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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| I had some decent luck during | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | tchp | General discussion | |
| I had some decent luck during a work break today. Found an owl bank by Bennington Pottery, Oiva Toikka vase by Iiitala, Glo Ball lamp by FLOS Italy, Bitossi vase, Krenit bowl, some Heller plates, and a ceramic shepherd(?) figurine that I know nothing about thus far. The only thing with chips or damage is the Krenit bowl. The Glo Ball lamp was all of $2 at the Goodwill Bins. | |||||
| Cool! Yeah, that's an album I | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | brbeard | General discussion | |
| Cool! Yeah, that's an album I had to resort to ebay to pick up. I've been trying to build my record collection on the cheap, locally, but...I knew that one was going to be a lost cause. And I thought it was a great value at $30. I don't know if you found this through the Mutant Sounds blog like I did, but that (now defunct) blog was amazing and clued me in to so many great things that I likely wouldn't/couldn't have found otherwise. Being a music collector (or collector in general) in the age of the internet and file-sharing is a wonderful thing. Sidenote - I mistakenly called the second band "Rexy Music". It's just "Rexy" and, to be clear, is not a Bryan Ferry side project. | |||||
| Restoring chairs | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Majick | General discussion | |
| Restoring chairs I've restored many of these type of Danes....First thing...Take of the seat....It's more likely holding the chair together if it's that lose. They either wiggle the pieces apart or take a rubber malet and put cloth material where your going to hit the piece. Just enough force to get the pieces apart.....WATCH OUT FOR NAILS.....Check to make sure someone in the past didn't nail them together. If so make sure you get them out....You'll break the parts other wise. Get either Gorila glue/Wood glue. Make sure your rough both the socket and the piece going in with sand paper...put glue on both and put together....Then clamp making it tight. Make sure to clean up any glue that come out with a moist rag and wait.....Then put the seats back on and your done! | |||||
| Subflooring... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Subflooring... Unfortunately there was carpet previously that was 20yrs old and decaying and it was causing my breathing problems. So we ripped it out and painted the subfloor a deep grey and have been living with that for 3 years. I actually kinda liked it, we had a big shag rug under/around the bed and you could only see the grey at the edges of the room. But can't sell with a painted subfloor, so carpeting was the best choice, both cost-effectiveness-wise and popularity-wise. the stuff is being put in as I type and I already hate the smell, good thing we're headed to New Mexico for 2 weeks so it can off gas! I chose low-VOC, recycled content carpet made of nylon and I still think it smell bad! Oh well...not my house much longer...sigh... | |||||
| fritz hansen changed the s... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| fritz hansen changed the s... fritz hansen changed the swan and egg last year after 50 years from the star indented base to the round base and started numbering every thing and marking it Fritz Hansen cause of major knockoffs being sold in Europe where their stuff sells 3 to 1 compared to American sales, As you are aware all of the major furniture houses from time to time changed the foam and fabric as to be with the times and green correct, that is no big deal , as this was a good sign and did not change the design of the piece. | |||||
| RE: Authentic Finn Juhl 53 chair? | 1 Relevance | 3 years ago | Herringbone | Identification | |
| I'm not sure if I find the armrests very convincing. What's the wood species? Is it teak? Cant tell for sure, but the grain looks a bit odd. And there's another thing. The front of the armrests, where you are supposed to put your hands, should be very delicately shaped. Look at the picture from an early Niels Vodder production. Maybe you can inspect the chair you have with this picture and other pictures you find. Attachment: vodder.png | |||||
| Source for small replacement parts, like... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| wooden button screw caps, chair leg caps, metal spacers, shelf pins, etc. I came across this company when looking for a specific size rubber stopper with a hole in the middle that I could cut down for a cheap shock mount for a cheap Plycraft chair. Their service was great, they don't charge excessive shipping, and I LOVE their website. Plus, they had some other things that I had a hard time finding in the past. Bookmark them if you think there's any chance you might ever need them, because you know you will not be able to remember them later. (And I will have forgotten by then, too, so don't think you can just ask me. Har.) My favorite thing is the fast bottle opener for bartenders. I don't tend bar and I don't even open that many bottles, but it is a very lovely object and they photographed it well. http://www.widgetco.com | |||||
| Rather than post these guys... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | cdsilva | General discussion | |
| Rather than post these guys... Rather than post these guys in the last thing you've acquired thread, I thought it might be more useful here. Driving back from Columbus, Ohio last weekend, I stopped by one of the many antique malls in Indiana. As I was literally mumbling to myself with only a couple of stalls left (out of ~200) that there is never any good cheap mid century stuff in these places, I stumbled across these three chairs. While apparently inspired by the Risom C-140, a tag underneath confirmed that these chairs were made by Hibriten, in North Carolina. Although the frame of one chair had a poorly repaired split, I couldn't turn down their bargain basement price. So the winter restoration to-do pile has gotten a little larger. | |||||
