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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| OK. | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| OK. Strip all the webbing from the chair. Go over it with #0000 steel wool and a good teak oil. I wouldn't stain it. Learn to like it in its natural state! It'll look good when rubbed down and oiled. You can buy Pirelli rubber webbing online or get the woven elastic webbing that is a little less expensive. A webbing stretcher tool will help to get it taut enough but you will need another person to staple or tack the webbing while you stretch it into place. Figure out how taut you need the webbing and mark that point on it so that each strap has the same tension. Any decent upholsterer can make box cushions. You don't need to go to a specialist! Just be sure to pick good upholstery fabric (54" wide--anything else is for garments or drapery). You can also have the upholsterer do the strapping if you want. Might be safer. Gray tweed is fine, or wait until you have the wood refinished and then decide what looks best with it. MAIN thing: Decide what thickness you want the cushions and make sure the upholsterer sticks to that! I've seen a lot of these chairs redone with too-thick cushions and it just looks...well, dumb. | |||||
| thanks... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| thanks... Okie-dokie dude, Thanks. I forgot about the garage sale pollock! And from one "pain in the ass" to another-- thank you for not taking offense at my comments. I do enjoy the back and forth, and sometimes I can come across weird in print. It's no fun if you can't have a good argument, and you seem to embrace that spirit. I probably over reacted to your brown and beige carpet tree because I just get kind of sad every time I think about the 1970's in a design sense. After the 50s and 60s, it was a very clunky "oak-and-twine" kind of world, in my opinion. My favorite weird thing about the 70's is how they would put real wood on the same object with fake (photographed) wood. And even got kind of tricky with it, as if it were a fine craft! I must admit, I actually like that "fake with real" look on some of the old mid- century Danelectro/Silvertone guitars. Also, the New York artist (and designer) Richard Artschwager also did some real funny whack-o things with fake wood on his sculpture too. Brown and beige carpet does indeed rock if one enjoys the 1970's. I can see your point, (believe it or not!) | |||||
| Obscure Mid Century / Art Deco Desk Mystery | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | mdspirit | Identification | |
| Hi all, This chic desk was pulled out of an extremely wealthy estate. No one has been able to tell us the maker. It has silvered brass legs / rail, swing out drawers, hidden doors silvered brass knobs. Any ideas would be much appreciated. This thing is crazy. Best, mdspirit | |||||
| Bertoia side chair child version | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| Hello, I bought 2 beautiful side chairs in de small versions. The dimensions are: 15,7 wide 15,3 deep 24 high 14,9 seat high. I paid 200 pound for each (= 265 dollars) What do you thing of the price? And the authenticity of the chairs? Thank you! Margaux | |||||
| Herman Miller | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| Herman Miller bgillettephoto, They are correct, the piece pictured is from the Milcare system by Herman Miller (1985: Herman Miller's Health Science Division becomes a wholly owned subsidiary known as Milcare). I like the tambour door function. There is a "hook" on the back that enabled this piece to be mounted on the wall to a "rail system" (in a hospital setting cleaning the floor is simplified - the unit is elevated). This system, under a different name, was also sold to schools for use in dormitories (configured for hanging clothes). A similar unit is currently available on eBay (I have included the link). The "buy it now" price is okay for this piece. Like my Herman Miller Ethospace® cabinet system (the last thing you acquired #19), these are good quality pieces for the garage or basement storage. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lab-Medical-Storage-Cabinet-Supply-Cart-Milcare-... | |||||
| cloudburst is correct they... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| cloudburst is correct they... cloudburst is correct they use t o have some really cool stuff but it has gone down hill real bad maybe due to the illness of Michael Graves, that they have not become as productive in the cool dept, several of his clocks are listed in the world design book but the stuff that the staff people have come with in the last several years is really bad!! nothing but coffee brown cheap wood that is painted and crappy fabrics, come on target get on the stick and start coming up with some cool stuff, One thing i can say t hey are designing the exterior of there stores much better than they use to. nice materials but do not know to thank the developers or the Target design architects. sidebar K-mart and wal mart make me throw up from the minute you drive up to the stores, and see the dirty baby diapers in the parking lot, i guess they tell those people that it is o.k. to dispose of the babys dirty diaper in the parking lot. a free service provided by k mart and wall mart | |||||
