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| Heath... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Heath... I am blessed with the ability to think as I write and write quickly. I assure you I get my share of time at the beach. 🙂 Now, as for you, may I recommend English tea. It took me a long time to discover Engish tea as a libation of merit. P.G. Tibbs Gold. And once you modulate the right time of day for it (first thing in the morning for me), and master associated sugar and dairy preferences (I am a two lump with half and half man) press on to Barry's Gold tea from Ireland. I believe these will introduce you to a proper mellowness that will let you get on with your posts and allow you more garden time. 🙂 Great learning from you and I look forward to hearing more on this topic. | |||||
| Yes I am kicking this thread back up to the top | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | dashes | General discussion | |
| Yes I am kicking this thread back up to the top I know some of you probably wanted it to go away, but ah well, I don't want to start a new one about the same thing. Because today for the first time, I actually found myself wishing I had the whole set of Vitra minis. That's right! No, I won't buy them, because I don't have money to spend on something like that. But I can definitely see why somebody would. Any of us who are learning to identify the original classic designs would probably greatly benefit from having a scale model, supposedly true to contstruction material and detail, in our hot little hands to examine. So, question for any of you who will admit to having (or having examined) the Vitras: are they really as high-quality as they claim, in terms of faithful reproduction? I've run out of space at the moment so I cannot bring home even one more chair that's life-sized. Which is why I would love to own all those little tiny beauties! They would ALL fit on one shelf! | |||||
| Just like SDR said | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| Just like SDR said ... it looks pretty darn close to me too. The pin looks correct, the shape of the base looks correct (and I must say that SDR said it far more eloquently than I might have). But I have also seen knock-offs that were VERY accurate to HM production specs. You should measure the size of the top and the exact thickness of the glass, but it looks right from your photo. The only thing that I question is the visible wood grain on the base. It looks like a more open grain wood like ash. I don't recall that being a wood that I've seen used on Noguchi table bases by HM, but I could be wrong. Especially if it's not terribly old. Like 90's production. It also looks very, very clean. Any wear to the base or scratches on the glass to indicate some age to it? | |||||
| Identification threads | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | glassartist | Identification | |
| I know we have discussed this before, but the way we handle ID queries still bothers me. I have asked and answered and ignored these on many occasions. I find them valuable both in monetary terms and for general enlightenment. I try to look at ID queries as if I was meeting someone in person for the first time and they were asking me a question. I cant imagine I would give them a flip or "funny" response. Nor do I stop to question their motives, which are non of my business. This is probably because I have no problem with commerce and I am not motivated to scold them for not doing their homework. Perhaps it is a function of online communities that we treat others poorly compared to in person. I really don't want to live down to that standard. Patrick and Alix have been wonderful hosts and I feel like I owe it to them not to mistreat those who come asking. Can any thing be done? Is it just me? | |||||
| Thank you for your reply, | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Killiney | General discussion | |
| Thank you for your reply, Sparky! I already have inquired with two local furniture upholsterers who seemed able to do that, but their price range matches the Knoll 'solution'... Will keep looking but this sounded, well, not too promising. Perhaps that's German pricing.... : ( My post here was written in the hope that some 'quicker solution' were available, also at a price not as high as 1000 - 2000 Euro. To match the 'quality' of the whole thing, I also looked for used ones... Zero on the market it seems. I only found a company called Steelform, but whilst their replacement 'mattress' looks ok, their headrest has too smooth a finish... There must... be some company out there, as I can imagine I am not the only one with this problem, given the sheer amount of ancient Barcelona daybeds out there.... | |||||
| Having a conscience is a grea... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| Having a conscience is a grea... Having a conscience is a great thing 🙂 More people should get one, not sure how much they cost these days. Seriously though if its a one off and doesn't use obscenely toxic or rare materials I wouldn't sweat it, its only when something awful gets put into mass production that we should be concerned. It'll be a very stimulating exercise for you, enjoy it, the world doesn't need any more chairs but we can allways do with a little more beauty. My only suggestion is to avoid the chair as shiny plastic pseudo sculpture, it has its place but its become such a common approach I barely take notice of them anymore. Perhaps something low tech and knock down in a plantation grown timber if you want to make it a hypothetical exercise. | |||||
| 80% of my house is... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| 80% of my house is... 80% of my house is furnished that way... A nice way to find out, 'I get such a kick from seeing that chair when ever i come in here. It reminds me of stuff my parents had when i was a kid, but they threw it all out.' In my case it is a true statement. Most often it is about to go to the garbage. If the owner has a personal attachment, they will say so. I've even mentioned that they could get 50-75 each if they were cleaned up a bit. But usually they don't want to fool with it. Every visit to my in-laws i see blank spots where some nice danish pieces were the year before... My parents are also on a tossing-out binge. My fathers college leather-bound dictionary that i have always coveted, is gone! 'that old thing?' (replaced on the shelf by a stack of Martha Stewart Living! she can't cook and isn't crafty) ?! ...It is best to speak up | |||||
| well thanks so much | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Elizabeth deL. B. | General discussion | |
