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| I think there is a big elemen... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| I think there is a big elemen... I think there is a big element of play in what the form chasers do, the Newsons and Hadids must sit in front of the computer or in the studio and experiment. I once saw an engineer sitting cross legged on the floor looking for all the world like a 2 year with his model, it was delightful. I can appreciate the video examples (somewhere there is a park railing that plays 'the girl from Ipanima' as you drag a stick across it) but would find the extra noise an irritation, no doubt urban dwellers are less affected by such things, but wonder why at the root of it public education programmes to improve behaviours havn't worked, is it becuase we're just lazy? And need to be entertained ALL the time, even when doing the most basic thing? In order to work I think they would need to be moved from place to place or made inactive at various times, the novelty might wear thin or simply become invisible. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onno | General discussion | |
| . A prophetic vision about design is impossible, you have to learn history of art to understand that art and design is always a part of socio-historical developments, socio-cultural and socio-political. You can't see art and design as separated field in development of human kind, the "whole thing" is too complex as to be able to pass judgement on future developments, it depends on poor or rich, free or corrupted, war or peace and so on, you always have to see it in a comprehensive social context. One of Rams' principles for example is: Good design is as little design as possible, and Mies van der Rohe said: less is more. These principles are still valid since more than half a century, so one day it will definitely change and we will say: "no, we can't stand it no more this post-modern minimalism." Every artist and designer is a child of his time, he is just reacting first to the status quo he experiences and second to that he has learned about history of art. | |||||
| This is clearly not an | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| This is clearly not an "unauthorized reproduction item" but rather an "inspired-by" design as the OP says. A reproduction is a copy that attempts to look just like the original; there are tons of these on the market now and it's safe to say that they are generally marketed to people who want the real thing but can't afford it and are willing to settle for a cheap substitute that looks just like it, at least to the casual observer. But vintage chairs that are similar but with their own look have a place in the design world, at least in my opinion. And this one is very different---the arm rests are really long, the back section is taller than most, the two connectors between head and back are really different than on Plycrafts and Seligs, and there's that huge tilt lever on the side. I used to track these type of chairs (and used to own one and restore them in general until I got sick of their proneness to breaking) but I've never seen this one! I know that some were made in Canada, and I think maybe Japan...?? The long arms are the most striking difference---maybe include that in your search terms? | |||||
| Composition, by John Ashbery | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Composition, by John Ashbery Composition We used to call it the boob tube, but I guess they don't use tubes anymore. Whatever, it serves a small purpose after waking and before falling asleep. Today's news - but is there such a thing as news, or even oral history? Yes, when you want to go back after a while and appraise the accumulation of leaves, say in a sandbox. The rest is rented depression, available only in season and the season is always next month, a pure but troubled time. Which is why I don't go out much, though staying at home has never seemed much of an option. And speaking of nutty concepts, surely "home" is way up there on the list. I feel more certain about "now" and "then," because they are close to me, like lovers, though apparently not in love with me, as I am with them. I like to call to them, and sometimes they reply, out of the deep business of some dream. * from Where Shall I Wander, John Ashbery, Ecco, 2005. | |||||
| Shades of meaning | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Shades of meaning Jan, I do agre with Azurechicken and Annette that language with multiple variants words does play a factor in this. But, you hit on an interesting point, was I saying that design and redesign are the same thing. The answer is no, I don't think I was. But, I was trying to say that if we define design as meaning truly original, then I think is an extreme definition as it can be argued that every invention stands on the shoulders of 'before'. What I want to ask is if we can see design as a novel expression of a concept. Such as the Eames bent ply or Breuer's tubular chrome. These were first uses of a familiar material in a new way. Before there were splints and bicycles but the Eames' and Breuer saw these materials in a new way. I, personally, would say these instances are 'design'. The Dyson vacuum, however much it is an improvement over previous vacuums, I would say was a 'redesign'. Or, possibly, I'd call it a re-engineering as was suggested above. Am I being clearer? I'm a bit of a loss for proper terms to define my thinking. | |||||
