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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| barcelona chair | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| barcelona chair Honey....in my mind theres not much to me at all im afraid!.Just a shallow middle aged (ha) woman with a liking for music,arts,men and booze.Sorry to disappoint you. NOW FOLKS HOW BAD COULD THIS GAL BE ?? SHE IS RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING EVERYONE FROM THE GREAT MIES TO GEORGE NELSON,TO LE CORBUSIA HAD LOTS OF PEOPLE AROUND THEM. I DOUBT THAT GEORGE NELSON DESIGNED ANY OF THE CLOCKS AND HIS NAME IS ALL OVER THEM AND WE ALL NO ABOUT THE CARBO CHAIRS , SO HE WHO HAS THE GOLD MAKES HIS OWN GOLDEN RULES OR HIS NAME ON A GREAT PRODUCT . THE POOR DRAFTSMAN OR INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER JUST GOT A NICE FAT PAT ON THE BACK AND WAS ABLE TO COME BACK TO WORK FOR ANOTHER WEEK.!!!! | |||||
| washers glued on eames side chair?? | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | debimags | General discussion | |
| I recently found an abandoned, original eames chair, with a thin grey vinyl upholostered shell. The chair is in decent shape, nothing major is wrong with it. I am trying to get an idea of when this chair might have been made and its back story, if possible. The one thing though that has me perplexed is this heavy gooey glue that was used to glue the washers to the shell? Could this possibly be something some owner may have done? I know glue was used on the wood panel lounge chair, but the shell chairs? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much! Its my first post, but as a furniture lover, I read often and love this forum. | |||||
| Ikea | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Ikea Ikea is a matter of knowing construction and materials and then making informed decisions. I have some simple and lovely pieces from the big blue box. What irks me about them, aside from copying the classics of Aalto, Saarinen, Breuer, etc, is that they blanket market everything as being 'high quality' when it should be marketed as 'affordable'. There is nothing wrong with temporary solutions. I think this was best highlighted when Ikea released 'Stockholm' - a line of high(er) quality pieces, with price tags to match. If you truly believe your quality is good - why are you touting your new products as the next best-thing? | |||||
| Funky Lamp | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Expo67 | General discussion | |
| Funky Lamp Funky Lamp, just some casting numbers on the bottom. Presumably a medical or weird science lamp. Two toggle switches in the bulge thing on the pole; one for the main lamp and one for a smaller lamp that shines out the back side of the bulge. There's also a two prong socket in the bulge that you can plug something else in. Under the main shade there is an adjustable reversed shade that blocks or redirects the light. Chippy cream-beige paint (looks brighter in the pic). | |||||
| I read that article last | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | JosephA | General discussion | |
| I read that article last night and I wondered if anyone would launch a topic on it here. Thanks for doing so. I'm glad the author pointed-out the irony given that NY state launched the historic preservation movement following the demolition of the iconic neoclassical Penn Station when modern archritecture was reaching its crescendo climax. The Goshen demolition feels a bit like someone proposing to tear down the UC San Diego main library building or the Boston City Hall. It's funny, 10 years ago I was repelled by brutalist buildings and gravitated toward structures with a beaux arts neoclassical style. Now I'm awestruck and nostalgic for the intimidating sense of power conveyed by brutalist structures. These shifting tastes seem to highlight how fluid individual and social moods are. What's vogue today is passe tomorrow. The only thing that's constant is the flux of emotion ever tilted in favor of the New-New-Thing, even if that means coming full circle and the snake eating its tail. The Goshen tear down could form the basis for a Karl Popper inspired experiment in empirical falsification. Question: Is modern brutalist-style architectur good? Hypothesis: Brutalist architecture is a social good. If true, then the Goshen tear down and the subsequent societal reaction to it will be the experiment to test the hypothesis. We would predict a wave of protections to be lavished on remaining iconic brutalist structures as people stare into the vacant hole where the County building once stood and the sense of folly dawns . If Brutalism is not good from a social sense, then the demolition will pass without so much as a whimper of protest from the public, and more structures will meet the wrecking ball. Sometimes its good to do an experiment just to see if theory is grounded. | |||||
| Milacron stamp and strange number | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | fabrice_91 | General discussion | |
| Hi, I just went into a strange chair... it has no embossed logo inscription at all but just a stamped C star (milacron logo) in black ink in a rectangle with a number that is definitly not a date. the only other thing on the chair is a perfect condition patent paper.. with only a few patents... 3 starting 147 and two 150 .. so 5 lines only... no red date on the patent paper.. it is Elephant hide gray in color and shockmount seems to have been changed from large to small. can someone tell me more about the date and origin of this chair? I am not sure if I'm going to buy it or not... 🙂 thanks in advance and congratulation for the great info on the forum | |||||
| I like some Starck pieces, I... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Andrew J Edinburgh | General discussion | |
| I like some Starck pieces, I... I like some Starck pieces, I dislike others (his latest light for Flos, with the iPhone charger, for example is totally heinous). I definitely think there's a place in design for pieces that don't have function as their primary consideration. But the thing that slays me is how he says on the one hand "Design is crap, I'm so ashamed", and on the other, "But I'm going to continue doing it for another two years or so..." Why not give up today? Besides, I seem to remember him saying something similar about five years ago... "Design is horrible, the world doesn't need any more products and I'm going to give up soon....but in the meantime I'll be launching 15 new chairs at Milan this year..." | |||||