| well thanks so much although the domestic violence issue is certainly an interesting turn. I have looked at the FLOR squares and am considering the idea....they don't really come in a color that feels subtle enough to me, and they feel a bit "industrial" for such an old house. Something low pile and self-effacing (if a rug can be self-effacing) is where I am leaning....I kind of wanted varying pile heights/carving (as in an Angela Adams style thing, only she does not "do" neutrals). BTW, the creams and ivories work really well with the green walls and white moldings...it's quite an undetstated look, and the green is not so bright. Ahh...rug drama.... Sigh. I too am someone who buys rugs and hates them in minutes. Trying not to make the same mistake. | |||||
| They do scratch | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| They do scratch Like previously mentioned all wood will scratch, as will glass, plastic, and most metals. Part of that becomes the natural patina of the piece, unless it is really deep. I put a coat of paste wax on all my wood furniture before using it and that seems to help. The other thing is to understand what pieces of clothing will affect the wood. The LCW hits you low in the back and has a broad seat - just kindly remind people that metal studded belts or jeans with rivets on them will hurt your chair. Altho you are in less danger because you have the dyed version. The current red and black versions will chip, leaving white primer underneath. | |||||
| Cyclical | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Cyclical If Europe is the hot place now, then the US will likely be it again later when our economy improves; then it'll be Europe again or possibly Asia. It's a ying/yang thing. The cheap flights idea is interesting, but even so it's still just flying around the EU. For us it's a transcontinental flight, which slows down the flux, add a poor dollar and 'bingo bongo' fewer American in Europe. IKEA is modernism for masses that's for sure, hard to deny that claim. Annette, was the phenomenon of reality TV and home makover shows mentioned? Seems to me Changing Rooms, The House Doctor, House Invaders and all those would have had the same level of effect in the UK that our versions are having here in the US. | |||||
| Use the google | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Use the google With site:lauritz.com in the query. So for example with that rosewood chair of yours I googled "site:lauritz.com stole palisander" without the quotes and then selected the images tab. The other chairs like yours were a dozen or so rows of images down. The other thing of note about lauritz is that the large majority of its lots are in danish. So query in danish. And, as above, lauritz is no solid reference. Furniture is often misattributed by accident or to fluff up its desirability. But it sometimes can offer good clues to follow up on that lead to a solid attribution. | |||||
| we see so many of those ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| we see so many of those ... we see so many of those chairs, most are from the 60's with the round clips. We might have had a few late 50 but there is no difference. the leather is so dry you can crack it with looking at it, A lot of the chairs that come in are from the 70s with the streight clips. The one thing that i always tell every one . that we are trying to save, is the plastic pads we resew and reuse them, as the earlier ones had great air holes, and they truly are impossible to get your hands on. I have a feeling and i am no expert since you have contacted the archivest at HM to guide you in your search on the birth of your chair, but I think HM stuffed some chairs with down, some with poly fill and a poly fill wrap. they all come in that way, so in the 50 years most of these chairs have changed hands at least once, and someone had to have something changed in them cause very few are in the original from day one. | |||||
| How to undo the back cushion of a Florence Knoll easy chair? | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | bj | Repair | |
| Well, title says it all. Some years ago I passed two original sixties Knoll easy chairs (made in Belgium by the licensed firm De Coene) to my uncle, which is now planning to have them upholstered. Only thing is, we can't get or head around how to remove the back cushion, which is fixed to the frame. Any pointers? Attachment: knoll.jpg | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| cont. In constrast, Koen is the designer as healer, as shepherd, as loving coaxer of what can be from what was. With Koen there is no annihilation of the legacy. There is extention of it. With Koen there is not slaughtering of lambs, no ritual sacrificing, no primal murder of the past. There is embrace of it, understanding of it, learning from it, winnowing from it, the separation of wheat from chaff, there is the sacrament of development, of real ritual of concrete, verifiable progress, in whatever increment is feasible, given skills, materials, technologies, and resources. There is brilliant continuity between the legacy of the thing and the thing itself. There is laser like acuity of thought and analysis, rather than hide bound conventional wisdom, or trendy hustling. There is wisdom you can touch and use. And from all of this flows a culture that carries on showing through its love for the continuity of things a concommitant love for the continuity of people and all living and inanimate things. Koen has with his life and his work offered us all an example of each person's innate capacity to make the humane choice, to nurture and coax people, society, materials and reality itself, rather than rape the beauty from the aforementioned. Picasso stood like an eternally young man, performing the same fete of brilliance again and again: "See, look at how I can make the grass more verdantly green than you ever dreamed possible by burning it off before every spring, not just when the lightening strikes. I can be the lightening." Koen stands like an eternally mature man, performing the same fete of brilliance again and again: "I have come to understand the grass and how to fertilize and water it and care for it and cross pollinate its seeds and keep it green the year round for you. The ritual of fire produces one kind of beauty, but burning it every year kills off so much other diverse beauty in the process to gain the narrow green shade you think you love. I offer you the whole meadow, not just the color green." We are more fortunate than we know to have met him. | |||||
| Lovely Idea in Theory | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Robert Leach | General discussion | |
| Lovely Idea in Theory Lovely idea in theory But I think there are two threads here that prove it unworkable.. both the 'flatware' and 'how do you take your coffee' threads show that even like-minded (relatively speaking) people have very different taste.... There is no such thing as definitive taste, I like the idea, but the realist in me says it is a non starter. There are stores full of lovely things, but by giving the customer a choice seems to be the key to retail success Heal's in London is one I am familiar with, but has survived a very long time by offering a selection of the very best in modern design.. http://www.heals.co.uk/ | |||||
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