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| Vintage "Round Chair" no branding (Wegner?) | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | kuechengeraetef... | General discussion | |
| Hi, found this round chair in Germany. It has no branding and I´m not shure if it is "The Chair" Most interesting thing is, the chair is def. real vintage (I think from 1950/1960?) But some parts are disturbing: 1-no Branding 2-the joints in the backrest are spiry/pointet and not round like in the PP Moebler Video at YouTube (maybe because the chair is old and the Joints are not machine cut/milled? 3-the seat is extra supported/different to modern round chairs I checked so many chair pictures but never found these joints! Any opinions on it? Thank you so much Regards Micha http://d1t1u890k7d3ys.cloudfront.net/cdn/farfuture/aHB4v5v8PoIOq3abaorLOyNKJRHoMIZWNvz5En-TZdY/mtime:1487889887/sites/default/files/forum/4l1h.jp g" /> | |||||
| I disagree... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I disagree... I have quite a few very good friends from outside the US. All of them are just as concerned with the price and value of things as I am. We are all trying to live well on an average person's income in our own respective nations. While I may have spent more money on my sofa, my friend from Germany has a lot of money invested in his stereo system. My friends from Sweden have a very luxurious sauna, which they are proud to tell me how much money they had to save to get it. In the UK, my friend has spent at least a year's income on his tiny, but lovely, garden. To each his own, and to each of them the money they have spent to create their havens is considerable and a thing that they are proud of having been able to do. This is called 'Pride of Place'. They take pleasure, as I do, in having created a home that they love. Additionally, none of these friends, feels the need to generalize about Americans as all being of a particular type. They all see the fact that the US is a very large and quite culturally varied nation with different interests and values being expressed regionally. While, I do agree that there are cultural difference, it is unreasonable to burden any individual person with the weight a nation's cultural habits. No one is all sterotypes at once. This was my original point. Take each person indvidually, don't slap a cultural label on them and assume you understand their viewpoint without further discussion. | |||||
| Mystery artifact | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Monochrome | General discussion | |
| I ran across this thing and experienced a mild zap of recognition. I know I've handled one like it somewhere, some time, in some modern-design context, but the origin and function are hovering just out of mental reach: Picture, if you will, a beautifully-finished, heavy hardwood (walnut?) object, flattened oval in shape, approximately the size and proportions of a medium-size bar of soap. Comforting to hold in the hand. Possibly a paperweight? For some reason, it's not a solid block of wood, but composed of two identical halves. The dividing line, or equator, runs around the two shortest dimensions -- perpendicular to the long axis, if you see what I mean. The two halves seem designed to twist (or pull? apart) -- there's a little rotational wiggle there, but I was reluctant to force it for fear of breaking it. A secret compartment? A puzzle? My substance-abused memory keeps whispering, "MoMA design shoppe," but that could be imagination. No surface features other than a very faint white imprint on one side -- Roman characters, apparently, but too worn for me to read. It feels like the 1960s. Definitely not a doorknob or a darning egg. Any thoughts, design sleuths? | |||||
| Pearsall? Need help identifying this lounge chair. | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | tck | Identification | |
| I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw thing beauty on the curb. I will be having it reupholstered. The front panel/legs of the frame look identical to the Adrian Pearsall 3 Leg Lounge Chair, but I have not been able to find an exact match with the arched back legs like this one. There are no markings whatsoever. The original color I can see inside the creases look to be an avocado green color. I would love to really know who designed this gorgeous chair. Please help! | |||||
| First...Pt 7 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| First...Pt 7 So here's what I'm saying: Billy Wilder was a great screenwriter and fine director, but his passion was impressionistic art. Steve McQueen was, for my money, the coolest actor who ever lived (before he cracked up), but he loved car racing. Paul Newman, who was for my money, one of the best actors ever (Hud is the greatest anti-hero of all time, exceeding even Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.), and he got to where he liked car racing as much as acting. Audrey Hepburn was one of the greatest actresses and clothes horses of all time, and yet she expressed herself finally most fully through UNICEF and children. Philip Johnson was a great architect, but what he really cared about most was his glass house and landscaping and ornamenting his property. Was it Auntie Mame who said, the world is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving? Come in the river. Design a floating serving dish. Koen will critique it and make it better. I will stir up an artichoke dip to die for. We'll have a party and you can make what you love and make what you get paid for and sometimes it will be the same thing and sometimes it won't. All the world wants you to do is make things a little better, so we can all have a better time doing what we do--dodging the bullets and bombs of mad men who never did what they loved, or simply loved evil. | |||||
