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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Design for the masses or Masses of design | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | bustelo | General discussion | |
| Design for the masses or Masses of design It pleases me to own items that I admire. I have also been sternly admonished for becoming too personal with museum inventories; and so, I bought my own. Luckily, I react to mass produced goods and accept my financial inability to own a Brancusi or Burgoyne Diller or? I sheepishly accept my reverence to thing-ism, and a few friends even get it, or at least pretend to understand. Fortunately the pieces I have researched, longed for and eventually purchased bring me great joy daily and through the years. I am guilty of over consumption so that I can decide later if it will remain rather than regret not having made the purchase. This affliction leaves me in a personal quandary as I have an aversion for materialism and my space is becoming filled with lamps to better illuminate my chairs where I sit to gawk at my books and other furniture. Sirlampsalot I too enjoy pole lamps, sconces, floor lamps?I have a visceral attraction to shapes. The lamps and furniture I most enjoy have a tangible tension in their design - that IT factor of an object which has to be experienced but is difficult to describe. You seem to have found it a few dozen times, congratulations. | |||||
| What is really interesting | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| What is really interesting What I find most interesting is how and why MCM is used on TV and in advertising. Think about most television sitcoms - the furniture is clunky and anonymous, usually some variation on shabby-chic or country cottage or bland beige contemporary (I love alliterations) There are a few exceptions in the sitcom world: Frasier has the Coco Chanel couch, the Eames chair, the Corbu lamp, and a Wassily in one episode which he uses to replace his fathers barca-lounge. (I also watch WAY too much TV) But in thoughtful, 'intellectual' shows a more sophisticated decor is used. In House not only is the hospital decorated exclusively from DWR, but the good Dr. himself has a few Series 7 chairs scattered about his apartment. In the new show Canterbury's Law the lead uses an Eames alu chair at her desk, next to an Eames lounger. What's really interesting to me is advertising, since there is no such thing as an accident (mostly) in commercials - everything is carefully constructed to convey or reinforce the main message. What then, does a Swan chair say about my choice in movies? What does a boardroom full of Eames chairs say about my business? Or a Barcelona chair say about my car? Probably the same things these pieces would say about our homes: that we are intelligent, that we are sophisticated and appreciate quality & ingenuity...etc.etc. | |||||
| A nik nik(a company) were... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| A nik nik(a company) were... A nik nik(a company) were those shirts with mostly nostalgic scenes etc on them 20s 30s inspired they were around 75 dollars in the mid 70s.They were really (good tacky) at that time?The shirts were usually in odd drab/muted colors rarely vivid not Pucci colors.He gave me a shirt that was like matt liquid silver,you must be really thin to wear this type of thing very disco inferno but sort of subtle!I wore black and beige often,sort of a cut rate male Chanel look but its still a good combo.A friend of mine(female older) wore alot of Pucci in the 60s,those were some great colors/prints.Marimekko(arty high end) did great prints there is a large book in print on this company .Peter Max print sheets my ex had,black and white/with yellow accents- geometric daisys with black polka dots on them,not slumber friendly.I think Max was really more of a graphic designer,I had that 76 book Peter Max paints America,padded vinyl cover!So much for the 70s! | |||||
| computer desk 2007 | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| computer desk 2007 I've been through a similar quest to find the perfect new desk for my computer. I once had a 10x12 bedroom completely used as an office for my CD and web work and you needed all that room in the 80s and 90s. I have two seven foot tall Anthro Carts for holding up all the masive peripherals that a good Mac needed in 1989. A decent workstation for a professional in multimedia required two or more 19/21" inch CRTs (there's a hundred pounds) plus all the disk drives and scanners and laser printers and all the huge boxes of software. I went through a self purging of all the clap-trap of this business accumulated over 20 years. The same room is now a comfortable study and guest room. I can still do all the Mac things I did in 89 and a whole lot more in a tiny fraction of the actual computer hardware. This is a good thing ©2006 Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. All rights reserved. I got a whole extra room in the house! I finally selected for a computer desk a Heywood Wakefield desk from the 50's. Modern yet comfortably middle class. I think I allways secretly wanted to be June Cleaver...(US TV reference) | |||||
| There are no rules. Not if | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| There are no rules. Not if you really keep looking. There are of course generalizations to be made, and they are indeed true a good amount of the time, Rules usually evolve from true generalizations, but once something becomes a rule, the whole thing goes to hell. (Probably because once a novice has the "rule book" in hand, they rely less and less on thier own observation) Even the old reliable rule that states "odd numbers are more interesting than even numbers" is a great case in point. For example: Let's say there are five shapes arranged on a surface with none touching the other. (the odd number rule should apply here) But what if two of the five spots are SO close together, or even overlapping a bit-- so that they appear to your nervous system as ONE irregular spot? Your mind is still counting five spots, but your eye is actually now seeing four. What good is the even / odd rule then? At what point do two shapes (or objects) become seen or felt as one? That's why you have to look, rather than count. While the time-tested generalizations may be true, using them as RULES is often a mistake, and can make a person (especially the novice) visually "lazy"-- to the point that all the incredibly inventive and creative exceptions to the rule never even get consideration. So my rant here is mostly a semantic one. I know that design "rules" are already understood by the experienced designaddicts here to be just generalizations. But to the novices out there, you gotta stay on your toes! And don't stop LOOKING. | |||||
