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| Thanks for the comments Leif | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | LCA | General discussion | |
| Thanks for the comments Leif and difeliciantonio...I know the back is an atrocity and I simply cannot put the hallingdal on it and perpetuate this incredibly poor decision....however...the guy i got it from says it came to him that way...I am guessing that the back legs were too delicate and 'failed' and so someone put these blocks on as a sturdy lame solution. The weird thing is there are no clues underneath...I was inspecting thinking I could see some old holes or brackets or something but nada....maybe there was just three kind of tenuous peg legs with hardware beneath the stumps that failed when the sofa was slid or something? I agree, this is a piece worth saving...its better than it looks in the garage pics...difeliciantonio I would be very grateful and interested in what you would propose...I have followed your posts and projects with considerable interest ! I hope I have chosen fabric (the blue hallingdal) that can lend itself to the handsewing and curved skeleton...it has a sort of hopsack on it now.... thanks for looking and for your time | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Mark | General discussion | |
| . Another thing that my painter uses is a paint additive from Home Depot called Floetrol. This product slows down the drying time, eliminating all "brush/roller" mark. Your end result will look much more professional. And a dozen years ago, Robert1962 suggested that I use Farrow & Ball paint products. My walls have never looked better. Also, try to learn to paint out of a 5 gallon bucket, using a "hanging side screen" in the bucket ...as opposed to using a small roller tray. This will allow you to use a "broom stick" on the end of you roller (and get a decent sheepskin roller...they last forever). This will make the job much easier, once you get the hang of it. And post before and after pic's. (edit): make that robert1960. http://us.farrow-ball.com/colours/paint/fcp-category/list?resetFilters=true | |||||
| Happy Holidays and good to | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Eameshead | Off topic | |
| Happy Holidays and good to see you all in the off topic zone... OBJECTWORSHIP- Those are great picks! I do find that I like almost all versions of original CW songs by other artists. (Another good thing about Country Western is all the duets!) Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire and Walk the Line are two of the best songs ever. There was a punk band in San Francisco in the 80s called SVT that did awesome versions of those two songs. The lead guitarist was Brian Marnell, an old friend from my teenage garage-band days in the late 60's in suburbia. I remember when he played lead guitar with only two fingers on the frets. RIKI- sorry you missed out on that painting. Auctions are MUCH more fun than a refinished McCobb, but I guess they do have the element of the unknown outcome as part of the deal. You will beat out the phone-ins next time I'm sure. | |||||
| The leg brackets have been | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| The leg brackets have been attached with flat head screws, which makes them seem a very old addition, if they actually are an addition. Why are there holes, and so many of them, in the bottom of the cabinet? If it were for a wall unit, it would have to pertain to a free standing room divider type wall unit. Otherwise there would not be a finished back. Also, there is not provision made for attaching the top rear of the case to anything, and this is where the weight would pull most. So the only way it could support weight is if the frame has some sort of base for the bottom of the cabinet to rest upon. The cabinet could not be used higher up on the frame, which seems contrary to the modular, arrange it yourself mentality. And I've never seen such a thing in a Danish wall unit or room divider. All of this makes me think it probably is not part of a wall unit. | |||||
| I love those adobe homes... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| I love those adobe homes... I love those adobe homes I own one . We bought for my wife a 1915 adobe home in Tulsa Okla that she uses for her design studio. That is what got me into collecting modern furniture, I refused to furnish it with the southwest crap furniture and that is when we decided to do modern . and it turned out to be a great look. The low ceiling with beams can be attractive with your modern furniture, and the kiva fireplace great!! don't be afraid of getting one of those homes cause i know you can make it cool with all your great furniture. you will be so surprised how much it take on a life of its own. I love Santa Fe and we use to go twice a year the only thing i got a little tired of 50 shades of Brown on all of the homes. but it is dictated by the historical society of Santa Fe. so make it your own on the inside. | |||||
