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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| In the early days of Ebay, I... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Poach | General discussion | |
| In the early days of Ebay, I... In the early days of Ebay, I was amazed at the number of knockoff Eames lounge chairs that were listed with "authentic","Herman Miler" or "genuine." Sometimes the seller would add a question mark, which made me wonder if they were really uncertain, or just wanted to avoid culpability for their inaccurate claims. My favorite misinformed listing referred to Charles and Ray as the "Eames brothers." So for a couple months, I took it upon myself to email each of them, pointing out the differences between their chairs and the real thing, often sending marked up photographs to illustrate the discrepancies, and answering multiple follow-up questions. About half the time, the seller would thank me, and change the description to reflect the new information. About half ignored me. There was, however, one seller who sent me back an email full of expletives, telling me it was none of my business. In turn, I emailed the information to all the bidders, whose business it really was. | |||||
| What's in your fridge? | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| As I pondered my open fridge, deciding what we needed to get today and drinking V8 from the bottle (yes, women do this too), it occured to me that the inner landscape of our fridge says a lot about my hubby and I. We love to cook, love to feed people and love to experiment. We've got everything from Spanish anchovies to Vietnamese sambal to saukraut in there, all snuggled up next to Laurent Perrier, several bottles of Red Bicyclette Rose, every bar-mixer known to mankind and last week's chinese take-away. Our condiment stock is staggering, who knew any two people could need so many kinds of mustard!?! We tend to shop 'euro' style buying fresh things daily, so we seem to store only staples, booze and leftovers (besides the Visigoth hordes of condiments, that is). I guess my fridge clearly labels us yuppie urbanites. However we're in our mid-fourties and live in the woods 50+ miles from Boston. So maybe Food-addict and Design-addict aren't the same thing after all. But somehow, I get a feeling there's a link. Thoughts, anyone? | |||||
| I need my fellow DA'ers informed opinion | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| A couple of pictures of my home in New Mexico are posted as a sneak peak on the Blog/e-zine Apartment Therapy this month. They're not the best shots but, hey what t the heck, it's kinda fun. I have no problem with the criticism I got from readers but I have to say that I'm a bit confused by one of the statements and I wondered if you all would have a more educated/informed way of describing it. It was said that my style, or the home, not sure which, 'lacks cohesion'. I'm a bit puzzled by that, our stuff is almost universally mid-century modern or following that aesthetic. Lots of natural, honest materials with clean lines and a noticable asian-ness. If anything, I'm guilty of a little too much consistency and I try to go outside the box occassionally. So can anyone explain what you think the poster was really trying to tell me? I have no intention of changing a thing, but it would be nice to have a bit of comprehension! I'm wondering if tmaybe the poster means that they don't like when the architecture and the furnishings aren't all of the same period or style, which, personally, I'd find dull! http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/house-tours/kerrys-modernist-take-on-adobe-style-house-call-138617 | |||||
| lucifersum | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| lucifersum No LUCIFERSUM i never said one thing about the eames foundation selling that house!!!!!! that is your own interpertation as you usually make them and always like to recite that this is a highly regarded international forum ..... and love to dog any ones ass that you can to show how smart you think you are..... ..... i stated and once again for your benefit I was told that the house is not in good shape and needs to be looked after in simple words it looks awful ... this was told to me by one of the the most reliable sources in the US in architecture and art who could write a check to fix the property up with one days wages .... and has done that on several occasions , For a US Icon of modern homes and of a famous couple this place looks bad !!!!!!! Koen stated Herman miller should help , said it is the family who benifts from the Royalty they should pay to fix up .... did you dog him???? some else said how much to make another one just like it . I stated the dirt alone was worth around 15 million cause of the location the house less than a million cause of where it is and the condition Now Lucifer ...... i said if they don't want to fix it up maybe they have a reason ? my own interperation not the Eames Foundation ... if you don't like what i say to damn bad !!!! I am intitled to my opion just like Koen, Dc Wilson, SDR, Glassart . go dog them about something they say and get off my ass!!!!! i stand by my commets as my own!!!!! | |||||
| Signature ID: Italian Hand-Thrown Ceramic and Glass Torchiere | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | kvcvch | Identification | |
| Hey all, I've been trying to ID this thing off and on for a while. It's a very high-end torchiere, comprised of hand-thrown ceramic with a bulbous glass connector in the middle. The signature is located under the base. Any thoughts appreciated! | |||||
| The photos are kind of small, | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | tchp | General discussion | |
| The photos are kind of small, but one thing that strikes me is the very vertical aspect of the rear leg, like it is just straight up and down, with no cant to it. Also, where it meets the side stretcher of the chair seat, that part of the chair also seems like is has little or no slant to it. The front stretcher also looks a little thick, and the edges seem quite angular and sharp, whereas the real chairs have very soft, rounded edges to the front, back, and side pieces. | |||||
| Request for Tom Kundig analysis.... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| I would like for someone to look at the architecture of Tom Kundig just posted on the blog and explain to me how he is getting his effects. I find his buildings exceptional, but I cannot explain how he is getting his effects. Usually I can at least make a guess, but his work evidences heaps of "irreducible unity" of design to my eye. He pretty much stays with rectangles. I sense some Louis Kahn in his work. Frankly, his work also kind of reminds me in some ways of the occassional rectilinear efforts of Hans Wegner in furniture. I don't want a lot of touchy feel-y vagaries how he respects the American west's landscape. I want the aesthetic nuts and bolts about how he is taking shoe boxes and laying them on their sides sometimes, and standing them up on end other times, and getting these striking, timeless buildings. Good lord. A rolling structure on concrete wheels. Utterly counter intuitive and yet utterly right looking. He's doing that thing that I talk about some times when I say some designer is making his work seems like it has been there forever and yet seems utterly new. | |||||
