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	Technically, the last "thing"	2 Relevance	10 years ago	keewee	General discussion
	Technically, the last "thing" I acquired was a starving pit bull with a broken leg off the side of the road on a trip to buy a set of Jens Quistgaard nesting tables and Iversen planter. She's been my only road side find. That was in July. Haven't had time for much else since then, though I've got my eyes on a Paul McCobb desk. They used to be exceedingly common but seem to have gotten expensive and harder to find lately. You gets what you gets. Lucky for all the bounty that comes my way, especially her.
	Replacement shade for a Maclamp	1 Relevance	15 years ago	katie lou	General discussion
	Hello! I recently aquired a 60's conran maclamp but it has the wrong shade...do you know if it's possible to get replacements or where to look for an original replacement? I have trawled the internet but keep drawing a blank!
	Teak thing?	2 Relevance	16 years ago	brentgable	General discussion
	Trying to figure out what this teak thing is, any clues?
	Another thing that made these so cool	2 Relevance	19 years ago	barrympls	General discussion
	Another thing that made these so cool was that they were so varied in design and concept. Yes, there was a committee of Nelson employees working on the clocks, but no one in the design world made so many varied versions of a particular type of item. The wonderful Charles and Ray Eames were nowhere as prolific as Nelson...in fact NO ONE...not even Alver Aalto was as prolific as Nelson. After seeing all of those clocks, his basic cabinets group, the Comprehensive Storage System, The Storagewall, his Sling Sofa, Kangaroo chair, the Swag(ged) leg group, the Marshmellow Sofa, the Coconut chair and ottoman, the Catenary Group, the occasional chairs, the occasional tables, the Gateleg dining room table, the Pretzel chairs, the Tray table, the "end" table, I'm just amazed that so much beautiful and truly clever designs came from this one man (and his associates). For all of you people who love the wonderful European stuff, I can't think of anyone who was as prolific or was as consistently good as George Nelson.
	Strange artfact animal sculpture thing	2 Relevance	14 years ago	kuechengeraetef...	General discussion
	Hi, I discovered this and I`m wondering if anybody knows anything. I don`t thing it`s just handmade because it`s porcellane. Regards
	But it's the this 'mimic' thing that I don't get...	2 Relevance	22 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	But it's the this 'mimic' thing that I don't get... If the design is no longer 'owned' by someone, why is it considered a mimic when a different company reproduces it? Why do you believe this so even if it is made to original specs? Truly it is awfully nice to have a vintage piece, but most of us will have to settle for a new one. And for these, manufacturing practices have changed, technologies have changed, so of course, anything made now is not made exactly the same was it was originally. But this can be said for any producer whether they claim to be the licensee or not. So the only pieces that would really matter are original vintage pieces or ones where the design still has patent rights. I have been doing some reading and I am including a link to HM about their 'Get Real' campaign. They do not assert that the Eames piece is only theirs. I found that interesting and searched some more. It seems that they lost, on appeal, a court case on this. They asserted that they had something called 'post-mortem right to publicity' which they got from the Eames'. I had to look that term up and it means that HM was saying only they could label and use the Eames' names or images. They lost on this outside of the state of Michegan. But the MOST interesting this about it is that HM never made any claim to owning the design, even though they've made them for years from the original designs. So I am now back where I started, it seems that all you pay for (besides the quality of course) is the name. If you can find comparable quality elswhere and more affordably then why not? http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/News/Story/0,1585,a8-c407-n266,00.html
	Cloud...one thing...Vitra is not a knockoff	2 Relevance	19 years ago	barrympls	General discussion
	Cloud...one thing...Vitra is not a knockoff I continue to rave a bit about using the term "knockoff' so loosely. A knockoff is an item made without offical sanction of the copyright holder or their heirs. Whether you like it or not, Vitra was offically sanctioned by George Nelson heirs to reproduce some of his most important clocks. They spent a lot of time studying the original Howard Miller clocks and other than changing the works from electric or wind-up to battery, they should be about the same. All of my stuff is 100% legit...except for an all black Wassily chair that I'm certain is a high quality knockoff. I bought it locally for $200.00, and I couldn't resist! The metal is black and has a crinkle finish...definately not a real one. I DID buy an Eileen Gray round metal and glass table to go with it...and it's a knockoff from China. Other than those two, and the 3 clocks on their way from All World, all of my stuff is real. But those clocks are going to be like wall art, and since the Vitra are so bloody expensive, i'm breaking my standards and going for the Eye, Steering Wheel and Kite. What the hay. But those Vitra's are 'reissues', not 'knockoffs'
	The only thing that matters	2 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	The only thing that matters is the amount of expansion and contraction. At a small scale, the woodworker does not need to worry about these sorts of things. PVA glue has some small degree of elasticity to it (it is a plastic after all). Suppose that it can stretch by 1/64 inch along the length of a glue line. Now if you have a small tray made out of solid teak, violating all the rules of wood movement, it may only expand and contract by 1/64 inch, so the glue bond holds. Scale that up to a table, and the teak expands and contracts by 1/4 inch; the glue bond fails. If you look closely at the groove edge of your table, you will see that the groove is cut into beech wood. And you can see the dark line of counter veneer below it, and teak veneer above. So the beech is just a fairly narrow strip of edge banding outside the core of particle board. There is nothing wrong with your table being veneer. Almost all danish modern tables are veneer. And it is not categorically the case that the better tables are solid teak. Many of the "better" pieces are veneer. A few are solid wood. Some of the "worse" pieces are solid wood too, and some are veneer.
