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| But, SDR, | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| But, SDR, with whatever knowledge and taste I've accumulated over the years, if I were licky enough to buy a Wright house, I would want to furnish it the way I want to, and I would most probably want to replace the kitchen with modern appliances, all of which would be contrary to Wright's vision. From what I read, Nelson, Saarinen or Eames would not have those objections, because they were more flexible to the personal tastes of the home owners. Perhaps it was an age thing; Wright's pioneering Prairie Style preceeded Eames, Nelson and Saarinen by nearly 40+ years. ================ Going back to who the father of MCM is, I 'spose Nelson has to be right up there, because he had such a huge opportunity in 1946 to design a complete line of home and office furniture, influence Herman Miller to add Noguchi, the Eames' and Laszlo, and to present such a comprehensive assortment of modern enviornments. Sure, he was influenced bvy Rohde, Knoll, Rissom, van der Rohe and Aalto (among others), but his was the earliest and biggest batch. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . Thanks DC, I havn't gone down to the shed yet, been sketching. I agree keeping it off the table seems the most important thing and in the absence of silicon and high tech wood is my best option...I also agree about perforations but want to do it all on the lathe. The sketches I've down show stepped concentric rings: for safety, accomodating different pot sizes, looks and heat dissipation, but not too much. And a wider outer edge with an undercut for carrying it with a pot on if necessary. I thought about having some sort of dish with an edge slot with biscuits of wood that grip the edge of most sized pots (within a reasonable a range) but that started making more problems. If only we lived in a standardised bolshi utopia where there were only 5 pots and one trivet! I suppose whats really needed is a heat sink, something to abosrb heat at a moderate rate and then release it back over 45 minutes or so, surface area and materials, mmmmmm! | |||||
| CC chargeback is a bit more involved | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Bubble and Squeak | General discussion | |
| CC chargeback is a bit more involved Personally I wouldn't go the CC chargeback route before trying comparatively easier and quicker methods of resolution like opening an Etsy case and/or PayPal claim. First, depending on the card issuer, the chargeback process can be tedious and normally involves more paperwork. It's not the kind of thing you want to be doing any more often than necessary. Second, there is normally a much longer window, usually months, to initiate a chargeback -- certainly long enough to allow time for the Etsy/PayPal processes to run their course. I've even heard of people doing a chargeback a couple of years after a purchase, but it depends on the issuer. Third, if the chargeback is for a "not as described" situation involving a vintage item, the card issuer may try to insist that you get a written "expert opinion" which in my case I managed to avoid, but only after strenuous argument. For less expensive items the cost of such an opinion, if available, may make the process not worth pursuing. | |||||
| Looks like wool to me, | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Looks like wool to me, too. Steaming should be ok for the fabric. It's agitation that does the felting. But proceed with caution. (I don't think the creases look bad at all and they'll probably reappear anyway if you sit in the thing much.) Steaming MAY damage the foam, though. I'd probably stick with a low temp treatment of some kind. There is a wool wash product that doesn't need to be rinsed, though you could probably rinse it if you wanted. Link below. I've never used it but it's quite popular with people who knit stuff of expensive wool yarn. I've had good results with just the suds of a mild detergent. Put a small amount of water and some detergent (Dawn dish detergent with no dye in it is good---great at cutting oils) and shake violently. Dab the suds only onto the upholstery with a slightly-damp sponge and rub gently. Rinse by sponging with the sponge--keep wringing it out in fresh cool water. Blot with towels when dry OR vacuum out the water with a wet/dry vac. | |||||
| Okay then...money IS all you care about. | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Okay then...money IS all you care about. Okay then...so it appears that money IS the only thing you guys care about. After making a quick concession that the Chinese are bad LRF goes on to talk about how greedy the big companies are, how he likes to save money, and how he CAN save money by buying a knockoff...apparently regardless of whatever other casualties happen in the production of that knockoff. I dont think that prices for some of these pieces are that outrageous when you consider the lifespan of the piece. A saarinen table, for example, costs what?...$1500 for a 46"? My laptop costs the same amount of money, and will be obsolete in 3 years. Will the table be obsolete? Since a lot of people are still using the tables their grandparents bought, I doubt it. I happily saved up for a few months to have enough extra cash to buy my authentic Nelson sunburst clock. And I'll love it, and take care of it, and have it for a lotta years. And the whole time I'll know that its an authentic piece. | |||||
