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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Modular wall-mounted shelving | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | william-holden-... | General discussion | |
| Modular wall-mounted shelving Available space for my TV & audio stuff was about 6' wide by only 14" deep (passageway from living room to bedroom). My solution was a custom shelving system-- I found brass standards & various sized arms at my local hardware store (old stock-- must have been sitting there since 1965!). I then planned the exact system I needed to accommodate my television, cable box, DVD player, turntable, receiver, CD player, speakers. Had shelves cut at my local lumber yard, then finished them myself. The whole thing ended up costing me around $200, I'm guessing. | |||||
| As to military design | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| As to military design and its influence on civlian products -- an interesting topic for a new thread ? -- today's Hummer is a reflection of the crossover vehicles that proceeded from the WW II Jeep: the Willys Jeep station wagon (we had one in our family from 1947 to 1956) and the Jeepster -- which in turn bacame the Wrangler, Wagoneer and etc that we know today. The VW Thing was also based on a military vehicle if I am not mistaken. Aviation history is presumably filled with similar examples, and perhaps there are instances in architecture as well ? But smaller products are an unknown, to me. . . other than direct copies -- like a khaki-colored plastic flashlight that I had as a kid ! | |||||
| Thanks, Mod | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Thanks, Mod I 'm almost completely ignorant of Mr Fuller. (Was he really tiny?) One thing's for sure: he could have contributed the entire structural design of a tower for Mr Wright, and Wright would have found a way to a) stiff him for his fee, b) omit any credit to him in the subsequent publicity, and/or c) blame him for roof leakage! What a guy. . . It's amusing to read his comments on mid-fifties modern furniture -- he just couldn't celebrate any but his own design, no matter how fitting it might be. Early photos of the Pew Usonian show a set of DCW's around the dining peninsula, looking perfectly at home. I think a fitting cover illustration for a fictional account of him could show him lounging in an Eames "La Chaise." Hah! SDR | |||||
| It was the repeated false accusations | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | danielmpoole | General discussion | |
| It was the repeated false accusations You repeatedley accuse me of advertising on this forum. We have discussed the issue in the past and yet you still seem to state the same thing on every ID thread I post. It's almost obsessive. I do sell pieces. And i do sometimes try to get those pieces identified on this forum. However, i have never stated my business name, and i do not even make reference to which country or place i live in. The fact that you spotted something for sale that i was trying to ID is a coincidence. I really don't understand why you take such offence. Shame, as you clearly must have valuable knowledge, which you could spend your time sharing, as opposed to finding faults with others. Maybe it's time to wipe the slate clean and start afresh, as i'm sure neither of us have the time and energy to go on like this? | |||||
| Hooked on design | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | ToShun Campbell | General discussion | |
| Hooked on design You can certainly get in on my genuine Design Addict Dollars EamesJunkie. ;~) You guys know your stuff! Hey setag, where did you find the production years?? I'm new to this chair pedigree thing, still learning. So, would I destroy any transitive value if I have it reupholstered to match an authentic Eames 670/1? Same question goes for a set of (5)Chromecraft chairs I found, literally found. Easy enough to ID. The plastic is in great shape of course but the seat fabric is a bit water stained from sitting out in the rain, where did I mention, I FOUND them. I've been looking for some nice fabric to maybe refit them with but until then they've just been in storage. Should I just leave them as is? Can't wait to acquire more cool pieces. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . You should try looking in second hand bookshops and the shelves in thrift stores for this sort of thing too. I've picked quite a few over the years, usually they have titles like 'modern furniture you can build!' or 'furniture for the home hanyman' or something like that. Most of the work is pretty second rate but occasionaly there is a good piece. If you see something you like in a vintage shop go in with a tape measure and a camera, ask first and explain that you just want to do a one off, and they should be pretty accomodating. Without things like plywood presses, tube benders and routers though you are pretty limited in scope but nothing can really stop you making webbed Rinsom-esque chairs with a few small equipment purchases. Good luck! | |||||
| To answer you AzC... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| To answer you AzC... no, there wasn't anyone family-wise who could have been to blame. All the various nieces and nephews were just kids beyond that just parents and grandparents. But I do remember that my parents were interviewed. The whole thing was just a sad sad shame. I hope the pieces ended up in good homes somewhere, I'd hate to think they ended up ruined. But, who knows...maybe I'm a modernist now because of it. I do have a hand-painted Japanese fan made with bone, silk and Hinoki wood that is truly lovely. It's so far from the trash you see in an asian imports store, truly a piece of art. My sister ended up with a puzzle box, also Japanese. So at least we have something! ...and funny how persons of 'faith' can make any conversation a reason to impose their beliefs on others. | |||||
| Perriand myth | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | tick | General discussion | |
| Perriand myth I was recently at an auction and 2 infraphil lamps were being sold as designed by Perriand and were passed in when bidding stopped at $300. Funny thing is that I can buy one almost any week for less than $20 on eBay. I have noticed that many dealers sell the model with the red anodised metal ring as a Perriand design. There is never any documentation to support this claim, and as noted earlier in this thread, the infraphil appears to have been selected for inclusion in an exhibition curated by Perriand, and not designed by her. Attribution is so important when it comes to vintage furniture and objects and it would be good to settle the Perriand/infraphil lamp mystery. | |||||
| chair question | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | brnki (SVK) | General discussion | |
