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	My Panton Home, sorry, I need	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	My Panton Home, sorry, I need to keep this fabric for my own purposes, plus it does have a weave flaw in it that I can cut around but that will screw things up for most other purposes. It was probably originally a remnant that someone got for cheap and then never used. BUT---the good news is that Maharam/Kvadrat Hallingdal is essentially the same thing and remnants are available online all the time. Ebay and also Modern-Fabrics.com are both excellent sources. Good luck!
	That's cool...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	DudeDah	General discussion
	That's cool... I can understand it from an environmental standpoint but imagine that our landfills are full of just as many household goods/appliances/furnishings/finishes as anything else. I have to admit that I am an Apple freak, I work in an industry where a great many of their products are "tools of the trade" but, at the same time, am not necessarily a fanboy if you will. I would love to see someone do things "better" than Apple, but they seem to have a legacy of innovation that is pretty admirable and tends to define "the new now". I guess I just found it ironic that we were discussing the collection of stuff stuff stuff to be a bad thing when the majority us here are trying to add to our collections of household goods/appliances/furnishings/finishes on a seemingly constant basis. Now, if the discussion is limited to ANY OF THESE OBJECTS making us cool simply by owning them, well then, I've been thinking a lot lately that unless you are the innovator/designer yourself, then you're way behind the eight ball and already a sheep. BUT If we let any of this stuff define us (innovator or collector alike), well, we have bigger problems.
	Poodle chunks?….. speechless.	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Eameshead	Off topic
	Poodle chunks?….. speechless. I better stick to haiku less complicated . Yeah SDR, I would think that same thing about the surface of the moon… but there it is! It should look a bit darker at the edges. Perhaps it's the vast size and intensity of the sun, coupled with the lack of atmosphere and high contrast of the blackness that surrounds the moon? You remember that total eclipse we had late last summer? When fully eclipsed, the moon DID show more volume. It was a soft pink orange, illuminated only by ambient or indirect light, and was actually darkest near the center (sort of like the "core shadow" in an academically rendered sphere when lit from two sides simultaneously) So I think its the sheer size and intensity of the sun that obliterates all subtlety in the relatively small speck that is the moon. Perhaps a heavily filtered (dark film) view of the moon might show more variation at the edges? Or maybe you should just ask that guy who wrote the book of answers to weird questions that you posted before. I bet he would know. I would be interested in his answer.
	19 across the front,	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	19 across the front, 19 across the back, and for the sides, a nail every half inch starting pretty close to the corners. The nails on the back and front should start about 1/2 from the corners. So yes, that comes out to about 80, I guess, but the spacing on the sides is much closer than on the front and back rails. There was a big discussion about that weaving material here pretty recently---it's actually a flat braid made of wool and it's no long made, sadly! No one here has found a replacement yet. I looked and looked on several occasions. The closest thing I could think of was maybe a trim made for traditional ethnic costumes for northern or eastern European countries. You know how they have those outfits with flat trim sewn around the hems of skirts or whatever. I know Panduro Hobby used to sell something like that years ago when I lived in Denmark but I'm not sure it was wool. I just remember looking at it and thinking how it wasn't available in the US and how nice the quality looked.
	A nice guyYour...	1 Relevance	12 years ago	difeliciantonio	General discussion
	A nice guyYour... nice guy Your assumption makes you look like just how the word starts off, an ass. You have no facts to base your judgment off of. I would be more than happy to compare my transcripts to perhaps yours. I wrote all these post up on my phone. What auto correct does is its own business. also my phone likeS to skip to different lineS while I am writing a post Making a 2 million dollar baseball card and fake money serves no other purpose than to deceive others . I like the table and i made it for my personal use. Who am I deceiving? Maybe you just feel butthurt Because somehow my 10$ replica makes your ltr or ellipcal table real or copy devalued Since I made the same thing for pennies compared to both rep and real alike? And I am pretty sure many of the eames designs where created as affordable entry level Furnishings for returning GIs. I don't see how a 3000$ esu shelf is considered affordable. I could see a ltr being a 60-80$ item but 200-300? Really? I bet ikea items cost more to manufacture than this
	Matching	1 Relevance	18 years ago	Riki	General discussion
	Matching Funny story re: buying things to match color scheme. I once owned a bookstore and as you well know, big arty coffee table books are quite expensive. I had a customer who was a doctor's wife who needed help finding a blue and yellow coffee table book. I asked if her if she had a specific title in mind regarding the colors blue and yellow or blue and yellow pottery or what, because I was confused. No, friends, she didn't care what the subject matter was. She just wanted a big, impressive book that had a cover on it that would go in her blue and yellow room. Easy sale. Whitespike, I respectfully disagree with you regarding copying a Mondrian. I don't see a thing wrong if mjhaynes wants to paint a canvas for his/her own pleasure for his/her own use in the style of Mondrian, Calder or Dr. Seuss or Marvel comics. She/he is not trying to sell it or deceive anybody. It seems harmless to me. You seem to see it as a slippery slope from there to serious design infringement.