	Aksel Kjersgaard Mystery Thing	2 Relevance	13 years ago	garlanre	General discussion
	I just picked up this...well...shelf thing designed by Aksel Kjersgaard. The design is pretty ingenious and I like it a lot. But I'm not sure what it is. A desk? A book shelf? A multi-level table of some sort? Clearly it was designed for a specific purpose because it has that hole in the middle. What's that all about? And then there's the add-on piece with the knob that's really weird. The lady who sold it to me said its purpose is to hold cookbooks (??). I'm baffled. I have something pretty neat here, but I'm not sure what. Can anyone help?
	And the interesting thing is that...	2 Relevance	17 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	And the interesting thing is that... one could scatter some look-alike, live ordnance (aka bombs) among the bomb vases and discourage burglars and other intruders. Or perhaps the designers could specify that the bomb vases are made of depleted uranium, like real bombs. I have a long standing problem with civilian adoption/adaptation of forms/artifacts of warfare in our civilian artifacts. Its betrays a creeping blight of militarization of our societies, and it suggests that warfare is a sensible/moral means of bringing new technologies on line. It is true that many good artifacts have been developed for military use and then subsequently disseminated through the civilian economy afterwards. But it is also true that it would always have been better to have skipped the war application and developed the artifact directly for the civilian economy. The problem with product migration from the war economy to the civilian economy is that it: a) institutionalizes the expectation of this migration; and b) rewards private sector corporations, and ultimately consumers, for allowing our civilian economy to be coopted into the war economy. War, as R&D, is a sick activity. Space exploration, as R&D, was a little more benign. Surely society and its professionals can rally around the moral/ethical idea of opposing the use of war as an R&D activity and an economic stimulus package, can't they? Ooops, politics and ethics rear their hoary heads again on DA. 🙂
	One other thing	2 Relevance	19 years ago	Big Television Man	General discussion
	One other thing with respect to ten gallon hats and ranches and I certainly mean no disrespect to our enlightened brethern from the state of Texas. But I had the fortune or misfortune to go to the far east with a trade group who drew members from all over the country, with a large contingent of members from Texas in the eighties and again in 2003. In fact we were one of the largest groups from the US to travel in China in the 80's and on both occasions at very dignified dinners, whenever the group from Texas would be recognized from the dais this group of people would all rise up hoot'in and hollering and waving giant ten gallon hats in the air, clapping, whistling and screaming. To a man, not one of them on either trip ever passed on the chance to boast about the size of their hobby ranches and or how many head of cattle they ran then or at some other time. Whether they were telling the truth or not, I have no way of knowing, but to judge by the numbers that claimed ranch ownership, one would think there was no other industry but cattle in Texas. In fact it was the first experience in 1983 with this group that kept me away for 20 years. And this was not a trade group of ranchers and farmers but rather, supposedly, very professional people with advanced degrees from institutes of higher education. So yes sometimes short hand stereotypes do apply. All in all it was rather embarassing and crystallized the vision of the "ugly American" in my mind that a lot of the world has of us. I do agree though that the 'throw another shrimp on the barbie" was more the Australian tourist board and Paul Hogan trading on his then current popularity and no one I know that ever went to Australia, myself included, ever believed that Aussies walked around offering to throw shrimp or anything else on a barbie or any other cooking device.
