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| The misperception | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| The misperception that plywood is an inferior construction material is still with us -- perhaps forever ? Sheet materials are used where a flat and continuous surface is needed -- as in so much furniture, including case goods and seating both. Formed (curved) plywood is a uniquely appropriate material choice, perfected in the last century. Solid wood is a resource best employed for appearance pieces, and for frame structure, both visible and hidden -- but not when a uniform and repeated grain appearance is required. Each member of the furniture-making palette has its place. Visible (appearance-grade) solid-wood tops are one thing, while a sub-top under a stone panel is another. A veneered surface must have an appropriate substrate, which will not be solid wood because of dimensional and flatness issues -- now that we have useful and superior substitutes such as MDF and plywood. | |||||
| OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhh! I;m afraid..... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | REPROLOVER | General discussion | |
| OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhh! I;m afraid..... as merv griffin would say. i dont want an old musty, chipped, needs a new cushion vintage tulip chair. i want a nice new knockoff for 200 smackers as opposed to, say, the 1210 DWR tries to pawn off. and those 4 that i just ordered -- no tax, free shipping, NICE!!! -- will sit around my beautiful knockoff tulip table that i bought oh maybe 5-6 years ago at nuovo melodrome on greene street in soho, nyc for, what was it now?n $500-$600. It's beautiful, has held up 100 percent even though its used daily for breakfast, sometimes lunch, often dinner, laptop surfing, bill paying...not a chip, not a scratch as it sits in a pretty spectacular black granite, stainless steel kitchen. everyone's entitled, right? but i really do enjoy reading you guys and gals because i like the same thing, just dont like to shell out the do-re-me when i can buy a look-alike that will serve my real and aesthetic purpose. hey, it's just a table, but cool looking! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . yeah its funny that the underneath is more attractive than the top 🙂 its 2 am, should be in bed but I can never sleep when a new projct is going well. Someone mentioned the splay, the legs are quite thick as is the top and they penetrate quite deeply, I don't know what degree of splay I can have before it becomes too much but if it is too severe the holes will join on the inside of the hub and make assembly difficult. So I think I will go with the same angle as the 3d model, I also noticed earlier I didn't get as much of a taper on the legs as I should have, it was quite difficult on a metal lathe to do this, very akward to ge a tool rest right to the end of the leg. When I steel wool back the last coat and wax it will dull the finish nicely, the real thing is actually much more of a darker red brown, strange that it came out not so well in the photo. I will try an oil finish on another, I have a feeling this will be the first of quite a few. I am going to run a long brass bolt from the inside of the cushion (leather over ply) to the hub, where I'll put in a counter sunk brass nut. I want the seat to rotate, two sheet of concealed perspex with a graphite lubricant might work. I'll see in the morning, its still not glued up yet. | |||||
| Soap for furniture and cane | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Richard Tanimura | General discussion | |
| Soap for furniture and cane The stuff to use is sold in better furniture stores here. It is pure soap i.e. lye and fat. Not scented and absolutely not normal detergent. They are white flakes. You dissolve them in warm water and let them cool. The result is a thick, white cream. You fine sand the wood, apply the cream with a cloth and then fine sand the surface again after it has dried. I swear, blindfolded, I could feel the difference. You can feel the wood because there is no substance covering the wood any more. Just silky smooth wood. To clean the furniture, use a damp cloth and then resoap it. Another thing is that I read on the website of one of the best caners in Denmark is that cane is supposed to be soaped twice a year to keep it fresh and pliant. So anybody with a caned chair might want to look into it as well. | |||||
| The rewards out way the cost | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| The rewards out way the cost you did good !!!! the chair looks great....... I bought one on ebay for $1200.00 plus 150.00 to ship it. with ottoman, it came broken bad shock mounts, owner knew just failed to disclose it .. but that turned out ok as it would have broken sooner or later, .. and some idiot had drilled holes in the side to try to mend it . I bought new shock mounts and had them installed and had the chair refinished and filled the holes, I changed the old black leather to a beautiful cream spinneybeck leather, I loved redoing this chair rather than going out buying a new one. (at the end of the day, I more than likely could have bought a new one a little cheaper but I did enjoy redoing this. and it was the springboard to me starting my company Retro Redo. Any time you can rescue any thing from a vintage chair to a classic car to a stray dog or cat go for it !!! The rewards outway the cost !!!! | |||||
| I can't believe I'm saying this... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | crankyd | General discussion | |