	PS is taking a very time worn path	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Big Television Man	General discussion
	PS is taking a very time worn path Like many who have achieved big success, and by success I mean acquiring a big enough pile of dough not to ever have to worry about money again, they then feel free to disparage that which made them their "pile" in the first place. They are suddenly free to speak their mind, it's boring and predictable, the only thing that is more deflating is that the media gives them a platform to spout from. Recent comparable examples would be Rosie O'Donnels recent implosions,(both post "The View" and the earlier implosion during the demise of her eponymous talk show) but only after she had banked more money then Croesus. And another example, and I am not singling out gay women here, but Ellen Degenaris came clean with her famous line, "Yep, I'm Gay", only after her series was in it's final contract year and she had banked tens of millions of dollars. I guess that's where the statement; "There's F* You money and then there's F* Everybody money", comes from. The honesty quotient seems to increase the closer one gets to the latter half of the above referenced statement.
	Yes, it's much harder these	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Yes, it's much harder these days to get something special for a lot less than market value (whatever that is). The internet is mostly to blame but the internet has also made it much easier for us collectors to learn about design and to see things that we'd never be aware of otherwise. When I registered here years ago, I thought I had a pretty good grounding in mid-century design; now I know that I knew only a fraction of a percent of what is out there. I can trace most of what I now know to the internet, and after 15+ years of this I'm still seeing something that is new to me nearly every day. I think my main complaint with the way the internet is used is that so many dealers and casual sellers don't know much about copies and designs that are "inspired by" iconic pieces; they see a vague resemblance and assume they've got the real thing (or they know perfectly well what's up but assume their market won't realize it). The public's willingness to pay more for junky stuff drives all the prices up. Another factor is that mid-century modern is still very trendy in general but this will pass eventually. (I'm talking about consumers who put high value on having whatever is new and different from the crowd, and right now it seems like the crowd loves mid-century modern.) That said---there are still bargains out there and I for one am not dropping out of the hunt just yet.
	Ah, good! I thought a soap	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Ah, good! I thought a soap treatment might help. I recently used it on a pretty serious looking stain on some chairs that I wanted to sell without having to reweave all the seats. Only one was stained and the cord in general was in great shape wear-wise. The soap treatment lightened the stain enough that they sold pretty quickly. Whew. Yeah, heating soap does weird things to it. I have had some in a jar for years with water and it's half soft soap and half gel and looks like a real mess. But it's still good. Leif, i figured out the knot thing--I just happened to start working on an early Carl Hansen wishbone and noticed there were not any visible knots on the underside. So the trick is to place them where they end up in the middle layer of the strands. I've seen lots of original wishbones with very visible knots so this is exciting--I really don't like for them to show because I always think well what if someone's laying on the floor near a chair? They'd see the knots. (I know.)
	It is indeed remarkable that	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Snaaf	General discussion
	It is indeed remarkable that on this particular chair the veneer doesn't contain any, or very little, of those for veneer eccentric wood knots. Why would that be? Is this rosewood Brazil rosewood, since this chair is supposedly one of the first from the 60s, or does Brazil rosewood look typically different? Another, actually more important thing: The shock mounts. What do you guys think. The chair is about 50 years old or so, the shocks don't look bad (see pictures), but should I preventative replace them with new ones that buy from Ebay and place myself (I think I can do that)?
	Jeremiah	1 Relevance	18 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	Jeremiah Whether this sounds silly or not - many of us are not concerned whether or not a copy is more or less comfortable. The fact is, whoever designed this piece copied someone else's work. This "designer" or company did nothing more than jump on the bandwagon to make some money. If they wanted to design a handsome recliner that's great. They should have taken this opportunity to bring something new to the world. But, clearly they are more interested in making a buck. Mr. Eames, while I am sure he was also interested in being paid, took the time and energy and risk of doing something incredibly new. That is what most of us are interested in here. Designers and architects that add to the world and build upon history to make a future .... The person or company behind this chair did nothing of the sort. They really didn't design anything. They just infringed on someone else's hard research, development, and work. What people pay for when they buy the real thing is a piece of history. Call me a snob. That's fine. Calling people names will not help your business. If you can't see the validity of what I am saying I question why you're even here. I would rather be a snob than an ignoramus.
