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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Everybody? | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | jennocide | General discussion | |
| Everybody? Um, design comes waaaay after technology. Mac didn't design the case first. We programmers don't design the interface first. We always always always design function first. Function is the only thing that matters with real technology. Ever. Programmers don't think "oooh design" when it comes to platform. We think code to make function. After alllll that hard work is done, it is passed on to a front end programmer. That person gets a graphics person....then, design comes into play. Design of the future will depend upon our technology. Technology won't bow to design. Are you kidding? You think the top 2% of the world's intelligence cares about what something looks like vs. how it works? Pleeeze. We don't even want lunky metal. The science community is already making a hologram pc interface. Macs make up only 8% of the US computer population. 5% max of the world's population. How is it you guys with your massive 8% think you are somehow better? LOL. C'mon, be real. | |||||
| Vintage USA made ball chair | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Joshua F (USA) | General discussion | |
| Hey guys, Just curious. I just picked up a ball chair for my wife for Xmas. Since we will likely never own an original Adelta made one, and she had a cheaper modern knock off, I thought the best thing was this vintage one made in the US. The base is aluminum an the quality is really very nice. About 6 inches more diameter than the repro we have. I know Treadway had two for auction not that long ago, but there was no info. I know it is not anything that special, but I was curious who might have made the chair. I was told it was certainly late 60s early 70s manufacture...and there are some aspects that lead me to think that might be the case. Any thoughts? My research over the past couple weeks has produced very little. God knows enough companies many their version of this, but for an older copy, I rather liked it. Very comfortable. Thanks as always, Josh | |||||
| Volther Corona chair real or replica? | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Reamie | Identification | |
| I'm going to see this chair this week and only have these two pictures to go on. It's not cheap, but not as pricey as it could be! Does anyone have any insight into it? Does it look like the real thing? The rippling on the seat bothers me(more so because I want it smooth, not as an indicator of its inauthenticity!) | |||||
| Cabinet/Small Credenza I.D. | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I saw this cabinet on craigslist, and wondered if it was a George Nelson. The legs are very similar to his sofas and it almost looks like it's from the thin-edge series. The only thing is that the handles are different and the hinges are on the outside. Can you help me? (Also, it's $100 - is it worth it?) | |||||
| Post your wooden wall panels | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Lit Up | General discussion | |
| Hey folks, I've been gazing at my magnolia cream walls thinking... there's something lacking here! What is it? Of course... wood panelling! It's the next big thing I'm going to do round here, when I get the money... Does anybody else have wooden wall panels? Post them! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . yes I agree, I think I live better than a lot of people I know who have a lot more money than me. I won't rabbit on about it becuase it makes me sound pompous and concieted but I ride a bicycle, get fruit and vegetables from a market, use three lightglobes and if I find a big piece of furniture I pay to get it delivered or sometimes if I feel like the workout I'll carry a chair home, cheaper than a gym! The only thing I really get concerned about is that sometimes I find it hard to avoid using glues and finishes that are a bit toxic. The economics of buying the right stuff is tricky too, for a a current project I have struggled to get my hands on plantation grown timber, at the end of the day it is much much cheaper for me to buy hardwood timber from a large corporation that is harvested 2000 km away in difficult circumstances than to get softwood planation timber that is grown 150km away. Figure that! It would actually be cheaper too for me to get oregon or western red cedar imported from your side of the planet than from (almost literally) up the road. | |||||
| I'm not so sure that's right .... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I'm not so sure that's right .... I think that what SDR says applies only to the truly rare object -- e.g., a one-of-a-kind Mollino sofa (if there is such a thing). In such cases, the object itself takes on an additional, historic significance, and a collector or museum may indeed want the object as-found, age marks and all. For something like the Eames lounge, which isn't really all that rare, however, usability & presentability generally greatly INCREASE its value. I doubt that there are many folks out there looking for a beat-up chair rather than one in nice shape. Anyway, it's hard to imagine that there's an Eames lounge out there that is worth more in a poor condition than in a better condition. I suppose if it were a prototype, or one used by Eames himself, or maybe a particularly unusual fabric. But a run-of-the-mill lounge, even from the first year, will be worth more in better shape than in poor shape. Nonetheless, re restoration, the key is that whatever restoration you do doesn't destroy the integrity of the original design. From the first post, though, it isn't that clear whether this will occur ... | |||||
| I do business direct with Her... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| I do business direct with Her... I do business direct with Herman Miller, Modernica, knoll. Business in the MCM market is still fantastic. They say that all the new reissues of the last 10 years are doing better than ever. The designs are timeless. People are buying the old stuff.but new from these companies.One good thing cheap china fakes are drying up. Most people do not like newy newy modern it is cheap and cheesy.If they have money they want classic modern. So what is classic modern? MCM. Also our company retro redo has had a record year in recovering eames shells. I feel this is cause Herman miller and modernica shells are very expensive new. Most people starting out want one nice piece of history so they start with a inexpensive arm shelf to build a collection on. | |||||
| A symbiosis of Eero Saarinen and Alexander Begge chairs ? | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Tardelli | Identification | |
| I am chair lover and I would like you to help me, identify these chairs in the picture below. Looking at google the only thing I found about it was an old post from your forum, which has already been deleted.To me it looks like a symbiosis of Eero Saarinen and Alexander Begge.Thank you for your help. Attachment: Chairs.jpg | |||||
