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| Sometimes a reissue will... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| Sometimes a reissue will... Sometimes a reissue will make buyers aware of the vintage piece whereas they might not have been prior. Then desire increases, and thus sometimes value. It can work both ways no? I still say the issue most have with it boils down no money, which isn't all bad (I mean, you have to pay the rent), but isn't exactly a viable argument rooted in ethics. I've pretty much stopped buying new items altogether, unless it makes sense. But I don't always buy vintage either ... for instance my dining set of Eames DCMS are simply used, but not old. My thought is that reuse is responsible, and by doing so I help my pocketbook and the planet ... and honestly, I wouldn't want a dining set of vintage DCMs as much as I love the design. The new ones I don't have to worry about shockmount failure and because they are used and pre-scratched/dinged I don't have to worry about that either. It makes both my @ss and my emotion comfortable. The last thing I want is to worry about inanimate objects with guests around. My toddler can beat the tar out of these things as far as I am concerned, and I still get to enjoy the design. I will be the one making them vintage because they aren't going anywhere!!! And at 100 bucks each used, a lifetime of quality is a bargain!!! | |||||
| Aunt Mark, you made me laugh | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| Aunt Mark, you made me laugh out loud! I blame Ray. Is that the real Honey Fitz? One of my kids got to go on an old Norwegian sailing ship this past weekend. (Vikings, not pirates, but pretty much the same thing.) She said it was all teak and brass and white and very beautiful. Or maybe it wasn't old, but it was a big sailing ship and they always look old to me. I took this photo on a semi-vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This is is the kind of beach that makes my heart get all fluttery. All I want to do is look at every single rock and pick out the ones I like best and take them home. I spent a week on a beach in Delaware a few years ago and collected 300 lbs of much smaller beach stones with my daughter. They're still sitting in her garage. I can't imagine getting rid of them. I also still have some big granite stones from a beach in Denmark that I got 18 years ago. | |||||
| RE: Looking for advice on Eames LCM clean up | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | tktoo2 | Repair | |
| @coastcoaster, Welcome to the DA Forum. Great chair! I'd go along with @design-restorat here and simply say, "First, do no harm." My old pal, Les Ismore, might say it's OK to clean the entire thing by giving the wood surfaces a vigorous rubdown with clean rags and naphtha, remove some of the corrosion product from the frame with #0000 steel wool and naphtha or soap and water, replace detached, crumbling, or loose shock mounts and boot glides with appropriate spares, fill minor veneer losses and/or glue down any loose veneer, and finish by putting a light coat of nitrocellulose lacquer on both sides of the back panel and the top only of the seat panel and rub out with 4/0 steel wool to a satin sheen. I'd probably go along with that advice, too, but I'm an agreeable sort (usually) and possess a good understanding of the differences between "restoration" and "conservation" when it comes to caring for old stuff. | |||||
| Thanks bj, your sideboard is | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | _ | General discussion | |
| Thanks bj, your sideboard is so unique & unusual, it can speak for itself. The only place I know in the USA that brings back stuff close to where you are is this vintage shop in Los Angeles, CA called Amsterdam Modern but something as interesting as your sideboard will be sold right way even with the high price tag. I have run out of vintage Braun to find here in the USA but my own Braun has always been a source for inspiration when working on reductive approach to design besides being used as everyday as functional objects around the house. Good thing about vintage electronics from that period, unless they sustain damage from being dropped, they are built to last & can be repaired/rehab using my limited basic skills in electronics repair 101 from my high school days. I have also learned to decipher sellers description why the item is being sold for parts or repair. Most of the time, these units are in great shape & just covered in grime hiding in plain sight waiting to be found. | |||||
| Congratulations, Andrew, on | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | kin1117 | General discussion | |
| Congratulations, Andrew, on this purchase!! I'm a proud owner of a few Eames Loungers from different eras. If one of the options you gave us was a vintage rosewood one in good condition, I certainly would recommend that. However, that's out of the question unless you want to wait for that to come up. I personally have never seen the oiled palisander, so can't comment on that, but I've owned the lacqured version and it's beautiful and maintenance is minimal. Having said that, the leather will make a huge difference though. I personally MUCH PREFER the edelman all grain; the vicenza is soft but it lacks a certain character. As far as warranty, the main thing you need to consider is the shock mounts. You can spend several days reading through the numerous threads on that topic. Just bear in mind that if you're mindful about not flopping into the chair or purposely rocking in the chair, the shock mounts should serve you well. Regular inspection would be good as well. After all, depending on how much money you're spending on it, you may or may not want to wait for a vintage chair to come up. Either way, keep us posted on your decision. | |||||