| content or nothing | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| content or nothing Provably is the "s o c i a l" word, the one that does not have sex-appeal. Or may be just it,s not an American thing... I was not so impressed by the "social" content. But yes, for the idea of: content or nothing. Dear Koen, I read your comment on DA blog, and since then, still thinking. I understand most of your points. But or I don,t understand the hole, or simply don,t agree. I don?t understand very well, or feel, what,s wrong. In an informal talk, between friends, as could be here between us, I,d confess, I understand, that this ,,s o c i a l ,,(word) couldn?t look nice, not cool, not sexy (in Olive,s approximation to Green-sustainability), even worst, could look ,,zurdito,, (in Spanish=left handwriting =lefty) and as the French writer ,Guy Sorman, said, that,s bad seen in the States as opposite than in France (and here have a closer approximation to French culture), or to look ,,grasa,, (in Spanish= oily, lard). But I don,t know, on the other extreme we have F R I V O L I T Y : Design & Frivolity. What a nice couple! So what to choose?, extremes are not good. But I feel so many times on the frivolity side, or even worst, I feel in the middle and people seen just and only the chic side!. I also see and enjoy that side, But there is something more to see in designs than frivolity and pretty things!. | |||||
| Hi There | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Rootsboy | General discussion | |
| Hi There I have just come across this thread while trying to find out some information from a egg chair i have inherited from my parents. I remember it as a child from their first house, and then when they moved it was left in the loft, i have had in the corner of my living room for the past 10 years and often thought about getting a cover for it, or have it reupholstered. Really though i would just like to find out if it was a original and from more or less what year. From what i have read here it seams so, but the only thing that was bothering me was the fact it was covered in a faux leather. Anyway here are some photos including one of my mum sitting in the chair in the 70's. Thanks in advance for any comments. | |||||
| Ball Clock by Lanshire or Snider? | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Kung.Fu.Cantona | General discussion | |
| The movement is from "lanshire clock and instrument corp." The only thing I could find out, the Canadian company Snider used Lanshire movements for their clocks. Lanshire clocks has produced the most part in the 50s and 60s. Snider has produced some starburst clocks. Is the clock a Nelson-inspired copy from the 50s or 60s? | |||||
| Without knowing furniture... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Without knowing furniture... Without knowing furniture leather cleaning specifically, I would at least consider Lexol products (cleaner, oil reconditioner, and surface shiner) used for horse tack. Fine saddles have both thin and thick hides used in their construction. People spend thousands on their saddles. I've used Lexol on our saddles and like it, BUT it invariably darkens the leather some. Go to Horse Tack store or horse tack web site and get some Lexol brand products. Go to a thrift store. Buy some ratty old leather chair with a leather vaguely similar to your chairs experiment on different parts and see if you can duplicate outcomes on it. If you can, then experiment on a small patch on the undersides of two of your chairs. If you can duplicate effects tolerably, experiment again on the undersides of all of your chairs at once to make sure you can duplicate the effect with ALL the chairs. Lastly, if you know a professional who can do it, bite the bullet and pay them. Working leather is easy and fun, if you don't have to be perfect. But if you have to have perfect results, it is the most frustrating thing to do that I can think of. | |||||
| POA | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| POA I try my best not to use POA, but because of where I'm located, most of my sales are on the internet. Either directly to dealers and designers out of state, on eBay or to local clients. The local clients make up the least amount of sales, but because of the amount of work that goes into online and eBay, they get the "best price" - there is no shipping involved, advertising fees. The items on eBay have the "highest price" because the fees to sell there are high, as well as the payPal fees. Its all very confusing, but the last thing I want is an eBay client seeing a smaller price on my website (however small the difference may be) and getting upset, or even leaving negative feedback. Also, designers and dealers, its normal for them to get a "trade discount". Often times I include free shipping - but you would be surprised how much shipping changes month to month with gas prices, etc - especially freight items. This is another reason for POA Long story short. There are many reasons dealers use this... it turns a lot of people off, so I like to avoid it for the most part. but there are some legitimate reasons to use it, and it shouldn't scare someone from getting a price quote. and PS. I'm only referring to websites, I would never use POA in person, aka, in a shop, etc. | |||||