| lucifersum | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| lucifersum Lucifesum very well said . I could not agree more with what you said and how well you said it, I was saying that I was just disapointed to see how the Icon of Icons was reduced to a injection molded chair that you could buy on the front garden part of K-Mart , Yes we true fans do love our say when it comes to really saying some thing about design . . the world is changing and has for a long time the buzz word for this year is GREEN, GREEN, can't pick up a magazine with out Green Green even before Al Gore took credit for it , The eames were designers not G-ds . and what they would have done to see us through the next part of the 21 century would be interesting. I just hate to see great great ideas reduced to injection molded . whats next the 670 and 671 in a nice light blue injection mold cause it is good for the enviorment.. They tried in 89 to say good buy to the rosewood . and I guess Herman miller has been somewhat succesful?? but looks what creeps up for the 50 th anniversity of the eames chair a Sandos palanster . a form of rosewood. ( really they could have introduced this the year after they got rid of the rosewood They just did not want to. | |||||
| Newer Music | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Jayson | General discussion | |
| Newer Music Music, fashion & design go hand in hand. "Reggaeton" is the newest genre of music coming out of New York since grunge in early 90's. It's success equivalents to H&M in fashion and Ikea in furnishing. Artists like Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Ivy Queen have captured the scenes with loud, pronounced, in your face beats & relics the same way Roberto Cavalli & Zac Posen design their collections-slightly tacky, attention-seeking clothes. It mesmerizes young, upbeat listeners. Record companies have reported that Raggaeton is the only "thing" that is selling at the moment and a lot of money is going for promotion. I am intrigued in electronic-fusion music from new movement like -Nortec -Kinky -Bajo Fondo -Gustavo Cerati Their musics have been played on runway & in design retails. Tom Ford at Gucci was obsessed with Nortec he had the CD on the deck for few months. | |||||
| well Mark... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| well Mark... One thing about asking for help, you certainly get some! Lets see... lots to sort out here now... I love the spirt of "we're not talkin' Rembrants here"... and I would agree with tktoo about staying outside, and even possibly moving the light fixture as well. But in defense of rust, I would not spray the hell out of it. Rather, I would very much enjoy a "time capsule rust report" every three months. It would be fun to see it change. Nature works in mysterious ways, and I think it would get more beautiful with time. (And it would also be fun to torture OGD as the rust sets in) It IS fun to look at now too, don't get me wrong. OR... you could always follow SDR's instructions to the letter. (Jesus SDR, talk about having a "vision" .... yours were very impressive instructions! But could you be a little more specific? LOL just kidding. My brain snapped as I tried to keep a metal picture of each new chapter of your suggestion. That was truly awesome. just my ninety-eight cents. Heh. All the better to keep Mark needing more puffs... but we know he will do what he damned well pleases in the end, as he has an excellent eye. Rust and relaxation on Thanksgiving Day to all! (I thankfully am not cooking today -- going to the in-laws later, where sticky fingers abound. (No red meat bowls today though.. only bird. And velcro.) | |||||
| Yeah, Lit Up, but did you really think | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | fastfwd | General discussion | |
| Yeah, Lit Up, but did you really think that you were the first person who might've noticed that this forum doesn't have all the features of EZBoard, vBulletin, etc? If you'd spent a minute or two searching the forum for relevant terms like "private message", you would've seen that the topic has been discussed before. If you'd read those earlier threads, you might've seen that your ideas weren't new, and you could've just shrugged and accepted that the forum is what it is... Or, if you still thought you had some original ideas that were consistent with what you'd then have known were the desires of the forum owners and participants, you could've presented your suggestions graciously and helpfully, rather than just jumping in like a bull in a china shop. Here's an analogy: I drive a nice car, and I've ridden in other nice cars, and it turns out that I really like them a whole lot more than I like crappy cars. Big surprise. But if I were to run out of gas in a blizzard, and some kind stranger stopped to give me a ride to the next gas station in his beat-up, rusty old 1970s Dodge Dart, it wouldn't in a million years occur to me to complain that he wasn't driving a newer car. Not even if I prefaced that complaint with "Hey, thanks for the ride". It's the same thing here; what you're doing IS ungrateful. Don't you see that? | |||||
| I've never had any... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | alexandersforum | General discussion | |