| Christ... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Christ... That is REALLY terrible. For some Ebay is their only route to customers and without ebay their business is crippled. I can't believe they have put you in this position. I too only buy, sell (and firstly collect) mid century furniture because I LOVE the stuff and get so much please from the pieces I deal in. I gave up a great job in Marketing to do this - earn a fraction of what I did but my quality of life is great - plenty of time for the dog, elderly relatives etc. To think that xxx would take this away from someone is just a disgrace. I am SMALL FRY compared to them with a fraction of their experience/knowledge etc so how they can find me a threat is beyond me. I think the one thing I perhaps seem to have mastered better than them is common courtesy and honesty. So pleased to have found this forum - makes me feel less singled-out... edited by Design Addict - no names please | |||||
| I like Godsell very much | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| I like Godsell very much I went to a gathering where he spoke in Jackson, Mississippi this year. I was suprised at how many students reprimanded his work for his rectilinear approach. Another thing I have noticed about new modern construction is that people tend to build two story now. It's really easy IMHO to lose it's lightness and grace this way. Obviously it can be done (Eames House). There was an amazing E.D. Stone house in a Dwell issue a few months back. I wish I knew which one it was. It was small and quite stunning. In fact, maybe you should look at some of his work. I love his use of architectural screens, which do not seem to have been in favor since then. It would be a great way to add pizazz, privacy to large glass expanses and character without having to resort to something that would break up simple geometry. | |||||
| It is very strange that it is | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| It is very strange that it is model 50. Søborg used model numbers in that range in the early 1950s for designs with a similar skirt and legs. Some of them were designed by Hvidt and Mølgaard, and some were designed by the Jacobsen family member running the company at the time (Arne?). So it appears that Søborg decided to update and re-issue an old model, or perhaps it was a model that had only been drawn and not actually manufacturer in the early 1950s. For one thing, none of those early models were made in teak, per the catalog, and nobody had figured out how to use teak for factory production in the very early 1950s. | |||||
| happiness is nothing, sadness is nothing | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| happiness is nothing, sadness is nothing As someone who is not a collector, you did not know what you had, so it did not affect your happiness. As a collector, you reach the point of saturation. you are no longer happy. A non-collector is unenlightened, and therefore, we assume unhappy. a collector becomes happy, but ultimately is unhappy, and therefore, retains the same status as the non-collector. BUT, a collection is a personal thing. my collection will have no bearing on others. As such, I was happy to have the crap, even happier to have the crap of others. As such, send me your crap and free yourself from the unhappy/happy dilemma and make me unhappy. | |||||
| Sofas come in a wide variety | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Sofas come in a wide variety of seat depths these days. Seat height is more standard but you'll find some range there too. Back height can be very low to quite high. There's also the firmness factor. What one tall guy finds comfortable might not suit another at all, it really depends on more than just height. You should just go to a bunch of furniture stores and sit on a lot of different sofas. You might be surprised. I have two friends who own a shop; one is 5' and the other is 6'3". I'm right in the middle. We test out all the chairs and sofas that they get and then discuss the comfort level and try to analyze what is is that makes the thing work or not. Quite often I'll sit on something and declare that it's made for a tall person, then my 5' friend finds it very comfortable! The only way to know is to try stuff out yourself. | |||||
| Trying to ID a maker and time period for this couch | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | sttlnb53 | Identification | |
| I picked up this couch from an old lawyers office near my apartment in Chicago and have no idea who made it or what the time period is(guessing 60's-70's but no idea). The couch has probably been sitting in the office for 10+ years. Anyone seen a couch similar to this? The thing that stood out to me the most was the semi-circle bases on each end that are conjoined with a truss that runs all the way across the center of the couch...pretty sure it is all solid mahogany. I could not get the images to fit into the body of the message well for some reason. You may have to copy and paste the URL in order to see the pictures properly. http://imgur.com/lAXl1Kj http://imgur.com/IRRGsi3 http://imgur.com/qMWLzQ3 | |||||
| maybe it is me but for so... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| maybe it is me but for so... maybe it is me but for some reason and i have redone a lot of furniture as a hobby and business I have always felt funny using Girard Fabric on any thing other than Herman miller furniture, when I was starting out and excited to get a account with Maharam , I bought some purple panton geometric and put it on a a series 71 chair, I felt that chair is somewhat on the traditional side and that fabric is just way out there, to say the least it is not my favorite, I think we ought to have a design addict contest to find the perfect fabric for my new probber sofa, My wifes first comment was why do we need it? we just got a perfect Baker sofa in Tangerine, I guess I am always searching for the perfect pop 60's look , back to the warehouse. | |||||
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