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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| ID help needed | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Thijs | Identification | |
| Hi everybody, I came across this cabinet and I can't find the designer. It's marked with a Cantu label but after spending a few hours on the internet I'm stuck.... I can't find anything about this cabinet, but I know one thing for sure...it's beautiful made. Is there anybody who can help me???? With best regards, Thijs | |||||
| Agree with you David...but... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | reactcreative | General discussion | |
| Agree with you David...but... Agree with you David...but isn't it a little hard to buy vintage dowels when they were only produced for 2 years? How many were estimated to be made? Since you sold me my white shell, I bought a dowel base from Depury, I love it...but it seems that it actually sits lower than the Vitra version....has anyone else noticed this? Not to get into a big debate over repro vs vintage, although I'd rather have the original thing... Eames, Nelson, etc never made their pieces to be "collectors" items did they? I assumed they were made for mass production - with the intent they would be sold for the amount of time they were in demand. Knoll has kept many pieces in production for all these years, Herman Miller has not - but I think Charles and George would say if theres a demand for it, then put it in production. Design for the masses! My personal preference is vintage if possible, I like how they have aged, and I like that they have a story to tell. However, these new productions will be vintage some day. The Swag leg group will probably cease in a few years since sales are low and those pieces in 30 years will be sought after. Do you agree or disagree? | |||||
| Wanted one of these for a | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | jesgord | General discussion | |
| Wanted one of these for a while. "Idle Tyme" Rolling Ball clock from 1978 in black walnut. I have also included a video of one of these clocks in action (not mine) for those who have never seen one before. I can stare at this thing for hours...... | |||||
| Tile removal | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | mafbail | General discussion | |
| Tile removal Robert is right water would help soften the adhesive/cement, heat helps too with some adhesives, eg. from a heat gun or a powerful hairdryer. Remove the grout first with a scraper or a grinding tool and then try and get some moisture behind and wait a few days adding more moisture occasionally. Then try and pry them off. The first one will be the most difficult because of the angle. It could be easy or difficult depending on the type of adhesive used and the wall structure. Some types of cement based tile adhesives on brick/concrete substrate ensure the tiles are very difficult to remove. One thing in your favour is that they have been there for about 40 years and the tile cement may have lost some of its strength and integrity. If the substrate is plasterboard you could even scrape out the grout around your chosen tiles and then use a knife or other tool to cut through the plasterboard and remove the tiles as a single panel to be cleaned up later. | |||||
| also, consider an after-marke... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| also, consider an after-marke... also, consider an after-market supercharger kit for your V6 cayenne to add some ooomph. never knew one of these things existed , this would make a difference in the dog, I love the body style, one of the greatest looking made, i had some trouble with the shifting mechanism last month and they put me in touch with the rep and he said the car was underpowered for a 6000 lb body chassis.... I said duh .... now you tell me. I picked up the v6 cause i had a ML with a V6 and it was great! so I thought Porsche . wow we zow we , how could you go wrong with a v6 from these folks , boy oh boy was i wrong, It was not a price thing, i just thought for tooling around the city that is all i needed, since i do have a new little Mercedes convertible for the sunday car. I hate to say for $6000 bucks I would still be in love with the car I have a new lexus 470 on order. My brother the twin went the lexus route several years ago and likes them, says cutomer service is unreal (to good). I was a holdout cause i thought the Porsche was cool as could be and a good looking ride, you would think Porcsche cares but they are like the rest of the European auto makers, We go by factory specs, so they can stick it up there ... and factory specs | |||||
