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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| And to you as well glassartist... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | DudeDah | General discussion | |
| And to you as well glassartist... Right, make no mistake, TASCHEN, Phaidon, Gestalten...they are ALL trying to make money off of their books and appear to be doing very well. But, as art books, I feel like they need to go a step further to be more than just reference books. As with any art piece, I find pieces that have a strong underlying concept more "successful" overall than pieces that are merely a display of technical skill. I feel like the SIZE of these books is a conceptual thing rather than just an effort to charge you for the "extra" paper. The extra time/effort it takes to page through these book dictates the PACE at which I page through them. I'm as A.D.D. as the next American and find myself flipping through smaller books and thus not paying as much attention as the published might wish I would. If it helps, I CAN'T WAIT to get a copy of this Girard book and would GLADLY give you a crisp $20-bill to help solve your dilemma!! | |||||
| DAVID | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| DAVID I have had three or four benchs in the last 3 years one i got from a Estate sale for 100 bucks and it was a real old nelson bench from the 50 s it turned yellow I bought a miller black one from a estate sale and gave 125.00 and the last one i bought was a knockoff cause i liked the color for my office, it was new, The millers were 50 years old but they both had cracking and problems and needed work, But the funny thing is the knock off wood was beautiful the best i have ever seen. as it was first class teak wood the only problem was it wobbled like a 95 year old man and i had to have it re made with good screws they used cheap tacks to put it together instead of screws. (stupid ) to say the least it was from China, but i have really never seen these things perfect, I know they leave the factory perfect, but from the best to the worst they really are a cheap piece of furniture hate to say it nothing to them, that a good trim carpenter could knock out before lunch, | |||||
| just one of those books ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| just one of those books ... just one of those books you have to have! I think it is put together wonderful three large books with tons of great pictures and broken up in three volumes, saw at a book store in NYC in October and wanted it then, just did not want to fork over three hundred bucks plus tax and shipping to OKLA, saw it at the show in Palm Springs last week for 300 bucks again, still did not want to fork over the bucks or tax , and saw it on Amazon for 208.00 plus 4.00 bucks for shipping , real tempting and hard to pass up, now damn glad i bought it , cause to me it is the holy grail of mid century modern architecture, Julius Shulman has been everywhere in 70 years to shoot every memorable home,building, object, and any thing that ever dealt with modern architecture (what a amazing life to be able to do that ) it will be one of those book sets that will be a classic in 5 years and you will be sorry you did not get it, for a bargin price, I have seen so many like this that i passed up and they go up and up instead of getting cheaper, | |||||
| Replogle/McCobb | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | straylight | General discussion | |
| Replogle/McCobb I am currently researching a book on Paul McCobb so naturally the earth globes came up in the course of my research. Since the globes themselves are made by Replogle the natural thing to do was to contact Replogle and see what they could tell me about Paul McCobb. Replogle has an excellent and very efficient history department. The upshot of it was this. Replogle never contracted with Paul McCobb to design globes for them. Replogle never sold globes/bulk materials to any of the possible manufacturers that could have made the globes i.e. Directional, Calvin Furniture, Northcraft, Excelsior Art Studio, Winchendon. Also of note is the fact that the Replogle globes used in these floor/table standing globes commonly attributed to Paul McCobb are easily dated 1970-1972; 1 year after Paul McCobb's death... http://paulmccobb.blogspot.com | |||||
| Elegant as in not more or les... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Elegant as in not more or les... Elegant as in not more or less than needed to do the job well. Pleasing geometric form language. No unnecessary ornament. Compact. Slim. Neatly integrated logo. Inverted trapezoid side profile creates inverted massing and corresponding lightness with right-side-up trapezoid hand slot to create counter balance and scalar self-similarity at two scales. Add a dash of dark color at the base to create a balance between the inverted massing of the handle with the dark color of the base adds further balance. Again, the only thing to dislike for me is the too small and slippery speed knob on top. To me this humble little HB Mixette is an example of all that was good about modern, HP, and could be again, to borrow from Field of Dreams. 🙂 Tell me: what do see inelegant about it? | |||||
| best finds | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| best finds I am a starving student (20 yrs old) so pretty much ALL my finds have been the best bargains, otherwise I could not have afforded them. I have come across the usual eames shells for free, but the best deal by far was 8 brno flat bar chairs for 4 dollars each at a thrift store. granted some are upholstered in blue and some in a light purple fabric, but I plan to recover them. My uncle's company went down in houston and hooked up my older brother and I with two brno tubulars for 40 dollars each, all in really good shape with fabric upholstery. my older brother found a harry bertoia diamond chair - the larger one (diamond lounge?) in chrome for 15 dollars. The only bad thing about it was whoever owned it spray painted the orange fabric cover black! thankfully they did not damage the actual chair. | |||||
| Look, here is a carcass, I | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | StigCarlsson | Identification | |
| Look, here is a carcass, I found online, some terapeak site, the back extension looks gone, but it's the same frame. it says MAKER: Milo Baughman, so no help, the Baughman thing is a problem now, because unless it is clearly marked, everything is Baughman. My local craigslist is filled with "Baughman" stuff, pretty much anything with glass, chrome, fabric, wood, leather, brass...well just everything. They are now switching to Pearsall, any old sofa from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's gets reupholstered and magically becomes designed by Pearsall. 1st dibs is full of bona fide crooks. It has a 3-4 sets of chrome bar stools I have out in the garage, marked as Baughman, selling for $3,200. They are actually made by CAL-STYLE, mine are labelled, but pretty close, except for being much lighter, with much nastier welds, with little round balls on the from bottom to keep them from falling over. You could probably say attributed to Milo Baughman, which I guess is really saying that other people have said it's a Baughman, semantics. | |||||