| Anonymous design | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Anonymous design AzC, whilst it's hard to dispute the value of a 'well-melded pair' of designers like the Eameses or Days (I got the book, Koen!) or the effect of a design visionary like Nelson, I think I do understand what Koen is trying to say here. He's talked of it before in other threads. It's that ability of a design to serve it's intended purpose so perfectly that you really don't even think of it as 'designed' at all. It is simply the perfect object for the task at hand. Maybe this concept doesn't work for pieces that are more art than design (I'm thinking of the Nelson bench, which is such a signature piece, and truly art. But I can see Koen's point for household things. If the tool serves well, is priced reasonably, and looks good, then it will sell and people will keep it close to hand in their homes. That has to be very satisfactory for a designer. Plastering your name on it wouldn't be nearly as good as seeing the thing in use all over the place. At least not to my thinking anyway. | |||||
| i have lloked at all the other threads | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | farah | General discussion | |
| i have lloked at all the other threads olive, i have taken the time to look at all the other threads. trust me. i'm not one to ask for favors unless all other options have been exhausted. my specific question was regarding the lumeo bed. it would take a very simple frame to match it and not detract from it. no to mention that i'm looking for something affordable. therefore, all the other suggestions i've seen on this site, ie west elm to european furniture imports to minima and spazio either lack the quality or the simplicity needed or are too expensive. given that it's a holiday weekend and i've been on vacation with little else to do (non american and not a fan of turkey) i have searched the internet to be point of exhaustion. i called every furniture store within 200 miles and have annoyed every single friend. not that i've fully explained myself, the closest thing that i have found are the frames made by club8 / bo concept. the simple & basic or the moment might do the trick. can anyone advise on quality and their opinion on if this would be a good choice. thank so much. | |||||
| Advice on shipping an Eames Elliptical table? | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | demp945 | General discussion | |
| I'm not a seller/dealer and don't have experience shipping large items like an Eames Elliptical table. I'm trying to get this table back to the West coast (Canada) after having lived in the East for several years. UPS will accept the size and weight of the table but it is still so long and heavy that I can't figure out the best way to package it safely even with the wire bases removed. I've rummaged through my condo building's extensive cardboard recycling trying to find appropriately long cardboard with no luck. I tried taping 2 boxes together to cover the length but it doesn't seem like it will be sturdy enough. I've thought about trying to protect the edges with some kind of foam and then tightly wrapping the whole thing in that stretchy plastic wrap used to secure boxes onto pallets. Good idea? Can any experienced shippers tell me how they would do it? Thanks for the advice! | |||||
| thanks, lucifersum! | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| thanks, lucifersum! Yeah, story of my life: good taste, no $, not handy. Mr. Wonderful was supposed to make an appearance in my life by now- compensating for some of my deficiencies, but that hasn't happened...(and this isn't the forum for that sort of thing) Anyhoo, to get back to biz: the WORST part of the chair are these horrible frankenstein-like bolts (about 5 on each side)that someone used to prop up/fix the armrests on each side. They are really, really hideous.I can live w/the blue leather (?)- in fact I kind of like it- but I'd really like to fix the chair structurally. Do I need genuine Herman Miller parts to fix? The cushions can wait. Yup, the chair is real. Still has the tags. But now I see the $ flying out the door as I try to restore it to its former glory... I'm not complaining, tho. It is so effing comfortable. Looks like an upended blue turtle in my living room... http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/fur/211863934.html | |||||
| Dear Bluezipper | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear Bluezipper This seems all very informative...as long as the information is right! 1943 is some of the things you got right.(it happens to be the year I was born so it's hard for me to forget) The Dutch "stichting" is easy to check it is marked on the boxes and on the assembly instructions. The origin of the products: China, Roumania, Hungrie, Thailand etc.is also on the labels. But before spreading other information as actively as you do, I think you have to support the story with reliable sources. What makes me doubt is your mentioning of Joe Colombo, Vico Magistretti and Verner Panton's as past designers.I can remember a very close copy of Magistretti's stackable chair, but that is about as close as you can get. They also came close to soem of the Louis Poulsen lamps designed by Verner Panton, but again not the real thing. Do you mind sharing the source of your information? | |||||
| I love weird coffee tables | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | garlanre | Identification | |
| I have this thing for coffee tables - the more unusual, the better. I own about 9 of them. Here's one. Anyone know who designed it? Anyone else out there share my interest and have any pics of great coffee tables they'd like to share? | |||||
| Whether it's modernism and... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | ChrisG-52 | General discussion | |
