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	The Whale is great!	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Mark	General discussion
	The Whale is great! I'd never even heard of Couroc. Last month, I had never heard of Gainey Pottery. You fine folks are quite appreciated for introducing me to items that I should have already known about. The knowledge on this forum is most impressive. Anyhow...Many Thanks. So this morning (from my local fav resale store) I snagged a small spotted vessel that I have absolutely no use for. It is signed "Hahn" I think. It has a bad case of the spots (Spotted Dick?), and will be re-donated after one wearing... Fondly, Aunt Mark ps the weird thing is that I think that I was the person who donated the piece to begin with...I think???? I sorta remember it. I need shock therapy. Very odd.
	Its ugly, at the risk if soun...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	Its ugly, at the risk if soun... Its ugly, at the risk if sounding effete sometimes I do sacrifice function for looks, if you met my ex you'd understand. Seriously, I want to use less plastic in the kitchen, the spice roundabout thing has a lot of moving dial parts that could break, it would have to be imported. I think I've worked out how to make sealed, dark, open all at once, tackle box style 'spice box', render later. And for something completely irrelevant I stopped smoking 4 months ago cold turkey and havn't broken, does it explain my occasional ranty post? I took valium for the first week. Much calmer now...praise me!
	Give me a break!	1 Relevance	17 years ago	REPROLOVER	General discussion
	Give me a break! what a bunch of pretentious you-know-whats. i'm not here to start a flame war. i love and admire interesting furniture design and we have a house filled with design "stuff" that most of the snobs here would be envious of. but why would i be a schmuck enough to pay hundreds of dollars for a tulip armchair with red cushions for our knock off tulip table (that looks totally like the 'real' thing and has lasted years of daily use without a chip, cost $400) when i can buy two of the chairs for $500 on ebay that look great, will certainly last a long time and will be there simply to sit my ass down when i read the times and eat my bagel. gimme a you know what break!!!!!
	Since the '70's I think for U.O.	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Since the '70's I think for U.O. I have folders, I like them for the same reason Rockland does. Easy storage. One thing that is for certain, the size cover has to be correct. The photo spanky posted just above is a perfect indicator. The frony of the seat, which would be just under your knees is nearly a straight hoizontal line. If that line dips down the cover is too big and getting out of the chair requires a winch even for the most athletic of individuals. One of the reasons I have come to dislike the canvas duck covers is that you can start out straight and quickly go to saggy as the fabric stretches. Much like the jeans that are tight from the dryer and loose after a day's wear, twill fabrics are like that.
	For years, Sam Maloof's work	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Modern Love	General discussion
	For years, Sam Maloof's work has been at Wright, Christies, Sotheby's, Phillips de Pury, Treadway, Rago, etc. He is well known internationally. Perhaps the best thing about Maloof was that as expressive and dramatic his furniture was, his persona was understated: "He was described by the Smithsonian Institution as "America's most renowned contemporary furniture craftsman" and People magazine dubbed him "The Hemingway of Hardwood." But his business card always said "woodworker." "I like the word," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter, his eyes brightening behind large, owl-eyed glass frames. "It's an honest word.""
	"I guess there aren't enough...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	"I guess there aren't enough... "I guess there aren't enough people in my life that know classics to validate the ownership and praise my coolness for owning originals." Well, if that is your reasoning for buying good design, then so be it. I think the majority of us here buy it because we personally appreciate it and enjoy having it around. I don't buy BS crap like that for my own personal reasons. I could give a toss about impressing my friends. But if you need to be validated that's cool. And I need to get a life? Anyway, yes I agree that it's doing the nice thing by getting stuff like this removed for the unfortunate souls that would fall victim to it. How would you feel if you bought a $15 Target stool and thought it was an original Aalto?
	Dulles airport	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Dulles airport I can think of lots of beautiful buildings but one that really hit me recently was the terminal at Dulles (Eero Saarinen). I'd been there a bunch of times in the past but always just picking up on the lower level and always very rushed and harried what with the sucky traffic and parking. But the last time I was there was to drop someone off on a balmy spring evening at dusk. The lights were on and we were on the upper level outside at one end. I looked down the length of the building and finally got to see what all the fuss was about. I coulda stood there for a long time admiring it but security kinda discourages that sort of thing these days.
