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	Firewood	1 Relevance	15 years ago	TinyArmada	General discussion
	Firewood You would HAVE TO KNOW the history of it or you would throw it away. It has historical significance and that is it. Dig your own grave if you want to argue it is anything special by it's construction or appearance. Hogwash. This thing is only special due to who made it and it's historical importance and THAT is all. As a stand-alone piece, it is total junk and has been made by blacksmiths for years to pound their craft almost identically (and better made). Seriously, sit there and tell me with a straight face this is some amazing piece, oh please...if I threw this your way and told you my mate next door made it before you even knew about the auction, you would throw it out. I can almost hear the clink of a champagne bottle that is almost empty by someone trying to sit there and type away some justification for this piece outside of it's historical importance. I find this most amusing. Honestly. You saw a ridiculous price and then sat there for hours pondering how to justify it when great design needs no such thought process - it speaks to you very quickly - rather than make you throw-up. Come on, gimme another great reason why this piece is so lovely. Can't wait. I have a block of wood that Ray Eames once stared at...I might get 100,000 at auction for it. - A.s.
	reverse engineering...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	skid	General discussion
	reverse engineering... I didn't read the original thread in great detail, but did go over much of the site. very impressive. I couldn't see what cam package you were using.. what was it? Also, is it the same thing that you used for the renderings and morphing? DC, I think to reverse engineer an organic form, or something that was created by an artist/designer/individual that doesn't like to be constrained by numbers; for that part to be constrained to the nth degree, by a process such as point-cloud, would be considered "reverse engineering" for people that could not reproduce that art if their lives depended on it. I like it, but I can't do it myself - so I get something or someone that can, therefore reverse engineering. All the engineering hours to develop that software; the classes developed to train the operators to use it; the power of processors required to crunch all the numbers.... all to reproduce and manipulate something that was created by people that don't like to be bothered by the numbers. Dont forget the $100k+ in equipment and 3 phase power... to reproduce what a guy did in his garage with a chisel... or a couple of pounds of clay - LOL! Never thought about any of this until this post, and I have also been in industry for awhile.
	Jackson Pollock	1 Relevance	22 years ago	420	General discussion
	Jackson Pollock Mr.Pollock, the classical artists had a world to express and they did so by representing the objects in that world. Why doesn't the Modern Artist do the same thing? Jackson Pollock:"The Modern Artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The Modern Artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces." Would it be possible to say that the classical artist expressed his world by representing the objects, whereas the modern artist expresses his world by representing the effects the objects have upon him? Pollock: "Yes, the Modern Artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating..."
	It is ironic, is it not...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	It is ironic, is it not... that when the epitaph of the American car companies is written (and likely companies from all continents, as well), that the concept cars, the cars that were never built, are going to be the only ones that will be considered truly memorable and desirable. One has to wonder why the car company leaderships have never grasped that people want the best they are capable, and not the most tepid, or most compromised. I would be happy to own and drive any of these cars, provided it were safe and reliable, even today. And everyone of these concept cars, unorthodox and idiosyncratic as accountants and in-house counsel and CFOs and golden parachuted CEOs might have found them, would have been preferrable to even the best cars that they in fact built over the years. There is no substitute for something that is wonderous and fun to look at, if that thing can fulfill its function. Almost any of these cars could have been engineered to fulfill their functions and permit these remarkable exercises by car stylists/designers. And the world would have been much the better for it. Crap is demoralizing. Crap eats away at the character of the people that design it, engineer it, build it, and consume it. Crap is a road to the decline and fall of companies and societies. Crap kills.
	Interesting idea, DCW	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Interesting idea, DCW In my new careeer of renewable energy, we deal a lot with problem of refrigeration. In many homes the fridge is the single largest user of electricity. Only A/C or electric heat is worse. Resistive loads (heating and cooling) are the single worst thing to do with electricity. It's inefficient and uses a lot of juice. The technology has improved a lot but it's still not a good use of electrical power. So your idea would work well especially if we could drop the load below ground 6-10 ft. The temp down there is about 55F in my part of the country which is not that far off the recommended 42F of a regular fridge. But I can't see folks being willing to wait the minute or two it would take to bring the box to the surface. DC versus AC power is actually a better choice for refrigeration and most large A/C units on commercial building are DC loads. My company offers DC fridges, take a look below so you can see what they're like. They are much more simplistic that today's 'modern' fridge with ice and water delivery, so they are much more energy efficient. http://store.altenergystore.com/Energy-Efficient-Products/Refrigerators-...
