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| Is this part of Hillary's | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Eameshead | Off topic | |
| Is this part of Hillary's "get out the vote" campaign? (Scare everyone enough to make sure they show up at the polls) Or was this simply the media being the media and stirring up a bunch of new offenses so we don't all stop tuning in? (After all, they couldn't just keep bashing Donald amidst his cries that the election was rigged…) But yeah, its scary. Does the voting public have no sense of proportion when it comes to these daily news bits? Even with all of her issues, I would much rather have a safe and sane Hillary running things in a relatively predictable manner rather than turning the SWAMP THING loose on our country and the world. He goes rouge daily…. imagine him as president with his TOO-SMALL FINGER ON THE BUTTON! Who knows what paranoia or masculinity-related insecurity might trigger World War III? | |||||
| I was just coming here to say | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I was just coming here to say the same thing, having finally remembered the name. But I googled it and couldn't find these end tables in particular, and I did find pics of the Founders name in huge letters inside some drawers...so seems like they were pretty good at marking their stuff? I think there were a bunch of places that made this stuff, though. My tall cabinets had very small black metal knobs and not inset wood pulls like on some things I've seen in this style, fwiw. WOW---i found a photo of them. That is the least amount of time I have ever spent hunting for a photo before finding it. I should quit while I'm ahead. | |||||
| INteresting thoughts on the 670 lounge... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | DudeDah | General discussion | |
| INteresting thoughts on the 670 lounge... I have often described it to friends as not a chair you immediately sit in and think OHHHH THAT is a comfortable chair, BUT I DO find it a chair I can sit in for a long time without any DIScomfort. I believe the 670 is a chair you COULD watch football in all afternoon..unless your goal is to FALL ASLEEP watching football. I agree that the Womb chair is very comfortable and probably MORE comfortable than the 670 lounge. Last night I sat in our Womb for a while and then switched over to the 670 to see how they felt different. The BIGGEST difference between the two though, TO ME, is aesthetic, I find the 670 BEAUTIFUL at EVERY angle and the Womb...not so much. My favorite HIDDEN thing about the 670 though is it's dimensions. I find the fact that it's L/W/H are all the same measurement part of it's GENIUS...or serendipity, but I'm giving them credit for GENIUS. 2¢ | |||||
| bauhaus babe | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Austin | General discussion | |
| bauhaus babe Do you confirm that Steelform or Alphaville design cushions are has hard as the knoll version ? Cause I very recently saw a Knoll and a "copy" side by side : 10 meters away, it was hard to make any difference, but from closer, whereas the grain of the knoll was almost invisible, the copy one was quite too important. The second difference was the hardness of the cushions. The knoll's were very hard, the copy's were very soft. Last thing I am surprised of, is that the Barcelona thread is the biggest thread of this forum, and No Knockoff resellers dares coming in here and have a discution with plenty of potential customers. I am suspected that lots of posters here are from Companies listed above. Comprenne qui pourra. 🙂 | |||||
| RE: Base attachment on Eames Management Chair | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Fungus Mungus (USA) | Repair | |
| This very thing happened to me about 10 years ago. 6 aluminum group chairs shipped to me with the bases detached. I was unamused. No, do not try to take the upholstery off. What you'll need to do is go to Home Depot or Lowes and get TWO big ratchet bar clamps. They can be reversed, so you can use them either as a clamp or a spreader. You'll want to flip the jaws and use it as a spreader. Put one on the front and the rear of the base of the chair and ratchet away until it starts spreading the seat. This will spread the seat of the chair enough that you'll be able to slide the base back in place. Then put the bolts back in and Bob's your uncle! fm | |||||
| This pattern is my favorite, | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| This pattern is my favorite, it's called Palio. There are a number of colorways and variants, and it also separates into individual repeated figure/ground stripes. I very often find myself watching the full repeat panel like television. Originally screen-printed on cotton/linen, reissued as mentioned above for runners, scrims and pillows. I don't believe cut yardage has been made available at retail for the linen. The pattern was also reissued and is currently in production as a commercial grade woven synthetic from Maharam. Pics show Palio variant colorways in blue (lower left), red, and multi, and a Girard Kilim EE panel. (The other thing is Katsuji Wakisaka for Marimekko.) | |||||