| I've never had any... I've never had any problems... I've bought several HM chairs from the US and had them shipped USPS to Sweden. The only trouble I've had was when the seller didn't pack the chairs well enough and they ended up arriving with some damages from transport. (It is always good to put some extra padding on the edges closest to the walls of the box...) About the 'gift' thing, at least in Sweden you pay an additional 25% on top of the value + a handling fee when buying stuff from outside the EU. This can add up to quite a lot of extra $$$, so I am always very grateful when a seller agrees to state 'gift' on the customs form. Also, if the customs decide to be suspicious and not accept that it's a gift, the only one who gets in trouble is the buyer who then simply has to pay the customs charges. The only risk you are taking is if the uninsured chairs arrives damaged and the buyer decides to give you bad feedback (if you sold them on ebay...). I always take full responsibility for my purchase if I ask to have something sent as a 'gift'. It is a risk I am prepared to take... I think it all comes down to communication. If you think the buyer is honest and you've had a good contact, you could do him this favour, but not if you don't feel comfortable with it... | |||||
| RE: Does anybody knows about the Designer of this rosewood Danish Table ? | 1 Relevance | 1 year ago | Herringbone | Identification | |
| @tktoo Yes, this is what we can do. I keep doing it too, even if I sometimes forget for a few days—and then suddenly remember, in a bit of a panic, that some posts might have been sitting in the queue for days and I really should check again. It’s good that you’re saying you definitely don’t want anything to do with the administrative side. Of course you don’t have to—it’s not really up to me anyway. But just to clear up a misunderstanding: the required skills are basically limited to opening spam posts and clicking “Delete” instead of “Reply” (the buttons are next to each other for me). Also, approving posts from new users is part of it too—again, the button is right next to “Reply.” So it’s just a matter of clicking the right thing. Sometimes, when I’m in the mood, I also edit user posts—like fixing typos in bat signals—just to make sure the communication works as intended. But that’s about as far as it goes, and even that happens rarely. What I’m trying to say is: zero skills required. You just need to check in at least every three days. And my feeling is: aside from you and me, no one else is doing that anymore. But I could be wrong. | |||||
| (I'll hide my "ID request" in | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | gropius | General discussion | |
| (I'll hide my "ID request" in a "Last Thing Acquired" post so no one notices). I've seen this EIC or EK on teak kitchenware before, but don't know what it stands for? And that leads to the mark on the bottom of the jar, probably MR? I assume these were originally sold together; they were together when I found them in. | |||||
| Then, as an oil finish, there | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Then, as an oil finish, there is nothing special about the factory finish. It is really just a "starter" finish that is supposed to be maintain, and renewed by re-oiling. Factory pamphlets or sales people would have mentioned this sort of thing and likely the store where the furniture was bought would also sell the oil. The point is that this makes the "factory" finish not a valuable finish. And hand grease and dirt are not patina as far as I am concern, they just make the chair dirty. The failure I usually see is when somebody decides to a piece with their electric palm sander using coarse sand paper rounds over all the edges. And then leaves nice swirl marks all over the piece from moving the sander too fast and not finishing with fine sand paper. And then slathers it with a wrong-colored stain. It is disgusting. There is nothing fast about restoring a chair properly. There are a lot of surfaces, and each one has to be treated with respect. And sometimes a big scrape in the armrest is part of the story of the chair. | |||||
| Fascinating experiment. There | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Fascinating experiment. There are quite a few woods sold under the name "African Mahogany". I am curious which one you are using. I have a bunch of Khaya I am saving for a daybed project. So I am curious.... It sounds like the "extractives" are water soluble. So they should be carried into the Lauan and left there upon drying--to the degree that you can get the water to absorb. But if it is a mixture instead of a solution one would expect no more than a surface coating of powder at the end. Of course in both cases you will likely have some degree of powder left on the surface. I would think that if there is an alcohol soluble colored extractive you would,have the best luck with that. It would basically be a constructive use of the oily tropical wood bleed phenomenon. (I just usually think of mahogany and its substitutes as not notably oily). One thing I would be carful of is any iron. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a good bit of tannin in you sawdust tea, and that could have unintended consequences. You could also create your own custom oil "tropical wood color bleed" say with some raw linseed oil and a touch of artist's oil pigment. | |||||
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