	Hopsack is a weave, not a fib...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Hopsack is a weave, not a fib... Hopsack is a weave, not a fiber. It can be woven of wool, polyester, acrylic, linen or any other fiber. Wool doesn't hold on to most kinds of dirt and is usually pretty easy to clean. I have had good success with just regular dish detergent. I squirt some into a plastic container with a lid (like Tupperware or Rubbermaid), add a little water, and shake until the thing is filled with suds. Then rub the suds into the fabric with a damp sponge. Repeat until the stain is gone. Rinse the detergent and dissolved dirt out with a clean sponge and clean water, blotting and rinsing the sponge until no more suds comes out of it. Blot the upholstery with clean towels. Quicker method: use more water and vacuum it out with a wet-vac. Synthetics tend to hold on to oily stains and mild detergent may not be enough to get them out. You might need a naptha-based solvent (dry-cleaning fluid).
	I am far from an expert, but	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Zephyr	General discussion
	I am far from an expert, but it looks like a knock-off to me. Main problem is the back rest; it is lacking the characteristic finger joints between the back and arms. This is a center piece of the design, and I cannot imagine this being left out on any iteration of this chair. Also, all of the cane seats are typically matched with a cane-wrapped back. This chair lacks the cane back, and any evidence that it was ever there (not conclusive as it could have been refinished). Also, in the middle back of the seat, on the caned versions, there is typically a double wrap that covers the whole thickness of the seat support, and ties into the underside, front-back support. Also, the stiles/legs don't seem to have the proper proportions and taper. A bit too visually heavy. edit- forgot that you said they were cut, which might explain the incorrect proportions Finally, seems like the arms have a bit of concavity to them. I think the original is straight across. It is a nicer knock-off, but definitely not the real thing. *I shouldn't say definitely, becasue as I stated above, I am far from and expert*
	Excellent fabric choice! I	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	Excellent fabric choice! I really like the greenish-gold of the other one, too. I think it might go better with walnut than teak but that's just my preference. It looks like the upholsterer cut the seat foam to exactly the size of the wood base. I would worry a bit about the fabric wearing out prematurely at the front edge of the seat because there's not much, if any, foam between it and the wood. The way to get around this---for future reference---is to cut the foam about 3/4" bigger than the seat on all sides (so 1.5" longer and 1.5" wider), then undercut it with a razor blade held at an angle. I'll include a quick sketch here. When you pull the fabric around to the underside of the seat, it will smooth the foam over the edge of the plywood and you'll get a lovely rounded edge all around. This will also pad the wood a bit which helps the fabric to wear longer. Adequate padding on the frame at points of wear is always an important thing to consider.
	re alexander girard non	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Eameshead	General discussion
	re alexander girard "non designs" ….. While what you say is true OW, even when things appear fairly straightforward, they are very often chosen and coordinated in such a way as to still be considered a valid "design". For instance, a PARTICULAR blue, combined with a particular texture, in a particular proportion, or combined with a particular metal, are all variables that could indeed be ROYALLY SCREWED UP by a lesser designer. Girard did not design the color blue-- but he selected a particular blue, at a particular point in time. Using that blue might well have constituted a risk in its day, or at least pushed the edge of what was acceptable. I would venture to say this applies even more when we are talking about highly reductive pieces. Simplicity well done is often mistaken for a non-choice. (I think back a year or so ago to when one of our posters was doing his own versions of the Eames LTRs, and was thinking about doing the Eames Surfboard table in a dark wood veneer top… there is a reason that Eames chose not to do that, on that particular scale and shape. But Eame's restraint doesn't "show" because it was a choice NOT to do something.) But I get your point about some of the most generic choices. I have thought the same thing myself on some of those ebay listings.
	Vincent Cafiero for Knoll excecutive office chair: restore or toss?	1 Relevance	16 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	I got this chair for $2. The foam is shot, the black hopsack fabric is a mess, the vinyl (not leather) is mildewed and I'm pretty sure that duct tape on the arm is not original. I like the look of the chair and I have no doubt that I can reupholster it correctly with appropriate Knoll fabric IF it wasn't assembled after upholstering with the aid of machines. I say this because I once attempted to reupholster the kind of office chair that you get in Office Depot only to find that the parts were upholstered and then assembled using machines that smooshed them together much more tightly than my puny arms could ever do, and I couldn't get the bolts to even come close to their respective holes. So my question is this: does anyone know how these were put together? I'm really short on time right now and I can't spend even an hour stripping down this moldy, smelly thing only to find out that I can't reupholster it by hand. Thanks.
