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| Selig commissioned designs | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Selig commissioned designs and Selig was the only entity that sold those designs, hence you do not see Ib Kofod Larsen's designs for Selig in Denmark. Or if you ever did find one, it would have Selig markings, because it would have been brought them by its owners at some point. (I've never seen such a Selig piece in Denmark, but its got to have happened at least once). Likewise with G-Plan in the UK and Ib Kofod Larsen's designs for that company. Moreddi may have commissioned some of the designs it sold as some of them are extremely hard to find without Moreddi markings. Others can be found in Denmark, the USA, etc without Moreddi markings, so they were clearly not exclusive commissions. France and Søn collaborated with designers in Denmark producing and selling its own product. John Stuart was strictly a retailer in the USA. John Stuart wanted its label on the products it sold so it put the John Stuart medallion on France and Søn pieces. This same thing happened in the domestic market in Denmark as well with retailers like Illums Bolighus putting a metal plaque on the furniture it sold. | |||||
| But Ebay often does take... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| But Ebay often does take... But Ebay often does take action once buyers have spoken (with enough negative feedback). Modernesia just hasn't gotten to that point yet. No, they don't put a lot of stock in complaints from non-buyers about the fine points of faked labels and this base and that base and faking a finish and whatnot. I think they must get tens of thousands of complaints like this every day, maybe way more than that. They're just not going to follow up until actual winning bidders start filing official complaints about fraud and so far that hasn't happened in any significant numbers as far as we know. Not that I think Ebay is perfect and not that I think what Modernesia is doing isn't despicable. The one thing I've found that gets very swift action are auctions of fake items involving manufacturers in ebay's VERO program. I reported someone selling obviously fake Coach stuff once and within hours his 100+ listings were removed. The difference was that I reported him to Coach and they told Ebay to remove the auctions. If Knoll was in the Vero program, then maybe Modernesia's buyers would have better recourse, though what he's doing is not hurting Knoll so much as a totally fake chair would. So...I dunno. | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| cont. But that does not mean that it will make all designers winners and rich. It is a vastly more difficult and complicated game to play. But it is nevertheless an emerging game that some will play and win at, because the global information and communication markets have apparently reached a stage of enabling it. I am rather old fashioned. I like the idea of thinking about making a thing and selling it for a fee that is profitable at the volume that I choose to and can produce it at. I do not like thinking about the clicks it will generate and working back from that to what I can afford to make. But it is a rather provincial and old-fashioned approach. I have not cared that it worked for digital information, because I do not really like digital information as much as I like concrete goods. I still like bits more than bytes, though I consume my share of bytes. Good design is good design, whether it is consumed by the classes for a high fee, or the masses for a low one, or for free. If a designer is going to be knocked off, why not get in some control of the knocking off. Why not make the knock off producers, and they exist at all pricing levels of products, why not make the knock-off producers your producer network, instead of just those that rip you off. Bring them into your regime. Let them work for you for free. | |||||
| Erik Höglund (?) Candelabra Extension Rods | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | gjbl | General discussion | |
| Rather than continue to hijack the "last thing you acquired thread", i thought I'd start another. Does anyone (hopefully Gene or Waffle will see this) know the length of the extension rods for the Erik Höglund (?) Candelabra pictured below? While we are at it, does anyone have a picture / dimensions of the ceiling plate (I found an old listing that suggested it came with one, but didn't show it). I know there is some debate as to whether or not it really is Höglund, but I love it and am keeping it regardless. And since I can't find extension rods, I am going to have a blacksmith friend here in Chicago try his hand at making some... if I can get the proper dimensions that is. Thanks in advance! | |||||
| I've done a lot of upholstery | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I've done a lot of upholstery of old Danish furniture and have hundreds of swatches from the major mills, including Kvadrat, who made and still makes a lot of classic Danish wools. I have never seen that particular fabric. It looks like a wool rep weave, mostly blue but with some black fibers in it for a heathered look. I'm pretty sure Kvadrat doesn't make anything like that right now but you could look through Maharam's stuff and see if they might have something. But it's very much a long shot. The chances of even the exact same fabric---new--matching decades-old fabric is pretty much nil, as you are aware. Some mills don't even match the color very well from one dye lot to another! Are you planning to put the sofa out in the room so that the back will be on view? I would just plan to get the whole thing redone, but that's just me---not a stickler for all original condition when it includes worn, faded fabric. You can take heart knowing that if you do decide it has to be redone, you at least have a choice of very high quality Danish wools from which to choose, and they're readily available from Maharam, the US distributor of Kvadrat fabrics. And modern-fabrics.com sells them at a deep discount though their selection is limited and you might have to wait months before the right fabric comes along. The good news is that your sofa won't require a lot of yards, which will keep costs down. | |||||
| Precise dimensions of LC4 Chaise? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | HughWS | General discussion | |
