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| well kids welcome to DA ... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| well kids welcome to DA ... well kids welcome to DA but containers of mcm knockoffs have been coming in for 5 years and they are nothing new , check our archives if you want to be brought up to speed. This forum is like a family and no one wants to be rude as those that are we have quietly ushered off This subject has been beat to death by some of our best experts, we have had shouting, yelling, name calling but at t he end of the day it is a general consensus that we all dislike Chinese knockoffs, We do like the nelson clocks, as we have had 5 complete threads to 100 talking about the great clocks and the great knockoffs made by unknow chinese factories that have copied the Vitra Nelson clocks perfectly and we all love them and bought them till the company needed to reorder thanks to our group, any thing else really does not appeal to anyone although we do realize that they are what is called a necessary evil somtimes. so with all do respect Riki, next time you sound the alert which is helpful check the archives first. | |||||
| RE: Moreddi Coffee Table | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Zephyr | Identification | |
| Thanks as always Leif. You ave been acquiring quite a few pieces lately, that are at the top of just about anybody's want list. I have been pestering my wife to pick me up a Finn Juhl piece for my birthday, but she just laughs at me. I was skeptical of Grete being the designer, but the top is exactly the same as some of the coffee tables she designed for P. Jeppesen. The legs and supports are much different, but sometimes pieces go through revisions, and it was the only thing that I could find that was close to something documented. The piece you show above certainly seems to mirror the construction and aesthetic of the caned shelf portion, of the table in question. I am looking for a coffee table to match my F&D Edvard Kindt-Larsen side tables, with the raised edges, and this table was at a local shop. I had considered making an offer, but the price is just too high if it does not have pedigree. I love these side tables, but I am less smitten with the matching coffee table, as I prefer the long edge to be raised. | |||||
| Hi dcwilson, | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Hi dcwilson, I do not think that I am more qualified than anybody else to answer this question but let me share what I know. First of all, as SDR points out there is not such a thing as a 100% technical solution. Even a Petri-dish could have a different shape as effective and objective as the existing ones and even in a simple thing like that we acknowledge the contribution of its inventor and keep calling it Petri, for Koch?s assistant biologist Julius Richard Petri. SDR reminds us of the fact that highway bridges are no exceptions. They carry with them the subjective choices that are inherent to a problem that can be solved in a large variety of ways. As a piece of good engineering the Golden Gate Bridge is not as spectacular as it is a wonder of technology (how to execute what has been engineered or designed) It is also quite exceptional as a work of art. So, why not using it as an example? With its 75 million kilos of steel and 300.000 cubic meters of concrete it sounds to me as a well grounded choice. Nobody questions the fact that it is well engineered but the choice between the original Strauss version, the subsequent Strauss/Moisseiff version and finally the Irving and Gerdrude Morrow version was hardly based on differences in the quality of the engineering. The Morrows introduced considerations like the vertical ribbing on the towers to catch the sunlight in a way that would make them look slimmer. They added considerations like the view of the motorists and spaced the posts of the pedestrian railing in order to increase the open view. One could of course argue that the towers, from a structural point of view could indeed be leaner toward the top but the Morrows changed the towers into lighter constructions toward the top to make the towers more elegant. What makes the almost 2 km long span of the Golden Gate Bridge such an irreducible unity of design is in my view essential to democratic design. Contrary to Santiago Calatrava, who makes of every work an expression of his personal views and preferences, the Golden Gate Bridge, and many highway bridges with it, are expressions of their times. Not of a well identified individual, but of a society that expresses itself through the talents and abilities of one of its members. By being this collective expression, it reflects the standards and ambitions of a large group of people that inevitably identify with it. We can admire Santiago Calatrava?s work but very few of us can identify with it and share in the pride of a common human achievement. The Golden Gate has that. So we do not know it as the Irving and Gertrude Morrow Bridge, but as something else we collectively can understand: The Golden Gate. | |||||
| I'm not sure why you... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| I'm not sure why you... I'm not sure why you included the unnecessary laundry list of your MCM purchases from eBay, besides bragging, but no one is complaining about not being able to find authentic pieces on eBay. Foremost the complaint is with Modernisa's fraud and dishonesty and secondly with the fact in the face of proof of fraud and numerous reports eBay does nada - because they are more interested in making a few extra bucks than protecting buyers from fraud. People who are willing to pay top dollar for high quality pieces are being ripped off and at the same time honest dealers with authentic pieces are losing business. Add to that guys like Modernisa taint the whole community of MCM furniture sellers and dealers with their fraud and make everyone more cynical and more leery of purchasing certain high end MCM pieces. Its one thing to get burned spending $40 on a piece of MCM entirely another to get burned on a $2500 purchase. | |||||