| Pt. 2 | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Pt. 2 Variations, you see, like the prosaic metaphor of shit, happen...in physics and chemistry without super natural help--without a designer, unless you wish to think of the entirety of context, i.e., the universe, as the designer. Things organize, fit and disorganize in all contexts we know of, at all scales that we know of. And complexity emerges out of simplicity at all scales that we know of. And time, if it has any direction at all, moves only one way. One cannot go backward in time. And so what we see, or can otherwise measure empirically, is an inevitable accrual of complexity of things fitting into a complex of ever increasing complexity, which tends over time to lead to extremely complex organisms and organizations organisms to eventually having a great deal of difficulty adapting to changes of context and this is basically what triggers being selected out over time. A living thing accrues complexity to fit with context with out a means of reversing the complexity. The more complex its fit the more efficient it is in its context, but the more vulnerable it becomes to changes in that context. One other basic principle to keep in mind which moves in only one direction is the conversion of mass to energy; what Einstein formalized in his pithy, easy to remember formula: e=mc^2. Everyone and everything that converts some of their matter to energy just gets to do it once with that particular bit of matter. You can't turn a critical mass of plutonium that has gone through fission back into a critical mass of plutonium no matter how hard and cleverly you try. Likewise, you can't turn a peanut butter sandwich that has been digested back into a peanut butter sandwich either. Mass converted to energy never gets converted back into the same mass. This is why the transporter in Star Trek can never happen as envisioned. We probably will one day learn upload and down load the full data simulation of a human mind, so that it can be transported across great distances, then downloaded into, say, a cybernetic organism elsewhere in the universe--a Hertz rental body if you will, have experiences, and upload the modified data simulation of the human mind, shipped back across great distances, and download it back into one's brain on earth. But, no, Mabel, we are almost certainly not going to be able to turn future Captain Kirks into light the color of TV turned to a dead channel, to borrow a William Gibson metaphor, and then back into the same Captain Kirks. I mention this one-way street of mass to energy for one reason: I do not think an intelligent designer would design the mass-energy relationship in a one way street, were he/she to have a choice in the matter. Mass and energy would be a lot handier if they could be converted back and forth and back again, whenever a thing desired to do so. | |||||
| Oooo! | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Oooo! Did you get that Hallingdal that was on Ebay for under $20/yd? I would have been all over that if it had been one of their other grays. I noticed it got snapped up very quickly! As for foam--is there any way you can test out different densities on the sofa itself? Is the webbing ok? It may very well need to be replaced, and that will affect the feel of whatever foam you put on there. The original had latex foam, which is still available but costs more than urethane foam. It also comes in different densities. It's such a personal thing---some people like firm, some like a softer feel that you can sink into. Probably a firmer foam will work best with the clean lines and tufting on this sofa but within that there is still some wiggle room as to comfort. The firmest urethane foam is extremely firm, more like what you'd want for one of those ottomans that serves as a coffee table. I would really try to test out at least two different densities if your upholsterer can accommodate you. Also, the back cushions should be at least one density level softer than the seats. If the same, the back will feel too hard. Good luck! | |||||
| made in italy chair find - | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | outnumbered | General discussion | |
| Hi! I am new here. Found this chair today at the goodwill for $14 and thought it was worth the risk. It looked like it had a lot of potential. The only thing I could find on it was a stamp that said made in italy. Any ideas? Thanks | |||||
| It | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| It should be said that the whole thing is based on its material; the carved seat, turned spindles and bent(?) crest rail are all reflective of ways to work wood. The bulbs in the legs indicate a desire to provide more material where the joints between turnings take place, surely, and the redundant bulbs are presumably meant to provide visual balance to those legs and stretchers while retaining the visual and physical lightness of the chair as a whole -- and relating it to natural models such as animal or botanical form ? (The bulge in the stretchers could also be explained as a reflection of the tendency of a member to be weakest or most vulnerable at its middle ?) Still, the fact that this chair is so comfortable is sufficient impetus to look at how it might be replicated, by whatever means and in whatever materials. . . Again, I'd like to know if the precise form could be captured from these images alone, through the magic of computer stereometry or whatever. . .? | |||||
| The big versions of two of | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| The big versions of two of the photos clearly show a tinted clear finish of some kind on the underside. I don't know what was on these chairs originally but given how this tinted finish didn't quite reach some tight spots in some joints and its uneven look in other areas, I'd guess it's not original. The scratch could have been touched up with any one of a number of products made for that kind of thing (which rarely live up to their hype!) You can test the finish pretty easily and go from there if you want to refinish the chair. Nail polish remover (acetone) will dissolve lacquer within seconds. Rubbing alcohol will dissolve shellac almost as quickly. If neither of these two solvents do anything to the finish, then it's polyurethane or varnish, both of which require a chemical stripper for removal. If you love the chair and want to keep it, it might be worth the time and effort needed to refinish. The fabric on the seat is easy to switch out. | |||||
| RE: Authentic Papa Bear? | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | cdsilva | Identification | |
| While all of the closeup construction details you posted look correct, you left out the one that is the easiest to use for ID: the wedged tenon joints for the front legs. The tops of these joints are usually hidden by the upholstery, but would appear to be exposed on your chair. The same joint was used for the exposed seat of the Peacock chair. The joint is a thing of beauty (also used for the Papa Bear stool), and is a good quick detail to reference to help determine A.P. Stolen production. Here is a photo of a partially hidden one. Attachment: wedged-through-mortise.jpg | |||||
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