	This is fun! I am made to...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	glassartist	General discussion
	This is fun! I am made to... This is fun! I am made to question why I do or do not like an object. If I follow lucifersum's contrasting arguement, I would probably not care for the lcw or Saarinen's pedestal group. But their overall harmony is one of their strengths. I am also not so inclined to take WHC's view of the minimal, floating theory. Having lived with an egg and ottoman for the past 5 years, I don't see that. Instead I see a very solid looking metal base and feet that far from being insubstantial, draw my attention because they clash so much in color, material, and form. The sand spider in my living room actually comes much closer to WHC's ideal for me due to a blending of color and form. I think of it this way; This swan basically looks like a crab. When I see a crab it's legs are an expected thing. If I ripped off its legs and stuck it on a shiny pole, that pole would be jarring. You may not want a crab in your house, but the harmony is vastly superior in the wood leg version. I also wonder how much favor for the office type base is due to it being what we are used to seeing, and therefore it is comfortable to our eyes. Thanks for making me really think this out again folks.
	RE: DA old timers	1 Relevance	7 years ago	SDR	Off topic
	Yay---Spankity ! Oh, goody. Well, that's three of us . . . Jump right into a woodworking challenge---what would I expect ? Bravo, and ole . . . add your own exclamation. I'm surprised and delighted that you've succeeded, as I would have expected the openings to be at least partly caused by/resulting in warping of the original shape of each stave. I'd love to see that tourniquet . . . Look for a video of a guy turning out barrels for some whiskey-maker---I think. Gluing up a form and then turning it is one thing; these guys shape each tapered stave first, and they all squeeze together when forced to and make water-tight joints. Insane and impossible---but they've been doing it for I don't know how many centuries. More soon. Rainy here today, after some very nice weather. No rain at all in Feb---a record for at least a century I think they said. Why toilet paper ? Apparently that's happening all over the world ? Judy Woodruff closed her NewsHour last night with a plea for thoughtfulness and restraint. Geez . . . How do we find Mark ? I'll work on it. In the meantime: Rain comes softly down. Would that it would wash away this pumpkin-headed jerk.
	Koen	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Koen I think setag nailed the point about Stephen's Ikea sponsored junket and Stephen's very aggressive reply quite demonstrated the suspicion that someone who introduces himself as 'well known Sydney journalist' may have a bit of an ego thing going. I don't suppose even Tom Cruise introduces himself as 'a well known Hollywood actor'. Oh and before you say it Stephen I have written a book - only mine's still in print and has an Amazon sales ranking. You didn't meet my point Koen that Ikea's Snille chair is virtually identical to Day's Polyprop - a chair which earned Day royalties for a long time. I suppose its a coincidence that Ikea have produced this shortly after a big resurgence in sales for the Hille original? The Ikea chair looks the way it does not because of any technical demands but because it is a cynical and shameless "me too" copy. That IKEA then tell us that its products are the fruits of their in -house designers (this is my main and still unanswered point) adds insult to injury.
	.	1 Relevance	15 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	. Answer? Good quality plantation grown plywood with low/no formaldeyde glues and slightly thicker veneers, doesn't sound too hard but its the extra mile and the few dollars it costs that you are right about, people won't pay or stop and think and nor do many people know how to recognise quality anymore. There is also blockboard and all the finger jointed pine...From my experience chipboard is the end of the manufacturing line, the best logs would come in and be used for solid or face veneer, second best for cores and once those logs got down to about 7 inches in diameter on the peeler they were chipped and sent over to get pressed into the chipboard, its an effective way of making profit from what is otherwise waste. I'm also a fan of painted finishes over thin veneer or melamine... any DIY-er could sand back something like an Artek piece and with a low nap roller get a good finish when something needs redoing, when thin veneer like that lifts or is bleached by acetone or otherwise stained you've only got a few stripping oppurtunities. Munafuctured board edges are always a problem, I actually quite like the rubbery plastic with the tang that is vibrated into the slot, other than that there is much thicker edge banding available, (blonde edge with black/white melamine...not too bad) its made of about 7 layers of veneer and the machines can wrap it around fairly tight radii, becuase its thick a radiused edge can be routed on, anything made from it tends to chip less becuase anything dropped on it tends to glance off. A particle board edge is aslo so porous that when its edge lgued you don't get nearly the bond as you do on plywood. I think the 7 layer stuff is what Knoll use to make the Gehry woven chair. Aluminium and brass strip is also an option, rather more hardwearing than the usual edgebanding. Sorry that was a bit of a ramble, actually you asked what people who can't afford solid should do...save harder and go without, if people can't see that they save more buying a good thing once then they'll just keep wasting their money and landfills will just keep getting filled, they'll have to keep working to buy more replacemnt rubbish, big business get slaves, governemnt gets more tax to waste on wars... what a tidy circle our economies are! Gosh, total hijack! Sorry to the OP, on the wages thing...I suspect you're right however the average good citizen has also been so thouroughly seduced into the idea that shopping is a leisure activity and that convenience goods are convenient that they are a bit lost in my opinion, very few people in our first world nations have much of a grasp of needs vs wants, if they did there would be enough money in most households to make quality purchases, but hey why do that when cool trainers, food in cans and boxes, drinking, smoking and going to the cinema are so much more appealing? In my opinion we need to look again at the idea of the existenzminumum.