| My two cents is that it's a... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | keewee | General discussion | |
| My two cents is that it's a... My two cents is that it's a nice piece. Clean and classic. The poster above who said you can't resell if it's not unusual may be correct. It is a style that has a lot of imitators. But there are more and more vintage collectors out there who appreciate the real thing. If you're feeling bad about spending 250 dollars, go into a new furniture store or Ikea and look at what else you could have got for 250 bucks. Not much or something that was very poorly manufactured. My advice on rehab...please don't spray paint if you can avoid it. I can't really picture the damage you're describing. Anyone coming up after you who buys it will be heartbroken if it has a poor restoration done on it. It will ruin all resale value. Replating chrome is expensive and has mixed results (at least in the bicycle world). A piece of balled up aluminium foil will take off some rust from chrome. The scratches in the glass can be buffed out by a glass shop. Anything that doesn't come off after those two processes should be left and enjoyed as patina. | |||||
| uh oh | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| uh oh I was snappy. But great to see a good series of postings. Trex has been on my disaster list for a long time. Most of the searches are still there when googling. Even a law suit i think. Earlier Trex and similar products are being replaced left and right. Off to the landfill. Another green not so green... Now a mold issue has come up and may be coming from inside the product. Concrete block has a grand history. Lottaliving has an ongoing thread of patterns from the 50's to some new ones being made now. I've been apologizing all morning. I sprayed the bath with cleaner first thing this morning but didn't scrub, got out the vacuum hose for a quick gunk in the slider track cleaning (dog food and bugs) but left it across the floor. I created a slip and a trip. Now the dogs are fussing. I think i'll go toss a ball... | |||||
| I am with tktoo--talk to | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| I am with tktoo--talk to dealers in the area. They buy woven chairs in poor condition all the time and have them redone in order to sell them. I guess they might want to keep the names to themselves if they think that there will be more competition for trashed chairs if people know where to go to get them fixed...?? Anyway, it's worth a try. You can also do it yourself if it comes to that. I've seen some chairs done by beginners that were not very good but I've seen a lot that were beautifully done! You just need to be willing to be careful and to pay attention even when you think you've got it down and don't need to pay attention anymore! The good thing about the seats on these is that you can use a shorter strands for the weft and just tie more knots---because the knots can easily be hidden. It's probably the best chair for joining a new strand of cord. Shorter lengths mean less time having to stop to untangle annoying snarls. As for finding old stock of cord--I doubt there's much out there and it could take a very long to find some. If you want to use the chair, I'd just go ahead with new cord. | |||||
| ply versus solid | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| ply versus solid All Eames lounge chairs, regardless the manufacturer, are made in plywood. The rosewood reference is limited to the two outer veneer layers. The inner ones are not because rosewood is not a very good "construction" material...and it would be a waist of this beautiful material. In chosing brand let's not be misled by so called licensees and the likes. There is no legal basis on which the design of the product is or could be protected. Everybody knows it and companies go to great length to use other legislation, copyrights (which do not apply on products) and the likes to give the impression that they own somehow more of the intelectual property than others. Once the design is in the public domain (when all design and other patents are expired) the only thing that matters is quality. If you can not judge it on your own, you will have to rely on the experience of other professionals or users (as on this forum) and in some cases on the reputation of the manufacturer. | |||||
| You are | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| You are either not able to grasp my point, or more likely are in the throes of needing to be right. I made no attempt to say a CD and a lamp are the same thing, so your rebuttal is changing the subject and without merit for this discussion. I only said that if your complaint about value is strictly based on the "it's just bits of wire and plastic" view, that you are not giving weight to other value considerations. And I laid out the other considerations. For your complaint the CD analogy fits perfectly. "It's just 2 cents worth of spinny plastic", and I take no consideration of any other value it has. What obviously bugs you is that a good analogy reveals the absurdity of your original complaint. On another point, the big price culprit seems to be the added cost when shipped overseas and retailed in a place where the cost of living in general is high. Your retailer's questionable sympathies aside, I imagine he is thrilled that they are so pricey. Otherwise, he might not want to bother with them. | |||||
