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| Mark, I wholeheartedly... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | starcat | General discussion | |
| Mark, I wholeheartedly... Mark, I wholeheartedly endorse your decision. No one's going to accuse you of being hypocritical. (Sometimes it's tough to convey emotion on the internet, so let me stress that I'm not being sarcastic.) However--and I know you didn't raise this issue--an organization isn't exclusionary just because one doesn't like it or agree with it. Allow me to parrot what b is saying: you *could* join if you wanted to. It may require you to modify your beliefs or your behavior, but then, so does going to a library (specifically, the being-quiet thing). Ain't nobody barring you from church; you choose not to go. You know what? I never liked Seinfeld, either, but that doesn't make it exclusionary. Olive, I agree with what you said about this being an odd forum for this discussion, but you made some comments that I thought merited a response. As for history showing us why organized religion is scary, I think I could substitute 'the government', 'males', or 'adults' and achieve a statement of similar truth. I'll leave it to the reader to pick more incendiary words to insert into the equation. My point is that you're painting with an awfully broad brush. | |||||
| Lesson learned. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Lesson learned. This weekend I was lucky enough to find an Arne Vodder desk, the unfortunate thing is the chair that came with the desk was sold separately. Even worser is I had the chair in my hand, was looking at it but decided I had ENOUGH chairs...well this taught me a lesson you can NEVER have enough chairs. I went looking for it hours later, and then I see someone had it in there cart. Oh, how it hurts...I also found two plexi chairs...CHEAP. Note to Riki: It takes time, believe me my thrift stores are FULL of 70's crap nobody wants, I found this desk hiding behind a hidious table. I haven't been to a thrift stores where great find are just there its like a treasure hunt, you just never know what you will find. I go because I enjoy looking at what I call a graveyard of junk (mostly), not because I'm poor and cannot afford to purchase new, there is more to it. Keep on searching if its a passion of yours, you will find something you just never know. Case in point, I went to a thrift store today, came home with a Texasware plastic plate that is all. | |||||
| RE: Warren Platner Copper Coffee Table? | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | naselarispenny | General discussion | |
| Hi there- I came across the same thing, but it looks like there is bronze or copper coming thru, and you have answered my questions regarding the type of metal, which I thought was steel until had seen that copper/bronze finish protruding thru, but the one I found, and purchased, has a powder-coated black finish to it. The base has some corrosion, snd looks as if when copper has a patina to it...given I think when previous owner had washed floors with mop, didn't protect the base. from water.residue, etc. ...and it was a steal of a lifetime, of many steals like this... 10.00 idk if I should leave alone, have sand-blasted and re-powder coated. There was no gas at all, but that is simple. I do believe it is the Real McCoy." Pls confirm Attachment: thumbnail.jpg | |||||
| Raymor vase info? | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | pirx pilot | General discussion | |
| I am trying to do two things here. One is to see if I can figure out how to add photos from Photobucket rather than the unsuccessful Flickr. Damn, I wish this forum had a preview button.... The second thing is to see if anyone out there has seen a Raymor vase like this before, and if they might be able to ID the designer. I had consigned it with the local mod dealers but they were never able to find an attribution,...nor sell it. So back to my "collection" it goes. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| . I can't give a definitive answer, but I suspect that any process to restore the chairs would either destroy them or be prohibitively labor-intensive and expensive. Is it sunlight or smoke that has yellowed them? I think it's an embedded chemical thing that causes the color change. There is UV protective film that can be applied to windows, obviously this does no good retroactively... Everything breaks down in the sun. Even Sunbrella type fabrics are only warranteed for something like 1000 hours of direct sunlight... Sort of the inverse of your problem... I've been thinking lately about how my yellow Eames shell armchair will eventually be bleached (more than it already is) if it remains where it is, but it looks so lovely under the rays of southern exposure morning sunshine... Does one cover the windows with tinfoil? I hope not. That's life. If you exchange/rotate your chairs regularly (as you would turn a rug, or flip/rotate a mattress, or rotate sofa cushions) perhaps they'll even out somewhat over the next thirty years or so... At least you've got two complete sets of four to play with. | |||||
