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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Thanks DCW, SDR & Lunchbox | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Thanks DCW, SDR & Lunchbox I think you guys were just the tonic I needed on this! It's a modern house, we have wires, we have lives. We don't have lots of furniture or useless decorations. So, accept my wired life and move on! I have tidied the wires and laid them neatly on the floor and used a short extension cord to bring the big black brick to a corner location where it doesn't show much. My biggest issue was that I am too ecologically minded to leave a transformer brick (also known as a vampire) plugged in all the time. I figured a way to add a small switch into the deal and I'm happy now. And no, usarem2 it's not a problem with incorrect or unfinished installation it was really just an aesthetic issue. Ark, sorry but that thing is F-ugly! ...just my opinion. | |||||
| It's the Victorian | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| It's the Victorian We've picked the apartment in the Victorian building in the center of Lausanne. The views over the lake and the city are to die for. The building was built in 1880 (the outside is freshly plastered and repainted which made me assume it was of a later date). I will post pictures once I get moved in at the end of March. You are all invited for drinks, skiing and sailing. BTW, my relocation guy who was accompanying me on this search was soooo wrong. The owner of the apartment who owns the Le Corbusiers is not going to assisted living (that's the dude on the first floor!). He is a very young and vibrant "older" Swiss pediatrician who knows exactly what he has. I was very bold, however, and he has agreed to let me use the four Le Corbusier pieces during my three year tenure. Renting orgasmic furniture is the next best thing to owning it, no? | |||||
| Mr. Sullivan and Mies | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | barry | General discussion | |
| Mr. Sullivan and Mies To go back a little and jump out of the present stream to the form follows function statement of Sullivan quoted earlier. I read where Mies, in quoting the famous dictum, said that in our time, meaning early modernism, function was so short-lived that architecture should be much more flexible in order that it can better respond to change and this was one of the guiding principles of his work. To demonstrate this he used Lakeshore apartments as an example where he said he couldn?t remember 2 apartments being the same layout. It seems to me that this flexibility is a good thing if it allows people to create their own environment suited to their own needs. By this token it seems that the late postmodern experiment failed in large part because it was too controlling if not contrived. | |||||
| The difference between character and wore out | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | flyingpatricio | General discussion | |
| The difference between character and wore out There's sometimes a fine line between character and wore out. This table straddles it every day, but the wood is so beautiful. It's not quite to the stage of a "Breaker", but the issues it has are minor to me. The thing being is, a huge crack across a Victorian end table that's seen 100+ years of use and a huge crack on a MCM piece are different to me. One adds character and shows history the other pretty much ruins the piece and calls for restoration...IMO. I think Sixpense's chair definitely has character and probably looks great sitting in a corner even though I'd probably refurb it. It looks too "Shabby Chic" to me...I hate that term. But, I really do detest when beautiful wood gets painted. | |||||
| I think we have a winner. I | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I think we have a winner. I would readily believe that Verner Panton would have his own butterfly chair in his own apartment, rather than someone else's butterfly chair. I would speculate the Bovirke, as the factory maker that started producing Finn Juhl designs very early on (early 1950s), was probably beginning to see slowing sales of the Juhl stuff by the 1960s. All of Juhl's design was not doing well by then. So, I could imagine that Bovirke was looking for some next thing. The latter part of this Bovirke catalog does have a sort of "experimental" feel to it. I just don't even know how Bovirke would have even felt comfortable producing a design so close the well known Hardoy Butterfly chair.... | |||||
| new colors | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| new colors Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!! I think that is great we live in a color world and about time ... When Eames designed there great stuff the world was black and white and they broke the color barrer by designing great colors in plastic why should any one be smug about Herman Miller and the Eames office wanting to add color. In my opion those people that think it is awful are wantabe purtist who can really contribute any thing. I guess they thought there old Oldsmobiles should be black T.V. black and white I am sure if the Eames were alive in 2007 they would be very happy for a color explosiion !!!!! | |||||
| danish beech | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | oskar | General discussion | |
| danish beech I am currently stripping the same selig z chair in beech. I had an illum wikkelso rocking chair that was also in danish beech that I sanded down and only finished with boiled linseed oil. It looks pretty nice as you get some reddish hue with the golden brown. I plan on doing the same thing with the z chair. You don't have to worry about uneven finishes and no worries about lacquer/varnish rubbing off. On a side note, I have many kofod larsen selig chairs in beech that I have stained using watco danish oil (medium walnut), you just need to do about 6 coats to get a nice even finish with a nice buildup of varnish to protect it. | |||||
| Any Idea on fixing this eames aluminium chair? | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Hasuki | General discussion | |
