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| Hi Holly | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Hi Holly No, all the layers are put together in stacks of 9, as you can see on the picture. It is also obvious from the picture that the layers are die-cut into a shape that is quite close to the final shape. Interesting is the fact that both short ends are not shaped but kept straight which indicates that they are used as guides in putting the sheets of veneer in the right place. The other thing that seems obvious is that there are indeed 9 layers, but the inside layers seem to be a darker which is one of two things, either the glue is phenolic and thermo-setting which would shorten the curing time to about 3 minutes (the stratification time of phenol) or the inside layers are not the same wood. It is hard to see what kind of wood it is because of the lighting but I stick to my first guess: Beech...although in the third stack from the left there are lighter areas that are not beech-like....there is only so much one can see on a picture | |||||
| @retrolampguy: I'll upload hi | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | timfook | Identification | |
| @retrolampguy: I'll upload hi res images of the wood grain tonight after work. Thank you for helping to ID the species. I'll take interior pics of the socket too. I know it was changed years ago as it looks so much newer than the rest of the lamp. The socket is a twist on/off switch, which I know is not original. Would love your guidance on how to restore with an original style socket & where I would find such a thing. @spanky: the shade is celluloid (i think) and not a raffia, woven type of material. I'll answer the shade attachment query tonight after work. I believe it just lifts straight up to remove, but I could be wrong. Original owner said it was from the 60s. Thank you both for taking the time to assist me in learning more about my lamp. I'm new to mid century modern, danish design collecting & value everyone's knowledge. | |||||
| Hello Spanky and Pegboard | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Roy Daintith | General discussion | |
| Hello Spanky and Pegboard Interesting comments and questions. I am certain the chair I have is upholstered in vinyl; it has a cushion with it and one of the seams has separated allowing a look inside. This shows that the chaircovering has a cloth backing and I'm pretty sure leather wouldn't need a fabric backing to allow it to be worked? It is a good point too about how the late 50's/60's these PVC style fabrics were seen as stylish and modern rather than cheap. i am not too sure what to do now really in terms of re-upholstering; my old neighbour was a real character and had a very wide variety of interests with life very much lived on his own terms ~ but keeping the house clean wasn't one of those interests! The chair needs a really good clean. however, the good thing about pvc etc is they can take a fairly harsh clean so maybe that is the way forward. Thanks again for taking time to comment | |||||
| RE: Armchair - is it worth repairing? Who made it? | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Not the Buck vs Buch name thing again. Buch is the danish spelling and Buck is the English spelling. The man used both. Both are correct in their own way. Earlier on we tend to see Buck probably to make English speakers comfortable with the name. Later on we see Buch, probably to associate himself with the Good name of Danish furniture. Malleability of spelling is a feature of Danish. The Pedersen family behind Getama started out as Petersen. English has such archaic spellings we have to adhere to an idea of ‘correctness’ to justify any spelling. That is not a universal phenomenon. Willy Beck, Cabinetmaker, also used dowels. There is really nothing wrong with dowels as a construction method. Mortise and tenon is somewhat better but the difference is entirely eroded by using the right diameter, length and spacing for your dowels. | |||||
| There's Daniel Donnelly in VA | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | Repair | |
| There's Daniel Donnelly in VA outside of DC if you don't mind paying top top dollar and possibly waiting awhile. I would be careful to get assurances of the level of work first, though--the only thing I've had done by them was to build a new seat frame for a Finn Juhl chair (original was missing) and the specs were significantly off. But that's not an upholstery issue. You could also try calling area dealers and see who they use, though some may not be willing to disclose that information for whatever reasons. Third, if you don't mind a drive, check out BK Upholstery outside of Philadelphia. They do a lot of mid-century upholstery and have a Knoll section in their gallery page on their website. There's a really good looking Womb chair in dark gray. I don't have any direct experience with them but I've heard good stuff and they're been around for awhile. I'm pretty sure you can also ship your chair to them too, if you don't mind the added expense. | |||||
| My Retro, Mid Centery and Modern Collection... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | cooljjay | General discussion | |
| Well after finding this forum I am now getting even more addicted to retro which isn't a good thing since I am in a one bedroom apartment and already addicted to vintage audio. I just want to share my little collection that I have, if anyone knows about any of the pieces feel free to commit. My living room when it was a bit clean, my decor changes every weekend 🙂 One of my stereo consoles seen in picture Another console donated to me My 2 sunburst. a few lamps. Some art | |||||