| let me clarify... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| let me clarify... ... my reservations with the basic design. First it's beautiful, I would like it in my house. It's dynaic it's unusual it looks very "modern", like it's going to do something old but in a new way. But analyzing it from the perspective of the end user it will lend itself to I think mainly a handful of arrangement "styles". With branches of flowers like dogwood or forsythis, or with a sharply geometric well ordered arrangement like a ring of perfect roses uniformly splayed around the rim or perhaps of graduated stem length to create a visual spiral. All these will be attractive and dramatic BUT I think this design will not have the versatility of arrangements you can design in a big cylinder with a spiky wire flower frog. It's not what I would call an "everyday" vase. More like most of my ikebana vases that I use maybe once a year if that. This is really a marketing choice but design does not happen in a vacuum. Now for me I would definately buy this vase cause I already have lots of vases but this adds something new to the mix. If however I was a pretty young thing again in my first apartment this would probably not be my choice for my only vase. Maybe I shouldn't taint design with marketing needs but my partner is a marketing exec so I can't shake the influence. | |||||
| M_Andersen | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| M_Andersen I will take good care of the cradle, I promise! One thing that bothers me about about---there is a lightly soiled area where hands rocked it. It's maple, I think (been awhile since I looked at it--it's stashed in a corner of the attic) and it doesn't seem to have any finish at all. Maybe a very light oil finish but nothing that really seals the wood. I know patina is desirable but this isn't really patina, it's just on one end of one edge and it looks....well, dirty. Eventually I'd like to find out how to clean it up a bit but not with any solvent that will leave stains itself. I would love to get a Nanna Ditzel high chair, too. They're a bit easier to find, fortunately. Are you talking about showrooms in Denmark or just online? We lived in Denmark (Fredensborg, about 45 minutes north of Copenhagen) in 1996-1997 for a year and got around a fair bit but I don't remember seeing these places. I've also been there as a tourist four or five times. (We were nearly broke and I wasn't so into Danish design when we lived there, otherwise I woulda stuffed our container FULL for the trip home. But stuff there is not cheap, as I'm sure you know. Living there is what got me into this, though. HUGE influence.) | |||||
| What -- do Donald Trump and | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | SDR | Off topic | |
| What -- do Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (and now, for your delectation, the one, the only Carly Fiorina !) have to carry this thing all by themselves ? Tell me it isn't true . . . Or are they the problem, here at Old Timers central ? Feedback, please ! | |||||
| Anyone recognizes this funny logo an a sideboard | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Don | Identification | |
| I just found this sideboard which is painted black & white and some of the grips on the drawers and doors are not orignal. I would like to know who designed it.There is a stamp inside, a logo with a funny man and I've added a picture of the sideboard. It says made in Da???? and something like CDI or CFI but that doesn't ring a bell. The shape of the thing is kind a nice, the "side legs" are tapered which looks kind of good. | |||||
| Tex | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| Tex You're right, I don't know anything about manufacturing. But I have lived with and used Eames chairs, tables, and storage every day of my life for the past 25 years, so I DO know a thing or two about how well the stuff holds up. In the nearly 50 Eames arm shells that have passed through my hands in those 25 years, exactly ONE shock mount (out of 200) has failed. And we are talking 60 year old chairs in many cases. I bought my round white topped contract base breakfast table for 15 bucks over 23 years ago and it has performed flawlessly. The soft pad chairs are simply a dream to sit in, and are an icon of serviceable high quality design to this day. My plywood DTW coffee table from 1950 has no veneer problems whatsoever. Same with the storage units. (Speaking of manufacturing, the corner leg mounts on the coffee table were one of the very first uses of cast aluminum in production furniture design) I did have one DAX x base fail after 25 years of everyday use. (But the shell lives on!!) I don't just look at the stuff. I USE it every day, and is that not the test? | |||||
| I was in NY last week and I... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Killian | General discussion | |
| I was in NY last week and I... I was in NY last week and I visited 7 shops that advertise on 1st dibs.For some reason I was expecting a cold reception but of the shops where I engaged the salespeople in conversation they were all extremely welcoming and nice and helpful. A funny thing happened in one of the shops we visited where there were 3 assistants, my wife asked for a pricecheck on a set of quite stunning cutlery,the girl with her turned to a guy at a computer and asked him what price it was,he shouted back 32,000 and the assistant who was with my wife showing her around turned back to him and said in shock "WHAT....32000......WOW!!" .......I thought it was funny because she verbalised exactly what my wife and I were thinking 32000 for a set of cutlery....what is the world coming to. The shops I visited all occupy quite large retail spaces,nearly all of them had quite extensive reference libraries and their stock is all in extremely good condition and very well presented.I have to say that meeting the various dealers and visiting their shops was a very pleasant experience. | |||||