| mystery chair from movie | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| I pulled these picks for the 1955 orson welles film "Mr. Arkardin. I am crazy in love with this chair. Any ideas on who designed this beauty? Oh yeah, great film too. I saw this film on tv and then looked it up on line. At the address below is the whole thing, free! Of course, any of you that has one of these chairs is required to send it to me post haste. The chair on the right of the frame is no slouch either. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2312688684774719197 Don't forget to weigh in on my mccobb mystery thread! | |||||
| I've done it the way you're | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I've done it the way you're showing but there's a different way using the same strand for front-to-back plus front rail: Do the front-to-back strands (warp) off the spool. This takes 5-10 minutes. When you're at the end of the warp, do not cut the cord. Pull another 16 yards or so off the spool and wind it onto a shuttle and wrap the front rail with that. For the back rail, put 14-15 yards onto a shuttle and wrap with that. This is the fastest way I've come up with. The end product looks correct and in fact I've redone plenty of original seats that appear to have been done this way. I don't see any reason to divide the length of cord used for wrapping either front or back rail in two and starting from the center of the rail and working out to the ends---unless you're not using a shuttle. Without a shuttle, it's easier to do it in halves. Maybe this is why many originals were done this way? I don't know. Loading up the shuttle does add time to the job and the pros could probably wrap just as easily without it. When you do the same thing every day, all day, you get pretty good at it! I prefer to use a shuttle myself. I've never been able to just use a hank without getting it tangled up, and pulling the single strand through each time is too slow for me, plus I prefer to minimize arm movements to save wear and tear on joints. If you want to do three separate steps, go for it. But consider the shuttle method that I use---it's fast and easy! | |||||
| I'd forgotten about that | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | racecar | General discussion | |
| I'd forgotten about that picture! After a bit of searching, it's from the Danish Foreign Office Journal. no.47-57 (1964-66) p35. Full text isn't online due to copyright issues, but it's available in a lot of libraries. So around 1964 there were at least 9 different knockoffs of the round chair, assuming each one of those chairs in the background is from a different maker. "Embarrassing plagiarism affair at Furniture-Exhibition" "Fake danish chairs from Yugoslavia are now legally sold in Sweden" "The court must determine whether a chair is art" "The 50 illegal chairs in Nykøbing F. smashed against concrete" I can understand that Wegner and Hansen wouldn't compromise on the quality of materials or construction of the chair, and it's not surprising that they would rather maintain quality than outsource to meet demand. (Where they able to meet worldwide demand??) Any idea of JH production numbers of the round chair each year? Any recommended reading? It's not such an easy thing to learn about, as you probably know. Thanks for sharing as always! | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| cont. I suspect that part of the success of innovators is that they were educated in the previous system and so well versed in it that they felt the need to innovate but at the same time did it along well established standards. In architecture thousands of modernist buildings have been build after Mies v.d. Rohe but really get to the same level. Almost the same can be said about the Eames?. In spite of great interest for mid century design and the modernist revival, nobody seems to be able to do it with their understanding of proportion, relations between material and form etc. In another thread a kind-of-tulip chair is shown. We all know that it is not the original one but imagine that this was the one Eero Saarinnen designed?would we still find it an exceptional design?certainly not, it is simply an ugly thing, and yet it has so many of the characteristics of the original design. I suspect that the difference we see is the result of the fact that Mies, Eames, Saarinnen etc. weer educated in a system that still recognized a universal canon. Does it make a difference?, yes, the difference is that untangible knowledge and sensibility that, well applied makes the Novy dvur monastary a masterwork. ?.we might not reach the usual 25, 3 minutes rounds, but I will be waiting in my corner. | |||||
| Carpet pros and cons - sound | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | dorieg | General discussion | |
| Carpet pros and cons - sound When recently shopping for a house I desperately wanted an older house with hardwood floors. Having outgrown our current house (with hardwood) with baby #2 on the way, we had to settle quickly for a pretty generic new construction home carpet and all. We have both laminate (which we installed after moving in) and carpet. While carpet is a pain to clean when stains arrive, I find it is 10 times easier to vacuum a wall-to-wall carpeted room than to vacuum and then sweep/swiffer or whatever around an area rug. Maybe the roomba would help. While hardwood brings a natural beauty that cannot be beat over carpet or laminate any day, the comfort and sound dampening qualities of carpet make it a good choice too. With 2 little ones, we lay all over the floor in carpeted rooms, in those with area rugs we are more limited to the rug. Also, the carpeted rooms are "quieter" which for a bedroom is a very nice thing to have. There is more than the visual aspect of a space that contributes to its "beauty", things like sound - especially if you are sensitive to this - play a huge role. | |||||
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