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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| The real Laveno? | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | bixb | General discussion | |
| Bought a vase marked "Laveno / Made in Italy / 10-52" this weekend, and after consulting the internet came to the conclusion that it either is a copy of a vase by Antonia Campi for Laveno, or.... how do I know? Should I be extati the real thing??? Should I be ecstatic over my five dollar investment or just happy to have a copy of good Italian art-pottery? Her work was supposedly very copied (she was regarded as the Italian answer to Picasso when it came to this art-form). Any info is highly apreciated - and I love this piece no matter what.... (The link shows a piece by her that has the ecxact same shape and marking, but the one I bought had a very simple, graphic pattern, black lines on white ground). Thxs! http://www.von-zezschwitz.de/onlinecatalog.php?id=25&chapter=4&page=2&action=language&language=englisch | |||||
| I'll probably delete this.... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | waffle | General discussion | |
| I'll probably delete this.... I don't really care or want to know what motivates peoples actions. I prefer them mysterious We have 3 cats. They are also mysterious. One is the nicest creature on this earth, past or future included everyone should watch How It's Made episodes. Amazing I really like fabric stores, good fabric stores Minor league baseball is about as good as life gets. And vacant beaches. And wind. I have a collection of slide rules but no longer know how to use them. And triangular engineer rulers. My son and I have a term, the "home depot effect". Random people will walk up to me AT ANY STORE and ask me where things are. It doesn't matter where, most often at Home Depot though My son is skinny and has a big mouth and will get picked on. He knows it, though...will that make it easier on him? I am about to turn 50 Mark. I will ask for the same thing I always as for, good pizza and good beer and some together time | |||||
| Great thread. Thanks tchp. | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Richard Tanimura | General discussion | |
| Great thread. Thanks tchp. I really could not agree more about the time it takes to get back into caning. It a funny thing because it is not at all like riding a bike. You forget it very quickly. But your results were beautiful proving you get there eventually. I just might look into the HASS steamer. I find soaking cane messy and the stuff dries up in the time it takes me to do the work. I am attaching a pic of something else called a steamer. These are thin, springy metal guides. I can't imagine why they are called steamers - possibly because the ends point upwards like the prow of an old steam ship. Also my Berry staple remover which I really think great for just that purpose. | |||||
| Oh, please. | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| Oh, please. That seller has 200+ artworks for sale. All the rest have Buy-It-Now prices, but this was the only one he was selling in an auction format. Yet he "just can't figure out the signature, artist unknown to me"? Yeah, right. There's no art dealer on the planet who wouldn't at least suspect that the signature read "Lichtenstein", and it only takes about a minute to find an image of the real signature on the web and compare. A reputable dealer who thought he had a real Lichtenstein would have gotten the thing authenticated by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, or at least looked at by a local expert, then he would have identified it properly in his auction. Below is a link to a whole bunch of real Lichtenstein colored-pencil drawings. It is left as an exercise for the reader to compare and contrast with the item in the Ebay auction. http://www.imageduplicator.com/search.php?string=colored+pencils | |||||
| Re-installing continuous Experspring on Kofod-Larsen lounge chair | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I am making cushions for a high back Kofod-Larsen lounge chair with the one long Experspring on the back. One end fits into a hole at the bottom of the back frame and likewise with the other end at the top. The owner took it off so that the chair frame, which had had some horrible dark finish added by an amateur at some point, could be refinished. I cannot get the thing back on. Is there some trick to this? The spring is kinked a bit where it fit into the grooves so I know how much it has to be stretched (a lot), but it keeps popping out no matter what I do. I even tried C-clamping the bends into the grooves but it just slides through the groove. I see no evidence that it was anchored with a nail through the spring at each bend.I'm thinking they had specialized tools to do this when the chairs were made but surely it can be done somehow...?? I've replace Experspring loops with some effort but this is something else.Anyone have a clue? | |||||
| I am unsure about the stucco... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Starline | General discussion | |
