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	Baby Modern spot on Today Show today...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	Did any see the baby modern spot on Today show this AM? I was too stunned at the prices of the furnished room to note the producers, nor I did catch designer names. But for about $5-6K, a young couple just starting out their family should be able to forsake eating for a few years and have a really nice mini-modern baby room. On the other hand neo-modern produced a really nice looking, uncluttered, and colorful baby room. But for the prices this was an excellent argument for modern design. Now THIS is the way to catch your market early! Another interesting thing was the woman presenting the stuff. She called herself a "lifestyle expert." At first I thought it seemed ludicrous, but then it occurred to me that this was perhaps a positive step toward coordinating alot of the disciplines and product segments that go into people organizing their lives.
	Claus	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	Claus As already discussed once the gel-coat is gone you've got issues of more soil creeping into the fibers, as well as the fibers creeping into your skin. I had an old drilled out chair that I took to an auto-body shop and had them spray a clearcoat on. The result was much better than painting. A solid coat of paint makes the surface appear dead and lifeless. The clear-coat preserved the organic quality of the fiberglas, even if it didnt quite match up with the original gelcoat. (The gelcoat is more integrated into the fiberglas, whereas the clear-coat definitely 'sits' on the surface. However, clearcoating is the closest thing I've found to the original finish) Also - like you've mentioned, it preserves the history of the chair - which is why we like them right? If not preserving the history you may as well get one of the new polyprop Eames chairs.
	Loewy, Lotus and the Missed Avanti	1 Relevance	21 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	Loewy, Lotus and the Missed Avanti koen, I can feel my mind expanding. Ray-Lo did a stitcher called a Lotus? I have to see one. Please post a link. My first conscious awareness of Loewy design, or any design, was when I was a little boy circa 1964 and my dentist neighbor brought home a Studebaker Avanti to offer to his wife as a birthday present. To that moment, another neighbor's red '62 Corvette was the definitive iron on the block. But one look at the Avanti and the Vette seemed like a fiberglass Impala. The Vette was a raw thing with a front and back that didn't look like they were from the same car (and in fact that was the transition year of the old Vettes' face and the trial rump from the following years Stingray, but I digress). The Avanti posed an unprecedented, alien, achingly desirable newness. It took control of my eyes and led them over it the way it wanted to be seen, not the way I wanted to see it. At the time, I didn't even know that artists could direct the traverses of our eyes, but I felt that happening. I can actually remember feeling entranced for a moment. And, yes, I absolutely approached it like one of Kubrick's primates approaching the monolith--opened palm, fingers leading. Imagine my disappointment and anger when the neighbor's wife got furious that her husband had not let her pick out her own car. The wife ordered the Avanti away and Studebaker soon after went out of business. I never saw another Avanti for many years, except in advertisements and that was a poor, haunting substitute for the real. But Loewy had marked me. He and his car had made me like and hope for the excitingly unexpected in all manner of designed things. This I still believe is the profound thing that designers can do. Changing the way things look and work is what they contract for. But changing human expectations about the way things can look and work is the deep function, the regenerative effect, and the healing act to me. Raymond Loewy, whether he intended to or not, made a boy look forward to the beautifully unexpected, and that, to bum from Frost, has made all the difference--in me, anyway. One of my few regrets in life is that a current neigbhor's mother was a friend of Loewy's and bought an Avanti new and drove it until a few years ago. When she became infirm, her children got rid of it before I knew what happened. God, I wanted THAT car. The only balm for that regret is remembering that that foolish housewife from my childhood--the one who banished the Avanti--wound up with an exceedingly homely T-Bird with Landau irons and a vinyl roof. There just is justice AND injustice in this world and sometimes beauty just is their only arbiter.