| Oooo goodie a Chemistry question! | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Oooo goodie a Chemistry question! Try Goo Gone, I've found that googone works wonders with greasy stains. If the stains are food-based they prolly contain oils. So try saturating the stain with googone and waiting 24 hours before washing. Knowing what the stain is helps with the clean up as you can bring chemistry knowledge into the picture. Googone is unique in that its citrus oils will sequester other oils but it's still hydrophilic and will wash out with water and soap. If googone fails try another oil-based cleanser like the oily stuff mechanics use to get car gunk off their hands. Careful with that one as it's not easy to remove with soap and water. You could try a two-stage approach using the grease cleanser to solublize the stain and then the googone to solubizes the grease cleanser... then wash with soap and water. It's all about hydrogen bonding, whitespike...if you can create a linked chain that's stronger than the bond to the fabric fibers, you can get the thing clean no matter how long the stain has been there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap | |||||
| teak armchair | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| teak armchair I got this armchair at an auction for two bucks. It has no marks or labels and could very well be American, especially judging by the hideously cheesy acrylic upholstery fabric. I have seen lots of American furniture with fabric like this but not Danish-made. Though maybe it was reupholstered in the 70's, I dunno. It was a recliner but the mechanism isn't working, which is ok with me. It's very comfortable upright. Anyway, it was absolutely filthy when I got it---years of grime and body oil and possibly nicotine on the wood, especially the arm rests. We called it the DNA chair. I got the crud off with Murphy's Oil Soap and then rinsed, let it dry, and did a few coats of Danish oil finish. I replaced all of the padding. I also took the sinuous springs off the seat (one was broken) and replaced them with elastic webbing. The new fabric is Maharam's Pebble wool in the Wenge colorway (actually darker brown than it looks here). The fabric is sort of a grospoint weave but with wool boucle yarns. It's the kind of thing you want to run your hands over repeatedly---fuzzy and warm and texture-y. I didn't put the headrest back on but I did keep the clips in case I decide later that I want it. Unfortunately the original ottoman wasn't with it. Maybe I'll get that at another auction someday for two more bucks. | |||||
| Paulanna bravo for your... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Starline | General discussion | |
| Paulanna bravo for your... Paulanna bravo for your green stance but those that live in glass houses,you know. While the truck may be inefficient onegroovy's other ways may make up for it.Vintage design is one of them which is recycling where as you may drive a useless Toyota Prius yet shop or live unsustainably in other areas.How would anyone know. By the way a Toyota Prius is more than double the price a similar car just to save emissions.The stupid thing is that a small car is similarly green efficient without the wasted cost but they won't say that. This is offtrack but reports estimate China will increase it's emissions by 2.5million tonnes per year for the next 20.We have a carbon tax our countries people and businesses to save 150,000 tonnes.India is expected to increase similarly to China. We sell them as much as they will take for the 'cash baby' but our citizens must pretend to save the earth through higher costs of living and business. Yes I recycle and try to avoid waste in general but the rhetoric is mainly smokes and mirrors unfortunately. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/china-and-indias-pursuit-of-coa... | |||||
| Yes... I went and am back... the REPORT>>> | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Yes... I went and am back... the REPORT>>> Saw and sat in the Cella chair... Similar to the Mirra... Not sure about the price point... assume it's less than the Mirra... Sits well but if you sit on it naked you'll look like an octopus with all the round Pirelli flooring looking nubs... I like it!... Knoll re-introduced or brought forth from the archives the Bertoia Chaise... WOW... This thing is the shiznit! What a fabulous pice of sculpture! You think the La Chaise is great... This is a WINNER for Knoll... They also had the Saarinen dining chair with wood legs instead of metal... This is the legged chair with arched opening in the seat back, not the tulip... Looks good! Knoll's Chadwick office chair is nice somehow got sidetrack and didn't get to sit in it... Think I like the Life better... Life has a really nice scale... Haworth's Zody is pretty great... nice visually and sits 100% better than the X99... Haworth's new showroom was the best design in a longtime, for any vendor... Upon exit you walk across a large mosaic tiled pond on clear plexi... VERY very nice!... Just back this afternoon... Need to chill and go out for a Mexican food fix! I'm steaked and martinied out... More later as I think of things I saw... Any questions? | |||||
| and furthermore | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | room606 | General discussion | |
| and furthermore I read two months ago that 60% of consumers had already come to the decision to own the iphone, though it was not yet even clear when the thing would become available. Not to dismiss the buying process of the average consumer, but there is no rational reason why 6 of 10 people should own this not-so-cheap device. When decisions on spending are never easy to make, how is it that the iphone has become a must-have when it so cleary is another vanity purchase, at best? Is Apple marketing so savvy as to price in a product like this (with zero true technological innovation, despite claims to the extreme opposite) and hype it so that it is an almost automatic and resounding "yes" from the marketplace? I think, yes, in fact that is the answer. It costs just enough that it is a "spoil yourself" gadget. And spoil yourself without any respect for the individual self, that everyone will relate to how you have spoiled yourself. Only the color of your skin makes your different. "Think different" is what saved Apple from demise. This is the evolution of such attempts at consumer reinforcement - think-different-like-everyone-else. It seems to work, doesn't. We is so smart, us people. Four and half years ago Ericsson invented this iphone (see link). I saw the Ericsson and Sony execs on a plane from Amsterdam to Stockholm playing with a prototype and I overhead their conversation. I went out to buy one as soon as it was available. That was cool. The ipone is so retro. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,2129541,00.htm | |||||
