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| Mystery! Floating rosewood credenza with very unusual hidden by-pass doors...??????????? | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | staceyneil | Identification | |
| I'm totally stumped! We just got this wall-hung sideboard at auction. The interior construction looks American. (Or at least not Danish.) The strangest thing is the doors. They appear all flush, but when you press on the non-handle edge, the track pivots to allow the door to slide behind its neighbor. I've never seen anything like this. Has anyone else? Thanks! Stacey | |||||
| Vinny, In general... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Starline | General discussion | |
| Vinny, In general... Vinny, In general yes. What we think is a great piece may always be a great piece in any environment because we have an eye for certain things in our style. They may be known pieces commonly seen or with a certain look or lines that people with that MCM preference desire. In a room full of junk is an old antique chair a great piece or an old eames shell. That Ibex table would be overlooked by most people in the back of a used furniture store but used in the right way it's fabulous.It also commands big dollars especially if an original Chervet but it's difficult to place in the average home. I had a spectacular vintage Danish sofa delivered at home.Seeing it coming off the truck I said it looked like a piece of junk.It looks nothing like it does in the gallery store all set up nice. The removalist laughed and said that most people say the same thing and that is a bit of my point.Pieces need certain amount of room and the right placement to do them justice and the majority of people do not.That does include me. | |||||
| 1952 Albini chair is as co... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| 1952 Albini chair is as co... 1952 Albini chair is as cool as you can get, Wagner s Papa is a classic and my company has redone several, the only thing i don't like is it transients to the Queen Ann look and for the life of me I can not figure what a modern thinker like Hans Wager was thinking,? being a danish designer he was the cusp of modern design, I have always wondered why he digressed back to The Queen Ann Chair for a mentor to the popa bear chair, I have studied Wagner love his stuff end of story ...... I have had his Chinese pull up chairs . to me they have always felt like he took that idea from the 12 century Chinese , I guess they all had to start some where , and to start with these two important periods of design I guess is as good as any That is why it has always been hard for me to stand up and cheer for Wagner I think as a supreme Allied commander of Design he took to many liberties from the past and called them his own design ( my o pion ) | |||||
| Pendulum-Technologies-Device | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| Pendulum-Technologies-Device Would be necessary to use the "Pendulum-Technologies-Device" (Should be patented by Koen and I would included in the manifesto tool kit) My advice would be to have a pendulum point. Love-hate pencil and love-hate computers with pendulum movements. Don,t think old technologies are old n obsolete. And try not to feel in heaven with the new. The new turns old fashion very soon. Robert said that very well. But,s true the India ink on the paper, blotted!, And with that new program . . . if not in heaven at least in the limbo! After all is the same that had happened to you. First good memories and then oh, India ink on the paper!, just have to wait to go back to other side. But please, don,t look at the "old" as a museum piece as you did!, I think I prefer it abandoned in the garage, hoping someday be re-discovered!. BTM: I love your story! (obviously). But the good thing is that regular people can buy it, to use it here on planet earth. 🙂 There was a thread about it: Computers+design http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th... | |||||
| Thanks for looking guys.... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | tick | General discussion | |
| Thanks for looking guys.... Thanks for looking guys. Eameshead, the chair above is my favourite design by Grant Featherston. He is Australia's best known mid-century designer. I agree, the colour is magic. I have included a link to the Grant Featherston Archive for you and I think the catalogue is a great introduction to Australian mid-century furniture design. It's a hard cover book and the photographs are sumptuous. Thanks for the Andrews tip Heath. I have the book already and think Gordon Andrews is our greatest designer of the period. The original Rondo chair (pictured below)is a thing of rare beauty. For those interested, check out Australian mid-century designers such as Gordon Andrews, Grant Featherston, Ckement Meadmore, Fred Lowen, George Korody and Schulum Krimper. Cheers, Tick. http://www.featherston.com.au | |||||