| I am unsure about the stucco... I am unsure about the stucco thing but white is safe.Unless you mean stucco in perfect smooth finish but I see stucco as that very rough semi circle trowel on pattern from the 70s.Needs to be darker shade of white than inside due to light. I like the slight contrast between the roof and porthole blocks in the 1st image so maybe that difference should be maintained.The portholes should be white though. The slatted wall only which seems to be the core of the house in some areas may look good in a dark midnight type blue.Maybe bridge paint which has iron oxide for that subtle sparkle through it when viewed up close although colours are limited.From outside it would seem the house had a white skeletal frame. In the end I would seek pro help or google similar houses for an overall colour effect you like as colour and effect can be very tricky. | |||||
| Consumers unite? | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Consumers unite? So Deacon, do you propose that the mass consumer directs the designer if he/she wants to be successful? That's an interesting thought. Certainly, Picasso never worried about that. I don't think the Eames did either. They were exploring their brave new world of bentply and fiberglass. Maybe Nelson did. He was always very aware of the 'everyman'. This is an interesting thing to think about. As a consumer I definitely do buy things that have a 'look' I like. Most of the time I make a choice based also on the quality of the product's construction as well, but not always. As far as directly answering your question; I will have to think about this. The things in my home that affect me the most and that I'm most attached to don't have a designer name associated with them. My tetsubin teapots or the angle of the sunlight through my south windows. As much as I enjoy the stuff in my house, none of it elicits the viceral response of delight that a Picasso does. None of it matters that much to me. If the house was burning down, it would be the cats I'd worry about not the stuff....well maybe the Nelson bench... | |||||
| cool stores all around so... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| cool stores all around so... cool stores all around soho Moderica has a nice store down there with lots of bubble lamps and shell chairs DWR has a store not to far with all the originals. and so does Vitra has great stuff. on 26st and other locations, White on White the only thing that they have that is a great deal are there Nelson clocks they are a good deal. also lots of other modern furniture stores with new ideas and cool stuff all around that area also please check out MOMA always great. I love the place and they have a nice museum store, You might check 1st dibs as they have about 50 dealers from NYC all over the city dying to sell there stuff, Have fun go see Jersey Boys on Brodaway great fun. | |||||
| OK, you're right, this is a real discussion | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| OK, you're right, this is a real discussion not a vitreous tirade about 'originals' vs. knockoffs. Koen, your comments about media are interesting. They make me wonder if the recent resurgance of the mid-cent stuff is partly due to it being publicized more in coffe table books, movies, etc. Growing up in a New England farm town full of real colonial everything I never saw any thing 'modern' until I went to college. As far as I knew the Nelson benches in the library were designed the week before I plunked my Biology 101 books on them, but I bet you most high school kids today have seen a Barcelona (or a knockoff) on TV. And remember the Eames Lounge on Frasier? (And the Chihuly vase?) So it strikes me that we are exposed to mid-cent stuff much more now than our parents were when the stuff was newly designed. Personally, I like having nearly a century of modern design at my disposal! | |||||
| I'm not saying | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| I'm not saying You like junk. But you did want to keep the rust on, and called it patina. That shows that you would most likely let an item continue to get worse, even though you see it's been wounded in battle. Restoration has many levels. These chairs are still as bad as when we started, and my opinions on them are the same. I'm not Polly though. I don't say the same thing on every thread. I take each piece with an open mind, and try to think of best possible outcome for the items future. This one just needed a little more help han others. No one said all unrestored objects are dirt. I said that when some people allow items to get to that point of deterioration, without the slightest thought of rejuvenation, they will then ultimately let it go to the next level, and the next, until it slowly one day looks like that car. Excellent to dirt takes many years. But it also takes many of years of no tlc to allow it to become what it does. There's no shut off point for what's too bad. They keep it natural until its naturally gone. I bet you have a nice house. I'm not saying you live in dirt. I'm not going to the whole end of the spectrum here. Remember? We're keeping it grey here... That's all I said, and its true. I see it all the time. I never called myself innocent. I thought you were going to bed? Now I can't go to bed... My lasagna's been in the microwave for 30 minutes. | |||||
