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| that is a great caulder I ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| that is a great caulder I ... that is a great caulder I have seen it before and if it is signed that is wonderful , I love his stuff one of the first pictures i ever bought was - Crags and Critters 1975 It was one of the originals and i remember having to call my mom and asked her to transfer some money from a trust that I had from a late Uncle she said are you sure you know what you are doing spending money on art work, I said Yes this will be a good investment , every thing that i bought in the early 70 has done real well and still on my walls, I love to stop in at Flee markets and Junk stores you just never Know .. What happens the older parents who would buy nice modest priced art in the 60s and 70s and not really pay much for it pass on and the kids come to settle the house and estate, take what they want, if they are more tech these days then art they will just clear it out, cause there first thoughts My Parents were just middle class modest folks, what would they be doing with valuable art, It happens time and time, it is kinda sad but as one who's parents died at the same time, It becomes very overwhelming to go into the home you grew up and see all the things that you as a child were comfortable with and now wonder what am i going to do with all this STUFF cause sad to say, most is just stuff, but the sentimental value of owning, and displaying something your parents own will live on for ever, The rest ends up at thrift stores. for the eager hunters. | |||||
| Teak grain can have that oak | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Spanky | Repair | |
| Teak grain can have that oak-like grain if cut a certain way. I've had teak in much worse condition come back to life with a single oiling and #0000 steel wool. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I don't think vinegar actually kills mold spores. I've restored moldy dining chairs in the past and what I did was give them a good cleaning with Murphy's oil soap to remove the existing mold, then let them dry thoroughly. I think as long as you keep the wood out of a damp environment, it'll be ok. That means running the A/C in the summer unless you live in an arid area. A few humid days here and there won't jumpstart remaining spores, but weeks on end might. (I used to live in a house with no A/C in the mid-Atlantic US and never had a problem until the end of a very rainy spring and summer---and even then it was just in one area of the house that turned out to have a water problem under the flooring.) Sunlight is one of the few things that will kill mold spores. One last thing: dining tables need the most protective teak oil available, so look for one with a healthy varnish content and apply it correctly. I'm not the one to advise you on that but others here definitely can. I just deal with chairs and use a brand that has no varnish in it. | |||||
| I posted this lamp... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I posted this lamp in the The Last Thing You Acquired #25 thread but in fear that some people overlooked it I was wondering if anyone had any information on this lamp. Other than what I've read on their website I cant find out much about the company. It was made by Belux and judging by the style and material I would venture to guess sometime in the 70's or 80's. A google search turns up very little, I wrote the company but as of now have not heard back yet. Any information would be appreciated. | |||||
| SDR | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| SDR you are going directly to my collective points. Of course anyone can call a crafts person an artist. But those of us mucking about in these related fields should have a special interest in wanting clarity of definitions. I have every right to call your foot a basketball, but it does not make it true and it certainly doesn't help anything by saying it. The only reasons that I can see to call craft, design or anything else well done art, is to compliment it and bolster it's cache. Doing this implies that art is superior to these other things. Being a crafts person yourself, I would hate to see you demean what you do buy placing art in a higher realm. The fact of the matter is that art, design, and craft are all different things. The fact that they borrow ideas and techniques from each other does not change that. Even the existence of bridging works doesn't change that. The fact that they are bridging works confirms that there are two distinct thing being bridged. A work can be both art and craft together, But they never morph from one to the other that I have seen. As I see it, anything well done other than art being called art is a trope of language, not a definition. Design rules! Craft rules! Art rules! Lets not inadvertently play a ranking game. Oy, my soap box is teetering. I feel dizzy. | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| cont. LRF: Thank you very for sharing this. I don,t know what you exactly mean with "communicate bettwen us", but my gmail user name is ,,gustymoreno,,, I,ve just installed "gmail talk" but some problem with the sound now. Are you happy with gmail?, SDR: "Onother window to the world", ha ha. You are right. The good thing of my gmail-window is that it didn,t automatically closed, nor any surprise since then? (but if I,d be happy with my other account ,no need to change!) Heath: I also have google as my homepage sine some time ago, and it,s really good. I saw that some people, writes the web address they want to go in the goggle search, so if you type something wrong, you go directly ehere you want to go. Why need to remember a new password?, I try to use almost the same password (I cannot remember more than 3 things) To me ?Heath?, looks really nice, better than HP, sometimes I read some post signed by HR, or FP and when I realize wasn,t you. But we have only one Australian Heath! p.s.1: I don,t use to recommend many things, just 2/3 books, 2/3 films, 2/3 cities/places and I don,t like to recommend technologies, but I,d recommend gmail if you ask me. p.s 2.: I found this link: Why I din,t find this before, they explain some things better: (so better that they think we could find useful and interesting their ads!) 10 reasons to use Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html | |||||