	What do You Think about Dux Lounge Chair	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Daws	General discussion
	I'm interested in some feed back. I thought about the eames lounge chair 670 was it! but the cost $$$$ 3-4000. Does anyone know of this chair. Dux Reclining LC, by Ohlsson I looked around for the grasshopper saarinen lounge chair without any luck. I want the MCM look/vintage thing going on. Any ideas/ feed back. Dux reclining lounge chair and ottoman from the early 60's. designed by Folke Ohlsson produced in Burlingame California Both the ottoman and the chair adjust
	This may seem a bit esoteric, but...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	This may seem a bit esoteric, but... in a money economy with markets, most economic theory would say you are making a positive contribution to the economy to buy the valuable thing regardless of how little you pay, because you are putting it in the hands of someone who knows its worth and so will price it accordingly subsequently. In short, the market is repricing it the good at its appropriate value, when you get ahold of it. This is called using competition to wring inefficient pricing out of the economy. Pricing inefficiency can be wrung out either by the seller becoming informed through market information that the good is worth more than he thought, or by the buyer recognizing it is priced too low and so buying it to reprice it. The profit you make on recognizing the profit inefficiency, whether you are the seller, or the buyer who learns the price was too low, is your reward for participating in a competitive market. If everyone is competing to learn information indicating the price things are worth, then inefficient money allocations to goods is quickly ended and then market participants can begin to search out the next pricing inefficiency attributable to uneven distribution of information. This process keeps the system lean. Once pricing inefficiencies are achieved, then transactors and their monies can be directed toward toward new items that are coming on line. At least that's the theory. The trouble is that outside of flea markets, garage sales, ebay and craigs list, there's hardly a competitive and open market where pricing efficiencies through spread of market information are allowed to occur. Most markets are oligopolized or monopolized, or other wise asymmetrically constrained by gov. regulations to bias pricing outcomes to favor certain players. Regarding the morality of paying a very little to an uninformed buyer, I suppose it depends on the buyer. If they are old and infirm or especially poor and in need of money, it would seem the decent thing to do to inform them of what they have and either pay the going price yourself or move on and let someone else do it. If they are just lazy about studying up on what things are worth and wanting to get rid of their junk, why shouldn't you get the profit increment rather than them? Our economy is based on knowledge. You get profit by having the right information at the right time and the capital to invest and capture the increment. Those are the rules of the game. If you are a designer, you have more knowledge than me at designing and so you get the designer's profit and not me; that's how it should be. Now if you lie to me and run a sting on me to prevent me from knowing the relevant market information, then you're getting into fraud and that's a crime. But knowing more than the seller is not a crime. The system is supposed to reward those with the most knowledge. Else why would we educate ourselves and improve our productivity, which is supposed to be a net benefit to society? At least that's the theory.
	Simon, have a question for you - Kurt Ostervig Danish Dining Set	1 Relevance	17 years ago	ID Guy	General discussion
	I just bought a vintage Danish Teak dining set on CL, at first glance the small pics didn't look like anything special, but a little searching and a request for larger images I saw obvious similarities to a set of Kurt Ostervig chairs online going for $2450, and this was for one armchair and 3 side chairs. This set includes a 52" round solid teak table, 2x24" leaves, 6 side chairs and two armchairs all in GC. A little fading and some light water marks but nothing terrible. So the only thing is that there is no makers mark; I'm wondering if you can take a quick look and give me you opinion as to if they are in fact KO chairs or just knockoffs? I can take pics of the bottoms later and post them. I don't imagine the table is his, but that would be cool. Thanks in advance! BTW I paid very little for the set so even if it's a knockoff it's still a great value! The second image is of the chairs I found online. Mike
	Back on topic: as cdsilva	1 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Back on topic: as cdsilva suggest De Forenede Jernstøbrier aka DFJ (with interpuncts!) is a pretty good lead. The company made cast iron furnaces or boilers (not sure exactly what they were). And they don't look too vastly different than this thing. Although they are much, much more industrial looking. We know that they did home related stuff too because of their JHQ cookware.
	Input does not compute	1 Relevance	21 years ago	MrMercutio	General discussion
	Input does not compute As whitespike said: it depends. I mean, I could list all the things that I think are nice, but then it would be my flat and not yours. Suggestions depend on what colours you have on the walls. My living room looks like this: 1 white IKEA sofa, and I've got a bright burgundy red stereobench that stands beneath my wall mounted widescreen TV. The colour of the TV-wall is a wet sand gray, and the colours on the three other walls is a whitegraybeige that doesn't swallow my sofa. I've also have a set of cherrywood bookshelves (also IKEA). Ie, I've got no special designer furniture in my flat, if you discount the fact that I've thought my living room through so you could say I've designed the whole thing. But if you put what I listed in your living room, it would be my flat and not yours. Not knowing your tastes (except they seem a bit on the extravagant side, with that red sofa), I really couldn't say anything intelligent. It's really up to you, and what you like.
	I'm so there	1 Relevance	17 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	I'm so there Cream and Chrome, have you been to my house?!?! Sadly, we had to get rid of the cat for the kid, but we are with you. Not all kids are created equal, and Kid No. 2 is a non-stop wrecking machine. I swapped out a perfectly good wood table for a vintage one with a laminate top. Then, the swivel chairs were too much for the little guy, so we swapped out his chair for a shell chair. The shell chair is OK, but it's a bit too much like a slide. Now, I regret the whole thing. The beautiful wood table base is not sturdy, and I fear that we will be the end of it. We already broke the matching china cabinet -- twice. (That one wasn't anyone's fault -- it was just old and the wood already was cracked, and we dared to USE it!) Someday, we might grow out of this, but maybe my son always will be the type that is hard on things. That's very likely since his dad is. Get things that are sturdy and easy to clean. Don't spend a bundle now and don't expect perfect. And mark off the days until the children are grown and out of the house!!!
