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	Art Street,	1 Relevance	17 years ago	Gustavo	General discussion
	Art Street, On somewhat quite incomprehensible languages. The Videos: I saw again the videos... and how much talent. Great the works and great atmosphere too. I'm going to post other thing that I see here... Since this thread was open, I had some issues related in mind. I've been collecting since then some stuff, and here I'll post some to re-start. First, I'm an amateur on this. A week ago I went to a bookstore and saw a book about it, the history, etc. But instead of investing in that book I decided to buy a book about "Che and markets/shopping" for another thread ;). I thought that somebody could made a very little introduction, better than me. Robert perhaps? Once again, I pass the ball as you see. 😉 But Here is some of the material: I don't want to talk too much, but what recall my attention is the translation from what supposed to be a popular/transgressive art, in a quite chic-elite art. From the night to morning to me, almost without realizing. I could be sleeping or looking in other direction, OK, but not so much. Here there is something....hidden?...or in the surface?.. I didn't saw much REAL art-street, and suddenly appears here in the most trendy events...Palermo Viejo (Palermo Soho) is the trendiest neighborhood and appears beside the traditional expensive ads, as a "casual" graffiti (provably paying much more for this than for the traditional ones).
	As has happened	1 Relevance	19 years ago	koen	General discussion
	As has happened more often than not, I agree with SDR on moving the center. I understand that it is both a rational and most obvious choice to put the connections in the "geometrical" middle but consider this. The pyramid seen from the middle down is larger than the volume seen closer to eye height from the middle up. So, in spite of attempting to put it in the middle it is not seen by the eye as being the middle. Choices like that should be made either on a long experience of working with 3D objects or...just by building prototype after prototype.The brain likes easy to understand shapes and by putting it in the middle you are sending a difficult message: I know it is in the middle, but I see it as not being in the middle. If you move it higher the brain will understand that what it knows and what it sees is the same thing. On the dowel height to, I have to agree with SDR....so why am I writing this.... oh...yes, I wanted to say that it is a nice piece indeed, although with your experience in bending wood, one would not expect the members to be build in two parts. It might also be a good idea to start the pieces wider on the bottom and make them gradually thinner toward the top. It would take away from that "neo-modern" look inherent on the double tapered shape?although it would have something of the monument in Oscar Niemeyer?s Brazilia?
	Calling all lamp experts	1 Relevance	15 years ago	brentgable	General discussion
	Just picked up this "arc" lamp at the thrift today. I found one that matches it online but in brass that has a sticker on it that says LV made in Italy but that's all I know at this point. The lamp is in good shape and working order but is missing the shade. Is this thing worth putting some time into ? Any advice ? Brent
	SMF erika	1 Relevance	11 years ago	Rene-addict	Identification
	Hello, I have this thing in my kitchen but I dont know what it is. Can you tell me more ? Thank you, Rene.