	The real	1 Relevance	16 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	The real problem, as I anticipate it, would be dealing with the areas near the edge that curl back. Bending is one thing, but on a piece which bends all around its perimeter, this necessarily implies "gathering" of the material near the corners of a rectangle: the material would tend to wrinkle or fold there, it seems to me. The proof of this can be demonstrated (as so often) by exaggerating the situation. Suppose you were to wrap paper over the lid of a shoebox. At the corners, you have to either overlap the paper, or you have to remove a square piece at the corner if you want (for some reason) no overlapping of material. The case of the Eames back isn't this extreme, but it is more like that than if the piece were flat. The wood is asked to contract or condense, to some degree, at the "corners" -- and wood veneer, like paper (and unlike cloth), doesn't simply contract because you want it to. So, how did the samples of our fearless experimenter behave, in this regard ? Did softening with glycerine (or whatever) enable the material to condense as necessary ? I suppose it must have, if a satisfactory result was obtained.
	Yes, mid-90s.	1 Relevance	17 years ago	fastfwd	General discussion
	Yes, mid-90s. Signatures started in 1996. The first post in this thread went unanswered for almost two days; I suspect that that's because some of the replicas are VERY similar to the Knoll chair, so it's hard to give identification advice. Alphaville's version of the chair, for example, is said to be practically indistinguishable from Knoll, even side-by-side (which is why Knoll and Alphaville are currently in court). It used to be that you could tell a replica because it didn't have the right number of straps (9 on the seat, 8 on the back) or the right number of tufted squares (5x4 on each cushion), or because the cushions didn't hang over the edge of the frame, or the straps didn't attach the right way or the frame-ends were ground wrong or the welds weren't smooth enough, or just by taking a tape-measure to the damn thing. I don't think that's true anymore. These days, I'd be very nervous about paying more than the cost of the lowest-priced decent replica ($700 or so) for any chair represented as pre-1996 Knoll unless I had an expert with me to authenticate it.
	No wonder you can build a web site as good as this one....	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	No wonder you can build a web site as good as this one.... You are gifted at integrating components. I like both your original idea and this synthesis. The original idea still grabs me more as a form, as it does James, too. The synthesis grabs me more as a device for holding flowers. I could see the former selling as piece of contemporary modernist design. I could see the latter selling in large volume at a nursery or florist shop, where the flower's the thing. I don't share James concern that it is a shortcoming that if you break one piece, the rest is useless, at least from a marketing stand point. People buy multi-part goods in which breaking one part renders the rest useless without replacing the broken part. My coffee pot is useless if I break the caraffe...until I replace it. FWIW, my cat is sitting on my lap as I type and he is looking very suspiciously at your most recent version. Its the same look he gets when he's around our Koen-designed flower vase. Cat frustration is VERY interesting...so little gets to them you know. 🙂
	Hardly double wides...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Olive	General discussion
	Hardly double wides... The ones I've been loking at are very nice looking and appear well constructed. dcwilson, you are correct, I do need to learn more about the insulation and temp tolerances, but my intent is to have a shed roof with clerestory windows to create a passive solar layout. I am also not inclined to do metal exteriors as they are too sensitive to heat loss/gain. I have been in the area in the middle of winter and it really can get pretty cold. The heat there is actually nothing compared to locations like Arizona. HP- I, too love concrete. Have you heard of my infamous bathtub? Actually using some concrete for thermal mass might be a good idea for this home. Help cool it in summer and hold heat in winter. I'm thinking of high fly ash concrete floors. LRF, I think you must have been looking for land right in Santa Fe'. We're looking about 30 mins outside of town and the prices are much much lower than what you experienced. We actually want the 'getting lost looking for aliens' thing. The land we've targeted has no road, no public utilities and we'll most likely be living off grid at first. We'll have to put in a well and septic, the whole nine yards. But I still want my doern livin' which is why I am exploring prefabs as a way to get there.
	the exact antipod	1 Relevance	20 years ago	designite	General discussion
	the exact antipod of the Maurice CALKA boomerang desk palstic made, colour white. Is there a specific reason why this designer took the exact counterpart of the "etwas rundes" design of the seventies. May be you should check for 1980's designers, californian, canadians, swiss...? There's like a post punk influence in this design in a way between "Missing Person",southside johnny" "billy idol" and "ZZ TOP".Are we getting closer to western and southern states influence such as TEXAS too? Idunow. the agressive line and colour of this desk seems to evocate an anti conformist attitude toward the pretty and common taste furnitures manufactured in the "Country spirit" for the american middle class by that time. May be, you should look toward this direction. Other thing, this desk migtht have been ordered by a collector who designeddrew it from scratch and have it crafted on demand. There might not be a designer behind this desk, just a talented craftman with a simple sketch note.