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	Drop leaf table	1 Relevance	18 years ago	dashes	General discussion
	Found this table the other day and I really love it but I don't understand something. It has a hinged drop leaf on one side, but there's no mechanism to keep the leaf up. I don't see any evidence of any hardware having been removed. Is there supposed to be perhaps another piece of furniture that this leaf would lean on? Like a modular desk sort of thing? I really like it and it's already been put to good use as a computer table, but the hanging leaf sort of has me puzzled. Also, I don't know what the wood is (teak?) but it seems very well crafted with 1/8" (molding?) all around. Does this look familiar to anyone? It's very basic, 2'x4' (not counting the hinged portion) and 3/4" thick wood.
	the description ...	1 Relevance	16 years ago	MadHaus	General discussion
	the description ... under: General (not furniture) It was titled: Old Black Leather Chair the Description said nothing of it being Eames and they didnt even spend the time to look up Herman Miller. Even though it is still labeled, on the bottom. The add said exactly this: "was going to put this in the kids room, but its slightly to small of a room for this long of a chair, this old leather thing needs to go!" a simple sorry dad after it aswell. when picking up the chair, I did notice her laptop open to ebay, and she was looking at them online... Im pretty sure later that day she new how much they where truly valued at... I even think she knew when I got there, but moving out of her house was her priority not selling a chair, so the Eames had to go! She did ask my on the way out what the secret was and why everyone wanted it, and I just said cause its cool (: -hope thats not wrong of me. I also hope it stays in my life for a lifetime too, maybe it will see 100 years!
	"design started in the sixtie...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	"design started in the sixtie... "design started in the sixties" I would not go that far. Yes, more things were socially acceptable then, but as charles eames says good design can happen because of constraints. Social views may have been a constraint prior to the 60s. Many designs before the 60s I consider to be superior. I think is is a greater task to design something that is great and recognizable with constraint. That's not to say I always prefer this, it just seems like a bigger challenge. The 60s allowed designers to go crazy, some for the better and many for the worse. Some designs from that era seem to be weird just to be weird ... all about form and shock value. That being said, I prefer furniture from 45-60 for the most part. But for some reason I really like 60s-70s lighting and objects. Maybe because a little pop goes a long way and it is one thing to have a nesso lamp but quite another to have a large biomorphic panton piece.
	Steam(Punk) Radiators-what to do	1 Relevance	14 years ago	Tulipman	General discussion
	I am at a quandry with what to do with these relics of a bygone era.(Naturally,I can't make them dissapear,and do not have the funds to convert to baseboard heat.)I was told to paint them aluminium color by an interior designer,Cast Iron color by a friend,Linen white by my house painters,and now my girlfriend suggests radiator covers.I bought two cans of spray paint,high heat aluminum and high heat cast iron.I guess the best thing to do is paint one in each color,then decide. An Eames chair will br relatively close to one,and a Womb chair near another.Anybody have experience with these?
	Well, perhaps	1 Relevance	15 years ago	TinyArmada	General discussion
	Well, perhaps I would say when you are spending thousands, it is your job to know the precise difference between the real thing. And besides, we are not talking about a replica - we are talking about a bad copy that is easily identified as not being a 670. If you are going to spend money on serious pieces, then you should know what you are shopping for. I am not attacking the buyer in this case, I am just saying that why shop for an eames for the sake of eames if you clearly did not know what you are buying? This is the difference between a collector and a person buying a piece for the sake of it being a name brand with reputation. And as a final note, the dealer sold it for far less than what you would buy a real 670 for and did not attempt to deceive by stating it was an eames 670 and charge a real market price for the piece. As my partner says, if you buy a piece, buy it because you love it and then you will never be disappointed in what it is or where it comes from.
