tightly with books. (just leave some space on your shelf between the objects that are there and the books.) If you don't have enough books to fill the six shelves, just fill the two lowest shelves on either side, and leave the top one empty for the time being. If you notice that there is a lot of empty space between your books and the shelf above, move your shelves a bit closer together (but keep Left/ Right halves symmetrical). Your RSS system will look best when it looks quite blocky: eg pronounced empty space between ceiling and top shelf - dense block of shelves - pronounced empty space between lowest shelf and box - empty space beneath box. An architectural lay-out is the best way to honour the architectural qualities of your CADO system ! | |||||
| The thing is EH | 2 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| The thing is EH that you're making it seem as if I'm turning the world into a rust inferno. I'm talking about these specific chairs, and the lady who's dealing with them. My whole reply to her was based off "if" they were beyond just cleaning. "If". And then it got turned into a personal smudge fest against me, to show that I know nothing again, and you guys know it all. Like always. You come in and cherry pick the parts that don't agree with you, instead of reading the message as a whole, and then turn it into your own personal bashing agenda, Like always. These specific chairs were neglected during their life. Any fool with eyes can see it. Just because she bought something she loves, doesn't mean she needs to be stuck with them in that state forever, when they're truly in need of a facelift. There's a difference between rust stains, and real rust. You can't wipe away real rust. At what point does rust have to be too bad to clean for you. I think I'd take the one on the left, as would 98% of the rest of the world's population. There's a reason why cars on the right don't get rolled through Barrett Jackson. Even if that metal on the right is solid as a rock, it will still get all over your clothes, and it's grimy, and dirty, and only builds with time. Rust has to almost enter a state of petrification to even stop producing the dust. And takes decades to do. And it's still not 100%. | |||||
| Okay one last thing to post | 2 Relevance | 10 years ago | rockboy | General discussion | |
| Okay one last thing to post today. At the same house was this additional pair of rather large Sedgefield Directional Lounge Chairs. No luck on an identification or designer influence yet... | |||||
| Can you gurus of furniture please help me | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | william blake | General discussion | |
| Can you gurus of furniture please help me I know you will laugh at this but could you give me an honest figure for what i should be selling some Arkana chairs and table for that i have aquired? What's the going rate? | |||||
| Well, for one thing, | 2 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Well, for one thing, it's very common for people with no experience with the hunt to get the impression that Craigslist (or auctions or yard sales or whatever) are bulging with incredible finds just waiting to be snatched up for nothing. This is not the case. There is a ton of junk out there. Lots of Sears colonial furniture, lots of IKEA, lots of just plain garbage. What you don't hear about when someone says, "Look at this set of six Danish rosewood dining chairs I got for $50 on Craigslist!" is "I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours checking Craigslist for something good, scanning page after page after page after page of stuff that interests me less than a dust mote, before I came upon this!" I got an awful lot of great stuff at auctions over the years and friends would inevitably get the impression that one could just walk into a local auction, find something great, bid on it and get it for under $10. But really for every incredible find, there were 20-50 (or more) hours spent waiting, hunting, being bored out of my mind, hot and sweaty in summer, freezing in winter, in the company of a lot of dishonest and unpleasant people, and getting way too many whiffs of someone else's coffee/cig breath and/or BO. Anyway, short answer: keep at it, you'll find something. | |||||
| The same thing | 2 Relevance | 22 years ago | Clovis | General discussion | |
| The same thing Every design is a re-design. Does that mean every design is not original? Well, design isn't primarily about being original, it's about solving problems. Of course, your design is protected by design right, so in legal terms it is an 'original' design. But in terms of your product existing in the real world amoung hundreds of the same type of products, your design is a redesign. Design is about solving identified problems in a product. Often, these problems are another designer's solutions to previous problems. The product evolves as though through natural selection, each successive designer's contribution either surviving or being superseded by a superior feature. Of course, this analogy works best for a complex product. A object such as a lounge or dining chair poses different design 'problems', ie, how to make it original, how to give it a USP. Its modern role is as the most popular vehicle by which designers express thier individuality and inventiveness. Design can be likened to the process of erosion; each designer as they come along tries to make the product perfect, until another designer comes along in a few years time, looks at the product and says, 'I can make this better'. In that time, of course, a more suitable material for the product may have been developed, or better electronics that enables the product to function more efficiently. | |||||
| The first thing is to asses | 2 Relevance | 10 years ago | _ | General discussion | |
| The first thing is to asses the condition of the table why it was painted over. Most of these early all plastic furniture were assumed invincible by many and were left outside but they were not. Like Kartell, Artemide during that time also used a type of plastic with a very shiny surface which can be buffed to shine like new with plastic polishers. Unfortunately when exposed to sun, rain and snow, the once shiny surface turns dull and a bit gritty that's why some painted it to make it presentable but paint on plastic will wear out too eventually. If your table was painted black just because someone did not like the white plastic then you might be able to restore the surface by removing the paint, use caution whichever method you choose. If the surface of the white plastic is in decent condition, then you can use plastic polish products to remove light scratches and buff it to shine. Plastic furniture from this period to be desirable should have the original (unpainted) surface. I don't know if you know what type of plastic your table has but the Selene chair also by Vico Magisretti for Artemide uses a compression molded plastic called Reglar, a fiberglass reinforced polyester. | |||||
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