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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Knoll is't that great quality, buy a knock-off. | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | End User | General discussion | |
| Knoll is't that great quality, buy a knock-off. Over the past few years I have purchased several pieces of furniture, directly from Knoll Studio. Frankly, I'm just not that impressed. Of the three transactions I have had with them, I have had two deffective and had to request replacements. They got my address wrong and delivered stuff to the wrong address! Lead times are absolutly rediculous. And for those of you who actually care that a product has a label on it indicating that is was made by "Knoll", well half of the things you get don't even have a name or sticker on it anywhere, so it makes it harder to "protect" your investment by getting something "offical" that you might be able to re-sell as a licensed reproduction. I have also found this to be the case on Herman-Miller products. Bought a Nogouchi table direct from H.M. -- there's not a damn thing on it saying it was made by H.M. My Womb chair from Knoll had a silly adhesive sticker on the bottom that just fell off... Maybe someone here want's to buy my sticker? 😉 So, if you don't get fantastic quality or service from the licensed producer, why not buy a knock-off anyway? c_da@peskin.net | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| . wow. prices have really come down. This is our Delta. We have an earlier model. And a workhorse. The blades have two edges and easily switched and rotated. Not sure eucalyptus likes a power planer? No experience with it. A planer does one thing really well if set up properly. Level surfaces... the table jig set-up. Sniping issues. And much material loss. Depending on your log size? Would cutting down on a bandsaw and hand planing be more valuable? Not sure. A re-sawing bandsaw. Big power. So many different tools needed for specific jobs. A bit of research i suppose. Or someone consulted that has that specific experience. We felled some large trees and need a to have a traveling mill visit in the spring. And our farm in the Catskill Mnts has large old fruit trees that we have played with. I've got the attention span of a gypsy moth. Fortunately my work is problem solving. No day the same. http://www.amazon.com/DELTA-ShopMaster-TP305-2-Inch-Portable/dp/B0007DFW... | |||||
| RE: Louis Poulsen PH5 (1960s) rewire | 1 Relevance | 2 years ago | rca60 | Repair | |
| Thank you so much for all the replies! It’s all so helpful. The fraying is just right above the shade and it seems to just be the cloth. The socket seems to be a simple rewire that are connected to screw terminals — so I’m debating on re-cutting the cord and wiring the socket from a cleaner section. The wires are however brown and blue. As long as I match this up to the US black and white correctly (brown to black for hot wire and blue to white for cold wire) would this create an issue for installation in the US? Another thing I realized is that the porcelain socket is much larger than the standard e26 bulb. I think this socket may use a e39/ mogul bulb? If this is true, has anyone installed an e39 to e26 adaptor in these older sockets? And is this safe? @tktoo and @cripes_a_mighty does needing only 2 wires without a ground also apply to hardwired lights? It seems most European lights have just two wires and the grounding happens at the switch or something..would it be okay @tktoo sorry to hear about your fathers 1958 Rolex - it was painful to read! | |||||
| RE: Under contract for a mid-century home... | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | Cloudburst2000 | General discussion | |
| Posted by: leif ericson - Zephyr Renner Congratulations. Polished concrete floors are beautiful (although not something they did back then). Thanks! Yeah, I realize that polished concrete wasn't really the 'thing' back then. However, I like the look and the durability especially with pets. I plan on having the concrete floors finished throughout the home. For the bathroom, I plan on buying a vintage pedestal sink (and maybe a matching toilet). The tub/shower will be new as I plan on having a 6 foot tub installed. I want the bathroom to look as original to the home as possible. Plus, I just like that vintage look. Anyone have good recommendations on kitchen cabinets that won't break the bank but go well in a mid-century home? I would like something with more of a teak type of finish (doesn't have to be teak). | |||||
| A big part of their market is | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| A big part of their market is people with deep pockets who hire interior designers to do up their places and shop for stuff for them. Designers typically get a percentage of the budget for a project, so the higher the price, the bigger their cut. 1stDibs gives dealers a venue where they can reach this market and where the market can reach them without a lot of running around (online or locally) and maybe not finding what they want. Dealers have to go through a vetting process, too. I don't know what all that entails but I do know you can't just register on the site and start selling. Dealers have to maintain a certain volume of inventory, too, and 1stDibs' cut isn't exactly peanuts. And one other thing---just because something is listed for $2,000 doesn't mean that's what it will sell for. Many times dealers will accept lower offers. I used to get annoyed at them but once I understood what they're about I got over that---it's actually a pretty great resource when researching mystery pieces or figuring out what original upholstery, webbing, weaving, etc. should look like. They have the best photos and often there are shots of small but very significant details that just aren't visible in most other photos online. | |||||