| In the 1stdibs thread, I wa... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| In the 1stdibs thread, I wa... In the 1stdibs thread, I was defending Patrick and Alix, AND defending LRF's right to voice his opinion.(for information purposes what did Patrick and Alix need defending on they never say a thing) Shame on me, LRF? Are you sure about that? No I am not sure about anything !!!! I never read anyone but Koen and DC Wilson ever say anything nice to me or about me , everyone just wants to get on board and dump on me and tell me how rude I am , cause i have a opion and enjoy stating it .some like "this that" say i don't know what I am talking about and a drag on this forum . If you were one of the few that stated i have a right to have a opion i thank you . and did not mean to offend you or piss you off at all. I read that Norris was having a tough time trying to get his/her voice heard about lst dibs I more than likely should have referenced the archives to view the transcript for this I am sorry to you. I hate to say it but I start 90 percent of the Threads on this Forum so If i am a drag on this forum it would be a sad day for it if i packed it up cause no one else ever seems to start anything new right? Patrick and Alix. | |||||
| Break out your screwdriver! | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | crankyd | General discussion | |
| Break out your screwdriver! If I'm not mistaken, you could easily disassemble an Eames Plywood Lounge or Dining chair (referred to as LCW and DCW, respectively, I think). They could probably be broken down to a fairly manageable package. Get multiples and the pieces could "nest" upon one another. I would imagine that they could simply be screwed together again without losing any of the structural integrity. The less-pricier ones with the metal frames are welded, so they can't be broken down much smaller. The last time I was in Amsterdam, I saw some decent unlicensed knock-offs of these and the price was outrageous. Right now, you can get the real thing from Herman Miller in the States for about $550 US. Also, the George Nelson Slatted Bench (Herman Miller) would be easy to unscrew and transport (the short model, at least). Prices start at around $600 US. I don't know if you care for either one of these, but they still (deservingly so) hold their iconic status in American Mid-Century design. IMHO, there are few forms as elegant (and comfortable) as the LCW. | |||||
| When you are planning to get | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Hanna Hall | General discussion | |
| When you are planning to get a replica. The first thing you have to make sure is the replica follows the same dimensions as the Original. I learned a lot of replicas are huge. The knock-off chair, however, just says screw it! and screws directly through the wood shell from the outside instead of into shock mounts from the inside. I did my research and found .... replica is the best (edited by DA - no advertising to repro websites please) | |||||
| Good advice. Thanks! More... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| Good advice. Thanks! More... Good advice. Thanks! More than likely I will stick with my Bertoias. I just wanted to hear the general attitude regarding this. I do like the idea of the Eames chairs, but honestly I would have Eames overload. I have a lot of Eames stuff already: lounge + ottoman, LTR side table, two Eames eiffel side chairs, an old armshell, and LCW, a wire chair rocker with bikini, and some other various side chairs.... I know I brought it up. Part of the reason I opted for Bertoia is that I love the wire aesthetic. They seem to disappear in a small environment. I saw a group of thonet bentwood chairs on eBay that might be nice ... but again a hard seat. My take is, I would keep mine until the perfect thing came up ... I don't want to exchange cons for cons. But either way - it's nice to hear ideas and what others are using. | |||||
| I think the army blanket | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | jw468 | General discussion | |
| I think the army blanket thing has been around for awhile. I remember seeing a post about it on Apartment Therapy when I still read that site, years ago. At the time I thought the Redeploy Rug by Rebekah Rauser was a neat idea, the way it was repurposed (who am I kidding, I still like it). | |||||
| yes | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | rockybird | General discussion | |
| yes I understand completely! I have a mccobb planner desk that I am sitting at right now. I love the fact that it has some use and marks on it, but still looks beautiful. It smells very faintly of smoke, and I really enjoy the history of the piece. I like thinking that this desk was sitting in some family's house 30 years ago. I plan to refinish it someday, so dont mind being a little careless with it with coffee cups, etc. My Glenn of California desk, though, I will not use but just keep for show. I am scared of marking it up. I like owning something that is valuable and that I can tell people, even if they dont get it, "this is an original piece from so-and-so." I dont care so much about auctioning pieces but the fact that I own something unique, somewhat rare and valuable with some history. As opposed to owning a piece that is mass produced in China. I think the gn desk needs too many repairs and think I will save my money for something different. I seem to have a thing for desks. Am I the only one? | |||||
| Here's the link | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| Here's the link Yes, found it here: http://www.lyring.com/unique-dresser-furniture-design I believe you all are right about it being an original piece. I really wasn't paying much attention. It was very late and I was going thru image results trying to ID my dresser and happened upon that pic and instantly thought WTF - so I added it to the thread. So much awful "upcycled" crap is out there rt now I didn't even question it. My hate of French provincial and overwrought Louis XV style furniture knows no bounds, so when I saw it combined with what I thought was an actual piece of the Lane cubist stuff I like I was horrified. I admit the sandblasted grain on the faux antique side is cool, but that's the only thing I can say positive about it. As an originally designed piece, IMO, it's trying way too hard. However, Im sure others will disagree with me. http://www.lyring.com/unique-dresser-furniture-design | |||||
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