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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| If genuinely rich people... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Lit Up | General discussion | |
| If genuinely rich people... If genuinely rich people want to get uppity about people not wanting to buy a branded vinyl lampshade (even if it does look good) for 350-1500 then that's one thing. But when people who can't afford it themselves or wouldn't make such an unwise 'investment' praise the high price, you have to wonder. "Good for them" [for overpricing stuff] A rich man doesn't need to be seen praising high prices in this manner and would not make such a comment. The only people who feel the need to are the Hyacinth Buckets and Stanleys of this world. "Scuse me sport, I'm sorry for interrupting but, I couldn't help but notice that I 'appen to be considerably richer than yao" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHo2pXO_XAI | |||||
| The Herman Miller 670 is ... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| The Herman Miller 670 is ... The Herman Miller 670 is known world wide. You can go to any website and get a copy of the chair. With this knowledge no one should ever be fooled if they are looking for the real deal. The chair that was purchased does not even look like a Eames 670 up close the Herman Miller chair. To many people use the words Eames chair, that they are looking for . They should learn the only Eames chair is made by Herman Miller since 1956. any thing else is a lounge chair made by various companies, and is similar to to the Eames 670 chair made by Herman Miller. | |||||
| Frank Gehry 's new building | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Has any one seen Frank Gehry new building in NYC ? . I saw it when I was in the City last month . but have not seen the inside. Vanity fair magazine says this is not your standard corporate box ,by any measure Neither is it standard Frank Gehry,despite all its sexy curves . There isn't a bit of titanium to be seen , and the facade is made of entirely of glass, a material not generally associated with Gehry. however it is not conventional glass It says that 1437 sections of the facade are covered with a pattern of tiny white dots , called frits . The pattern gradually thickens toward the top and bottom of each panel leaving the center clear. Now doesn't that sound cool and different way to go Frank we knew you could come up with some thing differnt for the next century to enjoy !!! | |||||
| minimoma, | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| minimoma, I do regret the negative side of mass merchandising. The introduction of Marimekko patterns (albeit on some unusual items) to a new generation is strong for the plus side. Outside of corporate profit I see this Marimekko cross merchandising as a good thing. I will be prepared to "glean the fields " of sale items at the conclusion of the event. I have the 1970's Ingrid Ltd Marimekko travel wine cooler with ice pack cross merchandising effort. It is fun | |||||
| To prevent oxidation of the brass, | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| To prevent oxidation of the brass, I think you'd have to clearcoat the sculpture. That'll have some effect -- probably negative -- on the value of the piece, and of course the clear paint will crack when you bend any of the wires. Maybe just resign yourself to carefully cleaning and polishing the thing periodically? Or just learn to appreciate the "patina"? Artisan House recently reissued the sculpture for Jonathan Adler; it's available in "antiqued" brass as well as chrome, but I doubt that "antiqued" means "rusted"... I wonder whether they do anything to those new sculptures to keep the brass from oxidizing. Might be worth a call to ask about care and cleaning: Artisan House - 203 563-0017 customerservice at artisanhouse.com http://www.jonathanadler.com/Jere-Rain-Drops-Sculpture/ | |||||
| RE: Marble floor lamp ID | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | _ | Identification | |
| I have this vintage Laurel lamp that everyone told me to use a drum shade but found a simple rectangular shade instead that actually used less space than if I went with the drum shade & I like it much better. My lamp base is very different than yours but sometimes you just have to try other lampshade shapes or follow what your instincts are telling you. You can add one image at a time by selecting the edit thing on the bottom right part of your original post. I hope this helps. Attachment: 20200625_0638041.jpg | |||||
| The answer | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| The answer Lit Up, It is one thing to ask a question, it is another to expect the answer to match your expectations. william-holden-caulfield had what I believe to be the correct answer. Rather than be a smart guy and discuss house keeping (that is my friend the Ark's territory) I would suggest that you hire an interior designer that you trust and respect and have them give you guidance. I took this approach and my person (Harvard educated) came up with william-holden-caulfield's reply. My Albini desk for Knoll sits on an angle in the corner of the room with a black laminate pedastal holding a Sowden Metropole clock filling the dead space. Contempt prior to investigation is non-positive action. | |||||
| Only | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Only Only recently has Fritz Hansen started stitching a red fabric tag onto the chairs. Prior to that my understanding is that the chairs were labelled on the underside with a paper sticker stuck to the steel mounting plate. You should study the chair as much as possible - many of the knock-offs elongate or condense the proportions and this can be easy to spot if you are familiar with the real thing. Also try to see as many authentic Egg chairs as possible - the quality on them compared to most current knock-offs is really outstanding. The stitching should be precise and even, with just a little raised texture on the threads. (I've seen knockoffs that look like they were sewn with baling twine!) You should also keep an eye on other indicators: a shifty dealer, dramatically low prices, inconsistent photos - all should be warning signs. | |||||
| I am most of the way through | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | frnturelvr | Repair | |