	arne jacobsen/fritz hansen/3101 'hammer' chair (Confounded no...	1 Relevance	13 years ago	LCA	General discussion
	arne jacobsen/fritz hansen/3101 'hammer' chair (Confounded no more)! BOOM! Thank you Krenit, Leif Ericson, woodywood and vintagestique for your input and shared information! The cover for the central piece the legs radiate from on the underside is missing...that is what would have had the marks on it...the little label thing you see in the pic is some cloth tape with the previous owners name on it 😉 I am still kind of curious what that embossed in the wood on the underside 'M' means ...but no longer confounded...thanks From the fritz hansen website: "Model 3103 DESIGNER Arne Jacobsen, 1957 DESCRIPTION Arne Jacobsen was open to criticism, and when it was maintained that his chairs lacked lumbar support, he approached Danish professor Snorresen, then ergonomics expert. The result was model 3103, which had a sharper bend in the backrest. The model also came as a children's chair. The series was discontinued in the 1960s. DIMENSIONS TH: 78 cm W: 48 cm D: 46 cm SH: 44 cm"
	I've been off the grid a few days...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	rockland	General discussion
	I've been off the grid a few days... In the mountains. And a raw diet from my garden free of chemicals and fed by a altitude natural spring. Not that you need to clear your diet of any toxins. I think something is excessive in your diet that you love or frequent. The two of you are obsessed about something together. Funny that this came up. That happened to me only once in high school years ago. The orange thing. I was a jock and my diet was mostly yogurt and protein. sugar and salt. For two weeks i was orange. It went away but i've always wondered. Back then the Coach handed out salt pills like candy. Do a dramatic diet change, not necessarily full vegan or vegitarian. Just ruffle it up a bit. I like a good steak. I have to say that orange moment 20 years ago was spooky. Just like plants, ya gotta balance the ph. We all have our own personal needs to survive. Something is lacking in your personal diet that you need. We are all different. If you have a daily routine, coffee shop, bagel, (NY) ! same lunchetc... screw it. Make an effort and make a radical change. One persons daily fuel is different from anothers. Often too much salt.
	If a quasi rattan look were permissible...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	If a quasi rattan look were permissible... I've become kind of intrigued with Heywood-Wakefield's 40's vintage Ashcraft line. World War II brought American access to imported rattan furniture to a sudden stop. Apparently as part of the war effort, Heywood-Wakefield made a line called Ashcraft that used domestic materials (the blonde woods they are noted for) turned and finished to resemble rattan. Presently, Ashcraft seems the least collectible in the HW retro craze, so the prices are quite cheap and supply is not scarce as hen's teeth. I believe HW made full line of this stuff. Not surprisingly, the quality is quite high, as is the functionality. I picked up a pair of stepped end tables recently for $10 that had been setting around in the thrift store for ages. The table tops look typically HW. The legs and supports look rattan style. IMHO, a great buy for a tasteful retro subtropical/plantation look, if one liked that sort of thing.
	teak table? please confirm identify	1 Relevance	12 years ago	gemmar	General discussion
	Just bought this table don't know a thing about it. They say it's teak. I can't goggle anything on this designer, does the brand sticker belong to this table? so is it teak and is it veneer? Or any idea who made this table? Thanks!
	Okay, just picked this set up	1 Relevance	12 years ago	jermy	General discussion
	Okay, just picked this set up. Bottom of table stamped in black "made in denmark". The 4 chairs are pretty nondescript. Teak? They're all in desperate need of a good cleaning and new upholstry. Bottom of one chair marked with a date and a faint "K M 2" Thoughts? Feelings? Is this thing on?
	Anyone own a genuine Cassina Le Corbusier LC4 Chaise?	1 Relevance	19 years ago	HughWS	General discussion
	Hi, I decided recently that I want to buy an LC4 chaise. I've looked at a few places that sell reproductions and then I found a place that sells the real deal. At least they claim to. The problem is I'm finding it very hard to find any decent information on the net about the exact specifications and features of the genuine product. Even the Cassina website only mentions that the genuine chaise should have signiture and serial number stamped on the base, but doesn't even provide any good photos. So I have a few questions, and I'm hoping that someone either owns one or is familiar enough with the genuine article that they could give me some answers. 1. Does the real LC4 use straps or wires to support the cushion? 2. How should the thick cross bars that the upper portion rests on attach to the rest of the base? Welded? Screwed? If screwed, how many screws? 3. Are there any holes at all in the tubular frame? 4. Are there any joins in the tubular frame? If anyone can shed light even some of these things that would be great. And if anyone has any other tips for distinguishing the real thing from a reproduction let me know.
