Search result for: di frutta
| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Too hard to get rid of! | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | fralews | General discussion | |
| Too hard to get rid of! I'd love furniture to be like "haute couture" or whatever our french friends say, but I always have aproblem. When I get a thought to dicth my bed and get a new "trendy" one, I think of the hassle of getting it out of the houseand give up! | |||||
| Under intellectualized drivel? | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... cowardice to live in denial about the politics intrinsic to design Each choice of material puts a designer in bed with a resource extractor. Resource extractors are corporations that operate economically and politically to serve their controlling owners' investment interests. The resource corporations are usually owned and/or financed by transgenerational members of an oligarchy. Some play by the rules of the societies they extract the resources from. But many bribe governments, enable grain dumping to drive the peasants off the land, install dictators to d ... | |||||
| Important new book on innovation in global markets... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| "Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets [GICMs]: The Political Economy of Innovation" by Peter Cowhey et al (from MIT Press) is THE book to read if you want to understand how digital innovation and dissemination is going to differ in coming decades from the past. And in turn, if you want to know how oligopoly producers and states are going to be being advised about how to play the game of GICM development, which will itself become the infrastructure enabling most future economic development (be it digital, or hard goods). Essense: The phas ... | |||||
| Dovetail | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Dovetail Marie: The translation that dictionary gives for "dovetail" does not appear to be the danish translation of dovetail as a cabinet maker's term. I was asking about a source for a highly specialized lexical domain, cabinet making, as it is my experience that translation dictionaries, even the best of them, rarely offer adequate translations foe these sorts of lexical domains. My question is more asking for something like the below link that illustrates various types of joints, but in danish. And it is not just "dovetail" whose translation I am interes ... | |||||
| Good stuff. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Good stuff. LTF, you may safely say NOY-tra for Neutra. Guess I was lucky to be born into the MCM period, and living near New York with a bunch of modern-art people ? I like it when news pieces include name pronunciations. I've almost never seen this in books, for some reason. . .other than dictionaries ! Maybe a design site could have a Name Pronunciation Glossary ? | |||||
| big misunderstanding!!! | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | cedric | General discussion | |
| ... AND esthetic. The thing is that you have to find the good balance between these 2 aspects according to the product you have to create. Of course I´m really attentive to esthetic in design. Or else I would have chosen another job. But you can´t design everything in a sculptural or playfull way. Just because design doesn´t only concern furniture, lighting and tableware. I don´t know which would be the best example... Let´s talk about public toilets (extreme example-I never worked on such a project, and don´t really want to do so, but maybe once I´ll have to.. ... | |||||
| I everyone! | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I everyone! A few extra thoughts on visual literacy. First of all it surprises me when knowledge is described as somewhat dictatorial (Cedric). We seem to appreciate the fact that we learn to read and write and actually learn more mathematics than most of us use in later live. When it comes to visual literacy, parenthood and a few other areas of knowledge (sex used to be one, but in the face of overwhelming information on TV etc., schools have opted for some education...if the parents do not object to dramatically.) school is not seen as the proper place to ... | |||||
| That mark appears to be a... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Fungus Mungus (USA) | General discussion | |
| That mark appears to be a... That mark appears to be a Chinese character, although I am unable to find a reference to it in either of the Japanese or Chinese dictionaries I regularly use. I'll check with a few people to see if they recognize it. fm | |||||
| feng shui | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | barry | General discussion | |
| feng shui I have been involved for many years with clients who seem to want this advice and I can sum it up as "mumbo jumbo" which in old fashioned dictionaries translates as "objects of senseless veneration". | |||||
| Refractory table? | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | cdsilva | General discussion | |
| Quick question: Every now and then, I come across listings for a "refractory" dining table. While I am familiar with this word in the context of biology and physics/chemistry, I'm not sure how it relates to furniture. Is it simply people getting the term confused with a "refectory" table? While this may seem to be the obvious interpretation, I actually see the term "refractory" used more often than "refectory" in listings. In either case, the tables usually don't match the "highly elongated" definition that is associated with "refectory" in the dictionary. ... | |||||
| Boeing 2707 SST | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Jyri Snellman (FIN) | General discussion | |
| One late 1960's/early 1970's dictionary book said that SST planes are likely to become popular form of long-distance travel in 1980's. Concorde and Tupolev TU-144 were put to production but did not fare well, and it is unlikely that one takes risk today to attempt same. Let's hope that airline food is more tasty today. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/b2707.htm | |||||
| Vintage defined? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Gustaf | General discussion | |
| Is it defined in the context of furniture? Should it be? What do you consider vintage? What is the difference to second hand/pre-owned and plain old? Also, "vintage" and "antique" seem to be used as mutually exclusive terms, at least here, although I cannot see that they are. Are they? The meaning of vintage seems particularly unclear to me when used as an adjective. Some meanings from dictionary.com (see link for more): - noun: the class of a dated object with reference to era of production or use. - adjective: representing the high quality of a past time; ... | |||||
| Really interesting topic,... | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | cedric | General discussion | |
| ... this viewpoint, the fact that people are able to "forget" the objects they use can be considered as one of the biggest success in terms of design : the object fades away behind the function it fulfils. That´s the case of the bic pen, the tupperware box, the paper clip... These are the first examples which come to my mind, and maybe not the best ones. But they are so simple, so efficient (not in terms of computable performances but in the meaning that they completely fulfil their first function) and they really made the users´ everyday-life easier. To such a ... | |||||
| continued | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... their WMDs into ploughshares, when there is no more enemy requiring them, when enemies have to be invented for them. And we should not blame ourselves either. Blame and guilt are the tools of gods and dictators, not of enlightened human beings making humane choices. We should roll up our sleeves and set about the process of bringing the oligarchy and their elites pounding their tin drums in from their chateaus and castles and play grounds and war games and bunkers and say, "Time to put away the drums and get on with fixing this mess, lest some of you childr ... | |||||
| Wolfe Pt 4 | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Wolfe Pt 4 Wolfe didn't like a city full of Mies glass boxes. Or perhaps more precisely, he did not like a city full of imitations of Mies boxes. He found inverted massing and exposed skeleton and Corbusian brutalism ugly. So: okay. What form language in history can one point to that did not produce ugly buildings as well as beautiful ones? I've been to Florence. There are some real turkeys there. I've lived in San Francisco and not all the Victorians were quaint. I've been to Wolfe's south and not all ante bellum slave master's plantation houses were beaut ... | |||||
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