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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| 670 | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| 670 I find the 670 to be quite accomodating of my movements - thats one of the beauties of a swivelling chair. I fidget fairly often watching a long movie or an evening of TV. Also - I can sit upright, or slouch down, put my feet up or have them firmly on the floor. As for a compromised chair: I find nothing so uncomfortable as Bertoia side chairs. Cannot stand them! So beautiful, yet the metal bars just poke poke poke me in the back! And such a difference between the side chairs and the diamond (which I find surprisingly comfy). I don't think many of the great modern designs were put forth without comfort in mind. But, since no body is the same, you are presented with different opinions of what comfort it. A good friend insists that the Wassily chair is THE reading chair for him. I can't sit in it for more than ten minutes. Mies himself says "A chair is a very difficult thing. A skyscraper is almost easy." There are some chairs, tho, that seem to be nearly universal in comfort: Eames plastic side chair. Eames LCW Womb Chair Bertoia Diamond Jacobsen Series 7 Wegner The Chair Corb's LC4 | |||||
| Stephen, That's a highly... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | ite (BE) | General discussion | |
| Stephen, That's a highly... Stephen, That's a highly subjective question. Basically, it depends on what sort of a look you want for your space, and what is already present. If you 're after a serene look: you're better of using a repetition of 3 of the same lamps, in materials that echo the range of materials that is already present. If you're after a focal point (see pic below), choose three colored / special shaped lamps, and keep the rest of the room restful and relatively neutral. (pic was taken from remodelista roundup on different lights - see link) If you are after a very colorful, very playful, busy look, do what you like & splash on color. (e.g. 3 Panton flowerpots in red) It is very very hard to say something sensible re: advice without a picture of the place & without knowing what your personal favorite style is. However, regarding the Kartell lights, person. I would go for 3 all white shapes, or alternatively I would give them a miss really. I do not really like them very much. It's the sort of thing people fall easily in love with, but get bored with just as easily: I would select something that you will love for a very long time to come. However, it's your call. http://www.remodelista.com/2009/06/25/lighting-mismatched-glass-pendants/ | |||||
| One of my best thrifting | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Grendel_The_Cat | General discussion | |
| One of my best thrifting weekends EVER! First off, this vinyl daybed / sofa in great condition. Its long enough for me to stretch out on and fits perfectly in an awkward pass through space in my house (picture #2). Second, a 50th anniversary Knoll coffee table. I had just started considering something like it for my living room, never dreaming I’d find the real thing within my budget! | |||||
| I'd worry about the bath tile choice, but... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I'd worry about the bath tile choice, but... the others all sound interesting to me. We ended up picking a 1x1 mosaic. I really didn't think I wanted that but in the end it just suited the space. The color that looks dark green in the photo is actually a true grey and the cream is actually more of a flatted butter yellow. With the cabinets and the concrete grey counter top it looks fab. I never concern myself with what's 'in' and what is or isn't trendy. I just make choices that fit the 3-F criteria... Function, Form and Finances! One thing I was thinking on doing is back painted glass. I may still do it in my bathrooms. It's not too expensive and allows for changes over time. Maybe you could do that using the same, or similar color to the accent wall in your dining room. Just be really careful when you combine the glass and the paint to avoid an icky reaction between the normal greenish color of the glass and the paint color. you can get optically clear glass but it's pricey and if you pick carefully the normal glass color doesn't mess things up. http://www.ehow.com/how_5478547_make-painted-glass-backsplash-install.html | |||||
| We had pine floors | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| We had pine floors in our first home. It was a 100 year old building. The first thing we did when we moved in was to pull up the shag carpeting, then the linoleum from the 1930s, then the newspaper (that's right, no glue just newspaper under the linoleum. Cool to read the old papers and see the period ads, etc.) what was exposed was the original floor which was painted around the edges of each room, but not in the centers. Just the raw pine floor. I guess that back in the day they used rugs and then just painted the portion that was exposed. There were at least three layers of paint in most rooms. We set out to make the original floor useable. We striped the paint on the outside edges and sanded the entire floors before trying to stain them and seal them. As soft as the pine was (it would dent if you dropped something) it did not take the finish very well and would wear off in the higher traffic areas. We could not leave the original light color as there were white plaster walls and much darker original oak door frames and baseboards. I liked the rather rustic quality to the floor and would have liked it better if we'd had more Scandinavian furniture at the time. | |||||
| *giggle* Pollock Executive Chair | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | traci13foster | General discussion | |