	Hope bump	1 Relevance	15 years ago	TinyArmada	General discussion
	Hope bump Well another piece I had posted right after this couch in hope of help with identification looks to have been ID'ed. It renewed my hope that maybe someone new will stumble upon this post and ID it. A local MCM store guessed at Pantone (Lol I freaking wish!) but my research has made me lean towards a Swedish or Italian origins. Which is strange because the only label on the thing is in the cushion indicating an American company did the stuffing. However we have no clue if the upholstery is original to production or has been redone. It's in great shape but does show signs of some age, but I could see it being a reupholstery job to update the couch. still a total mystery sandwich wrapped in an enigma
	5 Eames Ash DCW chairs need backrest please	1 Relevance	16 years ago	Mikeg	General discussion
	I have just bought 5 Eames DCW Ash Chair with no backrest. I am trying to find replacements and have even contacted Herman Miller and was told I need to buy both the seat and backrest together for over $400.00. I really want to keep the chairs but I can not afford that option Herman Miller suggest. I have contacted several people that the person at Herman Miller gave me numbers to and each person only has said the same thing, buy both the backrest and seat! If you know of a number or website I can use it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any help you may offer. Mike
	The chair in your second post	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	The chair in your second post doesn't look like the same back as the one in your first post. Do the two chairs look that different in person? In the second post, it looks like the upholsterer put the finish fabric on the back without anything under it to keep what looks like webbing ends showing through. Usually you would put the outside back fabric on last (not counting the dustcover on the bottom). Before the back goes on you would staple burlap or some other utility fabric over the open frame of the back, and often a thin layer of batting over the burlap if there was any worry about any little bumps or lumps telegraphing through. Maybe the guy forgot to do this. It's not hard to forget when you're finally at that point and just want to get the thing done.
	Being from Europe, I know	1 Relevance	10 years ago	DrPoulet	General discussion
	Being from Europe, I know next to nothing about John Stuart. The only thing I know is that they distributed France & Son and Søborg (and probably many others). France & Son was not a part of the DFC club but Søborg was. Plus I own a Søborg nightstand with a round textile DFC sticker (I haven't seen the DFC textile stickers too often). Here you are: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pair-Mid-Century-Teak-Cabinets-W-Tambour-Doors-b... I haven't seen your piece in Søborg catalogs available online but maybe I looked too quickly... The list of designers that worked for Søborg is rather limited and if it is a in-house design it can be attributed to Arne Jacobsen 😉
	Found another photo.	1 Relevance	8 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Found another photo. You could also try a trick I use quite a lot: Resize the photo until a known element in is the actual dimensions that it is in real life; in this case you can use the width of the head of an L-nail. Then just lay a metric ruler on your computer screen to measure the width of the tape. One thing to keep in mind, though--flat braid stretches a bit and it gets narrower as it is stretched. I would think that the braid used on these chairs is more stable than other braid because otherwise you'd end up with a saggy seat, but not having seen this stuff in person I don't know. I have flat wool braid that was used to trim clothing in the early 1900s. It's quite stretchy.
	This move by DWR is so bizarr...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	jesgord	General discussion
	This move by DWR is so bizarr... This move by DWR is so bizarre-what's it all about? An attempt to increase web presence? A poorly crafted holiday marketing gimmick? An attempt to gauge the internet auction market? If those candlesticks are any indication, DWR should be able to sell polished turds for a good amount- at least until the public catches on to the fact that the whole thing is basically a gimmick. I came across those candlesticks yesterday and wondered if the people bidding knew something that I didn't. I didn't realize DWR was the seller which explains the inflated price.
	Congrats	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	Congrats Congrats on the scores. I snagged the second, flat topped contract base a few years ago and did the same thing with my kitchen table - white top, orange,yellow,blue,black, griege chairs. I've always been preferential to the flat topped foot. The other foot always has feet a little dated and droopy to me. I like the geometry of the flat topped foot - the linear leg being capped off by the round. (I feel the same way about the Vitra base of the Eames 670) So thats my vote. Whatever you do, take a picture!
	Yeah, there is that. From	1 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Yeah, there is that. From that thread I am still not sure if the conclusion is that IHQ is younger or older than JHQ. But that is not really even the question. The question is why Quistgaard was rendering his name in Latin orthography? What did that mean to him? And to some extent one mightthat it is just an old way of writing the same thing, which is more or less what was said in the thread, and that is true as far as it goes. But in this case it goes beyond that, witness the interpuncts. He really is writing his name in a fashion that only makes sense in the context of classical Roman inscriptions. It is also clear from his designs that he was interested history. I suppose it might be that he was interested in the era when the Vikings became Christians. Hence the Viking imagery with Latin inscriptions....? I don't know the answer....