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| I'm rather fond of the... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Sound & Design | General discussion | |
| I'm rather fond of the... I'm rather fond of the current DA. The layout is very conversational. personally, don't see any real reason to revise what already works. The minor issues, such as remaining logged in and immediate postings could be part of a future "refresh". Maybe throw in a small cosmetic refresh. Otherwise, I'm content using DA as is for another decade. When P&A announced an addition to the forum, the Radar, I was worried it would sully the experience...it has proven a worthy improvement/addition. Also curious how successful it is? ID posting can be annoying...but on the flip, can find them somewhat interesting. Occasionally, someone actually has something worthy of investigating. I guess the best way to remedy nuisance ID post is not answering them. I don't see design topics as being lacking. Just lack of participation...myself included. The important thing is, I'm always left thinking about whatever discussions are posted. It's not easy maintaining detailed discussions online...thinking about them is lasting. This place is a real gem! Thanks P&A! | |||||
| Here's a seemingly minor | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Here's a seemingly minor thing on rush style weaves that's very easy to miss when you're starting out but that will really screw things up if you skip it. I wish I'd taken photos of my early attempts at this weave because I know it took me awhile to figure out that this was one of stumbling blocks. When you turn a corner with the cord, especially the back left corner and the right front corner (if weaving counterclockwise, anyway), the underneath strand tends to be shifted a little out of sight under the rest of the weave. This is normal but you have to make sure you catch and force it into place next to its brothers. This is less of an issue in the other two corners but you should get into the habit of checking it at every corner. I'll show you what happens when it's missed. The red arrows just show the direction of the weave. The white arrow points to the strand that tends to be out of place. | |||||
| So... I'm late to the party.. | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | jjschiller | General discussion | |
| So... I'm late to the party.. And I just now read this thread. Wow. You're really going off the deep-end here, huh? And just because a couple of people are giving you an opinion you don't want to hear? And what's with the weird, passive-aggressive gay-bashing? Oh, sorry, it's okay, you're a "fag-hag"... Seriously though. What part did I miss? When did this become a "slap fight," or a "sissy fight?" When did everyone get "uppity?" Anyone see anyone here get shitty besides tinyarmada(s)? Ask yourself this question: what motivation does straylight have for taking this "glory" from you?.. what does he gain by making it up? You asked his opinion, apparently exchanged emails with him, because you knew he knows his stuff and was a good place to start... But when you don't hear what you want to hear, you explode, start calling names, and try to embarrass him by making (really... weird..) assertions about his sexuality... and that's BEFORE you attack his professional abilities and the quality of his character.. There are lots of things that might pop in to our heads... but the awesome thing is, we don't ACTUALLY have to say all of them! Sometimes a simple "I understand what you're saying. I guess I just disagree" does much better "You're a stuck-up, bullshitting sissy." You done lost yo' damn mind. | |||||
| Couldn't do it | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| Couldn't do it I think I reached my rock bottom low last Saturday. I went to an auction of an elementary school that was closing. The few pictures that the auctioneers posted online showed about 5 rooms crammed full of institutional type chairs and desks which could have been something or nothing, I couldn't tell. So I drove an hour out into the countryside and the only thing that was worth bidding on was this couch and I got really excited. But then I flipped it over, (believe me, the farmers and countryfolk at this auction were all staring at me turning all of the furniture upside down--I'm sure I will be the talk of the local diner for days to come), and on the bottom was a sticker that said "Property of the South Carolina Department of Corrections. It came out of a prison. And I just got weirded out and I put it down and left. Like, everyone who ever sat on that couch was sad, you know? I couldn't even picture putting it in the back of my truck, let alone my house. That's the first time I ever got juju vibes off of a piece of furniture and I still can't stop thinking about it, two days later. I hope the picture comes out and all of you tell me that it was nothing anyway and not to lose any sleep over it. | |||||
| As I mentioned...I think this... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | keewee | General discussion | |
| As I mentioned...I think this... As I mentioned...I think this is part of it. The market might be slowing down a little because there is so little out there...no stuff to sell means a slow market. The good stuff in good condition is getting harder and harder to find and good stuff in good condition was what was attracting some buyers into shops. The people that are really into it...are really into it and will pay good money for things in good shape. I believe that some of the lesser stuff that beginners would have bought has been replaced by retailers offering "the look" without the hassle. It's getting harder for people to source the good stuff. The pros still have connections and can do it though. As for the Danish stuff....there is more of it around. It never really went "out" in Europe so there is plenty of it to import. You have to really be focused when you're buying that genre..imho. Arne Vodder/Sibast pieces, Omann Jun and such. I think 30 year olds will be into it for a while. I'm betting that for 20 year olds it's not going to be there thing, but that is just anecdotal evidence from the 20 year olds I know. | |||||