| *giggle* Pollock Executive Chair Today I was bummed. The people across the street are moving. Left a bunch of stuff in the driveway. Asked the neighbor, "Are they giving that stuff away?" "Yup. Talked to them yesterday, and I'm taking the office chair." "Darn! I really need a decent chair for my office. That $19.99 Ikea is breaking my bxtx." "Well, I saw another chair back in the alley about 3 doors down. It looked OK." So, bummed that I opened my mouth rather than assume the obvious...I said thanks and said, "OK. Anything's gotta be better than that plastic thing I sit on." Today is trash day. Down the alley I go and within a minute spot this beee-yu-ti-ful looking chair. Black leather. Arms. Chrome. Clean. This is awesome. Picked it up and was glad I worked out. Geesh. Carried it home, turned it over. Wow. Looked it up on the web. Thank you very much dear neighbor for turning your nose at this wonderful Knoll Pollock Executive chair. And I thank myself for keeping a good attitude. PS: My bxtx is quite comfy now 🙂 | |||||
| I've always been a fan of... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | bgillettephoto | General discussion | |
| I've always been a fan of... I've always been a fan of Ikea. I understand some of the hate for it being disposable and low quality (which really depends on the individual piece and how you put it together). When you're first starting out though with your own place it's nice to have fresh, creative design rather than old dusty hand-me-downs, walmart junk, or nothing at all. It's pretty easy to outfit a studio apartment down to the kitchen utensils for $1000. Once you get settled down and have the money to afford nicer things you can gradually replace the Ikea stuff. When I was a kid back in the late 80s and early 90s we'd make eight-hour road trips to the one in Toronto and I still have some of the stuff from those trips in daily use. A lot of it has been modified as well (LACK tables with the legs cut down in half make for great product photography platforms). The as-is section is an endless source of DIY treasure as well. The only thing that really gets to me is when people associate all modern design with Ikea and cheap. It's hard to explain to a drunk college kid that a simple plywood and steel chair cost $1000 and isn't meant to be jumped on... | |||||
| RE: Mid Century Coffee Table with Glass Top and Shelf | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | guyinSF | Identification | |
| Posted by: mark737 You would think with such a distinctive design and your excellent photos that this would be an easy image search but the only thing close I found was this photo saved on Pinterest. Slightly different design. No maker's info, just the note: "Mid mod white mahogany, glass top perfection!" Attachment: Tables.jpg Thanks Mark for sharing this photo that you found! Those look pretty much like they're the same design as mine (almost) and I agree with you with such a distinctive design someone would know its origin. Well at least I know it's mahogany and not maple which I thought it was. Perhaps someone will eventually ID it! Thanks again! | |||||
| I should know better | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| I should know better I was going to stay away from this discussion because, like the one about the Noguchi pedestal, I get incredibly frustrated reading ill informed opinion presented as statement of fact. However as a studio artist of 25 years with a master's degree to prove that I know what I'm talking about ... ha!... I just want to respond to what tktoo wrote when they said, "Art is any product put forth as such by its maker." They are absolutely correct. The only thing to add is that it should read "Art is any product or IDEA put forth as such by its maker, or identified by others as art." since conceptual art freed us of the need for a physical object and outsider art is often made by those with little or no self awareness or artistic intentions, just a compulsion to create. tktoo should have left it at that because when they added, "there can be neither good nor bad art." they are unfortunately very wrong. Despite pluralist attitudes that are often expressed these days, one can apply qualitative measures such as good and bad, successful or not, to a work of art. Subjective opinions, likes and dislikes, are irrelevant and should not be a measure of the quality of a work. There is plenty of good art that I personally do not care for. However I recognize that it is still "good". Bad art can be recognized and that designation has nothing to do with my personal, subjective opinion. Hell, I may even personally like some "bad" art. | |||||
| Uncanny | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Uncanny I think its funny that there is this uncanny similarity in the modes of thinking. When reading WSpike and Olive talk about clothing my mind was inventorying my closet - only two tshirts with any sort of image on them: one designed by a close friend, and one with a RedSox logo (duh). Reading James' subsequent post I was identifying with that as well - I just acquired an LTR, its perfect. When I moved it was a good chance to curate, altho I didnt lose nearly as much baggage as I would have liked. But every single thing I left on the sidewalk in the morning was gone when I got home from work - it was exhilirating and I was able to simplify a lot of aspects of my living. Now when I acquire something it has to be a)well made, and b)somewhat necessary for living. For example: I've realized that in my bedroom I have no clock other than my little alarm clock, which is dim and hard to read from anywhere in the room other than bed. I've been obsessing, James style, about what to put in - something easy to read without my contacts in, something of the aesthetic of MCM, and something well made. Nelson Sunburst, of course 🙂 On the other hand a friend offered me a black LCW...but I've really got no space, so I turned it down. A difficult (yet again exhilirating) experience. | |||||