| Well if you're studying Architecture you sometimes find things like this in old storage rooms of you university... 🙂 Sadly the Base poked right through the seat, and it really doesn't look right... this version is a really old one, so i cant find any pictures on the internet how it should look like.. As you can see there are two nuts which seem to hold the middle black part. I can screw of the top one, but cant screw it down more.. I was thinking on moving the bottom one upwards und sqeezing the black middle thing between them (I'll need a pipe tong to do so..) Good Idea? Anyone know a better one ? Thanks! Vicky | |||||
| Selective drying | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Selective drying Since the front warped from ambient humidity, I'd be more inclined to take tktoo's advice and selectively dry the front. And slowly. Maybe setup a place where you can clamp it flat underneath a light bulb to provide a bit of warmth. And I wouldn't clamp it all the way flat at once. Moisture changes in wood need to be slow. Tighten the clamps down bit by bit, and move it around. I would aim to have it flattened in a week or two. You could measure the curvature every so often unclamped to verify that the plan is working. If it does happen to be solid wood, then I might be more inclined to consider warping the back to match, but I still think I'd go for reversing what has happened instead of introduce more change. But I've never done exactly this sort of thing before, so I am not speaking from direct experience. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . It helps to learn the dimensions and details (number of plies, screws, type of plastic, thickness of glass, end cap style, radius of an edge, thickness of foam etc) of the licenced productions...then its not a big deal to make a comparison, all you have to do is spend a few days or longer in a library, buy some books, visit the shops that sell the real deal and visit exhibitions. Not to be unpleasant but the knowledge and furniture you want won't come to you on a platter, there is rarely a definitive source of knowledge and thats a good thing. This and all the Taschens would be a good place to start. http://www.amazon.com/Masterpieces-Vitra-Design-Museum-Collection/dp/398... | |||||
| James Collins is right | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| James Collins is right The most thankless job here in America are our civil servants and Teachers. They are treated like servants, most under paid for keeping the goverment running smoothly... and the first to be dumped on cause of someone elses bad mistakes, These agencies get nothing new... they get the leftovers The Pentagon and Congress and State Dept, the US embassies get all the new stuff cause that is the way our GSA (government service agency) is programed . We always want to make a nice appearance for when our friends from Foreign countries come to vist us. mostly our dear friends from Saudi Arabia and the Shekes from the Persian Gulf. We want every thing to be real pretty and comfortable for them, while our servants or better known as civil servants are chastised for keeping the thermostat on 80 degrees during the hot summer. | |||||
| Got 'em today | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Got 'em today Got the Eye, the Kite and the Steering Wheel clocks today from All World. Both of the Eye and Kite have second hands. Both of 'em are solid and beautiful. (The Kite is bigger than I had thought). The Steering Wheel has silver hands and no second hand. it's solid, but the orange hour marks are just taped on. I've actually seen it before and it's not quite as nifty as the original. Happy with the quality....but one thing I DON'T like...the click click of the second hands and the fact that they don't turn smoothly. It's an issue with the contemporary motor....I'm sure I could replace this motor with one that doesn't click click click. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . Thanks FM, I know the sort of thing you mean and they are suprisingly comfortable, I'd prefer to see the log rounded on the lathe and them carefully cut...just an aesthetic preference though it might help with splinters. I think the quality of public seating speaks to how much we devalue public property and simply being in a public, most people just can't wait to get home and stare at television. I'll happily take a book into a park and sit for hours. I think the concrete chair could work if a void was included bewteen seat and back, I had thought of a drainage hole but Lucifers point about rubbish was a good one. I live in a town that calls itself 'the garden city' and the parks and gardens service does a great job in every area (cleaning especially) except seating and tables. Or theres something like these | |||||
| Hah! Hack it...yeah! | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Hah! Hack it...yeah! That's exactly what I do with lamps. Buy a cheap functional unit or component hardware and go from there. In my old house I had a circular saw blade as the escutcheon plate for my $10 Pier 1 Imports paper ball shade. I covered the electrical cord with a tightly wound extension spring from McMaster-Carr and TaDa! Instant industrial chic! I've done the wood veneer thing too. I wove the iron on edge strips stuff in a basket weave and ironed onto a cloth shade. Worked brilliantly! Not that I'm a huge Todd Oldham fan, but have any of you ever seen his book Handmade Modern? It's a lot of fun and a good place for instpiration. A lot of the designs are kitchy, but they are certainly clever. | |||||
| RE: Armchair - is it worth repairing? Who made it? | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Well, the right to a design is a legally interesting thing. Such things differ by jurisdiction, but generally speaking any piece of furniture of the era that was produced at a volume greater than one (or perhaps 10) lost any opportunity at copyright and the other forms of rights expired long ago. So the designs can be reproduced commercially and legally. Where it gets complicated is that the designer’s name can be trademarked for use in selling new furniture, so it can be a problem to make an Erik Buck/Buch stool and sell it as Erik Buck. So there really is no such legally enforceable “license” to produce EB furniture and hence no sort of registry. Consider it more like an “official endorsement” and the rights to use a trademark. If you want something registered, try looking for a trademark. | |||||
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