| RE: Early Production Hans Wegner Cow Horn Chair? | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Herringbone | General discussion | |
| One thing you might or might not know: Wegner designed the chair for Johannes Hansen in 1952. Hansen did produce it in teak and oak over a certain period of time. Maybe the production was stopped in the 70s, maybe not. But in 1990 Johannes Hansen closed and Wegner gave the production rights to PP Møbler, who from then on used different woods for the production. You can get PP models in ash, walnut, cherry, even wenge, I think. But there should be no difference construction wise between earlier and later models. But PP uses CNC mill, Johannes Hansen chairs were mostly hand made. | |||||
| The top is veneered as are | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | tktoo | General discussion | |
| The top is veneered as are all the panels and drawer fronts. Rub the whole thing down with mineral spirits or naphtha, clean rags, elbow grease, and proper safety precautions. Re-oil with whichever name-brand "Danish" furniture oil finish that strikes your fancy following instructions printed on the container. After your final application of oil finish has fully cured (a week), a paste wax can be applied to even out sheen and add some protection. The lighter-colored area on the top can't easily be made to match. I'd leave it as honest evidence of the history of the desk. Nice family piece. | |||||
| I've been | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| I've been reading mystery novels of various kinds and vintages for some years now. I note that each and every one (save some that occur as series by the same publisher) employs a unique style of chapter heading, with its own numeral face, chosen by some book designer (lots of women in this field, apparently). Some of the combinations are really nice to look at, while others are misconceived. The variety of numerals are endless, it seems -- and the placement and relative point size (with the word "chapter" often included) create a never-to-be-repeated composition. Helvetica is the last thing one expects to see, for some reason, in this context. I've seen pages that I wanted to photocopy, and now I wish that I had . . . | |||||
| all done | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| all done Thanks for everyone's comments and great advice. I decided to go to Home Depot and buy the PC-7. However, they do not sell it any more. Seems every epoxy I considered had two parts ... and I just went with the most similar thing I could find, which was made by Gorilla. It had the hardener and something else ... it escapes me. But I mixed the two parts after a good bit of sanding and cleaning the areas. I elevated one side of the back with a large bag of rice and a towel to get the shock mount area level to the counter. After rotating and locking into place I put a heavy book on it for 24 hours. I have to admit, there seems to be a lot of opinions on a very specific way about this ... but this seems super duper sturdy and I cannot even tell it was ever done. Now the real test: time! | |||||
| I have a "mattress" that I am | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I have a "mattress" that I am very happy with made from custom cut pieces of foam. I believe it is 4" of a medium high density polyurethane foam with a 2" memory foam topper on it. The memory foam topper came with a an elastic mattress cover that wraps the whole thing up. A side benefit is that it all disassembles and rolls up for moving. I once even took the 4" piece 'camping'. Way better than a commercial mattress in my defective opinion. But then I was born in a 3rd world valley inside the USA on a dirt floor in the middle of nowhere and raised by alligator junipers and scrub oak. | |||||
| troikafloyd | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | jdip | General discussion | |
| troikafloyd Don't be thrown off to the forum by shit responses like that of retrolampguy. Some feel the need to jump on new people here in order to sound witty (I am guilty of it as well). I never read the forum rules when I first joined so don't worry about it. The response you should have received should have been something like this: Most here will not provide you with appraisals. The best thing that you can do to determine the "value" of your item is to check COMPLETED Ebay auction. It is not enough to just check the completed listings as people can ask what ever they want so you need to tick off "SOLD" as well when doing the Ebay search. Other venues would be to check Liveauctioneers, reviewing past auctions. | |||||
| Good ideas as always,... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | essai | General discussion | |
| Good ideas as always,... Good ideas as always, Leif. No problem to add the OP name in the threads list. Regarding the thumbnails, we must do some tests. We have no doubts about their usefulness, but the quality of the images posted in the forum is very variable. The bad pictures are not annoying when you're in a thread, but one must see how it would affect the overall perception of the website if one would put these pictures on an entry page. So, we really need to try this before we can give a positive answer. The different editions of recurrent threads like "The last thing you Acquired" should no longer have any reason to exist, if we add a pagination for long threads. Hopefully we will be able to merge the several existing editions. | |||||
| interesting choices... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | matty | General discussion | |
| interesting choices... the toolbox one sparked a thought, why not a machinist toolbox? typically made of wood, often in walnut,simple/ clean in design, felt lined drawers, and readily avaiable anywhere...and with a little work and some hardware change-ups, you would have a great looking chest for little $$..and a little effort goes along way... and they ar almost always lockable... p.s. so glad this came up, ive been looking for the same thing my Mrs. .......the nelson chest is great, but id rather spend that kinda change on something that goes in a jewelry box..... http://cgi.ebay.com/GERSTNER-SONS-MACHINIST-TOOL-BOX-CHEST-LOOK-/2207593... | |||||
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