| Well now Azurechicken,... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Well now Azurechicken,... Well now Azurechicken, Wright may have opened up the box but he didn't necessarily intend to let everything out. I can appreciate your sensibility and your architectural preferences. One additional thing regarding Olive's sense of Wright spaces, many of the residential designs employs a very overt and heavy exterior presence (lots of massing, overhangs, cantilevers, etc.,), which may indirectly impact their interior feel; that is, while there is no reason a large-boned rock of a home cannot have an expansive interior feel, in some cases it will not. Homes that appear bigger than life from the street have an uncanny ability to turn out to be not as "big as they look". Coversely, the well designed home with a more reserved facade and less exterior heft can often seem remarkably the opposite inside. | |||||
| Age of Mies MR20 Cantilever Armchairs | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | miesquestion | General discussion | |
| I have 2 vintage Mies van der Rohe Chrome and Tan Cane Cantilever Armchairs (MR20). I'm trying to figure out their age. One distinct thing I notice is that they have a small connecting tube or rod connecting the arms and legs with one inset hexagonal fastener/screw. However most pictures of this chair show a clamp-like connector. Does anyone know what the difference is between the two models and if this can help me figure out the age and manufacturer of my chairs? Is there anything else I should be looking for? I posted a picture of one just like it on a Web site that says it's a 1950's Thonet version but I haven't seen any other like it. I would really appreciate any help I can get on this.  | |||||
| Hmm. | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| Hmm. I have a few sets of tongs. The simple ones from a restaurant supply, (NYC is full of them), ARE the best design. They function and do their task without notice. A recent set with a lock mechanism, and some silicone, woohoo, red, (eyes roll) has an unnecessarily strong spring that opens too wide and so strong that not only can a normal hand not hold it properly, but it flings whatever it is intended to serve all over the place. It has been discussed so often what a failure it is and that it takes two hands to do such a simple thing. A really nice tong? Pearl River in ChinaTown has a bamboo set. Two strips an inch wide, not shaped like a whale, fork and spoon, or emotcon tips...just attached very simply to a nicely angled triangle and deliver a serving almost silent. | |||||
| Ha | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Ha Ha! Why bother asking Barry? - it can only lead to heartbreak. I'm still voting something slim, sleek, and as nice as possible while being as understated as possible. Its a small looking space from the photos. Something big or something too flashy would overwhelm it fairly fast. I second Whitespike on using a lighter color as well. A friend has the Boerner sofa and a)it IS super soft leather b)she bought it as a floor model - in the Tiffany blue leather. Not my choice, but its pretty. I'd go something more neutral- charcoal grey, light camel, even ivory if you dont have kids or pets or eat food on the couch or have guests... maybe just skip ivory. ;-D Also - there are many things I'm willing to buy vintage - but fabric sofas are not among them. Leather, perhaps...only if it was really really clean looking. And even then I'd have to scrub the whole thing down with a leather cleaner and vacuuum out the insides before I'd be remotely comfortable. | |||||
| Really interesting topic,... | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | cedric | General discussion | |
| Really interesting topic,... Really interesting topic, but too large in my opinion... especially because it can be tackled in many ways... But I´ll try to bring my stone. First of all, being a designer, my main purpose on a professional point of view is to help people in general. In this viewpoint, the fact that people are able to "forget" the objects they use can be considered as one of the biggest success in terms of design : the object fades away behind the function it fulfils. That´s the case of the bic pen, the tupperware box, the paper clip... These are the first examples which come to my mind, and maybe not the best ones. But they are so simple, so efficient (not in terms of computable performances but in the meaning that they completely fulfil their first function) and they really made the users´ everyday-life easier. To such an extent that they became "normal" : anonymous and untemporal. Not a lot of people are able to say since when they exist and who designed them. But they exist and are present everywhere... The best way to realize their success is that we often use the brand of these objects as common noun to designate even their competitors : "a tupperware" instead of "a plastic box", "a bic" instead