| DHutch, thank you so much! | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| DHutch, thank you so much! So it looks like buttons were standard, or at least commonly done. The headrest and welt, not so much. I don't know who designed it. It's been really hard to find just photos of this chair online, let alone any information. One thing that I've seen in the three that I've done (two are in process)--the styrofoam on the underside of the armrest gets messed up by the screws that go into it through the wood base frame. The tops of the arms have small blocks of wood inset into them for the screws to screw into. This is good though a bunch of the ones I've seen were split along the grainline. But the underside of the foam arms have no such reinforcement and there is some stress to it as you lean on the arms in sitting and getting up. You push it down onto a few points of the wood frame and the foam gets compressed a bit. The screw holes were all enlarged too, I guess because once the inset blocks split, there is some movement...?? I dunno. I have added a masonite panel on the underside to at least provide a surface for the screws to go into. I hope it holds up ok. | |||||
| The orange one (I can't stand | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| The orange one (I can't stand to even utter his name so maybe I'll just call him this from now on) is already backtracking on his empty promises, namely not repealing the ACA, just tweaking it a bit---which is what Hillary said she'd do. Will his followers go along with this? After all, they did say he could shoot someone and they'd still vote for him---seems like reneging on the ACA falls way short of committing murder so it should be just fine, right? Obama was very gracious in his comments after their meeting but his face betrayed his true feelings. He looked absolutely stricken. Then the orange one ditched the press pool---that did not go over well at all. I don't think he'll be able to get away with that kind of thing. And if he thought that winning would end the criticism and and jokes, he is even dumber than I thought. Did he sleep through Dubya's 8 years? Anyway, enough of that. I am keeping sane by reading the #PantsuitNation Facebook page. It may be the biggest groundswell of activism against this debacle. I live in a liberal town that's ethnically and socially diverse so I don't see much red/blue conflict in my everyday life---none, really. The PantsuitNation group is my connection to everyone else and is also a good resource for what to do to help in constructive ways. Anyone can join, it's not just for women! | |||||
| I made a choice | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Curvy Sofa | General discussion | |
| I made a choice Finally deciding that we couldn't justify the cost of one of the high end euro brands we went with several Libre modular pieces from DWR. Still over $5000, but we got a lot of seating for the price. This system is interesting in that none of the pieces we have are directional, event the corner pieces. By that I mean none are left armed or right armed. We have had a blast moving the elements around trying different configurations. Addtionally last weekend we found an excellent Florence Knoll lounge chair from the 1970's. It is in the original white nubby wool and I agree with Azurechicken this thing is iconic. Built like nothing I have ever seen. This chair has a solidity and comfort that really has to be experienced. We got it for $600 which I think is pretty good since new they cost $3000+. It looks so wonderful in the room with the Libre pieces, I smile everytime I walk in. How great is that? Anyway, thank you all for your comments. Heck, keep them coming! I enjoy reading real life sofa stories. | |||||
| I don't know who the designer | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| I don't know who the designer is but I'm pretty sure it was reupholstered at some point. That looks like crushed velvet, which I can't imagine was ever used by a Scandinavian designer in the 50s or early 60s. The welted box seat cushion doesn't look right either--chairs of this sort pretty much always have cushions with rounded edges and one seam. I'm also not so sure that the button tufting was done that way originally---upholsterers often add buttons when redoing curved forms like this because it's easier and less risky than gluing the fabric directly to the foam. You have to do one or the other to get the fabric to conform to the inside curve. The buttons are more spread out than the usual arrangement on tufted backs, and the bottom row is set pretty low. None of that is 100% definitive and none of it will help much in ID-ing the chair. But! I think you can go ahead and strip the whole thing and maybe there will be a clue somewhere on the plywood frame. Not terribly likely---but maybe. Just take a lot of photos before you do it. (and if you could post a clear closeup of the fabric where it is torn off the arm on the left side--showing the crinkled texture and the blue-ish wrong side of the fabric, that would be great! I am just very curious.) | |||||