| I'm now thinking about topic for my master work, and my teacher somehow proposed me to think about designing a chair. ok, chair is sort of icon.. probably every designer tries to design a chair.. but what's your opinion on this, do you really think it's necessary, to design more chairs? i'm not talking here about colours or wood finishing.. chair is quite a difficult thing... ones uses it not just for sitting, it usually helps when reaching for some high-perched object, i use it ussually to hang some clothes on 🙂 .. to name some other functions that are sort of expected, when talking about chair today... I don't want to sound too sceptical, 🙂 I would definitely like to try designing a chair... but your opinion would be very helpful 🙂 | |||||
| RE: Madsen and Schubell | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Herringbone | General discussion | |
| Also good job @wesemael! But one thing here really puzzles me: There is one chair in the catalogue that looks like the Ditzel „Oda“ chair. I‘d even say it IS the Ditzel chair, but the catalogue probably reads Madsen en Schubell Kopenhagen as far as I can tell (same problems as you have, Lexi). What do we make of it? Did Madsen and Schubell produce an exact copy under their own brand? Or are the chairs that are sold as Nanna Ditzel chairs not Nanna Ditzel chairs? Can we also solve this riddle? | |||||
| Is there a web site for unproduced designs? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| My googling didn't show any. I am imagining a Web Site of Unproduced Designs, cross indexed by product type, decade, and designer name. Pictures and text. So many products and buildings have been designed and then not produced or built. We get scattered glimpses of this sort of thing in books about designers and architects, but I have always thought a web site dedicated to this sort of thing could be an inspiring and useful resource. I suspect a significant part of what is designed and architected is never realized. So many car designs are experimented with and never realized. One in a hundred thousand film scripts are shot. I get the feeling reading the designers who contribute here that significant amounts of what they work on does not reach production. It seems to me that, while unproduced designs probably often have shortcomings that justified their rejection, many are rejected for reasons beyond whether these were good designs, or not. Many are victims of changing demographics, changing retail outlets, economic hard times, and occassionally designers who just run out of gas pushing their ideas. Every poet, artist, architect, and designer I have ever spoken with has indicated they have either been inspired by, or emulated (often inverted) some idea, technical aspect, or miscellaneous this or that from another person's work. It seems an internet web site is well-suited to amplify this cross pollinization of ideas, especially from the past. But just as importantly, it also seems that it might give designers of these unproduced products/buildings a show case for their work that might attract producers down the road to initiate contact with these designers. All of these unproduced designs seem to constitute an enormous seed stock fallen into oblivion. Might it not make sense for these designs to fall somewhere where the chances of their re-consideration by other producers and cross-pollinization potential for other designers might be amplified? Would many living designers contribute to such a site? Would many estates of well-known deceased designers contribute? Or would my idea be viewed as giving away hard work, and betraying confidentiality agreements on work done, etc. and so hopelessly constrained? | |||||
| I got 2 more Senator chairs | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Kyle Barrett | General discussion | |
| I got 2 more Senator chairs in rosewood last weekend. I'm now in the midst of refinishing delicately, sanding free so as to avoid ruining the colour of the rosewood. Just using 0000 steel wool for all of it. Original sprung cushions too, which excites me! It's the first time I've experienced a strange thing in rosewood: the wood having 'waves'. One armrest has a distinctive feeling to it, like there are tangible waves. And while aesthetically speaking it looks like a flat surface, where the waves are you can see solid poreless lines in the wood. A first for me, and I'm not doing a great job of explaining. I've always known rosewood to be fairly consistently dense, but this seems as if some of the growth is denser than other parts. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| . But who invented the spline joint? Who invented dovetailed corners? Someone figured that out, and someone copied. At some point it becomes "common knowledge" or a choice to make. And some come along who refine and perfect what is known. But the inventor is still the inventor. And followers prove his or her invention worthy by using it over and over. I know that fine craft has an authenticity all it's own, I won't argue that. I appreciate well applied knowledge, work ethic, and sensitivity to visuals, all combined and working together in an artistic and practical form. But true invention is a whole other thing, and when we are considering the question in the context that the original poster presented us with, it is extremely hard to leave "invention" out of the equation. | |||||
| Oxalic | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | HV_Dave | General discussion | |
| Oxalic I just used oxalic acid for the first time on a veneered desk top. The owner of the desk said something had spilled on it years ago, he hadn't paid much attention to it, but now finally wanted to sell it. We stripped off the old finish, sanded down a bit. Then we used the oxalic acid on the entire top (so as to not only bleach a portion, but rather the whole thing). We applied it twice and triple rinsed after the second application. The first seemed to lighten it a great deal. The second nearly done. After the rinse and a day of waiting the black stains were removed. We then applied a natural teak oil stain and the marks are not visible. I can't speak to your specific circumstances, but I can share the above from last week's project. | |||||
| Intelligent words SDR and tha... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| Intelligent words SDR and tha... Intelligent words SDR and thanks LRF. I think the mistake I made was rendering the 3d model from its best angle, whereas I should have done it from its worst, or at least from a top down eye height view. I did do a full scale drawing aswell, that should have told me something if I was looking at it with a more critical eye. Anway in future pieces I'll be making the all a touch taller with a slightly stronger flare. Here are some photos, I now see comparing drawings to the real thing I got the drilling angle wrong and should have brought the legs closer to the centre, aswell as made them longer. Later I might put altered models up. Better get back to sanding and polishing. Suggestions welcome. . | |||||
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