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| I had a few minutes to kill this morning... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| I had a few minutes to kill this morning... This was too good a thread idea to let go. Glasses that stack, obviously were never very popular given how many boxed sets are in charity shops, I think they're handsome. A bamboo spaghetti canister, have tried to find more but no luck, if I ever come across a stand of giant bamboo I'll be hacking down a piece and making more of my own. A Swedish pipeholder, just a pretty thing. Rosewood and stainless salt and pepper shakers. Salter kitchen scales, hangs on wall and folds up to make a flat plastic box, lid drops down, very handy and nice graphics on the dial. Stacking stainless steel cone shaped bowls, use them all the time. Some whitefriars style bark vases, the blue is really icy and an amazing colour no idea where they came from but they make great lanterns too. And an Orrefors bowl, I like the Corona range, always good for wedding presents. | |||||
| Pottery ID help? | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | norm | Identification | |
| Didnt want to include these in "pottery around the home" just to ask for an ID so thought I would start a new thread. I've looked through hundreds of marks online and can't find a thing. Look Japanese but? I'm currently using them dor bookends in a spare bedroom. | |||||
| Great idea | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| I did this with my chair and it is by far the greatest thing i have ever done . I have several lounge chairs from Norman Cherner, George Mulhauser and Charles Eames, and several Plycraft chairs . I took my Norman Cherner lounge chair and converted to my office chair . I bought t a fine set of wooden wheels with a chair tilt and lift and took off the original base I stored for the future , but the chair cause it is so soft made a great executive chair for my office chair and I am not ashamed to say I have slept in it several times, I think the fact that it was a lounge chair makes it so great and i love the wheels, tilt and up and down glide . Now for the real kicker i bought on ebay a over sized plycraft ottoman and put the same wheels and up and down movement on it also , When i am working at my desk I just put it over to the side and when i want to watch t.v. right there like a good dog (she is there also) so my friends I think it is all in the chair stands. | |||||
| I don't know from the urban-chic, asian-modern of a W or... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | william-holden-... | General discussion | |
| I don't know from the urban-chic, asian-modern of a W or Mandarin Oriental or what makes your clients happy, comfortable or wowed-- you're on your own there. Unlike the floor plan shown, your apartment has no terrace, right? That passageway is one less thing you need to take into account. I'm not seeing how your Envelop desk will fit into the equation. I'd ditch it and find a wall-mounted shelving system that features a desk, and put it along that left wall (that the sofa in your diagram faces). Confused as to whether you intend to have a real dining table-- you mentioned a Platner table earlier, but also a bar table with stools (maybe it was a Platner coffee table you were talking about). Why a bar table, and where a bar table? I wonder if the following would work-- shelving unit with desk against left wall, L-shaped sofa, low slim Parsons dining table with 3 chairs abutting sofa? The table could seat 4 in a pinch-- 2 in middle, 2 at either end. | |||||
| No, | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| No, Wright didn't design that chair. It looks like The Wegner model to me. Despite Wright's attempt to design furniture in keeping with every project, chairs were a tricky thing for him. And some of his best clients (or ones with the best houses, anyway) chose other sources for furnishings. The Hannas settled on Scandinavian chairs for their dining room, and the Pews and the Rosenbaums had Eames DCW's (early photos of Rosenbaum show a set of Wright chairs at the dining table; don't know where and when they went !). Other period modern furniture shows up in photos of Wright interiors, and even his own living room held more than one conventional -- even traditional -- upholstered arm chair. It is likely that the semi-rustic Black Forest (?) three-legged chairs that the Kaufmanns placed around the table at Fallingwater -- so as to accomodate the rippled slate floor -- were likely more stable than some of Wright's tripod opera (old plural of opus -- you could look it up !). | |||||
| Craft and design | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Annette.sco | General discussion | |
| Craft and design Interesting Question, Koen. "Crafts" the journal of the BritishCrafts Council appears to includes not only Craft but Design (and Architecture) in its remit. For instance in the Jan/Feb 2005 edition there is a feature about barberosgerby, winners of the 2004 Jerwood Applied Arts prize for 'excellence and innovation in the field of furniture' . They appear somewhat surprised to appear in 'Crafts' since they feel that the term implies something hand-made, where a lot of the design development goes on during manufacture. In their process the thing is finished at the point of going into manufacture and then goes to a third party to be made.www.craftscouncil.org.uk/ Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that the word craft can mean whatever you want it to. the Craft Council seems to use it to describe small production runs using mainly natural materials - presumably designers would have no problems being associated with that. However at the local (craft fair) level it also seems to cover lumpy pottery and kittens painted on stones . | |||||
| Coral embedded side table | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | mcoluccio | Identification | |
| First off I apologize for the poor pictures, I'll post some more tomorrow. I bought this piece because it is very unusual. I can't find any comparables on the internet. Basically it is a U shaped side table. But, the interesting thing about this piece is that it appears to be made from what seems like coral that has been cut and embedded in some kind of epoxy. It is also very well made with a considerable amount of time and craftsmanship. Does anyone have any idea of it's origin? Thank you in advance! | |||||
| Help ID these two danish chairs please | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | pantaloons | Identification | |
| So the first chair I think is Ole Wanscher, but I haven't seen any exactly like it before. It's marked France and Daverkosen with and has an old metal John Stuart exceptional furniture tag on it. If that's the case, does anybody know its approximate value? The second chair I have no idea what it is. I can't find any markings. The one thing I know for sure is that it's not Adrian Pearsall. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | HP | General discussion | |