| Can someone ID this chair. | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | karlinamillion | Identification | |
| A friend bought this recently. There are no manufacturers or designers markings. Any one out there know any thing about it Thank you Karl | |||||
| Thanks again for all of your | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | frankielemmons | Repair | |
| Thanks again for all of your help here! You'll also notice that I messed up the crosses (6 on the top rail, 3 on the bottom), so I'm definitely going to at least redo all of the top to bottom strands, if not the whole thing. Still wrestling with that decision. Spanky, but "pulling tight" I meant just pulling kinks and extra material out which I had a lot of given how I had to weave the top rail. But your point is well taken and will inform how I proceed and all future weaving work. Leif, I'm not concerned with having all 15 sets, I believe I can get 14 to fill up the top and bottom rails. I will say that, in thinking about redoing all of this and starting with the vertical strands, I realized that the number of horizontal wraps will be very important. As it is, I am one strand short of the original 30 in the top section of horizontal wraps. If I do the vertical strands first, in order to get the crosses correct, I will need to make sure to get that extra horizontal wrap in and hit that 30 number so the crosses work as they are supposed to. | |||||
| Wow. And I like the wreath, | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | SDR | Off topic | |
| Wow. And I like the wreath, too. Oh -- that's a seater. Well, put some tinsel on it -- Christmas is almost here ! Heh-heh. Sorry -- I'm in a mean mood. I can't think why. Welcome back, dear, we missed you. Well, I did, anyway. nice guy probably didn't notice, as his __ was so far up his __ that the only thing visible was his pants. And we can be sure they weren't nice linen pants, either. What a week. Donald has already noticed that there are parts of the Affordable Care Act that he'd better leave alone. I think, after he got over the thrill of receiving the combination for the Air Force One cigar vault, he heard Barack say something about the ACA that caught his attention. And, C Christie has been pushed to the back row, leaving us all a good view of Newtie-Pewtie Gingramont (as I like to call him) and the frightening Rudy Giuliani. We can also remember that the missing member of the Supreme Court was an arch-conservative (a so-called Originalist, those who can't think for themselves and so fall back on a strict reading of our venerable, sometimes vague, and incomplete Constitution). This means that, with DT's first successful candidate, we will only be back to where we were last year. It is the second pick that we have to worry about . . . | |||||
| Thank You All!! | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | cada | General discussion | |
| Thank You All!! Thanks so much for taking the time to respond so positvely - thanks moreover for the positive ID. I do feel a whole lot better about it - and yes, they are a great looking set of chairs, and I will find a place for them - if only to serve as a reminder about auction fever... The table is in bits at the moment, but now armed with your Hovmand Olsen ID I've found the same straight away and have tried a link below. It's faded, but will respond very well to meths and oil, I'm confident that it will be stunning once I've fininshed. I looked really hard again at the upholstery on the seats - and you're right; they are vinyl. I am not usually so dim about this, but a combination of a mental block with these chairs, and very very good vinyl applied beautifully made me see leather where there was none - and Moller where there was neither! Re. Troeds - mercifully they always (as far as I've seen) branded their pieces. I can't tell you how much happier I am - it's a thing I've raised before, which says a lot about me, and I hadn't realised it until I came on DA, but I hate 'not knowing' the who and when. This affliction is not the making of a quiet mind when, as it turns out, it is so hard to discover sometimes. I am eternally grateful. http://janushome.bondandbowery.com/printitem.php?itemid=6614 | |||||