| Whether it's modernism and... Whether it's modernism and music, or as one person reflected, modernism and politics, I don't think there is much correlation of any kind. Or should I say- only a correlation between the individual and their own taste. I've actually been witness to an argument once about modernism and politics by a girl who was dating a friend of mine years ago. She hated modern furniture/design, and she was a liberal, therefore only soulless conservative yuppies could like that cold modern stuff. I know plenty of liberals who have apartments full of modern furniture. If someone hates modernism and they like jazz, then jazz goes great with antiques, 'surely everyone knows this!' If they love modern design, and they listen to classical, then naturally classical music is the only thing for modernism. I think there is no correlation at all except for people and their own whims. | |||||
| Using complex US terminology on this global website | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| One of the things, if not the best thing, about this website is input from people all over the globe. I love to hear from Gus?tavo, Gustaf, Killian, Koen, et al., to get a world-wide input on design and all of its' manifestations. My question is, with the plethora of contributors here from the US, are we making it harder for our global contemporaries to understand us by using American vernacular? Would our highly valued friends outside the US prefer that we stick to an easier vocabulary and discontinue the use of American idioms? For instance, in the paragraph above, did all of you have to run to your dictionaries to define "plethora"? And if you did, wouldn't it have just been easier if I would have written "with so many American contributors"? I'm asking because I want my posts to be clear and concise for everyone, not just Americans and I can alter my writing so that is more clear. Please vote, those of you outside the US. Are we hard to understand and would you prefer that we write in more simpler terms? | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| cont. Some paradigms in programming and in design have long lives. Accretion based on them is a feasible thing and so continues, for better or for worse. Computing is doing adequately without a lot of the great early geniuses of programming--the programmers who could and did do a lot with a little. I suppose one could say the same for design. When one sits on a particle board chair from Ikea descended from the modernist legacy, but designed by an engineer in Denmark and built in Taiwan, it is sufficient in some ways, even if it is not a tour de force example of design by Hans Wegner. But at some point, one has the hunch that a new paradigm, or perhaps as the neo functionalists out their seem to be doing, a deeper legacy will have to be resorted to get rid of a lot of the accreting junk information in programming (and by analogy in design). But we ought to learn from the glaring mistake of the moderns (who did soooooo many other things so well). We have to be careful what we throw out. Things are always sensitively dependent on what we start out assuming is crucial. The moderns assumed that form was crucial and the thing in need of purification. In so doing, they sewed the seeds of throwing out the functionalist legacy and reducing much design to a closed loop exploration of form that ultimately lead not to the democracy of space that they hoped for, but to the dictatorship of form--with all its mass and weight and afunctionality--the very afunctionality that modernity sought to escape in the first place. To elaborate a bit further and more deeply, again, to avoid the modern's mistake of focusing to simplistically on one aspect of design needing redesign (i.e., form), let us explore the programming metaphor through nature's own programming language--genetic information. The DNA molecule was for quite some time after its discovery by Crick and Watson understood to contain about 80 percent junk information in its helix. But nearly half a century after the discovery, science is beginning to recognize that the 20 percent useful information and 80 percent junk information was gross oversimplification. Increasingly, the junk portion is beginning to be understood as three things: a) some [perhaps a lot of]useful information for functions not previously understood; b) a reservoir of legacy genetic information enabling genetic diversity through random mutations; and c) a reservoir of legacy genetic information enabling human re-engineering of living things [experiments show we can do everything from change the genes in current use for rate of ripening in an avocado, to changing the genes no longer in use for making a chicken grow a tail]. | |||||
| https://www.etsy.com/listing | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | _ | Repair | |
| https://goo.gl/images/HRBLe6 I remember seeing this image in a book somewhere that shows some of the assembly details of this chair. It is more complex compared to the other Eames chair designs like those leather airport tandem seats originally commissioned for Saarinen's Dulles Airport (also by Eames & HM) that evolved from the Alum. Group design. I have not seen any of those recent Girard books out there but able to reserve them from the local public library here, I will get back to you or post again if I recognize the textile that is in your chair. The image that I added is from the recent Eames book by Vitra. The file size of the photo of the entire thing is too large to upload but you can see that tiny detail how the upholstery is secured into the alum. frame grooves by @ #16 brass ( something). | |||||
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