| Price; Abstraction Vs. Replication (again) | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| Price; Abstraction Vs. Replication (again) Price has been mentioned a few times above... I don't doubt that the $10 is true when one is using scrap materials while in possession of suitable equipment/training/expertise etc. It appears the largest part of the cost of the table is in the manufacture of the top, specifically the labor and equipment to make it. These are still fairly "cheap" tables that have a starting list price of $209. They hold their value pretty well. The selling price for "used in very good or better condition" is something like $160-180, and "vintage" examples can fetch anywhere from less than $300 to more than $1000, depending on condition, desirability, etc. etc. etc. I've purchased over a dozen of these particular (yet various) (Herman Miller) tables in the secondhand/grayish/blackish market in recent years. They were all in the price range of $60-100. The thing isn't very expensive, the knockoff is even less so. I sort of appreciate the idea of the self-aware, branded knockoff. However, this is also just another way of (re)packaging the same existing product while offering extremely little in terms of innovation. Obviously, there is potential here for something much better. | |||||
| taxidermy in modern designed interiors | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| I recently obtained a deer head for my living room knowing that I would incur some amount of backlash. Two unnamed DAs are my friends on facebook. One has responded in disgust and one with delight. The interesting thing is, prior I have had no dealings with taxidermy at all as far as physically handling it. It's funny to find out that beyond the fur and antlers none if it is real. Other than antlers it's not much more than my leather boots. And less "real" material than my Eames 670. I don't want to get into an ethical debate, although I know its coming. I am truly talking aesthetics here. Believe me, though, if there were no hunters in Texas the deer would be everywhere. It would be chaos. And you have to admit, the meat is more organic and free range than anything at the market.... less cruel than the chickens many of us eat. I think it's just the carcass as decor that bums people out. Thoughts? ANyone seen it done "right?" | |||||
| The close-up | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| The close-up view of the first table (second photo in the thread) shows a painted pattern, not burl. The Baughman table linked immediately above, on the other hand, appears to be the real thing -- and the prototype of the painted one ? The seams in the burl table are barely visible, but the mirror repeats of the grain are evident across the whole surface. The variations -- rather than perfect repeats -- are typical of real wood, where each successive layer of veneer is a little different, as is inevitable when slicing through a three-dimensional irregular matrix. No such repeats can be seen anywhere in the painted top -- the best evidence (besides the un-burl-like appearance of the close view) that this is not veneer. The painted faux-burl is a neat trick, no doubt; I'd guess it is accomplished by dropping paint of varying tones onto a wet surface. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2bSdniWSq4 | |||||
| Greg Lynn chair | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Ravioli Chair Greg Lynn, 2005 As an architect and theoretician, Greg Lynn has intensively pursued innovations in the fields of design and architecture made possible by computer-assisted design methods. Using this method Lynn reinterprets classic upholstered furniture to create a contemporary and comfortable sculptural chair. Made by Vitra of a fiberglass-reinforced polyester shell, a polyurethane foam seat, and a knitted fabric cover. you can own this chair for $3595.00 I am sorry i just don't know how these new designers come up with this stuff, no doubt I am time warp in the mid-century and think these guys who designed the furniture almost 50 years ago came up with so many timeless designed that look like they were designed last week , For some reason I just don't think this thing would have made the cut to last for the test of time, What do you think like it or hate it? I don't hate it I just don't like it even if it had Pantons name on or Jacoben. | |||||
| I've had good results with | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I've had good results with that same kind of diffuse stain, though on teak, by using Barkeeper's Friend cleanser (10% oxalic acid and found in grocery stores) mixed with a little water to form a thin paste and then just rubbed on gently for a few minutes and then rinsed off. There are threads here on how to use it for longer periods on darker, more distinct stains and I've had good results with that too, but try it for just a minute or two. Some really light stains need even less time. The thing about rubbing it around on the stain rather than applying some and letting it sit makes it easy to kind of feather it around the edge so you don't get a line where the treatment started and ended. The stain doesn't have a distinct edge so there's not a definite line at which to stop applying the treatment. The teak table that I did this on had a big darker area that I was not hopeful about at all but it came out immediately. Whew! | |||||