| Here is an answer from a... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | donsof | General discussion | |
| Here is an answer from a... Here is an answer from a known eames guru... from modern50, a well known vintage Eames dealer in the USA. "Remounting it, once you get another early large mount, is very easy. PV7 from HomeDepot works really well, but it is not the prettiest stuff, dries grey and grainy. Use a bit sparingly once mixed, much will squirt out the sides once a bit of pressure (light pressure for 10 minutes, then medium pressure for the duration of the curing time is fine) is put on the mount, for setting and curing. I am still looking for the black glossy glue HM used." Another person suggested: "I have had good success with an adhesive called E6000. It is extremely strong yet does not become brittle like super glues & some epoxies. I have only used the clear formula, but the cool thing is that it also comes in grey and black which makes a great match to original HM adhesives." I have never performed this brain surgery myself. Just parroting some questions I had about a chair I sold long ago. | |||||
| All the alternate suggestions | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| All the alternate suggestions for type of joint and attaching methods are perfectly logical, but my goal is to reproduce what I see, even though none of it will show once upholstered. The only part I cant see is the pinning, hence the question. It had not occured to me that the upholstering substructure might not be original. Even though the fabric is not, The mesh matting, foam and straps all have the right amount of age to them for me to believe them to be original. Actually the only thing I am changing is the base mounting braces ( one is visible in the pic). Unlike the center brace and end braces, the base mount braces are flat cut on the side that meets the base. So they are sort of bow tie shaped only with one side being flat. This means they are significantly thinner in the middle, which seems iffy at these important mounting points. I am making them wider (from 2" to 3") because my scrap of 5/4 oak allowed me to. Now if ! can only scare up a smallish piece of 9/4 (does that size even exist?) to cut the end pieces and center brace from. Thanks folks for the solid dowelling advise. | |||||
| Hmm, the winding versions... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | brbeard | General discussion | |
| Hmm, the winding versions... Hmm, the winding versions are pretty rare (relatively) and I'd always just assumed that they were an option during the early days (I still think that...but I don't have a definitive answer). In fact I don't have definitive answers to any of your questions. However, I do have a friend with a wind-up ball clock and, from what he's told me, it seems that Howard Miller used really really cheap movements, so a lot of times the movements on the wind-up clocks, in particular, no longer work properly. My friend wasn't really able to find any clock repairers who wanted to work on the clock because the movement was so low quality. He eventually did get it repaired (instead of replaced, as the clock repairers advocated), but it went out again in a short amount of time. So anyway, just make sure the thing works first. If it's in pretty clean shape, $400 doesn't seem too bad. The wind-ups always go for more and, at least from an aesthetic standpoint, I find them to be preferable (no cords hanging down). I don't know whether they're 8-day clocks or what... | |||||
| Ai yai yai! | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Ai yai yai! We do go off the rails around here! H.K. Moon....I SO agree about Shantaram. One of the reasons I decided it was time for a re-read was that I devoured the book for the story last time and really wanted to stroll through it this time to saturate myself in the author's gorgeous prose. It is a beautifully written book, so few people can use the English language that well any more...and the philosophy he presents is just marvelous. W-H-C, you are right of course, but the whole design addict thing gets in the way of good sense sometimes. Heath, if it helps, I totally knew you were taking the piss, your humor is so much like my dad's. Tongue-in-cheek doesn't begin to describe the dryness. If you ever make it to this end of our little blue marble, I'll happily stand you a pint or six. Mark...miss ya babe. You aren't around here often enough to deliver your acerbic, martini addled wit frequently enough for my liking! The rest of our motley crew need step down from DefCon 1 and have a beer! It's all good, TV or no TV the world continues....at least until that japanese nuke plant actually does go nuclear. | |||||
| cdsilva, thanks--it would be | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| cdsilva, thanks--it would be Overman. I thought that earlier but didn't want to say it out loud until I had time to do an image search. Leif--spray adhesive. It's a basic upholstery supply item. Contact cement is overkill and not necessary. But I don't think gluing the fabric to the foam in this case is a good idea. On chairs like this, I shape the foam just a bit by razoring kerfs into it and then gluing the cut edges of the kerfs together. I'm talking small fractions of an inch wide for each kerf. You really don't need much. Then I add polyester upholstery batting to soften the hole thing a bit. Fabric directly over foam on cushions looks a little too severe for most styles of cushions. You don't need the really poufy batting that is used on traditional upholstery. Just 1/2" or so. Leif is right about the side boxing helping to determine the shape of the cushion. You can't just cut a long rectangle. It has to echo the profile of the cushion with the curves. | |||||