| The answer to the question... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Gustaf | General discussion | |
| The answer to the question... The answer to the question in the title of your thread, as long as we are talking about current production, is 'from Fritz Hansen'. Fritz Hansen is the only manufacturer that currently produces The Kjaerholm Collection, which includes the PK31/2/3 easy chair and sofa. It is worth noting that Poul Kjaerholm was an uncompromising man with extremely exacting standards that stretched down to the very smallest detail. Even hidden joints had to be perfectly executed. Today, almost 30 years after his death, nothing gets released without the involvement and approval of Hanne Kjaerholm, Poul's widow. Altering one of his designs, as FH did to Arne Jacobsen's 3100 chair after his death, would be unthinkable. So to me Fritz Hansen's PK pieces, although technically reissues*, are the real thing. So if it is a Poul Kjaerholm piece you are after, are you sure you will be happy with a replica? * Except perhaps for the PK25 which was produced at FH for a brief period while PK worked there, and the PK0, which was made as a prototype during the same time. | |||||
| Angling a shelf is an extravagant way | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | william-holden-... | General discussion | |
| Angling a shelf is an extravagant way to avoid the prospect of using a simple bookend, don't you think? A simple bookend is space efficient and can be placed wherever the user wants. An angled shelf wastes space, and the user is forced to stack things flush left (or right), depending on the designer's whimsical choice of angle. You seem to imply that this design is 'all about options' and some of us just can't wrap our uptight minds around this groovy concept. I would submit that a simple horizontal/ vertical shelving design with modular shelves demonstrates greater versatility and farsighted grooviness than this inflexible thing. As for the chair and ottoman(?)-- your defense only restates my objection to them. 'Clever' is for editorial spreads and museums, not for actual use. (Nevermind the fact that the chair promises to be uncomfortable-- imagine the difficulty one would have in casually pulling out the chair, to use. I wonder how long the new owner would continue to think this design 'clever'...) | |||||
| My two cents | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | swer37 | General discussion | |
| My two cents I must say I am a little surprised that this discussion has gone the way it has. All of us are on this forum because we love modernist design. Some of us are purists, and others have melded our love of modernism with our desire to make a living. Jean has done what some of us dream of doing, and she is trying to offer the best products and the best service she can. A lover of modernism may walk into her shop tomorrow and inquire about those leather chairs, and it serves us all if she can provide accurate information. This forum is a clearinghouse of information - nothing more, nothing less. Since there is no central database for every piece of modernist furniture that has ever been made, we all depend on forums like this to gather and disseminate information. Jean is not giving away her products by any means, but she is selling some very nice items, priced in accord with her market. If you're used to finding your stuff at garage sales, then Jean may seem overpriced. If you just bought a million dollar mansion and you are looking for some really great furniture, Jean may be the person to see. It's all part of the same thing - the love of modernist design. | |||||
| Gerrit, The reformation is... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Gerrit, The reformation is... Gerrit, The reformation is going to come. Can you withstand it from this lofty place? You make arty comments and say that design is defined by some higher power, and say you are not an artist. Arty is just place to go when there are no answers to designing the same product again. It's like this, I was reading on a web company's web site that they redesign their identity every 150 days, because this reflects the ideals of software development and versions. How ludicrous! Software builds on itself. This is refinement not redesign. Adding Japanese characters in order to look hip only misdirects people to believe that you design for Japanese market. What a waste of talent to let them hide behind this arty facade. This is not the design attitude that makes Apple products better then their competitors, despite their meager 2.5% piece of the pie. They make artful choices that make a metal box "look" like it's the best thing right now. People lick their fingers and open thier wallettes $3500 large because of this knowledge. | |||||
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