| Trade Dress? | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Trade Dress? That refers to packaging, labeling and marketing, FofD, NOT to the design specs. Good heavens, I can not believe that there is such a perpetuating belief that the estate of these designers are actually being slighted. That is such a misguided concept. Our Rule of Law states otherwise for very good reason. I am gobsmacked that this issues continues to make so many people angry, there is nothing illegal being done, not even anything sneaky or underhanded. If you don't want to buy repro's, even well-made faithful repros, then don't. That's your right. But insisting that there is a real legal issue here is absolutely unsupportable. That's why HM and KNoll have yet to prove any IP/patent issues in court. They can't the designs are in the public domain. The only thing they can do is to copyright or license the names, colors, fabrics etc that are indeed trade dress. Any reproduction company that is dumb enough not to avoid running into a trade dress infringement is probably not making a quality product anyway. And buying crap truly is a crime. | |||||
| C and I embossed without HM logo on Eames fiberglass chair... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | bmich | General discussion | |
| C and I embossed without HM logo on Eames fiberglass chair ID help Hi, I have a set of four, with the C and I embossed in the fiber and without any other marking, no logo, no stickers.There's a little logo CMT on every shockmounts.An other thing's that's strange is that the shells haven't any wide position marking. They have the same shape and weight as other original Herman Miller shells. The chairs come from a factory near the german and switzerland border. A french specialist in HM furniture tell me they were Vitra shells made under licence HM but he was not sure . And he says that it was a society called CENTURA (German or Danish Society, he doesn't remember anymore) that has imported Nelson and Eames furniture for the North Europe near 60'. But all my search on google about Centura are vain. Did someone heard about this society ? And can someone help us finding the signification of C I embossed on our chairs? Thanks in advance ! Sorry for my bad english I do my best ! | |||||
| Is this a Bitossi? | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Wolf House | General discussion | |
| I have very little knowledge of pottery, but I knew this vase was a style that had some value when I saw it. The only thing I can find that looks similar is Bitossi works, but I have no idea how to tell. Anyone know this designer/company? | |||||
| George Nelson Executive Desk? | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | huancp | General discussion | |
| I've come across this desk and was wondering if it could be a George Nelson desk. It appears to definitely be mid century and vintage. The thing throwing me off is the leg style, something I have not seen before. Any ideas out there as to who manufactured/designed this? Thanks | |||||
| Had a contact from a dealer... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | General discussion | |
| Had a contact from a dealer... Had a contact from a dealer who specializes in MCM metal sculpture and he said it could be early C. Jere, commented they are harder to sell with no signature and offered to buy it. I have gone through a ton of Jere in my research, obviously when it comes to MCM metal sculpture 80% of it seems to be Jere. But I just don't see it. I've never seen anything Jere has done using orbit shapes like mine, much less cosmic themes. I'm not ruling it out but my hunch was an artist (could have been Jere I suppose) was given a special request to do a cosmic theme for a client who liked astronomy, science, etc... I have noticed a lot of dark tarnish on the backs of the larger round pieces with flat rings around them. If there is a signature anywhere on this thing I believe it would be on these surfaces, covered with tarnish. What my problem is that if I clean the tarnish off I can't imagine the signature would come right off too, (if it's there). It seems crazy but I see a lot of metal pieces have painted signatures which is crazy since it seems apt to easily come off. Anyone with any experience here? | |||||
| Shock! | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Shock! I guess I was just shocked at the idea of rehabbing an antiquity. Not that refurbishing old stuff is a crime. My Dad actually restores antique clocks thereby increasing their value and functionality incredibly. It's a good thing. But... I think what hits me wrong about this idea is that the pyramids are antiquities not old things. There is a difference for me. An antiquity is a symbol of man's development, the beginings of civilization. The pyramids are a 3,000 year(and older)visual record of human development. Old things are stuff that was well built and hung around and people used them and fixed them and kept using them. Like cathedrals, roman bridges and shaker furniture. The pyramids are monuments. I'd rather see them fade monumentally and disappear then become a Las Vegas style recreation of themselves. Although seeing a recreation of what the pyramids and the Sphinx would have looked like would be cool, but I'm happy to see this via a computer simulation. Not sure if this really elucidates my feelings, but it's the best I can do at the moment...I'm tired and need a martini! G'nite | |||||
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