	a thing about fakes	2 Relevance	20 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	a thing about fakes I to have a big panton collection and have done research for several companies . on the word fake and what it means . Herman Miller one of the only companies in the industry to go to court to protect the rights of there produts ie, EAMES chairs was awarded a trade dress certificate ( that means that the Eames lounge chair will always be the property of Herman Miller and the Eames office ( that is why you see very few knock offs of that chair knocked off to the T. (seemless sides and 5 star alumium base . vs the Barcelona , Wassley chair and others ( cause deep down the overseas makers are not ready to go against a team of lawyers from Herman Miller for trade dress violations , but other small companies that made great stuff they don't even give them a second though. about so they have been knocking off ther items for years and over time have actually gotten better , and the dirty word of fake has gone away . It is now simply a copy of the original or as some are saying since Herman Miller and knoll have started to sign there items i.e. Mies on Barcelona and Bruno , Nacguchi on the table , Eames on the lounge chair with clever signatures Buyers are simply saying i have purchased a unsigned piece . with total respect to the the original. I own almost 100 original mid-century designer pieces and have a few UNSIGNED pieces and I am proud to own them as they are great and would not been able to have them had they not be reintroduced to the world. (sorry about the spelling no spell check)
	One more thing...	2 Relevance	19 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	One more thing... When I said markets were unrelated to the architectural merit of a building, what I meant was that a building with brilliant architure can show up most anywhere. The best neighborhoods often do not have the best architecture in USA, anyway. Columbus, Indiana, has the best architecture of ANY small town I've ever been in, because a trust fund was created to subsidize the hiring of some great architects. Beverly Hills, CA, where houses are phenomenally expensive and opulent beyond many persons' imagining generally suck in comparison. There is a reason so much great architecture is built on marginal land. I am thinking here of Luis Barragan, a real estate agent much of the time, because he had a hard time getting hired to design buildings, built his first real subdivision of his homes on a malpai parcel, also known as a lava flow, that no other developer wanted. When land is expensive, and mortgages will be required, then roughly 80% of the market value has to be in the improvements and 20 % in the land, or the bankers won' put either a construction loan, or a take-out permanent loan on the property. Lenders do NOT want super-improvements; i.e., buildings costing vastly more than their lots, only about 4 times what their land costs (after site improvements to make the site buildable). Why? Its all about controlling lending risk with financial rules of thumb. If an architect can design within these rules of thumb, then the lender will consider the risk of doing something new and different. But after considering something new and different, most lenders will then say, "No. Do something like what has already been successful, so that if the market tanks, the I have CYA with my boss." Truly adventuresome architecture in housing often requires a person with deep pockets who can carry the property until it proves itself in the market place without construction financing.
	Question: AG	1 Relevance	17 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Question: AG Hello all, I recently aquired an Aluminum Group side chair. My question is does anyone know where I can find 5 glides for it, they are missing. Oh and how much do these run for, thanks.
	I have art of artists who remind me of one thing or another...	2 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	I have art of artists who remind me of one thing or another... So I necessarily have prints of famous artists, and a few originals of lesser ones. I have Picasso's crazy king to remind me of my short comings, whenever my wife is not around to do so. 🙂 I have a Raul Dufy print of boats on a water front in France to remind me that America can do much better tending to its looks. I have an original watercolor of San Miguel de Allende to remind me that a part of me is still formed by the Beats even though San Miguel de Allende is now a retirement haunt for artists who didn't crash the top. Ironically, its by an artist, Richard Morton, spent his life in the military as an illustrator of military history. I have a positively hideous Milton Avery flow pen drawing that I like because it must have been one of Mr. Avery's first efforts after having his stroke. It reminds me of my mortality. I have an oil painting of the L-train street scene in bitter winter by a Hollywood director of B movies that reminds me of how cold and hard life can get, lest I forget in sunny California. I have an original print, I believe you would call it, by Kandinsky, which reminds me that I learned what little I know about aesthetics from reading a couple of Kandinsky's books on aesthetics. I also have a picture of Santa Barbara by one of the painters in a local school of landscape painters who specialize in capturing the rather distinct quality of the light in southern/central California. But if truth be told, the art on my walls I look at most are the framed pictures of my wife and son. Call me sentimental. I suppose it wouldn't show well in Dwell, but it works for me.