of "a ballpoint pen"... On the other hand, I agree with the fact that this indifference concerning people´s environs is sometimes too excessive (and it unfortunately doesn´t concern only objects, but music, food, etc...). Not because of its direct repercussions on these people´s everyday life (they live it well anyway) but mostly because of its repercussions on ecology, health, ... In my humble opinion, this indifference results of the excesses of a thing which was created to help most of the people : mass production. (it´s the same for everything : too much of a good thing can bring to its opposite : too much of informations can bring to misinformation, too much of medicines can make the viruses stronger...). For our grand-parents, the smallest object represented an investment and was supposed to last a lifetime. Each purchase resulted of considered step and choice.They knew what they bought and what they had at home. But to many, this knowledge was synonymous with and/or the result of deprivation, or rationing. Nowadays, as each object is available in overabundance and at a low price, it can be considered as ephemeral. If it doesn´t satisfy us for functionnal or esthetical reasons, we buy another one, and so on until we find the good one. And concerning your question : "what can we do about this?", even a real "education" of the consummer wouldn´t be effective (and it sounds a little bit dictatorial in my opinion... it´s always better that people become aware of a problem by themselves). Maybe the prices should be multiplied by 10 so that people think more before buying, but it would be a huge step backwards for our civilisation... | |||||
| I found it! | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | joshuasowen | General discussion | |
| I found it! Paul McCobb 3082-E lounge chair. Here are some pics; the latter is from the Los Angeles Modernism Show 2011. Thanks for all of the input! Josh | |||||
| I am 1/8 Norwegian Teak | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I am 1/8 Norwegian Teak but it was so long ago that it has faded into nothingness, except for maybe my looks. That said, my impression of Danish Teaks who drive was that they are really big on traffic etiquette, specifically that thing where you absolutely are not allowed to be in the left lane unless you are in the act of overtaking another Teak, then you have to get right back in a right lane or a Danish Teak will come right up behind your vehicle and flash his lights until you move your foreign ass over. Also, don't step into a Danish Teak bike lane or they will ring their little bells at you. And I know Danish Teaks who will not cross a street against as light at 2 a.m. even though every single other person in the country is asleep and not out driving. But maybe this is anarchistic compared to Swedish Teak behavior, I dunno. Swedish Teaks know how to pave a road so that it lasts, however. I will give them that. | |||||
| I cant really imagine how you... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| I cant really imagine how you... I cant really imagine how you'd hold the chisel, and hollowing would be tricky and dangerous. If you wanted to get into it there are heaps of second hand lathes on the market, I think its the first thing the widow sells when the old man goes. A small long bed lathe will let you do both bowl and spindle turning, larger bowls on the outboard side. Go for cast iron and with a point spur in the head and tailstock push them together to check the alignment of point to point. You'd also want a small bandsaw and bench grinder, learning to sharpen the bloody chisels freehand is harder than simple turning I think. Someone near me was taking down a Lebanese cedar a few weeks ago and I was running around like mad trying to find it, the smell was incredible, of course just as I got there it had all been chipped into garden mulch. | |||||
| Antonio Citterio Sity furniture | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Libby Ellis | General discussion | |
| Hello all, I am new to this site and new to the world of "quasi-vintage" furniture and so am looking for advice. My husband and I are contemplating selling some 1980's furniture, a sectional sofa and two chaise longues from B&B Italia's "Sity" line. We are wondering the best way to go about this. Is there even a market for such stuff? Should we just chuck it? Or venture into ebay or craigslist? Or perhaps consign them to a dealer? Pardon my naievete; I know art better than furniture....We love the stuff but are redoing the entire living room and are looking for something just slightly more contemporary and with a different palette. It is all in very good shape; it's from a country house in Cold Spring, New York (I don't believe any children or dogs ever drooled on any of it!) Any advice on whether this kind of thing is even desirable (or will it be in 20 years? Should we store it?) and, if so, how/where to sell it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Libby Ellis | |||||
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