| Imagine my surprise | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Imagine my surprise at finding this impressive illustration in the middle of a book about a multiple-homicide case from 1970. The table -- which isn't identified in any way beyond this drawing -- puzzled the detectives because, although it was alleged to have been upset during a violent home invasion, they couldn't duplicate the way it came to rest, on its side (as shown). In 100+ tries, every time they knocked it over the bench came to rest upside down. The Nelson bench, with its tapered leg frames, might well have resisted the tendency to roll further than on its side. If the unhappy homeowner had only sprung for the real thing, he might have avoided a life sentence: the bench's unusual position following the attack (in which the victim's wife and daughters were killed, while he survived), and other factors, helped convince the jury that he had staged the attack ! illustration © Pentagram http://www.wildernessoferror.com/ | |||||
| Oh, don't get me going on color! | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Oh, don't get me going on color! It's one of my main passions! And you are quite right that fashion design leads the way on color trends. It starts there and filters through every thing from furniture to automobiles. Citron green was big for a few years, which annoyed me cuz it's one of my favs and I hated seeing it overused everywhere. There are actually several groups out there predicting color trending and to some extent what they saye influences designers in their selections. The thought being that folks will but if it's in one of the current 'hot' colors. I think that has validity, but I think that the design savvy types such as the DA crowd tend to be more individualistic and not as 'trendy'. We might throw in a pillow or accent piece in the new 'hot' color but I thnk we less often opt to redecorate according to trends. I don't think that fact reaches the minds of advertisers though since you see the in colors on the advertised items. It does seem though that certain pieces are iconic in a certain color even if that color is not currently trndy. ie: barcelona in black, womb chair in red, white tulip tables, etc. | |||||
| Oh, I LOVE my new home...never fear! | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Oh, I LOVE my new home...never fear! And I agree on the evolution thing. We've discussed that a gazillion times here on DA. A collected home that has matured and evolved over time is a far more interesting and sophisticated space. I was lucky, I got to design this home, for the most part. So pretty much all of our furniture knew where it was going to live before we moved in. I made scale model cut outs of each piece and set them in place to be sure that the space, traffic pattern, practicality and fel of the place would be what we wanted. I'm also lucky that I have so much wonderful art around me, either from Nature or from the local artists, Santa Fe is amazing in that regard. It will be fun to look and find what makes us happy. One local guy we've been watching is Willy Bo Richardson; we also like Joel Nakamura. This is a Joel Nakamura piece, and there's a link to WillyBo's stuff below. http://www.willyrichardson.com/ | |||||
| Exactly, Barragan. | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Exactly, Barragan. Ricardo Legorretta who designed this development studied with Barragan. He uses the saturated color thing in similar ways to that of his mentor. SDR, you have it correct. Only the light well is yellow-orange. And yeah, I'm trying to neutralize this color. Pigments absorb all other wavelengths except for the color that we visually perceive. So I have an excess of an unflattering tone. If I use the complementary color to yellow-orange, blue-violet, I should be able to mellow out the overly warm tonality. Logic there being that the direct comlement would absorb more wavelengths in the range of it's opposite. At least that's my hope. Or I may just live with it. I don't plan to be here more than a year or two. My worries with the Reveal light bulbs is that I'll create an additive effect rather than a corrective one. We all know how much light tonality affects color perception. | |||||
| marble top chewbacca | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| marble top chewbacca take the wood to the marble shop and let them cut the top to the exact specs of the wood. and it will be heavy enough that it will sit perfect and you wont have to drill holes. The reason i say to take the old table top in my friend had them cut to his specs and for some reason they screwed it up and for now it is sitting on the wood real bad) but they said they will redo it. also make sure they polish the edges, you will flip when you see how cool it looks agains the stainless steel or angle iron depending which one you have, and if you look on line they cost with a high grade marble over 2000.dollars with the stainless, The neat thing is when you go to a marble store have the guy show you remnant pieces left over from other jobs and you can find some killer pieces, that he can fit on top. I got lucky since mine was 30 x 30 he only charged me 100.00 but even if you have to pay 200 for a killer piece of marble you are doing good. Good luck | |||||
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