| I am most of the way through with cleaning and re-gluing these chairs and it's going good so far. One thing I'm unsure of though... the backrests are held on with 2 small screws on each side and even with the screws installed the backrests aren't completely solid. I don't want to torque the screws too much since the wood they're going into is very thin and seems delicate, and longer/bigger screws don't seem like an option due to the thin/curved nature of the backrests (see picture). I'm wondering if I should just lightly glue the backrest to the sides of the chair. Any potential drawbacks in doing this? Would it even hold if I did? If so, should I glue inside the screw holes or just glue the sides of the backrest to the sides of the chair? | |||||
| Small design beef | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| You've likely seen this cute little thing here before. I bought one to have a nice simple battery radio for emergency use. I thought I'd share a small design beef. The battery cover on the bottom A) requires screws to open it) and B) one screw is flat head and two smaller ones are phillips head! So you need TWO FRICKING SCREWDRIVERS to replace the batteries! Is it me or is that just a really amateurish design mistake? http://www.designaddict.com/design_index/index.cfm/fuseaction/designer_show_one/DESIGNER_ID/569/selectedObjectId/1274/ | |||||
| This chair should go to the | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| This chair should go to the Smithsonian. As toomanychairs said, it IS the 1970's and this chair perfectly exemplifies how design got all hobbit and hippy and plaid after the best 20 years ever. It is a rare thing when something can be this quintessential. The world needs to save this as much as it needs to save the best stuff. Context is everything. Or at least something. You ARE a very brave poster for putting this up. You must have great self confidence. Anything that inspires Pegboard to reply at length, and in turn, Mark to spray vodka through his nose-- is indeed special. I enjoy the way this chair is militantly bland. A very specific kind of bland though. Wildly bland. It could use a companion piece… perhaps a round sculptured carpet wall hanging -- in in a mushroom motif -- in multiple browns and beiges. (I believe it is still available on ebay) | |||||
| kin1117 | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| kin1117 Congrats and if I may offer one bit of advice: keep in mind that you can always trade up. I've scored countless great items (furniture, decorative objects, art, housewares, etc) at auction over the the past 15 years and I loved many of them so much that I couldn't imagine every parting with them. But inevitably something of the same type as one of my "forever" pieces would come along. Fortunately for me (because otherwise I'd be a serious hoarder), I figured out early on that it was ok to let go of previous notions and move on. I'd do a sort of "pick one or die" thing to help me figure out which to keep and usually it was the old one that would go. I don't go to auctions anymore and I've moved to a much smaller place. I'm still shedding stuff that I used to think I'd have forever, and it feels good! I feel like my collection is more honed than ever. It looks better and better as a whole, more perfect for the space I'm in and less and less like the random group of things that it was when i started. Anyway, what I'm saying is, keep yourself open to evolution. It's just as fun as the acquisition part. | |||||
| Mark has a perfect batting | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| Mark has a perfect batting record, always. Even with the dirty deletes. Have you all seen the latest Trumpbaiting? First, he's so easy to bait. Even the silliest of insults gets under his skin and he can't let it go, EVER---think of the whole little hands thing! The Kahn speech at the DNC was bait laid by the Clinton campaign and The Donald played right into their hands with (I think) the most damaging bit of behavior yet in his campaign. Anyway, so you know the way he always claims that he's "heard people say" that [insert whatever info backs up whatever false claim he's trying to make at the moment] as a way of preemptively shedding any responsibility for lying? ("I'm not making this up! I heard it from a lot of people!" Yeah, right...people who are never, ever named.) And you know how he now flat out refuses to release his tax returns? well... https://twitter.com/hashtag/trumpnambla | |||||
| Lightolier Repair | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | ChicagoGuy | General discussion | |
| Lightolier Repair Lightolier is now part of a large conglomerate, and the only thing that matters to them now is the next quarterly profit. The company's venerable history counts for nothing. I have a fixture that Tommi Parzinger designed for Lightolier back in the late 40s or early 50s, and called to see if they maintained an archive. No such luck, nor did anyone at their headquarters seem to care about past designs. In LA, your best bet may be to contact Rewire, an enterprise that restores vintage designer fixtures for resale. They list lamps and fixtures on 1stdibs.com, including a number of Thurston designs. If they won't repair your lamp for you, no doubt they can point you in the right direction. Good luck. http://www.rewirela.com | |||||
| I just realised the clothes p... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| I just realised the clothes p... I just realised the clothes pegs I use are probably the best recycled thing I use, pretty hum drum but does the job. Wood as a sustaianble resource, pretty much agree with Olive. Its interesting though how plantations have been getting a bad rap over the last few years, green deserts, monocultures etc which is a bit tiresome, would the green groups prefer the virgin forest up the road get the chop? There will always be enough wood for the craftsman and niche markets, we can use wood that come from an incosistent or recycled supply that isn't viable for large manufacturers, windblown trees, demolished houses etc, its just everywhere if you know where to look. Its the unethical middle range manufacturers and pulp mills that use wood unsustainably. | |||||
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