	Further:	1 Relevance	16 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Further: We feel best, day or night, when not constrained. Since our ordinary mode of movement is horizontal and our most vital objectives are usually viewed ahead or behind, not above, the view -- either real or suggested -- in the horizontal plane is what we seek. If we cannot have a view from a window, a picture on the wall is the next best thing to giving us relief from a feeling of confinement. Thus, any strategies for expanding our personal environment horizontally -- either physically or visually -- are worth exploring. The overhead expansion that Wright achieved by the method mentioned above, is a secondary way of providing relief from constraint. Either of these strategies, or a combination of the two, are worth achieving in some measure. Since it is light, and not dark, that draws the eye -- with the contrast between the two providing enjoyable relief from monotony -- the light that our lamps and fixtures provide is a great deal more important than the hardware itself, to the pleasure of the spaces we are dealing with -- it could be argued. Unfortunately, it is far easier to choose a lamp than to imagine in advance what the effect of the light it sheds will be, when we get it home.
	Authentic Eames office chairs?	1 Relevance	11 years ago	measy	Identification
	I recently came across these unmarked office chairs, They look and feel like the real thing which i've seen before, but i am no expert. Is there anything that would stand out about the eames office chairs that would let me know whether these chairs are authentic or replicas?
	The Lynn chair aside...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	The Lynn chair aside... you've opened an interesting issue by assigning mannerism as the end punctuation to design phases/periods/movements/styles. This notion had not occurred to me and while it makes some sense of things, it raises another question in my mind. Yes, pointillism is now categorized to have been the last phase of impressionism, but was it? I've often thought lumping pointillism in with impressionism was unsound art criticism. Impressionism, as I have understood it, was an attempt to paint not the object exactly, but the features, light, and especially the colors of an object, given the effects of distance from the eye. Pointillism never seemed, at least to me, an attempt at that. It seemed instead simply another paint application technique of painting with figurative abstraction. Pointillism came along on the heels of impressionism, as post modernism came along on the heels of modernism. Do we say post modernism is mannerism punctuating the end of modernism? Perhaps we should, but I actually thought post-modernism ended was a step onto the next thing--an emphasis of surface and ornament overlain on the post modern form language.
	"Dead on balls accurate"	1 Relevance	15 years ago	glassartist	General discussion
	or, a restating of my issue from the Arbuck thread. I wanted a fresh spot to clarify some things I wrote. Straylight et al, I am right there with you. Enough good info was posted by Straylight to make the case that it is bloody well unlikely that the Op's table and chairs are either Nelson or Arbuck. The only thing I took issue with (beside points stressing my original issue) was straylight's use of the terms "incontrovertible" and "I am 100% correct". We on this forum are frequently sticklers for accuracy when it comes to attributions, knock offs, and even if parts are correct.I am thinking of the very recent Papa bear thread and Straylight's discussion of Planner knock offs that are so close that even he had difficulty telling. Both only had measurement differences as the tell. Given these close shaves and others, can you not actually present the table and chairs in some original document and then claim it as either incontrovertible or that you are 100% correct? I do not believe so. Was an excellent case made? absolutely. But was it dead on balls accurate?
	NickR6TY. My advise is to...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Antonella	General discussion
	NickR6TY. My advise is to... NickR6TY. My advise is to make an effort to match the peaces of furniture. That doesn't mean that they have to have the same design. They can be totally different and, still go well with one another. Example: I think The Eames Lounge chair goes well in this interior (see link). Nothing has its style in that interior, but the chair goes very nicely there. In your room, in my opinion, what really doesn't go with the Eames Lounge chair are the big leather sofa and armchair. If you replace them with a set in fabric, light colour, with pattern (tiny) and square-looking style (like the one in the link I've posted) the all room is going to look much better. The right set (set / armchair) is the element that will bring everything together. Another important thing is how you use the space. In your room things are too near to one another. You should eliminate at list one armchair to make it nicer looking and more comfortable. In your picture I don't see the space for the new chair (or armchair?) unless the area of the room that does not appear in the photo is bigger than what I think. Just my opinion. http://www.idh.ru/file/art_img/2006/2006_06/20060620/idh_eames_lounge_ch...