| It seems You changed your mind.. | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | ite (BE) | General discussion | |
| It seems You changed your mind.. Interestingly, I have just reread your original Ebay listing. In it, you actually did point foreign bidders to USPS Priority Mail International prices. This is indeed the 53 USD for Japan -as spanky already mentioned earlier. So, the bidder did follow your instructions all the way (it seems like a nice newbie), and now you're unhappy ??? Basically, you change your mind about shipping after the auction and then come here and complain about the buyer ? errr. This thing gets weirder every time. On Sep-12-10 at 20:26:58 PDT, seller added the following information: ****For international bidders**** go to http://ircalc.usps.gov/ to calculate shipping and insurance costs from the US via USPS International Priority mail. If another shipping provider is more desirable please contact me at auctions close prior to paying to confirm shipping details. Thanks! http://cgi.ebay.com/Kay-Bojesen-signed-Hippo-near-perfect-condition-/180... | |||||
| I couldn't swear to it, but I | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| I couldn't swear to it, but I think it's been kind of common courtesy around here in the past to not give away the link to someone else's find when he or she is simply asking for help in figuring out what it is before purchasing. I don't know who made the chair. Plycraft produced at least a few variations on this chair and Selig and a couple others did other variations. I've never see those particular arm pads before, nor have I seen the wide, flat, chrome bars in back. The bases look like Plycraft, though. In the end I don't think it matters. These have a market value in the mid-hundreds (higher in hip, trendy areas of the country, lower in the sticks). They're comfortable but prone to damage if not already wobbly, cracked, etc. Also, the foam is just low density urethane and the seats have usually lost all their resiliency. When this is the case, it's like you're sitting on the plywood with just some thin padding over it. I wouldn't advise paying much more than where it's at right now without inspecting the frame and the tilt mechanism in person. I wouldn't assume the sellers know what to look for even if you told them exactly what you need to know, because the cracks can be very hard to spot and the tilt thing is kind of subjective. | |||||
| Design and Craftmanship in the 21st century | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Manp | General discussion | |
| Hi just thought id start this thread as a way of maybe getting to see some of the lesser known grassroots kind of design and craftmanship from around the world. Ill start by sharing a few links first is "My Precious" which was a project started by The Danish Cabinetmakers Association and resulted in some very interesting and beautiful results. Take a look for your self. http://www.moebelsnedkerforeningen.dk/Exhibitions/2010%20MP/My%20precious%20The%20proces/MP%20works.html Second is "Skud På Stammen" a purely danish annual collaboration between the danish school of design and the cabinet makers school. they work together over the summer to finish their projects and the whole thing ends up in an exhibition on "Trapholt" a museum for art and design, and a book is published. take a look: http://www.skudpaastammen.dk/index.php/moebler/ I have the book from this years projects if you want some better pictures of some of the projects. hope to see some exciting new stuff from other parts of the world. Best regards Mattias | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| . Don't let those thoughts hold you back bj, if you're a small time designer/maker like me or SDR, don't sweat it, enjoy life and making things, you only get to once. If you share your experiences and work with other people close to you more the better. Perhaps its a rationalisation but I look at it like this, if you're making an ethical (or at least not unethical) product you're taking money from your local economy and its being invested in something beneficial to you or your neighbours. money that otherwise might go on a poorly made thing. On the other hand I do see your point about the contract side of the furniture industry, a lot of uneccesary novelty. Its unfortunate that we have this prevalent attitude that the best of the recent past is ossified. Its a tighrope but there is scope for improving past work, customising it, using a new or local material without being unimaginative or derivative without purpose. This perception that designers work only in concrete ways with materials is passing though, check out TED talks and things like nudge theory, some interesting things happening. | |||||
| Is this an Ingamr Relling lounger? | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Dave Culley | General discussion | |
| I've been scanning the net for weeks trying to find an image of a lounger I have like this and wondered if this really is a true Relling as its noted as such in on French website? Is this listed wrongly or the real thing Please help. | |||||
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