| la fonda | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| la fonda I am always the first to say i do not know it all but this chair i know it all as i have been collecting these for years and have done a lot of research on this chair true the chair was designed by Eames for Girards project at the Lafonda Del sol in Nyc Time life bldg in 1962 Herman miller put the chair in production in 1968 to 1978 the universities started buying them with out the covers at that time, the bases were done in flat black green and were so ugly, I have recovered so many of these chairs, and they left the factory with a solid encapsulated vinyl were the hold thing can be removed, and soaked to clean it up if it has not set to long I bought 20 2 years ago from the University of Texas sold 10 to a dealer and he cleaned them up and sold them on ebay and they were perfect . at no time has that chair ever had that phony sticker on it, that is not even a Herman miller sticker at all it looks like a sticker to a clock by george nelson with some idiot trying to pull a fast one the chair is real as no company as ever made a fake of that chair, here is my chair | |||||
| I also can't imagine it is | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I also can't imagine it is from another manufacturer. There must be a dowel in both versions of the joint. It distributes the stress of leaning back in the chair across the weak area of short side grain plywood. Without a dowel the backrest would split off the first time a persons tilts back in the chair. There is simply too much short side grain to bear the stress alone. This general area can crack apart from the dowel inside levering it open. The odd thing is that the finger joint doesn't address this much, as the weakest point is at the top of the lever, i.e. the top of the dowel, which is maybe an inch to inch and a half up. I guess in a naturally weak area every little bit helps? That routed finger joint and dole pegged joint must have been hard to make. Requires a lot of accuracy and some very good jigs. They are lovely chairs, but be gentle with them. | |||||
| I am not sure what you're ask... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | keewee | General discussion | |
| I am not sure what you're ask... I am not sure what you're asking. Since you didn't tell us the price you were asking, I can only assume it was too high. All the prices you see on-line are retail. A lot of those people sit on those "valuable" items for years and years. If you're selling it on CL, you're basically looking for a buyers that is willing to spend 3 grand for upholstery, their time and effort plus whatever you're asking. In my opinion, you won't find that on CL. At the end of the day, it's just stuff. If you're spending that much mental energy on it, I'd let it go. I value my time more than I do things. I see a lot of people at the end of their life. Their homes are filled with "valuable" things. They spent their lives working for big homes to store garbage. Some of them can't even move in their houses at the end of their lives. I'd set it free at whatever price someone will buy it at and never think twice about it. Otherwise stick it in the garage, move it from house to house for the next several decades, knowing in your heart of heart that you're never going to spend 3k on it but at the same time you're just too cheap to let it go to someone for nothing. When you're dead and gone they probably won't be able to get 20 bucks for it at your estate sale. Complete waste of a thing to have spent your life on, but everyone's got different ideas. | |||||
| Picking up | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Picking up on one or two of the points that have been made so far: the issue of money as an incentive to designers, and of the ever-forward-looking designer (artist). D J De Pree (of Herman Miller) and Charles Eames both hoped to lower the price of the plywood chair. "We intended it to retail at $15," D J said. "I worked very hard to find a way to get the chair down to that price, but we never did." Optimists and futurists often express the hope of making "the good life" available to all. Reality often gets in the way. Many distrust Wright's intention to build affordable homes, because only a couple of his Usonians were actually built cheaply. That fact doesn't mean that it wasn't a sincere wish of the architect to provide good design to the public. As to looking forward instead of back, it may be only those who have actually done the "good thing" who can leave it behind in search of something better. The rest of us become the faithful, ceaselessly celebrating something we can enjoy only vicariously ? [I'm quite fond of Seidler; one of his earlier houses contains a low cabinet with lighting behind, which spreads above and below (according to the photos), an effect that I live with in my own rooms.] | |||||
| 1st dibs | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Does any one look at 1st dibs? I look at the web site every week and love to look at the great furniture but am amazed at the crazy prices that these really sorry interior design stores think that they can charge . Example $2800 . for a pair of Karl Springer lamps that they more than likely got on ebay for $60.00 for the pair and more than likely are not really signed Karl Springer. I sold a very nice Valdermere Kagan table for 350. with the lucite legs to a great store for 350. I saw it on 1st dibs for 4800.00 . I am all for these clowns getting a million for any thing they can ( the American way ) but a jacobsen egg chair ($10.000) or Eames buckets for 500.00 (ebay 100 tops and perfect ) and the list goes on as they keep making up prices a jacobsen egg chair in top price on ebay 3500.00 with nice footrest, I would love to know the suckers that actually buy from these people and hope they realize that they are getting ripped off., by a bunch of greedy store owners who are just waiting to kill a fat hog. yes I know they have rent and expenses bu that is just out of line tell me what you think | |||||