| I can't believe I'm saying this... As cheesy as it sounds, one very successful way that businesses promote their products and services is by giving away calendars. Throwaway flyers and posters are great for promoting one-time things, but they tend to have only one message and one use. Calendars work really well since many people are hesitant to throw them out before the year is up. If you need to keep your message out there, this could be one medium that could be very cheaply produced on desktop. They also have the advantage that the user doesn't just take the message home folded up in their pocket, for their eyes only...they tend to display it out in the open because of it's utilitarian aspect. So your message gets to audiences that you might not otherwise be able to reach. I'm assuming that you're trying to break down stereotypes, so perhaps feature one stereotype per month. There's plenty of 'em out there. Either a different page per month, or on one sheet, wallet sized, two-sided...you can come up with just about anything if budget is big concern. Again...I know the entire thing sounds kind of cheesy; but in advertising...cheesy often works. | |||||
| Sideboard detail photos and Vodder | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Sideboard detail photos and Vodder Vodder for Sibast certainly is the closest thing I can find. But there are a number of details that make me doubt it. -Vodder's drawer pulls are two curves, while these are straight lines. -Vodder's sliding door pulls are vertical pill shapes, while these are circles additionally -Vodder sliding doors are reversible, while these aren't designed to be removed (they are held in up top with screwed-on rubber tabs that stick up into a slot in the teak). -Vodder's did not have exposed dovetail corners. From a construction standpoint, upgrading from 45 degree miter joints to dovetail joints adds a huge amount of construction time and skill, so you don't see dovetail variants as a matter of course. -Vodder's often had a vertical lip on the back of the sideboard. Thanks, | |||||
| I've always been confused... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I've always been confused... Is it collectible or collectable or both?... On retaining value... A friend of mine had a HM Coconut Chair circa 1950 something... Granted this was before Vitra or HM re-introduced the chair... He had a Russian Wolfhound that destroyed the chair. He had contacts at HM so he sent the chair back to the factory for refurbishment... They recoated the white shell, rechromed the legs, reupholstered it in black leather... A flawless restoration... Living in Germany at the time he contacted Vitra to see if they wanted it for their Chair Museum at Weil Am Rhein... They offered him $1500 and told him it would be worth much more in it's original (destroyed) state... There is a lot to say about leaving things alone if you want to make money... Then, in the case of my friend, there's something to having a chair you can use... Who want's a garage full of unusable crap? If that's your life sustaining business, then that's another thing altogether... Then there's the old saying that continually haunts me... "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" | |||||
| uggh | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| uggh Hate it. Needlessly complex. I never think to myself "where did I put that orange design book?" I think "where is that book about chairs...oh, right, it's in the chair-book sections!" The spine in thing bugs me too. It's traditionally a way to store old manuscripts - moisture swells vellum pages (same reason books had latches on them). But medieval libraries also had the covers marked on the foredges of the books as well as the spine. And the books were so valuable they were literally chained to the shelf. There is something to be said for cohesiveness. The one caveat I would offer is, if you have to do it, do it with paper wrappers. That way you can do all of your design books green, and all of your fiction orange, and all of your art books blue, etc. A laser printed clear label is easy enough, no? Also - I discovered last year that I am legally color blind (never had a clue!) So I would forever be confusing my blue books and purple books, and my green & brown books! | |||||
| a couple of things | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| a couple of things I haven't sat it in, but I've tested out a billion other sofas and I kinda know at this point just by looking what to avoid. This is a deep sofa. If you like to sprawl, it could work. But if you like to sit upright, you will need a couple of pillows at your back so that you can sit forward enough that your legs don't stick out straight like a 4-year-old's. Loose back pillows often become rather sloppy-looking over time. Arranging random loose back cushions like this sofa has, plus the necessary throw pillows, to look good while still providing comfort and support might entail compromise. I mean, optimal support and comfort placement might not be the most pleasing aesthetically. One last thing---it sits directly on the floor with no room to tuck your feet under. This matters when getting up from the sofa---it's easier to do if your heels extend back a little. And it's more comfortable to lean over the sofa when your toes can be under it. I hate furniture with no toe-kick! | |||||