| . an extruded apartment block is fine, the designs aren't all terrible and novelty for the sake of it is no solution either. What the problem is just shoddy materials, thin walls and nasty fittings. Even worse than this though is the macmansions and the SUV problem, I'm looking forward to the day when these houses and cars get vandalised as climate damagers and the canal developments start sinking...they were only told 20 years ago what was going to happen the fools. No doubt we'll all have to pay for dykes and levies to be built for them. But to be positive, one thing I do like about these older fanciful projects is the optimism, aside from big civic projects like olympic facilities there seems to be an endless round of urban renewal projects, a town planner I know says that all they do is constantly try and patch up problems by moving bus stops and demanding public spaces be integarted into projects that no one ever uses. I did read an article on this Harry Siedler designed development(RIP) that seems quite good. http://www.seidler.net.au/projects/013.html | |||||
| Help identify this hanging light. | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | franklloydlarry | General discussion | |
| Help identify this hanging light. Hello, I have had 2 of these for the last 10 yrs. at least. I was not sure if they were lights or maybe you would set a candle under them. Well about 2 weeks ago 1 came up on ebay on auction with a buy it now of $220.00 and it was gone very quickly. That one was diff. a swag light with a pull chain switch. My 2 are just what you see with no light socket or any thing. Can anyone out ther help me with identifying these. Thank you, FLL | |||||
| simple plywood chair ID help | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | glassartist | Identification | |
| Other than garage + dude + old + horny, any Ideas on this chair? The only thing that even comes to mind is a Dan Cooper table, but I am not imagining it could be something of his. | |||||
| I have been down this road a | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I have been down this road a few times. I wouldn't want to learn the way on my family's heirlooms. You would have a much easier time with teak, but you have rosewood. I see no reason why you can not use an oil or a wax. If you use a teak oil meant for exterior (and interior) use it will have UV blocking particles in it. They will darken the wood. A few applications will make it a bit darker. There are also tinted 'Danish oils.' They will basically do the same thing. There are also neutral oil finishes. You might even try getting a bit clever about it, and apply a darkening oil to the light surfaces, and a neutral oil to the dark surfaces. Different oils will have different sheens, so you might notice that while you are doing this, but you can put a coat over the top at any time to equalize the sheen. Just make sure you wipe excess oil off, and let it dry fully between coats. Maybe with a bit of intentional UV bleaching, and some clever oiling you can make the contrast less stark. You could also put the chairs out in the sun with the leaf, dark side towards the sun. I am not at all bothered by the color difference of the chairs, for what it is worth. I understand your frustration with the leaves not matching the table top, though. | |||||
| No hybrid | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | objectworship | General discussion | |
| No hybrid or mismatched seat/back, just a wilder figured seat that could be mistaken for cherry without having clear view of the thing. When viewing these things on a screen, color is just kind of an educated guess. The grain figure is what's telling. You can put a "walnut" stain on cherry and vice versa. Books about wood (examined to i.d.) can be confusing because the sample photo swatches are so small/non-representative of the whole, and often these books mostly cover the crazy exotic decorative rainforest woods that we don't generally encounter in the furniture market so much. To break it down more simply though, maple, cherry, mahogany, walnut, teak, pecan, birch and ash are fairly easy to distinguish. Depending on how the piece is treated, though, and how much of it can be seen, the grain figure of maple vs. cherry, or that of teak vs. walnut etc. can be very similar in appearance, and tough to tell apart. | |||||
| I did a coffee table with... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I did a coffee table with... I did a coffee table with the rub-on poly and somehow it looks much less plastic than other poly finishes I've seen. Maybe it's the sheen. I did have to do about 8 coats before it looked even, though. This was new jatoba wood, which I think is pretty hard and the grain wasn't all that open. I just got around to stripping and sanding a Drexel Profile lamp table that I've had for a few years. The finish was completely trashed and the thing had also been sitting in a garage, I think. The top had all kinds of dirty scuzz on it and in the interests of sanitization I scrubbed it outdoors with detergent and the hose and let it air dry in the sun. It was pretty disgusting. Of course then I had to sand it thoroughly to get rid of the horribly raised grain. But it didn't stink anymore! Anyway, the wood was not interesting in color or grain so I ebonized it with India ink. Some of you may remember that I ebonized a Danish walnut lounge chair awhile back, and I thought this table would look nice with it. I still need to put some kind of protective finish on it because the ink isn't terribly permanent. | |||||
| I did a Google image search | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I did a Google image search for Howard Miller Arthur Umanoff Hexagon clock and the only one like yours to show up was on a Japanese site. There are a bunch of other non-hexagon Umanoff/HM clocks that have more image results than that one, so maybe it's less common---hard to say. Do you do image searches? They're so much faster and more efficient than text searches when the thing you're searching is very likely to have a photo accompanying the text. Yours is indeed missing the second hand (see pic). I don't know a lot about clocks but would assume that the works aren't any indication of anything related to the outward design (??) of the clock. Manufacturers of clocks probably just had a few different works that they used in tons of different clocks over the years. Thanks for posting, by the way---I have now seen a bunch of clocks that I wasn't aware of before and now I want them! | |||||
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