| Donald's success is | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | SDR | Off topic | |
| Donald's success is symptomatic of a very disturbing development in America's collective soul; something about "the chickens coming home to roost" ? One can only hope that it will serve as a wake-up call to citizens and voters of all stripes, leading to a much-needed national conversation and perhaps an improvement in relations among all. Or, it could be the beginning of the end. It certainly has already caused a major rift in the Republican Party -- a good thing ? It never ceases to amaze me to see the way candidates are treated with kid gloves by the news-media, who should be performing the public service, in their unique role, by calling out every misstatement of fact that issues from the mouths of these geeks, on a daily if not an hourly basis. The lies -- misstatements of historical fact -- that major Congressional figures perpetrated following Justice Scalia's death were astounding -- and went almost completely unchallenged by the media. Campaign season is truly a circus, or a piece of show business, in America at any rate ! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | cada | General discussion | |
| . Thanks for sharing the image Simon, the round table in the picture is the same design as the one I have. The thing that took me to be looking at S&A was that the chairs that this was bought with (by my in-laws) are Erik Buck Oddense Maskinsnedkeri, with all their original Domus Danica stickers on. I can see that mine obviously isn't S&A, but am I correct in thinking that this same design of table (Kai Kristiansen?) could have been produced by another manufacturer should demand have necessitated it? Could it have been Esbjerg Senge Møbelfabrik? Maybe the stamp that I photgraphed does lack for clarity, but it's stamped quite a few times (maybe a over zealous child did do it!) underneath, and the faintest images are the clearest, with 'Made in Denmark' beautifully clear underneath the MSE; the S being larger and stylised. The chairs are in our place in Ibiza, and I'm planning on a reunion with the table, which has enjoyed a meths cleanse this morning. The teak is stunning, and the extension leaves can be used either way up, in that grain on both sides is perfect. Thanks for your help and time once again Simon, I love to see those original catalogue images. Claire | |||||
| reverse the process | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| reverse the process I have written this before as an answer to similar questions. The best thing is to start on the wrong end. Your first visit should be the store or showroom where you would expect to buy something like your design. Not any furniture store, no THE furniture store. Show them your design. Usually they have a better understanding of what the consumer wants than many manufacturers. Ask them one simple question: Who would you think would, amoung your suppliers, be the best distributor or manufacturer for this. When you subsequently turn to a distributor or a manufacturer you have at least an interesting story to tell: I showed this to one of your better clients (tell them who) and according to them, you would be the most suitable distributor or manufacturer...and so one. Until you are sitting in front of the person that will take the decision. Yes you can look up the addresses of the large Italian or Scandinavian editors or manufacturers...but your chances are small. They are looking for established names or brand strategies and I could be proven wrong, but I don't think that you are there yet. Last but not least, do not worry too much about being copied. First of all it is not as common as most people think, secondly, you are not someone with one idea, you are a fontain of ideas, so...one lost, who cares, last but not least, even a copy is a good reference. Good luck...hope to see you on the market! | |||||
| Refinishing Slat bench | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Hi all, Just wondering if anyone may have any tips or links to any tutorials on how I should go about refinishing a slat bench I recently picked up? The wood is in good condition but there are some areas that make me just want to refinish the whole thing and start a new. I know its going to be hard because of the slats. Also how might I go ahead and replace the wood that has the inlets to screw the legs into? The current pieces of wood feel like they have weakened over the years. Please see the pictures attached. Thank you, Cody | |||||
| Karl Springer | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Does the name Karl Springer mean any thing to you readers . Karl Springer was one of the great Interior desiners of the 70's and 80's who died in 1990 at the age of 60 of AIDS. Poor Karl ... his name is so missued for any lucite lamp that is sold on ebay . .He truly designed several great Lucite lamps but every person who has a lucite lamp that they find at a estate sale or flee market for 10.00 bucks runs to ebay and puts the lamp on ebay saying it is a Karl Springer lamp, hopeing that some jug head from first dibs will buy it and sell it to some unsuspecting fool for 1400.00 under the guise that it is a long lost Karl Springer .. BUYERS beware that Karl Springer only designed a small amount of lucite lamps and then signed them with his initials K.S. or a little plack that said from the design studios of Karl Springer. just remember folks Lucite is the next hot item It is poised to take off for the 4th time after its invention after wide use from WW2. | |||||
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