| natural is best but if ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| natural is best but if ... natural is best but if you are gonna paint go light as that will blend with every thing If you ever have any kind of natural stone and even think of painting it i will personally fly over and kick your butt that is a sin to paint natural stone inside or out, with one exception, here in Oklahoma some contractors found cheap stone quary , that had brown sand stone and started using it in the 1970s on contemporary homes, as they do not deserve to be called modern, and they are the most ugly homes in America, they used ugly grey and brown motor and big hugs of the brown stand stone really ugly, and the doors were so cheap and every one had to put a glass security store to open the heavy door to let the light in, any other color of light sand stone can be very nice looking as made popular by the Harvard five in all the homes in the late 40s and 50's . Elliott Noyes, John Johnason, Landis Gores, Phillip Johnson, and Marcel Breur all loved the natural stone and interagrted in there homes as Well as Frank Lloyd Wright , a new contest we should sponsor. the Ugly house contest, | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| . Hi Glassartist! Nice to have you here again, and nice what you said. Nice what you said, and I share your feelings. Strong manifesto condensed in a too small bottle. If it,s your own manifesto I wound,t say nothing more. But now if those are "some ideas to comment", as you said, I,d say: About the socialistic idea: you are right, but..... it didn't worked!, O.K., you could say try again, to insist. We could look at that interesting thing that happen (some of them you mentioned): Designers with socialist ideas produced ?wide access to design through low cost (efficiently produced) works?(for the poor and middle classes), but finally ended ?into luxury items? (for the rich). I,m trying to study those very interesting cases. To me if we try again, it will happen the same again. So studying this we could think what,s better to do. PS: I think I,ll have to order Cradle to cradle trough Amazon. Kdc: About you said: """so many thoughts ... not enough time right now.""" Absolutely true. ( or may be someone / anytime would have enough syntaxes/synthesis to find the right words/concepts. (may be azurechiken,s synthesis then 🙂 ) Koen, I hope you agree, I,ll add this article (you already posted) I want to add this link to this thread because I think fits very well here. I consider it on my top ten manifesto,s list, and influencing a lot. Between Top ten manifestos: Am I just seeing things - or is the modernist apartheid regime still in place? By Jan Michl http://www.geocities.com/janmichl/eng.seeingthings.html | |||||
| Heller yes? | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | bobbob | Identification | |
| Hi, Scored a big set of Heller Vignelli ware. The cool thing is the matching plastic ware that came with it. The name on the ware is different though. Molded in is, "Made in the USA Oak Hill Industries Corp New York" Has anyone out there ran into a set of Heller with color matching plastic ware? Maybe Heller had Oak Hill mold standard cutlery molds in Heller's colors? Weird...any help would be appreciated!!! | |||||
| Very early Bertoia side chair? | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | LaurentBE | General discussion | |
| Hi all, I just got 8 vintage bertoia side chairs. However at first view they look real 1 thing realy bothers me: The base-wires run under the frame. It is the first time every I have come in contact with this set up. Could this be a transitional edition between the first production "Sandwich" with rubble borders and the version as we know it know? Or are these chair vintage reproductions? Thx! Laurent Extra pictures: | |||||
| five or six years ago..... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| five or six years ago..... I think,I could not stand the thought anymore that it was within driving distance and yet, I had only seen hundreds of pictures but never the real thing. Most moving I think is that you recognize right away this balance between the emotional content, the rational idea and the creative proces. This is not the result of another rational analysis of functions, or the expression of emotions, or a wave of creativity. It is all of this in the right proportions. Although it emerges as a very rational construction of basic volumes in the middle of nature, it is sometimes very hard to tell where nature stops and the man made construction begins. The integration in the floor of existing flat parts of the rock on which it is anchored is part of a larger message that the results of rational and creative human thinking is as much part of nature as a tree, a rock or a small waterfall. We know the arguments but to see it materialized convincingly, forcefully even but without being brutal, and to meet such a powerfull demonstration of it at the end of a curved road in PA was an incredible experience. As a designer you search for that balance, you draw and make models over and over again to find that self evident solution and yet, you are never sure you got it right and than on a sunny spring day, the dogwood in bloom, you see that it can be done. I am sorry dear SDR that I can not discribe it better. | |||||
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