| I have a vague notion of a | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I have a vague notion of a theory about this chair. Probably nobody is paying attention to this thread anymore, but maybe in a few months or years it will be of interest. Selig catalogs have "English Import Groups" in them. I have not seen this specific chair in a Selig catalog, but then I've only seen the inside of one catalog. And I don't know what companies they imported from, as I don't recognize the pieces, and they are not credited at all. But it seems possible to me that Selig imported these Greaves and Thomas chairs—with a few minor modifications for some reason—hence the Selig medallion and the uncanny resemblance to the Greaves and Thomas chairs. Also, Selig imported Ib Kofod Larsen designs that were slightly modified from other designs, so it isn't unprecedented for Selig to have gotten minor modifications in their product. The only surprising thing is that there is a Selig marked piece in Copenhagen, but then furniture does move around, so it has to happen sometimes. | |||||
| It's all good | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| It's all good EH. I know this website. It's a love/hate thing here. I'm used to it. When we love it we say cool. When we hate it, we tear it apart in length. For the record, I never said Starline's fixture looked like vomit. I said the whole picture did. And the chairs could run away on their own, like in a droopy cartoon...lol. It was light hearted though, and not directed to Starline personally. Those two pieces are 1% of the stuff I'm sitting on. I do love to learn, so I would never turn down classes. But even without em, I've got the eye for the unusual. And unusual will sell all day long. I have no official training. I'm just self taught. Here's a small glimpse into what I bring back, and I only get to buy 20% of the time. The other 80% is spent going through all the steps to research, restore, sell, and ship across the whole world. I don't show this to everyone, but I'd like everyone to see what I see, since I'm bringing this way out there shit from my world to your world. I'm not gonna flood you out, but this is one room of stuff. About 20%-30% of my current inventory. There's almost something for everybody. In my files I have over 600 folders of sold items. Hopefully everyone likes my snappies..:) | |||||
| Of course self indulgence is... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Leslie Denham | General discussion | |
| Of course self indulgence is... Of course self indulgence is a factor in my work, but I assure you more than that the motivating facture is exciting pleasure in others. I think there is some level of self indulgence in all who make things, and personally I don't think that's a bad thing. Doing what makes you happy is a luxury, not a burden. I apreciate the minimalist aesthetic, I really do. But it is by no means the only way to aproach object creation. With most of my work I labor a great deal to bring the finish of the concrete to such a level as to mask its materiality. In this piece I went the other direction. I wanted to highlight the rough core of the material. While at the same time not compromising the experience of the viewer when vicerally interacting with the piece. I think this piece fails in many ways, I don't think the base and top work together harmoniously. Independant of each other I think they work well, just not together. It is the only concrete table I have done where there is not some form of interlocking joinery between the concrete and the wood, and I think that is a subconscious manifestation of my reservations about the piece. | |||||
| RE: Fristho Franeker Sideboard? | 1 Relevance | 2 years ago | edmccoll | Identification | |
| Thanks @tktoo, really appreciated the response. I have seen 4/5 identical examples online which made me think that they are original build. They might not be Fristho but I dont think they have been messed about with. Interesting that you mention the hinges, that was the first thing my father in law pointed out. He's an old school carpenter and all the hinges are exactly the same alignment on the screws. Someone took care when doing that. Ive attached another hinge picture from one of the drop down doors. I will try and get some better pictures of the base tomorrow and might even remove it to see what's going on. From my amateur eye it looks pristine underneath. No other screw marks or blemishes. It looks untouched. Thanks again, Ive ordered the Fristho book, looking forward to finding out more about them. Best Ed Attachment: IMG_0915.jpg | |||||
| Back when eBay showed the names of bidders, | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Back when eBay showed the names of bidders, I would constantly get overbid by a specific person. (This was on old 78 records, not MCM furnishings.) I emailed the bidder, and we emailed back and forth and it turned out he was a young collector and a nice guy, so when we were going after the same item, we would emailed each other and the one who wanted it more was usually given a clear path (i.e. if he really wanted, I would often stop[ bidding, and visa versa). I'm still bidding on rare old 78 records, but now I occasionally find out later that I'm bidding against a collector friend, and our bidding against an unknown bidder results in the item going for much more. I see no earthly reason why eBay feels it's a security thing to mask the eBay bidder names; in the case of collectables were there's often the same people bidding on the same type of item, it makes it much more difficult and frustrating. | |||||
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