| Ah, the trey, now you've got me started...Pt. 3 | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Ah, the trey, now you've got me started...Pt. 3 Basketball: Game that gave white farm boys on the plains a thing to dream about and an escape from the howling winds of January in the Great Depression. Basketball: Game that gave immigrant Jewish and Irish boys escape from stick ball and gangs in the streets and a path up and out of the teeming squalor of lower Manhattan--even if only for the moments they could ignore it all by playing in cages--and in all the the other poverty wrenched big cities, as well. Basketball: Game that gave Italian boys something to aspire to beyond the drudgery of Hells Kitchen and dock work and produce markets and the stigma of "our thing." Basketball: Game that finally allowed African Americans a chance to excell and so dominate that no amount of racism could prevent them--and god knows it tried and the racism is still there in the coaching and drunken fans epithets. Basketball: Game that finally came out of the dark ages of gender and peopled itself with muscular, competitive, sweating girls, who finally, like boys could get the chance to feel the incredible exhilaration of getting "in the zone" with five other persons--sisters--hopefully someday it will be with brothers too--and feel the unmistakeable, unforgettable realization that five human beings--five boys or five girls, five men or five women, five blacks or five whites, five of any human being--really can move and work as one and be respected for attaining such a state--no greater gift--save for the eventual achievement of the continuing bitterly elusive goal of equal pay--could be passed onto women than what basketball has offered still too few of them--that they can work together in a team as well as anyone and be as good as anyone doing so, if they are only willing to work hard enough and tailor their abilities to make themselves greater than the sum of their parts. Basketball: Game that is now giving all the boys--and maybe soon all of the girls--of the world at least a small chance to make it in the greatest game, regardless if their name is a long strings of consonants I can't yet pronouce, or spelled with eastern ideograms predating western civilization, or cried out from an Africa in the midst of the AIDS and genocidal holocausts, or from Central and South America where the Mayan or Aztec civilizations a millenium before arrived at something approaching basketball, but for the brutal violence and insane sacrifices visited on the losers. | |||||
| Bigger portions | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| Bigger portions 2) Other notable thing is that the size of portions and drinks are clearly bigger. I find interesting this note by our friend fotzepolitic (from Ikea gift great thread) "IKEA does sometimes alter their designs for the market. For example, they found that they were selling an inordinate quantity of a certain type of vase, in their U.S. market. Then when studying this, found Americans were using them as drinking glasses, because their glasses were too small! So they made larger glasses for this market." I'm not going to add much. I'd only change: "because their glasses were too small" as you prove in his sentence, I'd say "YOUR glasses are huge, so huge that need to drink in vases" 🙂 p.s.: It's not that in other places drink less water, but serve 2 or 3 times. | |||||
| One of the pleasures of DA | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| One of the pleasures of DA One of the pleasures of DA, are such a smart answers and replies. All points are great. And explains a lot. Those concepts are VERY interesting. ADDED VALUE!!. How interesting! But it's very funny, because it's so often, nowadays, that one of the "advantages", of Design is added value, "You have to do/use design, because with it you will have a very high Added value" "You see..., one thing that costs $10, you can sell it for $15, but if it is beautiful You can sell it for $30. And if it very beautiful $50. Why not $100? And I don't think that's wrong, May be Thomas Maldonado was alright, Time changes! SOCIAL DESIGN. It's also interesting.(History design; Bauhaus and Ulm) And probably one of the best answer to "AFFORDABLE DESIGN" it is: BUY YOUNG DESIGNS, buy "some of the very interesting things young designers do" Along with "No need to rely on famous reputation of an established (death) (and why not alive!) designers to support our own judgement". Thanks | |||||
| Spanky | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | cadodream | General discussion | |
| Spanky I'll probably have no opportunity to test different foams. When the frame will be delivered to my tiny flat, cushions must be ready and I'll have to get rid of my old sofa instantly. Besides, I have no car and the best quality/price suppliers I have at hand are online websites. So... But enough tears ! Reading to your advices, here's what I plan to do : 3" for the seat (High density+ medium comfort) + glued 1/2" batting 2" for the back (with a medium density so I won't feel the wood in my back) + glued 1/2" batting. But if I understand correctly what you told me about the batting, I don't really see why, I should, in addition, wrap the whole thing in an intermediate raw fabric (the cotton sheet I mentioned earlier) before I put the final fabric. My understanding is that its either intermediate fabric or batting. But as I will use batting... Cheers, and thanks again | |||||