	To see the future.....look at the past	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Luckner	General discussion
	To see the future.....look at the past My theory on this matter is the same as with many areas (fashion, architecture, the arts etc). It seems to me that most of the time when new architecture, fashions, trends etc imerge, they are re-inventions of older ideas. The most famous example of this is the Renaissance (French = re-birth) which was literally the rebirth of art and architecture. So many times in history designers etc have looked at the past in order to invent something new. There are of course also pieces of art and design that are completely (or appear to be completely) original with no inspiration from past designs. So with respects to what will be popular in future (like e.g. the egg chair or Eames lounger is popular today), I think the same thing will happen as it always has. Some designs will go down in history because they fill certain critera like functionality, originality, looks etc. And others will go down the forgotten route because they didn?t fill these criteria. http://www.luckners.com
	And you don't	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Eameshead	Off topic
	And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore even though you're on my fightin' side… (chorus) and I'll hang around as long as you will let me and I never minded standin' in the rain you don't have to call me darlin, darlin' you never even called me by my name . Don't worry SDR, you look MUCH better than Merle Haggard ever did! I just was getting the vibe from the photo. (After all, Merle was big in the 80s) The song is David Allen Coe. I love the way the CW singers all write songs about each other, and idolize each other. Thats the best thing about Country Western… That, and that they are not afraid to go totally corn-ball. Corn-ball always makes me cry. The way they fearlessly burn right through the cliche instead of side stepping it. I should start listening to CW again. Or music of some kind. I have come to enjoy ambient sounds (like crows, and the din of distant traffic) so much that I stopped listening to music. At all. Anyway, that is one cool picture SDR.
	You're in the right forum	1 Relevance	8 years ago	Spanky	Identification
	You're in the right forum section! I don't know what your chair is but it's quite possible others will recognize it. But to make things easier, it might help to post a few more view of the chair: side, back, underside---and to note anything else that might matter, such as whether the legs screw off, any marks or labels or lack thereof, etc. If you can move it to an area where there's not much stuff around to block the view, that would help too. And crouch down a bit if you can so that the camera is on the same level as the midpoint of the chair. Whatever you can do to give us viewers the best idea of what you have without seeing it in person will be really helpful. I don't know why it is that some photos end up turned sideways here but it happens a lot. Some of mine do that and the one thing that seems to keep it from happening is if I put the photos on my desktop first and rotate them one full turn, even if they are right side up to begin with---then post them. I rarely post photos directly from my phone but it may help to do it using the Edit function--just rotate even if it shows up in the correct orientation on the phone.
	If you showed me proof that...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	If you showed me proof that... If you showed me proof that Vitra was engaging in the same sort or rights violations I wouldn't buy their products. I guess for me other things are more important than the end result of owning a product - even an 'affordable' product. o k I have no proof, since i am not a spokesman for the Vitra company but take the clock apart. I will guarantee you you will find some components that are made in China, The thing that gets me I have been collecting Howard miller clocks for 20 years, and the movements in all the clocks are 5 dollar quartz movements all made in China or Japan or cheap land, even the finest company uses there movements simply cause they can not make them that economical, Next you have a very small amount of raw material or product, and put that all together and you have nothing, furniture no need to go there as we have already beat that subject to death,
	Japanese mix with modern	1 Relevance	22 years ago	DavidDC	General discussion
	Japanese mix with modern I buy what interests me. In my house, I've currently mixed some Japanese art and furniture pieces with Eames and Nelson furniture pieces. However, I've always had this thing for certain 1970s tacky-ass furniture and accessories, including bold rya rugs. I'm currently trying to find a 1970s-ish small acrylic coffee table - with rectangular acrylic top and a funky/tacky/cheesy acrylic base. It's hard to describe, but I'll know it when I see it. Of course, if anyone has two platner lounge chairs (not tacky, not cheesy)to sell me . . . . Personally, a room that is furnished with all midcentury modern pieces, particularly if the pieces are all brand new reissues, seems lacking in creativity. Also, that type of room seems sterile and very show-casey. David
	Thanks for the replies,...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	brbeard	General discussion
	Thanks for the replies,... Thanks for the replies, guys. My serach for biomorphic coffee tables on ebay over the last few months have brought up a few Kagan tables -- they're much less graceful than Noguchi's though, aren't they? (There's a reason it's such a popular piece, I suppose). Thanks for the tips LRF - if I were to buy a Noguchi coffee table (and I may end up doing that yet, as I think barrympls is right -- I'm probably not going to find anything on level with Noguchi's table, and yes it is way cool:) but if I were to buy a Noguchi coffee table I'd definitely only buy the Herman Miller version. It's not so ridiculously expensive as to make it unattainable, fortunately. Azurechicken, your comment intrigued me. Could you please elaborate on what you were saying there? Is the genre "coffee tables" or is the genre "biomorphic coffee tables"? and if the genre is simply "coffee tables" (as I suspect it is), what sort of thing do you have in mind as a substitute? I'm interested...