| I will think on this... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| I will think on this... and get back to you in a week. For now I will try to distill your brilliant richness of detail to a few of essenses: 1) You designed a better mouse trap with out a fitting retail outlet. This I suspect was the blow that killed the victim. Why? Because it eventually killed Rosti too. Your product got caught in a paradigmn shift from high service retail outlets to low service retail outlets. It lost its foot traffic and needed high service to sell it. It needed Rosti healthy to push it. The market place has found a place today for products like your bowls. Its called Brookstone. You product was not a gimick, but it could effectively be sold as one to start with and then it could move out into mainstream stores if it caught on. 2.) You designed a better mouse trap when people were trapping fewer mice and were satisfied with their existing mouse traps. This was a blow that wounded the victim seriously from the beginning, but probably did not kill it. Some innovative products can overcome adverse market trends and stimulate demand. Still, this would have kept me from green lighting the project. Why? Because I like to have rising demand on my side. 3.) you designed a better mouse trap without a name telling people which mouse trap it was better than. This is a nearly fatal blow in my book. Incremental improvements, even large incremental improvements, should be made to the legacy product to free ride on that legacy, not to an alternative product. Ideally, your bowls should have been called "The New and Improved Rosti Margrethe Bowls" or the "Rosti NeoMargrethe Bowls," or "the Rosti Margrethe Moderne", or well you get the idea. A Rosti Tip'n Mix Bowl is disconnected from what it improves--a Margarethe. In fact it's name doesn't claim to improve anything; this is a mistake since it is designed chiefly to improve on the Margarethe. Tip is also a bad word for a bowl. Tip connotes tipping over and making a mess, not tipping to advantage. And Tip'n Mix sounds like a low quality gimick, not a brilliant, well made innovation, especially when I already trust my "solid, strong" Margrethe Mixing Bowl. Its not a bowl. Its a Margrethe. If you have to refer to the function, call it "The Rosti Tilt-a-Bowl." Also, if you can't call it a Margrethe, or whatever these kinds of bowls were called, then follow another rule: don't tell what a thing does. Tell what's good about what a thing does. "The Rosti Easy Mix Bowl." The "Rosti ErgoBowl" or "The Rosti Strong-Lite Bowl." Or my favorite: "The Rosti Super Bowl: Lighter, Easier, Smarter." And if those didn't test well, then I'd go to a feminine name because a bowl is a feminine form--it is a container. all for now. | |||||
| Sofa Table: Borge Mogensen for Søborg - or Swedish unknown? | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | cada | General discussion | |
| The latest [obsession] thing that has be stumped - actually I've revisited this piece a few times - is this large sofa table. I wonder if it is Mogensen for Søborg, but there's something about it that says Swedish to me - the hardware is the same as I?ve seen on Swedese and another XL sofa table whose name I've filed in an increasingly messy mind. If I'm not thinking about this table I'm pouring over my newly gift of: Taschen's The Wood Book - both are absorbing my interest, but I suspect I'll be no better for knowing more about either ultimately... It's raining out, and yes, I do have more important things I should be doing. | |||||
| continued... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| continued... There are flesh-toned dildoes and white dildos and black dildoes, as well as dildoes of every color of the rainbow. There are dildoes with ridges and dildoes without. There are dildoes that are utterly realistic and dildoes that are utterly abstract. There are dildoes with rabbits on them and dildoes without, dildoes with glans, and dildoes with perfect domes. There are dildoes that go in deep and dildoes that bend around and touch G-spots. There are dildoes that massage prostates and dildoes that tickle in French. There are dildoes that vibrate and dildoes that attach to vibrators and dildoes that are utterly static. There are dildoes dominants and dildoes for submissives and dildoes for those who cannot decide. There are dildoes intended to sell on word of mouth, and dildoes designed to stand out on a shelf, and dildoes designed to scream buy me on a web page or else. And here's the thing: everyone of these dildoes has been designed by a designer, or a would-be designer, who thought a wrinkle here, or a texture there, or a splash of color or moisture, or something else, could bring some other human just a little more pleasure and a little more desire to spend their money on the state of the art for passion and fire. Of course sex goes with product design. Oh, yes! It goes very well indeed. | |||||
| Artemide Vico Magistretti Selene Chairs: Real? | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | JM5ivette | Identification | |
| Good day, I have been offered six Selene chairs and am wondering if they are the real deal. The only thing that raised my concern is that the seller is not asking much for them. Pictures attached. Thanks! | |||||
| IGEN, Danish cancer research s/h shops | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Danish-homestore.com | General discussion | |
| IGEN, Danish cancer research s/h shops My favorite stores are the Danish IGEN shops. They have a varied selection and often some really good design. The main reason for liking them is that as a Charity they are given the items and use the funds to research cancer. Now the 2nd. best reason that I love them is that once they sell some thing, they will write a thank you letter to the doner of the furniture and tell that person how much was raised. A very nice and honest gesture. What is so great is that in Denmark the TAX laws say that a donation to charity is tax deductable. So not onle does IGEN raise the funds the doner gets a tax rebate! Definately my favorite stores to use. You support cancer research AND you help get the doner a tax deduction AND you end up with great Danish design at a worth while price! | |||||
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