| Good, but... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Good, but... Not a bad start. I'd be careful about your composition/surface. If all of the elements are floating across the surface (as they are now) is it intentional or random? Is there one thing that the collage is trying to say? or many things? or nothing at all? A challenge of collage work is keeping the artist's hand involved - because the individual pieces are ready made. Therefore composition becomes key. This piece looks like it could be a loose narrative about family - the presence of the trees, the stork, etc. There is an S curve that is subtly visible. (Starting with the sexxy Hummingbird girl and moving right, towards the head poking in from the side, then up & left through the tophat man to the stork, and then right again. Pulling the figures together would strengthen that curve and better move the eye across the surface and through the narrative. Sorry to be heavy with the opinion- all those years of art school and teaching have ingrained it in me. But we're nothing without the mistakes we make. Keep going 🙂 | |||||
| Bertoia Glides... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Caco | General discussion | |
| Bertoia Glides... Don't buy those glides from ebay. They suck. I got my first set and they never held down right. They kept flipping to the side. I then contacted the seller and said he had fixed the issue and sent me another set at no cost. The new set appeared to have a lower felt pad. They worked better but then I don't sit too often on that chair. So I had some friends over and the first guy that sat on it broke the damn thing which caused a big scratch on my floor. And he wasn't big, he just sat on it like a normal person would. I'm usually carefull with my furniture so perhaps I sat too lightly testing it? They are the same as the ones that SX-70 put a link to. So, if you are worried about your floor. This is not a good call. I don't know where to find the real ones for a vintage chair. If someone does please let me know. So I've been thinking about getting those triangular pencil rubber grips. They come in transparent, black or funky colors haha. Probably slice one side to slip it in and perhaps they'll work better. At least they wont damage the floor. Has anyone tried this? http://www.adoremusbooks.com/pencilgrip-triangle-1.aspx | |||||
| I say, don't panic. It's a... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | finch | General discussion | |
| I say, don't panic. It's a... I say, don't panic. It's a bummer about your sofa, yes, but you're really just a vicitim of your own PH, which can change over time and is most likley not a hallmark of some impending illness. It would also make sense if you and your fiance share this characteristic, as you probably enjoy the same diet, excercise routines, habits, stress, etc. Also, dehydration, sodium levels, smoking and alchohol consumption can have a dramatic effect on sweat. I knew a woman once whose sweat broke down the elastic in her clothing, and ate away at the paint on her car door where she hung her elbow out the window. There was/is nothing wrong with her, simply heavy alkalais and acids in her sweat. The only thing you have to worry about is hypochondria by proxy. This is so silly I won't even make the usual disclaimers. As for the sofa--maybe a Scotch Guard treatment would help as a preventive measure in the future. | |||||
| I don't get it either... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I don't get it either... I think it's kind of a sick American over-consumption thing. And the homes aren't really that well built. My sister just relocated to outside Pittsburgh. For lack of options they bought one of these hulking things. Every wall is builder's beige, the carpeting is beige, the tile is beige. Every scrap of woodwork is oak and all the fixtures are brass. It looks like a Comfort Inn. She hates it. Yet, this cookie-cutter blandness is precisely what most people want. I just don't get why people want their homes to be just a box to live in that has 'resale value'. Glad you love 'Bahstin', it is a great city. I'm Massachusetts born and bred, and I've traveled all over the US and Europe but I still don't want to live anywhere else! You should travel back this way and see all the work by Gropius, Gehry, IM Pei, Breuer, LeCorbu, Alto, Saarinen, etc. It's amazing how much modernism there really is here tucked in between all the historical stuff. | |||||
| Philippe Starck: Design is Dead | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Wen Xing | General discussion | |
| In a recent interview with German Die Zeit Magazine, Mr. Starck proclaims the "death of design". No longer satisfied with his life's work and feeling that everything he ever designed was "unnecessary". UPDATE: Some of the quotes used in the German Weekly. "I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact", "Everything I designed was unnecessary". "I will definitely give up in two years" time. I want to do something else, but I don't know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself "design is a dreadful form of expression". "In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant," Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were "a pillow perhaps and a good mattress." But the thing one needs most, he added, was the "ability to love". What is your feeling about this news? What do you think of it? Please share your opinions with us. | |||||
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