| good design for the masses | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| good design for the masses I have that price for you considering that he bought that property off of the will rodgers estate in the late 40's it has gone up quite bit.. how about 4.5 million an acre in Pacific Palacades with nice neighbors like steven Spielberg. and sly Stalone So say it he has 3 acres you can do the math around 13 million for the dirt... and that is being very conservative.. it could be more.. now for the House .... Ray Eames like things small and cozy so say the house is 3000 sq ft At around $500 a sq ft. in 2007 prices with nice build outs . and nice paneling on the outsides plus fancy bathrooms and a nice kitchen you could have a modest but small home for $1,500,000 add your lot plus your modest home The Eames have a very confortable home for a round 15 million... no wonder they don't want to do a damn thing with it to fix it up , they proberly hope that us nosey people will go a way and they can quiety sell the place for 20 million to some developer who will build 6 homes and come out very nicely . | |||||
| Interesting thread! Made me | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | kate kaplan | General discussion | |
| Interesting thread! Made me realize that my father, a designer who noticed, and cared about, the details of a room, a piece of furniture, a city street, a plant or a flower, didn't care at all about cars. My mother didn't either, far as I can remember -- we lived in the suburbs and she was the one doing most of the driving. My parents usually had some Buick or something (yeah, I'm not a car person either) and drove it forever, at a time when a new car every few years was a big thing. But, I remember when my father brought this one home: pale blue Ford station wagon. He had the smile of a man who'd survived the Depression and a world war, and was providing for his family. Happy! My sister and I fought over the backseats, for no reason except to fight about something. Seatbelts? Hah! | |||||
| crankyd....awesome...now everybody... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| crankyd....awesome...now everybody... Writing checks is good, but there's also no substitute for "flooding" the blogosphere with creative ideas for how to drain, disease manage, clean up and rebuild the hurricane zone. In every bureacracy, even during these times of crony-fascism, there are effective bureaucrats down the pecking order with neither sharp nor round elbows that can recognize a good idea and figure out how to implement it without their boss knowing it. Let's face it: armies, government, corporations and universities all survive and advance based on their midlevel employees. They survive and endure their changing leaderships, who are frequently either self-serving hi-jack artists or nitwit relatives of wealth. why do mid level employees bother with doing their jobs the right way under such consistently bad leadership? because getting up and doing their job is who they are. its the only thing that gives them enough sense of purpose and self respect (that and a pension if they don't get laid off) to go on putting up with the narcissistic predators, or crony nincompoops that "lead" their organizations. Ideas and lots of them need to be generated...so many that the mid level bureaucrats and blogs come sniffing around. I know it is a long shot that any of them will learn about what we do here, but America is itself a long shot. My father fought in and survived World War II, so I am by definition a long shot to have been born. We are all--at least those of us not already dead in Iraq or New Orleans--long shots to have survived the incompetance of this administration so far. I don't believe in much. God. Family. Art. Design. Compassion. Inductive Science. Representative Government. Basketball. Oh, and all the music that came up the river from New Orleans over the last century and a half. That about covers it. But ideas, fresh ideas, not my beliefs, or anyone elses, are the only thing that can jump start the process of saving New Orleans from "leadership." So everyone: idea caps on, fingers on keys, type...at least when you're not writing checks, doing your jobs, or supporting the quest for honestly elected officials. If we must have dolts for Presidents, at least let them be dolts that honestly get the most votes. Please no more Supreme Court selected, or software-backdoor selected Presidents. Hey, that's an idea: design a really great looking, easy to use and fully accountable voting machine. An accountable voting machine in New Orleans precincts is almost certain to produce a vote count that throws most of the current bums out; that would help immensely with the long term rebuild to be undertaken with fresh ideas quietly implemented by mid level managers. | |||||
| RE: SOS Møbelfabrik | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | Herringbone | Identification | |
| I‘ve never counted the Danish furniture factories in the early 60s but I really should. There must have been literally hundreds of them, and they all produced for a huge export market. Everybody wanted to sell chairs and participate from the 200 Million DKK that were made at that time every year in furniture revenue. So let’s say they only had 300 producers of chairs (although I think there were more) and every one of them had an average of seven models in their range, that would have been 2100 different chairs at one particular time. But how many different chair designs could you possibly come up with? And how difficult was it to get a proper furniture architect to design something original for you? Copying was an easy way to get around these problems and participate nonetheless. So smaller companies copied whatever they felt would suit them, ideally successful designs. And as far as I know, most producers got away with it. The thing only was that the copy’s usually were of lesser quality, and since Harlev’s designs were average industrial standard to begin with (and quite successfull), the SOS copies were probably rather poorly made. | |||||
| Correct. Just bear in mind | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | Repair | |
| Correct. Just bear in mind that you thread the strap through so that the tail end comes out underneath, in other words trapped between the seat frame and the span of strap crossing the frame. Cinched tight it stays in place. Nylon however has the worst habit to loosen itself. It is a major annoyance with knots in nylon string. No matter how tight you pull a knot in nylon string, if you wiggle the knot around for a bit it will start to work itself loose. Same problem you would encounter with a nylon strap. In fact I once had a belt that was a piece of nylon webbing with a pair of D rings at one end. You cinched it tight in a similar manner, and the thing was infuriating, because it was constantly slipping loose. It took about ten footsteps and pants would be falling down. It was the most pointless belt in history. | |||||