	Experts?	1 Relevance	15 years ago	tktoo	General discussion
	Experts? Oh, I get it... good one! Octo, you're funny, but the advice here is worth exactly what it cost you. Where are you thinking of putting steel? How would you attach it? Often, on the genuine articles, the "ear" on the lower back panel opposite the shock mount failure cracks through as he or she who flopped into the chair vaults backwards onto the floor. Did this happen to your chair? From the pics it looks like the only thing wrong is that the lamination failed at a shock mount and all that's necessary would be to clean things up and reglue them. Of course, then there would be the other mounts to worry about... Some folks have simply drilled the panels and mounts through and bolted them rigid. Fugly and crude for sure, but effective. Do some research. There's a fair amount out there on repairing Eames lounges.
	As you can	1 Relevance	18 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	As you can see, the 15-watt refrigerator bulb, lighted 24 hours a day, has slowly deteriorated the once-small vent hole at the apex. And a recent accident, by a drug-crazed neighbor, has finally damaged the piece more severely. It will have to be re-made. But that was probably inevitable -- and I never liked the inked "louvers" at the bottom, added impulsively when I thought at first that the bottom "glass" was too tall. What I like most is the unintentional irregularity of the spacing and the shape of the main elements. They slowly sagged and curled, making the whole thing more like a rough sketch than a finished prototype. A few years ago I made more perfect parts, of MDF and heavy paper. This is how that came out (placed on the same plinth). Actually, I prefer the paper model.
	banksy v damien !	1 Relevance	19 years ago	moto modernist	General discussion
	banksy v damien ! I'm just wondering if your wife is aware of all of his work ? Love him or hate him he's a cheeky monkey and theres no doubt he's cut a mean groove for himself in the shallows of the art market. I'm constantly amused by the ability of artists to pimp themselves about and feed contemporary galleries and collectors. It's not a new thing and it's never been easy either but there certainly is a special awareness required to succeed to a level like Banksy and Hirst. I have to say, I wasn't that keen on Hirst's work for ages because I relied on press clip's, TV bites and predominantly his 'big' shows. However, I took a colleagues advice and read a few of his books and thats when I began to see him in a different light. Theres a lot more to him than you might think. I liked M_andersen's point as it's always great to get the perspective of someone who obviously know's about the intimacies of the techniques he uses. HP has an enlightened swish of the pen too !
	RE: Staining over Teak Oil	1 Relevance	6 years ago	tktoo2	Repair
	@rentaswag said, "This thing is 30 different colors." Sorry, but I had to laugh at that one and I might add, "...and none of them particularly attractive!" A toned lacquer is probably what was on the chair originally and whatever combination of dyes and/or pigments used as toner has penetrated the grain of the beech and is, for our purposes, permanent. Your options all begin with a complete stripping, I'm afraid, followed by staining (or dyeing) with something dark enough to mask the splotches. Typical wood dyes and stains are meant to be semi-transparent, so completely disguising the splotches may ultimately prove impossible. How would seeing it in satin black seem? Your chair might be a good candidate for 'ebonizing' with India ink. Our dear @spanky has posted photos of problem chairs that she's done using this technique and they look pretty great.
	I forgot to mention that making art	1 Relevance	15 years ago	tktoo	General discussion
	I forgot to mention that making art was, by far, the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. Maybe I'm just a lazy-assed coward. Of course, on various levels, I must agree and disagree with just about everything said so far in this thread. It's the nature of the beast. It can't be tamed, and that's part of why these conversations are endlessly frustrating and engaging, but, alas, they are endless. And maybe I'm just a lazy-assed coward. I like evidence of good draughtsmanship in the use of traditional mediums. I appreciate the ability to draw, so I'm drawn to works on paper lately. Sketches kinda do it for me because they offer a window to the artist's mind in a way finished works don't. Tiepolo. That fucker could draw. Degas. Is there anything the man couldn't do? Schiele. Weird dude, but I can't take my eyes away. My list goes on and on. Happier, Heath?