| Wowsa | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Wowsa So this is the first time I've had a chance to view the video (cannot view at work) I don't see what the ruckus is all about. This is an old video from the mid-90s from Herman Miller's Get Real ad campaign. The Design Of Herman Miller should be required reading for this forum. (thanks Whitespike for the tip) It provides an objective view of the ways the company has evolved - before the PR wing was developed that makes us all thing HM is the big friendly giant. I think the most succinct and telling paragraph discusses the way the Herman Miller morphed through the decades of the genius designers "Nelson was the guiding genius through the mid-40s to the mid-50s; Eames from the mid-50s through the mid-60s; and Probst from the 60s to the present" (the book was published in 76) After the mid 70s, as the company swelled into the behemoth it is today, it became....a company. It had to answer to a board, it had to use focus groups, it had to make decisions by committee. Now, what I find really funny about this thread is that people are acting as though Herman Miller has somehow betrayed their trust. Herman Miller is protecting their own interests, and we ALL know what those interests are. HM is a BILLION dollar company, and while I'd guess most of that comes from their corporate side their public image clearly lies in keeping the classics alive. | |||||
| I'm thinking these have to be | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | libramobler | General discussion | |
| I'm thinking these have to be the real thing. | |||||
| oops, cross posted | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| oops, cross posted william, I've gotten a lot of fabric from that particular seller on Ebay over the years. I would suggest getting a swatch first. I know she used to do that and maybe she still does. She will sometimes mistake synthetics for wool if there's no paperwork with the fabric, so it pays to take the time to get a swatch. I got one bolt of synthetic stuff but was able to return it. I think she might also send swatches of stuff that isn't listed if you tell her the kind of thing you're looking for. I'm pretty sure she's the one who did that for me once or twice, but it may have been because I had already bought a bunch of stuff. "Homespun" sounds about right for what you describe. Hopsak or hopsack works, too. Knoll makes a nice one that is all wool and comes in a ton of colors (link below). It's not even all that expensive though maybe that's the wholesale price, I dunno. There's a jumbo scale hopsack type (for lack of a better term) made by one of the big companies but I can't for the life of me remember the name. It's woven of bulky un-plied wool yarns and is very soft and texturey. Really, really nice stuff. I've gotten 99 cent remnants of it at the PA Fabric Outlet. It's been in production since the 50s, I think. Comes in some bright, clear colors and probably neutrals, too. Very Danish. I'll probably think of the name after I post this. http://www.knoll.com/products/textileproduct.jsp?prod_id=1206&flag=cat&c... | |||||
| Looks good! "It wasn't | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Spanky | Repair | |
| Looks good! "It wasn't exactly difficult, just really stressful" describes the process very well, at least until you have some experience (or so I assume--I am not at that point yet). Some cane will dry with a grayish tint if you soak it too long but I don't know how to know for sure before you start if this will happen. Yours looks fine. One thing that might help a bit to get the cane into the groove without it popping out again or breaking---snip or remove the strands outside parallel(ish) to the groove to ease some of the tension. If you've ever done any upholstery or covered a 3D object with paper or fabric, this is like clipping curves and trimming bulk at the corners. I think there's a really good photo of what i'm talking about in the Caner's Handbook by Widess and Miller but I can't find my copy at the moment. Here's a photo I found online at basketmakerscatalog.com: http://www.basketmakerscatalog.com/cane/canewebbingpics/pullingcanefromc... That's a well-defined corner but the same principle applies to curves. You can also trim the cane to about 2" within the groove, then pull the offending strands as needed. And lastly--this won't work on these chairs but if you ever do a seat and you break a few strands at the groove, you can weave new ones in from the underside and just leave a little tail end sticking out below. Not worth it for a lot of breaks, though. And not something that you can do when the backside shows, obviously. | |||||
| whitespike | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| whitespike Few things really get me going but the eames 670 really does..... No doubt the most Iconic chair ever made the greatest of the greatest .. I have fixed them, sold them , recovered them, but I have to be honest in this international forum it is really one uncomfortable chair!!!! Now i am the perfect size for the chair 5' 8" and I just find it to ridget, no tilt and no give, Once again I have no idea what Charles was thinking cause he was a tall man. I have seen some really big 6ft and over guys barely make it out of the chair, and I hate like hell when any one sits in my chair and pulls up on the arms trying to get out of the chair. Day 3 after my chair was completely restored from head to toe leather, restoration of the wood, and re gluing new shock mounts by a professional, my wife who has to have a reason for every thing, made up her mind that she was going to sit in the museum piece as i call it and Knit. on her first bathroom break she pulled up and away went the left arm .. you guessed it , back to the re finisher for 2 more weeks to let the epoxy dry and cure out, Getting back to the chair, I don't like that it does not tilt I am so surprised that Eames had the power over Herman miller and Vitra not to allow a 21 century update of the mechanics... I know he died in 78 and Ray in 88 but there are enough of his relatives that could have allowed a minor redo to make it more comfortable for all , | |||||