| Hey guys, I've been after an LC Chaise for a long time now. A friend of a friend recently offered to sell me theirs after hearing me talking about my desire for one. They inherited it form a relative who passed on but they don't like the style of it at all and are happy to part with it for quite a good price. No original receipts could be found, but apparently it wasn't bought that long ago. Anyhow, I inspected it yesterday and it does appear to be an original, or at least has the cassina stamp on the base. However, I have to say, something doesn't seem right about the top half. I've closely inspected genuine one's before, and I swear some of the angles are off. It's very strange. I went to a store that sells genuine ones this morning for a fresh comparison and this further convinced me that while the base of my friend's chaise seems to be genuine, the top half appears as if it could be fake! Very odd indeed. I decided a while back after inspecting all the reproductions I could find for sale that I have to have an original, so I don't want to buy this unless I am sure. So my question is, does anyone know where I could get detailed dimensions for an original from? I've googled for ages but can't find anything. Even the cassina website only lists length and width dimensions and that's it. I want angles, length of each section of tubing, etc etc, so I can be 100% certain about whether this is the real thing or not. Anyone have this info or know where I could get it? | |||||
| Not Hans Wegner. The teak and | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Not Hans Wegner. The teak and oak combination and the fact that Wegner is a premier designer would be the reasons for the false attribution. The most interesting thing about this table is that whoever built it was an unqualified hack. Or perhaps the top is not original on the table. Or it has been modified in some way. It certainly is extremely hard do believe it could have been built, as is, by a qualified Scandinavian cabinetmaker. The problem is with how the top is attached to apron. The top is solid teak and will expand and contract perpendicular to the grain. But it has been screwed to the apron so as NOT to allow this movement. The result is, as you an see in the pictures, that the top has started to tear itself apart. Perhaps the top was originally a dimensionally stable substrate with teak veneer? Perhaps the three outside screws were later added by an unqualified hack to hold the top "better" to the apron? I believe it is possible the flex in one apron bar might have been sufficient to account for the movement, and this is a trick I have seen a least on Dane use, although admittedly it was much more certain the flex would be sufficient in the case I am thinking of. Perhaps also the pegs were left unglued on this apron piece so that it could flex and slide a bit? Or perhaps this was a custom or one-off attempt at woodworking by an unqualified person who had the tools but not the know-how? Usually these attempts are much uglier than this. Strange table. It is a contradiction in itself. Reminds me of some people I used to know. | |||||
| I will say that I know of one | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I will say that I know of one solution that would remediate the table from its current condition. However it is an art, not a science, and I can only explain the "science" such as it is: You mix a dab or three of artists oil paint with enough your oil finish and wipe the slightly colored oil onto the lighter areas, feather it out, and wipe off as per usual. You have to plan to accomplish the complete remediation over maybe 7-10 coats, and you have to balance the colors just right so you don't put a weird color cast to the table. I am personally not very good at that art. But I know a person who is. If it were mine I would do as tktoo says and strip with methylene chloride. I don't think I would immediately jump to 2 part wood bleach. I wonder if someone inadequately removed the finish at some point prior to your purchase, and had re-oiled it? Oiling over another finish improperly removed could have caused the initial uneven appearance. (And you then did basically the same thing because acetone will not remove certain finishes). So you might try wetting or test oiling it after stripping. You might also try an oxalic acid treatment after stripping it. I wouldn't think oxalic has a high likelihood of fixing the problem, but it doesn't have much of a downside either. And only at this point would I finally go so far as to use 2 part wood bleach. | |||||
| It's "swagged" (or swaged) leg group, NOT the "swag leg" group | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| It's "swagged" (or swaged) leg group, NOT the "swag leg" group This is more proof that Herman Miller is no longer a design-centric company -- it doesn't even know its own product! The company's own press release discussing the re-introduction of this line (click below) mis-calls it the "swag leg" group and claims that the name comes from the fact that "Each piece is supported by a set of slender and distinctively shaped metal legs that give a 'swag' appearance". This is flat wrong. The group was called, in 1958 when it was introduced, the "swaged leg" (sometimes spelled "swagged") group -- named because the central feature common to the group is the "swaging" (i.e., bending or tapering the metal in a particular manner) of the legs. It's named for a particular metal-working technique, or some such thing (any experts out there?) The name has NOTHING to do with "swag", as in swagger or "walk with a swagger" (a la W). That there's a common misunderstanding of this is to be expected. But from Herman Miller itself?! If HM can't even get its own history right, why should a buyer trust that it has the design right, either? http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/News/Story/0,1585,a10-c407-n426,00.html | |||||