	enough of the moral ramifications, already	1 Relevance	22 years ago	crankyd	General discussion
	enough of the moral ramifications, already Not to change the subject from the moral dilemma; but if anyone cares I've got two favorite finds. And thought I didn't "steal" either of them I'm sure my soul is going to rot in Hell just the same. So 420, save me seat next to you in the proverbial handbasket, we can chat about Saarinen for all our firey eternity. Best find: A Nelson Starburst Clock (with walnut "spikes") in beautiful condition; at a yard sale two years ago. Price" $3.00(US). Second Best Find: A Thonet Plywood Chair (in either natural maple or birch), reminiscent of the Eames DCW; at a sidewalk sale of a junk shop several years back. Price: $12.00(US). And 420, though what you did was probably not going to earn you the "Citizen of the Year" award...I probably would have done the same thing.
	RE: Carl Hansen & Son Chairs? Refinishing Options	1 Relevance	3 years ago	tktoo2	Repair
	@andrewhess2, Color looks fairly even in your photo despite remaining dark streaks. That's pretty much as far as I was able to get even after 2 oxalic acid treatments. YMMV. If you decide it's worth a try, oxalic acid is is inexpensive and available at most good paint stores, but the water in the solution will raise the grain meaning you'd need to re-sand before oiling. If it were me, I'd go ahead and apply oil and consider the dark streaks to be honest evidence of age (patina!). Oiled white oak will darken somewhat over time and exposure to UV (and other environmental elements) and, hopefully, will help to even out overall appearance. Besides, what's the point of owning something old if it's been tarted up to look brand new? Whatever you do, please post results and welcome to the Forum! Oh, the banned thing. Happens to the best of us. It's a bug. Try logging out and logging back in. That seems to work for me.
	Disgrace!	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Stephen	General discussion
	I visted my little childhood village the other day, where a bastard German supermarket company called Aldi (which specialises in selling crap quality at a discount price) has purchased an entire block of little cottages. It then proceded to bulldoze them over to make way for one of its ghastly stores. The worst thing however was that every single tree - giant apple gums included - was felled to make way for this consumerist nightmare. It got me thinking about writing a feature article about supermarket companies and how they shirk their global responsibility to build environmentally sensitive stores. My question to Design Addicts is this: Can anybody think of ANY supermarket ANYWHERE in the world that has been built with the environment as a consideration?
	re:taste	1 Relevance	13 years ago	objectworship	General discussion
	re:taste I think there are actually more proponents of kitsch around here than not, it goes with the territory of collecting. Thing that are cool tend to be in "bad taste". Think of the silly Aarnio puppies, or even pink Eames shell chairs. Now think of all the Chippendale junk in the White House. Pick a side! Where kitsch becomes really unacceptable is usually in the just-too-crass or just-too-commercial zones... for example collections of contemporary mainstream pornography or Coca-Cola memorabilia are BAD bad taste.. but then time passes and irony happens and there are all sorts of class-based fluctuations and thank heavens Divine ate that dog shit on film because these paradoxes make life worth living. What was the question again? Yeah, not a bad lamp. Nice fifties lamp!
	Thanks for all your suggestions!!	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Tulipman	General discussion
	Thanks for all your suggestions!! I went and bought a bunch of the Benjamin Moore Color samples.The best to my eye,and as you suggested was a clay color-"Pumpkin Patch",I think color #55 in an Eggshell finish.I spent the better part of the day painting every nook and cranny,just smashing the unthinned paint into the crevices,to make sure I had ample coverage.At first I was horrified,as it seemed too bright.Now we all know paint darkens as it dries,so I took a look in the morning light,and Wow! I must say I am most pleased!The newly painted brick has some verve instead of just being an ugly amorphous mass.Looks great with all the elements in the room too! The dark brown grout thing wasn't gonna work ,but thanks for your thoughtfulness and all your suggestions!Thanks fellow DA'ers! If I ever take pics,I will certainly post them!