| Texture for the sensualist | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Texture for the sensualist David, my apologies for being so slow in replying to this, I've been insanely busy lately. However, one thing has occured to me. When you write on this forum, you speak in more tactile ways versus visual ones. "Chocolate Fudge Brownie...Yum" is a great example of your personal idiom. I've seen you write about shaggy rugs, sleek leather, soft fabrics, etc. So it strikes me that maybe your problem isn't with color, but with texture. Have you considered a wall surface that 'feels' good even more than looks good? For example, venetian plaster. Metallic wash in a striate finish or maybe even upholstered?? A greyed-lavender as AzC suggested would be drop-dead gorgeous in a venetian plaster. Celadon or steel blue would look fab-u-lous with a metallic wash over them in a pewter tone. And an upholstered wall in grey or chocolate felt would be to die for. | |||||
| Can you help me identifying this couch? Roche Bobois? Ligne Roset? | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Johannes Jost | Identification | |
| Pictures: https://imgur.com/a/cEHvp9v Maybe someone can help me: I’m desperately trying to indentify this couch :/ I bought it almost 10 years ago on eBay. From some rich kids that dissolved their parents holiday apartment in denmark. Here’s the weird thing: On the inside it has a „ligne france“ logo. But on the bottom it’s a „Roche Bobois“ logo. Which would „make sense“, cause as i remember it was on eBay listen as a „Togo Special Edition“ or something like this. Of course it’s not a real togo but its kinda a similar design. Has no wood or metal in it, made only from pad. And its super comfortable. And for a complete fake / rip off it’s too good / expensive produced (my opinion). Should be alcantara and leather. Zippers on the bottom and on the top parts. I googled for ever and couldn’t find any that is even close to it. Anybody has seen this couch before? | |||||
| Some of my most prized posses... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Some of my most prized posses... Some of my most prized possessions are a bunch of very smooth stones gathered on a beach on the north coast of Sjaelland, Denmark. We lived near there for a year and were near broke. I would have liked to have bought some cool chairs or something to bring back but there was just no money for that kind of thing. Instead, I went to the beach for a walk in bitter cold weather and saw all these big, smooth granite stones. I gathered as many as I could carry in several trips to the car, which wasn't parked very close. Just about tore my arms outta the sockets carrying them---they are HEAVY. I picked ones that were between 4" to 8" diameter. It is now 12-13 years later and I still have all of them save for a few that I gave to friends (and some are on loan to my kids). I keep most of them outside near the front door and I love seeing them as I come and go. I'm so glad I took the time to pick them up and bring them home. (They're actually pieces of Sweden that broke off and were washed smooth over centuries in the sea, eventually ending up on the Danish coast.) | |||||
| Any Info Appreciated!!! Marked Cesare Lacca Double Teapot | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | kristindave | General discussion | |
| Hi I am hoping someone can help me.I have a Cesare lacca teapot that apparently is a piece no one that I have contacted as of yet has any info on. I have been In touch with multiple auction houses but to no avail.i am told they can not valuate it or give any information on it as they are unable to find anything in their research materials or any past auctions.many have stated they are thinking this may be A custom piece.my question is where do you go to get an evaluation on something that there is no other records of.the closest thing like this that anyone has found so far is a pitcher that sold in 2006.but I have been told that is not a comparable item because for obvious reasons,it is different. I am at a dead end and I just keep getting contact this person or that person at this gallery or auction house. All responses are mostly the same they have no records or research to add and without more research they are unable to consign or help me any further...any info someone has will be tremendously appreciated as I am needing to downsize.thank you in advance. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/105882-vintage-modern-impressed-mark-cesare-lac | |||||
| Paullana | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | onegroovydude | General discussion | |
| Paullana "More cut n paste." Do I need to write the very thing I know when I'm in a time crunch, and on a forum. It's not final exam. Get the stick out. I'm surprised Windows offers a cut and past option. What about people who cut and paste pictures for art? "Read some books instead" I do. Just read the book on George Burns and Gracie Allen? Jack Benny's coming next. "and go to some museums" I do. And I did that night. From my living room. And got all the history one could ever want on that item from an expert. Not Rosanna Paulanna Danna. An expert. Are you discrediting her? "to see the difference between what YOU have and an item belonging to the aesthetic movement. My last word as you don't deserve my respect or time." Uhhh... I do have an item, not only belonging to the aesthetic movement, but a major part of it. Did you not see the link, or the mirror? That mirror is amazing. You can fall right into the scene, it's so inviting. They're almost non-existant any more. Why do you fight so hard to deny the truth? | |||||
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