| wow | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| wow I'm glad to hear that the desk top finally arrived. I'm not too surprised, though. I know dealers like this and have heard stories like this, too. Some people are just really disorganized and slow when it comes to shipping. Packing large objects and getting them on their way is a big, unpleasant job and it's the kind of thing that is easy to put off for a few days, and then another day won't hurt, and then another, and then oh well, it's already a few weeks so what's another few days? And then the guy is so behind that he just can't face it at all. I'm not saying it's right, just that that's how it can happen. Ebay is a good place to buy if you know how to use it. It's not enough to look at the feedback percentage rate of a seller when deciding whether to take the risk. You need to look at the actual negative and neutral comments to see what is going on with him. If they're mostly "took really long to ship" and "had some damage not mentioned", that's different than mostly "never got item, didn't get refund". You can often get a good idea of what you're in for if you do this extra research. I don't think that 98.5% positive feedback is all that great. It might be worth the risk but it would have to be something really special that I wasn't gonna see again for a long, long time---which on Ebay isn't a lot of things! I've bought many hundreds of things and sold thousands of things on Ebay over the last ten years and have only been stung a few times. It's a great place to buy and sell as long as you're careful. | |||||
| That would be quite | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| That would be quite surprising. Please post photos here, too. I am curious. I say it would be surprising for a couple of reasons: 1. because Sorø was a chair factory (stolefabrik). The company did make some tables, but I don't think I've ever heard of a case piece. I wouldn't expect factory tooling and expertise to cross over. (On the other hand, perhaps that explains the hand cut dovetails on the drawers and the saw cut tambour). 2. because Sorø was a factory. Even the smallest Scandinavian cabinetmakers generally produced piece that show no evidence of "hand made," and Sorø called itself a factory. It is a good thing you are in contact with the original owners, because otherwise I would guess that it will take a long time and a lot of work to figure out who made/designed this sideboard. It has many very unique, readily identifiable characteristics, so with enough time looking, you might find another piece with the maker's "signature" in the workmanship. This would not be a easy or fast. And while any information from the original owners is an excellent lead, the burden of belief is higher than that, considering the many aspects that do not fit. | |||||
| Tired of speculation. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Tired of speculation. Chewbacca - as I read your posts I have to wonder what YOUR dealio is. Your posts seem to alternate between legit design-related postings, and re-hashed posts about the evils of DWR. Now, I'm not happy that they are making copies of the Bellini chair, but I also don't hold a personal vendetta against the company... do you? I hadn't noticed the lack of Corb, but International Style isn't really my thing. I would take a gander that, because Cassina and Flos are owned by the same people, there is probably some correlation as to why both are absent from DWR's web page. Unlike the Nelson lamps. Which - contrary to your ominous ruminations - are still present. As is the Heller dinnerware. Or didn't you check those things before posting? Who knows exactly what is going on with DWR? I don't. And you certainly don't seem to have anything besides insinuation and rumors. In the meantime this schadenfreude-fest is getting tiresome. If you don't like DWR - fine - but clam up about it. I will never own a Chevy but that doesn't mean I'm happy GM is struggling. Like it or not any American company represents American jobs. Spreading rumors and taking pleasure in the (real or perceived) demise of an American company is demoralizing and excessive at this juncture. | |||||
| Yes, but... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Yes, but... ...if you just start winding the cord around the front rail until you reach a point even with the end of the back rail and then go from there, you end up with one strand at a different angle in front, destroying the clean lines of that perfect triangle of blank space. It's not that noticeable unless you're looking at the seat edge from a lower angle, like when you are sitting across from it. But the original weaving didn't have that stray strand and I couldn't leave it that way so I did a separate wrap of the rail and tacked the ends in place. I wish I'd paid more attention to how the original was done before I removed it, but I assumed it would be easy enough to do. I tried weaving from the opposite direction, but then I got the stray strand on the other side. It dips because it's not being held in place by a wrap on the perpendicular. Or something....it's hard to remember now because it's been a couple of years, but I do know that I tried every which way I could think of and I finally gave up. The other thing that I have yet to master is keeping the diagonals straight. Mine are better after five seats but they're still nowhere near as nice as the original. It's frustrating because I am quite proficient at every other kind of neat, exacting work that I do. I think this just takes a lot of practice. | |||||
| Drexel Composite line | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | geemila | General discussion | |
| just bought this table and after reading through the recent Drexel posts, I wonder if anyone knows who the designer might have been for this table? poor thing is pretty beat up, but I love the wood inlay bit | |||||
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