| nissen pepper grinder help | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | billyboy | General discussion | |
| hi all, picked up this sweet pepper grinder by nissen (with peugeot grinder) and was wondering if the holes on the top are supposed to be a salt shaker element ? if they are i can't for the life of me see how you would open the thing to get the salt in ? i've tried 'coaxing' the top button to see if it comes off but no luck and don't want to get too aggressive with it ! any help appreciated ! cheers, bb | |||||
| Do you want to continue to | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | Repair | |
| Do you want to continue to own and use the chairs? Or do you want to sell them? Teak really does not need to be conditioned. Oiling etc is all about appearance, not durability. Leather is an entirely different thing. I can pretty confidently say that the leather on those chairs is vegetable tanned, and it is the most fragile of leathers. After the oil in the leather evaporates it is prone to damage. Those seats have already started cracking and may be beyond restoration to usuability. Another way of saying this, is that if you plan to use them you may discover that you decrease their value significantly in making them usable. Your chairs your choice. You should extensively read up the care of leather. And note that this is not a simple topic because there are many very different things that go by the name "leather." And depending on which "leather" you have certain products can do great, great damage. For instance, almost all soaps are very damaging to vegetable tanned leather, including saddle soap. If you are shipping them off to an auction house, then take tktoo's advice. If you are keeping them, then you have a lot of research to do before you even touch them, at all, including cleaning. | |||||
| thonet restoration | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | exk2080 | General discussion | |
| i have been wanting to restore this chair for awhile but i've been too nervous to use the "wrong" materials to clean it up with. i don't want to damage the chair at all, obviously. the wood needs refinished, the studs need shined up, the cushions need cleaned, and the screws need replaced. does anybody know of a forum or website that could instruct me on this process? or does anybody here have any experience with this sort of thing? thanks a lot, talk to you soon! | |||||
| Then...? One question for collectors and no collectors | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| Then...? One question for collectors and no collectors 1) For the ones that are in the chair collection Brutalism is in the same historic period of the MCM and all the chairs are so commented here. Could somebody certainly explain why the chairs are so great and the buildings so bad? If it's really like that After all many many chairs where found not in the a demolition but in the garbage... What must go to garbage and what must be pick it up? 2) For the ones that are not in the chair collection The thing that could be more interesting for those that are not on the chair collection, We those that have been trying to see where is the design going, wich direction, which ways. At some point we saw the problems of postmodernism and Starkys styles. We begin to see other options. If somebody could go to visit the place or the link of the current "Rough cut" at MoMA, there is an interesting collection of designs that is a step behind. Many dutch. Very interesting. Amazing. But will be surely clear that in the future (next week?) will be tagged as not nice (brutalist can be taged too). What would recommend to the designers? Don't follow that way, some people won't like it... Or they are building some steps that others will follow building...? | |||||
| Dyson | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | Annette.sco | General discussion | |
| Dyson Olive, I've recently bought a Dyson 08 (cylinder, supposed to be especially good for pet hair) and would be VERY pleased with it apart from one annoying bad design feature. Although both the large floor cleaning brushes slot into place with a click - positive alignment - and are quite secure, all the small brushes and crevice tools just push into place, and can sometimes become disloged in use. This is especially the case with the turbo (pet hair) brush for furniture, which is quite heavy, and needs to be actually HELD in place with one hand while using the cleaner - obviously NOT a good design. Apart from this, the machine is very well designed and works perfectly. Even emptying it isn't bad. Perhaps other models are different. It would have been so easy to have all the extra brushes click into place. I meant to write Dyson and ask them - Why? They have had a long time to perfect the design. The only other thing I don't much like is the colour, though it is purple and not as bad as some of the other models. Hope this helps..... | |||||
| Nope, sorry. I had one of | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Nope, sorry. I had one of those once and researched it extensively. It was way easier to prove it wasn't Mathsson than to figure out what it was! I never did find out. I think maybe it was something sold for just a few years by one of the modern stores in the 70s, like that place in Cambridge, MA, maybe. I don't know. The webbing on mine was stretched and sagging so I redid it in black polypropylene webbing, which was the only thing I could find at the time that was the same width as the original. Unfortunately, I never took a photo of the finished chair. It looked pretty good and it was VERY comfortable, thanks to that lumbar curve in the frame. I think the IKEA Poang chair has really cheapened this style chair. The Poang is also super comfortable and it has a nice look, but there are just so many of them in the world now! I considered that this chair was IKEA but the construction was different enough and I think there were other factors that set it apart, too. | |||||
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