| I learned this | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| I learned this evening that the president was in San Diego at the beginning of the week, chatting about the war, etc, and a decision was made to address the hurricane aftermath "at the end of the week" -- a decision not apparently revisited despite the subsequent developments. Simply amazing. If the man and his group cared at all about world opinion,they would have red faces; something tells me this is going to get through to them despite that, when the smoke (and sewage) clears. . . [My favorite Bush quote (recorded by journalist Bob Woodward c. two years ago, during an interview): ". . .I'm the Commander, see; I don't have to explain -- I do not have to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation. . ."] This sad and appalling event and its prolonged aftermath just might begin a long-deferred conversation in this country, about the widespread tendency, increasing in recent decades (?), for development and infrastructure geared for the private, rather than the public, good (as in the loss of the surrounding wetlands that might have helped to protect New Orleans), as well as the general issue of the 'haves' versus the 'have-nots' -- and this will be a conversation transcending, at least in part, partisan political affections. Or, that is what is being suggested by some forward-looking journalists, as of today. | |||||
| Not too much of a great length for me...it's what I do for a... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | flyingpatricio | General discussion | |
| Not too much of a great length for me...it's what I do for a living. I know all about the "refinishing an item sometimes ruins the value", but the pieces I refinish are the ones in dire need. Most of the pieces I just disassemble if I can, clean them, give a nice rub down with Howard's Feed-n-Wax and tighten them back up, but if they are totally dilapidated I go right ahead and refinish it. The pieces I refinish are mostly for my consumption. I also do pieces for clients of mine. Like the magazine rack...the bottoms of the legs are worn, but all I plan on doing is rubbing some Watco Medium Walnut into the worn areas to blend them and help protect the wood and keep it from further deterioration. The rest of the piece I just rubbed with the Howard's. More times than not light scratches disappear with a good rubdown. As far as the bench piece goes...it was in serious need. What worth is it in terrible shape? Plus, it's a daily use piece in our living room. Even with how nice of a piece it is, it was so ugly it would've been relegated to some college kids' apartment or worse the trash. I saved it and will use it for years. The one thing I would've done differently is to do it in the dark walnut like it originally was done in, but dark walnut doesn't really go with our gear so Cherry Watco it ended up being. | |||||
| I will just say... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| I will just say... I see with my eyes, not through labels. Im an artist first. A teacher of painting and drawing second. A collector third. 40, 35, and 25 years respectively. I have spent a lifetime becoming hypersensitive to all things visual. With special emphasis on the formal elements of picture-making. I am hardly fooled by a label, or a lack of one. I look with my retina. If we are looking at the exact same painting, you are not even close to what I see. (Sorry, but I can tell that from miles away) You really think you see something in that Vera piece that I have missed? Wrong dude. You are the one that falls for flabby brushwork, and cant see that the painting is unresolved. It wouldn't get through a first semester critique in art school. ( I would encourage a new painter if they did that of course, but that is another issue.) its just not there. And the carpet piece. Sorry but I have higher standards of what I call "True Art" than that. It is not that easy to make art. Definitely not about labels, but definitely not about cranking out some gimmicky rug baubles to pounce on a trend either. I know its quaint, but dont try to make the argument that its "true art". It was schlock when it was made and its schlock now. Tired, unoriginal, and boring. A period piece yes. Clever use of carpet, okay. But put it on the wall next to some real art, like a Rothko, or a Monet, and try to make the case that its great art. jesus. Everything eles you said I can accept. But you have a long way to go before you see what I see when you look at a painting or you wouldnt have even posted that thing. | |||||
| Chair Identification | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Friedrichhans | Identification | |
| Hi Addicts, can anyone tell WHO made this wonderful thing ? Thx & greetings Fabian | |||||
| Eames swivel dowel question | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| I was hoping get some info on the production years for this chair. Iʻve looked online and on previous threads but Iʻve seen inconsistent years of production. One thing is certain in that it does not have a rope edge, but the shock mounts are larger (2nd zenith?) Anyway, any help is appreciated. Attached is a few photos, one is a close up of the shell with a round marking where the back bends into the seat. mahalo. | |||||
| Thanks | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | ModineMod | General discussion | |
| Thanks Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and theories Jonathan. The question about the doors being remade at some point is very interesting. It's funny - in person the color of the doors is nearly an exact match to the rest of the piece, but in the light of my iphone flash they look very different (all of the photos I posted previously had the flash on). I thought at first it might just be a difference in the way the wood grain reflected the light from the flash, but now I'm not so sure. I've posted a few photos in natural light below, including a close up, so you can see the difference. The last photo shows the door opened so you can compare it to the side of the cabinet. The label being a forgery (even if well-meaning one) is also a very interesting point. If someone were to go to the trouble of remaking the doors, and replacing the hardware with very McCobb-looking knobs, why wouldn't they have also added McCobb's name to the (fake) label? The label is metal, so someone thought it was important enough to expend some effort to include it on the piece. (I'm not doubting at all that it's not original, by the way -- it just raises lots of questions.) I guess the one thing I know for sure is that this piece has had a lively history. Thanks so much for sharing your expertise on this subject. | |||||
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