| ebay blows | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| ebay blows There's not really a great way to sell things like this these days. Even on craigslist things seem to be marked down super low for fast selling. I have sold a few things on craigslist in the Austin area, and I had to sell them super cheap. Ebay is getting more and more full of crap. People are misleading about what they have and the condition. Plus people expect you to sell the item for well below what it's worth to compensate for high shipping costs. Furniture is always so costly to ship. It's not like we are collecting baseball cards here! I think your best bet is Craigslist in a decent market, but like I said, you'll have to be patient to sell it for what it's worth. And at least you don't have to get duped because of shipping costs. And you don't have to go trough the insane hassle of shipping and packing furniture. I had to ship and pack an Eames sofa myself once. It was no damn fun. It look me all night to get that thing packed well, not to mention it was a pain in the ass to get it to the shipper. | |||||
| Can anyone help me to ID this Danish Design Lounge Sofa | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | designerd | Identification | |
| hello everybody, hope these "can anyone id..." questions are not to annoying...:-) i woud like to know more about my beloved leather combo. thousands of hours i chilled on it. very comfortable. the only thing to identify is a sticker at the chrome? Steel? element: "Kjøge Denmark" i spend the last two days with google but i couldnt find a sign... nothing about Kjøge Furniture or a Designer..... the first time in my life, that google dont helped me.... here are the pictures: thanks in advance 🙂 | |||||
| label this | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| label this first of all, buying authorized furniture has nothing to do with being a "label slave" Notice when buying a Knoll Womb Chair or other authorized furiture that the label is not noticable, versus a Louis Voutton handbag with the damn label all over it. When your buying an authorized piece of furniture, tt sets a level of respect for the human mind who came up with the idea, as well as the quality of construction that backs it up. However, if you or friend want to buy unauthorized furniture, thats your business. To answer your question, Corbusier quality reproductions of this piece are harder to find than other designers. Look for key thing in construction like tube angle, that are a bended to and not cornered to a 90 degree angle and nylon webbing and not springs for pad supports. Also leather and foam quality are important components. Good luck on finding your perfect ripoff LC2 styled furniture | |||||
| Yes it does actually! My a... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| Yes it does actually! My a... Yes it does actually! My appreciation for this chair comes from the fact that it is designed to ship completely flat - keeping costs down. I think it's a very utilitarian design - meant to perform first and be aesthetically pleasing second. The legs are rather plain - but how else could they look when it it performing the task with the minimum of parts? It needed 4 lightweight, low profile metal legs .... anything to that program looks vaguely like an "H" base. I think it's a good example of affordable good design that's actually pretty damn great. Most other options at $99 are not nearly as fresh - at best, they are usually poorly built knock offs. While this chair could remind us of McCobbs fiberglass chair, I think it is a function of function ... the way the chair is designed to fold out. The engaging of the end user (to bend it into shape) is another thing I like about this chair. When you involve the user, you pull on their sentimental heart strings - your design develops a relationship with the buyer. Anyone who has ever built something knows the attachment you get to that object - because of being involved with it. | |||||
| Great thread, poach. | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | tktoo | General discussion | |
| Great thread, poach. Impressive job on the repair, too. Thanks for posting the link. About the only thing I might have done differently would have been to use woven "s" glass laid biaxially rather than chopped-fiber mat. I've done some boat repairs using West System epoxies and I'm kind of a fan. Their website is a great resource for anyone considering using composites. For regluing HM shock mounts, I've had good results using PC-7. There are some new products that I've been hearing good things about that might be good alternatives, like West System's "G-Flex" and 3M's "Plexus", but I haven't yet heard of them used for this application. As far as the face veneer on your chair is concerned, I agree with SDR in that filling and inpainting is the logical approach. I'd use magnification, the tiniest of artist's brushes (#0000), artist's acrylics thinned down to nearly transparent, and hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny short brush strokes working from lighter base colors to darker. It's never gonna be perfect, though. | |||||
| Thanks SDR. | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Eameshead | Off topic | |