| everyday goodness | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| chairs chairs too many chairs... Maybe its a brand loyalty thing but the consistency, fair price, design and presentation of some things just can't be beat. Some of my favourites, and yes these companies are paying me packets. | |||||
| I do not know about writing,... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I do not know about writing,... but in design we learn that if you use humor or irony you have to combine it with a demonstration of "good" design or proper undertsanding of the product some of Alessi's or Koziol's product are good demonstrations of it. The contrast between the "funny" part and the serious part makes the user or observer understand that the funny part is intentional and not another garden gnome. Philippe Starck's fixtures do that quite well to. The proportion betweeen shade and rifle is good and he does not give in to temptations like making the trigger into the lamp switch...but it is borderline. Translated in writing one could do the same thing. In this case I think more of us would have understood the humor if something had been added to show that dcwilson is indeed well known on the forum like..." you must be new to the forums - a photo would really help us out, as well as a lengthy and elaborate essay in which I personally encourage the use of as many unusual words as possible..." I lack the talent to make it work, but I hope you understand my intention...So could writing be designed? | |||||
| my take | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| my take I can hardly pretend that I am answering a lot of "...ID this or that questions..." Most of the time it is not because I am irritated by them, but simply because the piece is just not worth it. To collect or being interested in a particular time period rather than a certain level of quality, no matter the period, is one of the sad by-products of collecting or having an interest for that particular time period. But I am not tempted by imagining a DA without them, and so I will not join that chorus. I am sure that DA is a different thing for different people and that?s fine with me. I am not irritated either by people that expect one?s opinion to be compressed in two sentences. DA has always been a tolerant and very accessible place and I hope it will stay that way. To start categorizing means starting on a slippery slope where not one but two, three, four or five categories will be created in no time. Alix and Patrick have through bad and somewhat better times kept this virtual space going without much interference, with much generosity and as far as I know with the same passion that makes a lot of us reach ever so often for our favourites and go down the list to DesignAddict. In real live we cross paths with people that we will only see that one time. Others, with whom we share work hours or other habits, become familiar faces. Some are our colleagues some family and loved ones etc. Cyberspace does not seem to be all that different. | |||||
| "It was basically a wash". | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| "It was basically a wash". It's to be expected that a leather chair in a desirable color would cost almost exactly as much at auction as a fabric chair plus leather reupholstery; that's just basic economics, and it's why you'll never get a good deal by buying a chair with decent fabric upholstery and reupholstering it in leather. Here's the thing: If a chair's upholstery is trashed, the difference in price between leather and fabric no longer applies. It doesn't matter whether the unusable upholstery is leather or fabric; either way, the chair will sell for the cost of a good fabric chair minus the cost of fabric reupholstery, NOT for the much higher cost of a good leather chair minus the cost of leather reupholstery. So for the most bang for your buck, find a structurally-good Egg with horribly damaged leather or fabric upholstery, then reupholster it in leather. | |||||
| Eames LCW - Aniline Red - A few questions | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Sandman1600 | General discussion | |
| I've spotted this LCW for sale recently. It's aniline red rather than the newer painted ones. Condition looks excellent. Does anyone know when the aniline ones went out of production? I'm trying to date this thing and from the condition, I'm guessing it's a newer production. Any advice would be appreciated! Steve | |||||
| I question the attribution | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Buck Rogers | General discussion | |
| I question the attribution It would seem that unless there is a solid reference, the attribution is false but we have to always keep in mind that this is never a truth until we find a certain attribution to this particular table. I.e, lack of evidence of attribution is not evidence of no evidence. I dislike straylights abruptness and sometimes over confidence in his attributions as he sometimes puts a foot wrong (rarely), but I think he is on the money on this one. When comparing other Singer & Sons products one thing does stick out - the immaculate and well positioned dovetailing/connections where it counts. On these Travertine tables the way the legs connect to the top brace is just not right. I have a friend who has this entire set of end tables and the large round coffee table and the quality of how the wood is connected is just not up to par with Singer & Sons quality. If you compare the woodwork and quality workmanship on how the parts fit together, this table just does not fit the bill. I think straylight is right, because he knows and has studied the base references, and because from a design point of view, the way these tables are put together is not high quality - the connections are not top end. | |||||
| What on earth is this? | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | razbox | Identification | |
| Hello,I inherited an uncle's spare furniture and it included this huge round plastic sqaure/circular thing. I have no idea what it is. Help?! | |||||
| how come | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| how come when I went to three big San Francisco furniture collectives yesterday, I saw almost NO Eames, or high quality mid century pieces? The only thing that doesn't last at these places is Eames, Nelson, and on down the list. In three HUGE such collectives with about 40 dealers in each, I saw exactly 5 Eames pieces and 6 Nelson pieces all day. Hardly any McCobb at all, and on down the line. Doesn't seem like a slowdown to me. Then, visiting a high end SF mid century dealer on the same day, I saw three Eames pieces in poor shape- but ALL had already been sold to another dealer. No other Eames pieces available. Lots of Scandinavian pieces, and a couple of very pricey Luther Conover pieces, and one Nelson Clock. Just sayin'. Ebay and a couple of other large venues have indeed altered the MCM landscape. That part is pretty clear. The bricks and mortar dealer prices now seem to reflect the prices achieved on ebay. But the advantage of seeing a piece first hand cannot be overstated. | |||||
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