| nupos | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| nupos Thanks Olive, How to restore common sense?, Well I,m not going o wish a crisis to anybody, but for those things are really good. People who had lost it are ,nouveau riches. To prove the relationship between Nouveau rich and common sense, I,ll tell about nupos. The nu-pos (nuevos pobres, new poor) were a product of the 2001 crisis. And if new riches are interesting, the nupos are ten times more. They are as opposite as new riches as you can imagine. They had a lot of culture and knowledge and too little money. And used too little resources to do a lot. And about CS while NR lacks it and nupos surplus it. But crisis made disappear ,nouveau riches, (not their wealth, but their lack of CS) and show them that : Their ,nouveau rich attitude, was synonymous of ,BAD TASTE,. Now, the crisis is over, and the economy growing 7-10% per year made disappear nupos also. But this grow economy made new wealth, but still now, the lesson of the crisis and the bad taste thing is in the air. As well as seen ,,green attitude,, as sexy, may be you have to show that if somebody waste resources is also a mater of ,BAD TASTE,. | |||||
| It's not by Arne Hovmand | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| It's not by Arne Hovmand Olsen. The wood is stained-something, not teak, and the armrests are completely different. I looked around online for the real thing and found four others, all differing in frame design and with other little differences here and there. I have no idea which one is authentic, if indeed any of them are. All are listed as AHO designs, though! Interesting... I'll stick yours in first, for ease in comparison. | |||||
| She was never very "modern"... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| She was never very "modern"... A few years ago I had the pleasure to spend a morning and lunch with her in her daughter's home here in Montreal. We had met a day earlier and she asked me to come over. At that age it is a one on one, because she is neither able to hear at a distance or speak load enough for a larger group. So we could discuss a number of things that I found interesting, among them a number of ceramic technical questions for which she did not show much interest, her relationship with Arthur Koestler, especially when they met again in London before her departure for the U.S. but that part I will keep for my own memoirs. We also discussed the Russian constructivists who had such an influence on the art in the Weimar republic and of course on the Bauhaus. She was only 14 Naum Gabo published the constructivist manifest but on the other hand could look at the arts in revolutionary Russia, from a privilege and a crucial spot in the Russian Porcelain industry. She was very clear on the fact that she did not come from an art tradition but from a crafts tradition and had few good words for the Bauhaus and the modern movement. In that sense she is a lot closer to Charles and Ray Eames and the Cranbrook tradition. It was quite an experience to talk to someone of her quality and intelligence but the amazing thing is of course to talk to someone who was already in primary school when Picasso painted his first cubism painting.... | |||||
| RE: Lockdown Blues | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| Just found this thread. I really need to check in more often! Lexi, your garden is lovely---as is your bench, Herringbone. Hope you make it to Denmark sooner rather than later. I'd like to go again myself but if I don't get back there I feel very grateful that I've gotten to spend as much time there as I have. My lockdown project was a Yugoslavian folding chair that I got on craigslist for 20 dollars right after everything shut down. I emailed the guy out of habit and then realized OH NO, i shouldn't have done that, now i'll have to go into an iffy situation! But it was ok. (My kids forbid me to go anywhere. They do all my grocery shopping for me.) Anyway, I cut the paper cord off, knocked the frame apart, stripped what lacquer was left on it, then inked and reglued it and waxed it. Then wove the damn thing. I got it to use as a prop to photograph pillows that I'm selling, and if I didn't have a mountain of pillows taking up WAY too much space I probably wouldn't have gotten around to doing the chair for many months, if not years. I'm quite chuffed with myself for getting it done. Attachment: IMG_4591-copy.JPG | |||||
| RE: HW Klein armchair nasty crack | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | tktoo2 | Repair | |
| @browkin, Probably a few factors involved with recurring failure here. Old glue (or paint?) residue contamination will prevent new glue from adhering properly. Complete disassembly of the joint(s) - including dowels - and thorough residue removal is likely necessary for long-term success with re-gluing. Any other loose joints will also contribute to levering forces causing the crack to reopen. Animal protein glues are preferred for work on valuable wood furniture both for their good strength and because they are easiest to undo when future restoration is needed. The next generation will thank you. One thing they are not known for, however, is their gap-filling capabilities. Tight (but not too tight), well-fitted joints are recommended along with adequate (but not too much) clamping pressure while assembling. Here in the US, the better "hide glues" are available in different grades as dry granules and are typically used in freshly-mixed batches dissolved in water at task-specific proportions and often heated. Great stuff. I've used it many times over the years. The only other downside to using hide glue happens when you let a batch turn bad in your workshop when you are away in the summertime. Seriously, don't let that happen. | |||||
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