| Thanks SDR. Yes, Novato California. A little valley town that only had about 5,000 people then…. It has 50,000 + now. Highway 101 was only two lanes in each direction, and had a stop light right IN the highway! The overpass went in in 1971, the year I graduated high school. Re the anomaly… Isn't that just due to the loosely (sloppily) illustrated perspective thing happening in the brochure that cause the change in shape to the lower windows? But I do understand that you are saying it changes the RELATIVE shapes of the rectangles. I think… (unless you are saying it happened in the houses themselves, but I don't think so) Believe it or not, I have one or two of those same original brochures floating around here somewhere it even has my mother's math scribblings on it (she was trying to figure out the various prices and commissions for each floor plan, etc.) The home prices in the late 50's were something in the low to mid- teens! We never ever changed the single pane windows. That is nothing though… my wife was raised in an Alliance home in Terra Linda (seven miles south) that had NO HEATER. They actually were sold with only a fireplace for heat. I know California is supposed to have good weather and everything, but jesus… it gets below freezing quite often in the winter in the valleys around here.. | |||||
| Regis Philbin | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Regis Philbin is a doofus -- that is, an embarrassment to American television. My Regis Philbin story: Thirty or more years ago, Philbin signed on as sidekick to Joey Bishop (!), on a new bottom-rung daytime talk show. On the episode I witnessed, guest Bette Davis took out a cigarette while host Bishop was telling a story. Noticing this, Philbin picked up the silver coffee-table lighter and held it toward Miss Davis. As she bent forward, cigarette in mouth, lips pursed, Philbin flicked on the lighter -- and then had his attention drawn (ever the syncophant) to the Bishop punchline, causing him to pull away from the cigarette as Davis bent further to reach the drifting lighter, the camera following the whole thing . . . Priceless! I wonder who got the rough edge of Bette's tongue after THAT one. . . | |||||
| Is this an Alvar Aalto Screen? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| I bought this solid pine screen yesterday thinking it was possibly Alvar Aalto. But it has a wavy top, not a straight top. My feelings won't be hurt if it's not the real thing, I only paid $22 for it. | |||||
| There are English words for... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| There are English words for... There are English words for the names of countries and there are the names used in those countries, as someone said above. That's not the same thing as pronouncing an individual's name correctly. LRF, there are audio pronunciation guides online for many languages but only for the basic sounds of letters and dipthongs. I found one for Finnish after arguing with a friend about how to pronounce "Iittala". It seemed pretty straightforward. I think it's pronounced "EE-tah-la". Saarinen would be "SAIR-ee-nen", I think, with a little roll to the R. Best guess after going over the written guide and listening to other words. I dunno about the first names, though. I just happen to like language and I enjoy sitting around discussing stuff like this and learning new things. I've had a lot of fun with our Danish friends just talking about words and sounds of our respective languages. They laugh at my attempts to say words like "bøg" and "blå" and I laugh when they try to say "thirty-three". It's amazing how difficult it is to get certain sounds when you haven't grown up hearing them. http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/paivir/finnish/pronunc.html | |||||
| Dear DR | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear DR I don't think that there are that many "experts" on this forum. Altough I have done this profession (industrial design) for quite some time, I am still faced with more questions than answers. Someone has said it before: the more you know the more you know what you don't. Designing s not an easy thing to do, but in this world we do not have to be all in the same segment. It is one of the advantages of communication that you can reach like minded people wherever they are. I would never encourage someone not to get an education, but there are many ways to get educated and quite frankly, many formal educations are not worthy of the name. There is certainly no caste system and many designers have proven that age is no issue either. The Suisse/French architect Le Corbusier was trainedas a watchmaker and started to take architecture seriously after 50. Look around, find yourself someone in whom's work you feel confident and that you would trust as a mentor. Any decent human being will help you with advise and direction. A was ten or eleven before I received a toy from Santa Claus instead of useful things like a pair of shoes,.. not a sign of economical comfort, and yet I was represented in the collection of the MoMA in NY before I turned 35. Present social status should not have any influence on the possibilities of making a creative contribution to the material well being and culture of one's society. | |||||
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