| Here are a couple of... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | kin1117 | General discussion | |
| Here are a couple of... Here are a couple of pictures showing the position of the shock mounts on the lower back panel. These are not my pictures or my chair, so please don'g grill me for it. I believe it was done by Herman Miller. However, I have to say it doesn't look very clean or neat. In fact, it seems to me that the mounts are positioned too far in. My restorer told me before that the mounts on the seat pan are about 1/8" from the top edge of the plywood. I'd assume the same thing for the back panel, but according to these pictures, it's certainly more than 1/8". But if you're replacing the mounts on the seat pan, I think it's a easier because you just need to stick it right in the middle and 1/8" from the top. I believe I"m causing more confusion than clarification here. But I can concur that when I tried googling for pictures of the proper position of shock mounts, I couldn't find any useful ones. Maybe other experts can chime in too? http://www.flickr.com/photos/87435282@N05/ | |||||
| Solid wood is always | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Solid wood is always surprising light. Unless it is rosewood. It is the glue in the particle board that gives the weight. It is a frequent irony of naïveté about furniture construction: "very well built, super heavy piece" translates to slabs and slabs of particle board. But I digress. It looks like walnut to me. A bit faded as you say. And clearly solid from the appearance of the wood. I would not be surprised if it had a dark walnut tinted oil over it originally, which would have even out the appearance quite a lot. And this would have been the first thing to fade from UV light. I am surprised there is a Danish looking number on the back. Photo? Because it looks American as you have realized. And how about some photos of the sides and bottoms of the drawers. And any other ugly bits, backs bottoms, etc. These are usually very telling. | |||||
| I'm inclined to agree with | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I'm inclined to agree with Leif---leave as is. If they were mine, I'd probably just avoid touching any parts that are likely to shed splinters. Or I'd sell both and put the money towards one (maybe two) in better shape! You never know what'll turn up. Teakhound, I've heard the no steel wool on oak thing before and I do believe someone here refuted it awhile back. I think it may be an issue if you use steel wool on bare oak. Yep, something like that. http://forums.finewoodworking.com/fine-woodworking-knots/finishing/may-h... I also just looked at an old Wegner CH23 chair, mostly oak, that I cleaned up with steel wool and oil about 6-7 years ago. Even under magnification I can't see a single speck of black or gray discoloration on it. That said, I'd sooner use brass wool than sandpaper, though---sandpaper will remove a thin layer of patina whereas #0000 metal wool just gets the grime if used correctly, with plenty of oil. At least that's been my experience. | |||||
| interesting about the Arco Lamp | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| interesting about the Arco Lamp We saw at an Architect's place an ARCO lamp that too was out of the period incorrect. It had a diffuser (separate) with smaller holes, and the shade sat on that. It had round tube and not square tube all the way. The odd thing is, that there was a replacement wood veneer box filed with concrete for it, too. At first you say "Oh, recent knock off" but the owner swore it was true to the era - it was his fathers who went to Italy for work as an architect and worked with the designers there. The veneer box was opened up and sure enough, there it was taped in there, a receipt on the wood box from 1970. So... did his father get a prototype from Arco before they mass produced and used the square tube? I am curious obviously. there certainly would have been some done - but how on earth do you find out - write FLOs and ask a bunch of new kids that are now running the show and would not care? - A.S. | |||||
| Yeah, I'm with you, not | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Kyle Barrett | Identification | |
| Yeah, I'm with you, not really that fun. In all seriousness I struggle to believe that paintwork is original. I believe I've seen handles like that before on fairly generic pieces and never seen the painted drawers. I think I'm mostly skeptical because of how clean the paintwork seems to be. As to whether this was common outside of Vodder, I don't think it was. But that's not to say it didn't happen, the BO69 desk by Finn Juhl is honestly the first thing that sprang to mind, he also did a similar sideboard and weird filing folding cabinet too. I digress, two big names were doing it, so even if this paint were original (which I doubt it to be) then the painted drawers are not an indication of this being a piece by Arne Vodder, just imitating trends. The design outside of painted drawers betrays that much. It must be stressed, there is plenty of other voices here, all of whom far exceed my knowledge on the matter. Perhaps they'll weigh in on whether it's original on this piece or not, and who designed it. | |||||
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