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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Shooter | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Shooter Again, in large part I agree with you. I take issue with the idea that a design can be controlled in perpetuity just for profit. And as I said, I do buy copies and have no guilt about it. I also amd smart enought to realize that very few designs are truly unique. Most are derived from styles that came before. Example Wegner's Y back chair is derivative of a Chinese design. But my point is that I want top homor the original design. I I wanted to buy something that was improved, used better materials or whatever I'd buy a new design that was designed and manufactured with today's technology in mind. I actually own two Wassily chairs. They are very close to the dimensions and materials that were in the originals design. Chromed metal, saddle leather, bent not welded radii, etc. I think that they are well built and lovely to look at. I have seen a stainless steel version for 1/2 of what I paid. However, the joints were welded and not well polished. The endcaps on the tubing were evident and ill fitted. The screw jointes were punched instead of drilled leaving unattractive divots in the tubing. The leather was easily scratched just with my fingernail and the whole thing wobbled. That's what I mean about cost prohibiting good repoduction. You get what you pay for and while I don't think paying for a name is always such a bright idea, I am certainly not going to buy garbage just so I can say I have a chair that looks like a famous design. | |||||
| whitespike and Lucifersum | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| whitespike and Lucifersum Both of you make great points and always do !! you both have a great wealth of knowledge. I am most interested in MCM and that is what I focus in on. One thing you said about the Bahaus is interesting but where did the word phrase "Mid century modern" come from ? I always thought the ideas of the German Bahaus were based on the moderne ideas that were coming out of the 1926 paris exposition? I always though that mid-century modern was the group of designers who worked for Herman Miller and Knoll who worked in the Mid-century starting around 1950.and bought there great works to the market place during that time period SIDEBAR....... I was born in 1951 so i can say i really missed the 50's as a design expert Did we call that period when it was happpening MID CENTUR MODERN or just modern.. It took me years but i finanlly became confortable with the term ART DECO never really used that term untill Bevis Heller coined that term and it stuck in 1969 prior to that... we just used the terms zigzag,jazz,streamline, so I would love to hear what you have to say who coined it. Was it coined at the Bahaus or did some smart marketing guy come up with it for us all to en joy like Bevis Heller | |||||
| Danish Teak Table with unique way to pull out leaves - ID help? | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | AMF | Identification | |
| Hi all, Picked up this teak dining table up today. It has a metal Danish Control medallion. I'm having some issues identifying the designer, etc... One thing I found rather unique (at least for me) was how the leaves can be pulled out. Check out the round sculpted pulls on each side of the leaves - where a person is meant to pull out the leaf with their fingers. I've not seen this before. Typically there is a carved out pull under the leaf. I've attached a few pics. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks & Cheers! | |||||
| Hakusan Masahiro Mori sake set | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | ite (BE) | General discussion | |
| One of the purchasing (or rather not purchasing) mistakes I still regret, is letting slip a very nice Masahiro Mori porcelain set of cups through my fingers about a year ago. By the time I realised I really liked the set, and went back to the shop to buy it (and, even worse, at a VERY reasonable price too, compared to all the internet prices I am seeing), it has already gone. Which I can perfectly understand, by the way: such a great set, at such a great price. The even more regrettable bit is that the shop did not do import, nor distribute Hakusan porcelain. It was only one set imported by the shop owner from abroad that was up for sale. However, a search learned that Masahiro Mori porcelain is for sale in several internet stores (e.g. Unica Home, Fitszu, Chatchada, ..). On the other hand, I had a couple consecutive bad experiences buying from such shops and would rather not go there again. So my question is this: does anybody know of a distributor / shop in Belgium where I could buy Masahiro Mori porcelain ? I would really like a real shop where you buy the thing, pay & take it home with you (none of those: you pay, but never are sent the object, or the object sent to you is different from the description ?scenarios). More specifically I am after the set that is depicted in the Unicahome & chatchada ? links. Any help is welcome. ite http://www.unicahome.com/p9870/whisky-and-sake-set-by-masahiro-mori.html | |||||
| Genuine Bertoia Chair or reproduction? with photos | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Marta B-B | General discussion | |
| Hello, I am writing to enquire about Bertoia Side chair which I bought at auction. Seller told me that they are authentic because they have original covers from 70s The wires seem correct. One thing bothers me - is the edge on the end where the leg is attached to the base. It should be beveled - End where base meets seat. On these chairs edges are finished straight (please look at photo) Perhaps only covers are authentic and chair is a reproduction?? Could somebody confirm they are genuine? Any help would be great. Thank you! | |||||
| Dark water rings and stains l... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | tchp | General discussion | |
| Dark water rings and stains l... Dark water rings and stains like the ones on your tables are caused by the iron that is naturally present in water, and how it reacts with the tannins in the wood. It is a kind of rust stain, basically, and there are very effective means of removing these kinds of stains using chemicals, rather than sanding. Sanding can work, but sometimes these stains go down quite deep into the wood, and as you can see the tops of these tables are pretty thin. If you Google this issue, you will find that oxalic acid is the most common thing used to remove dark ring stains on wood furniture. I know that nicer woodworking and hardware stores here in the USA carry it. There is a kitchen cleanser here in the USA called "Barkeeper's Friend", which contains some oxalic acid. When I have got a dark ring stain on my teak dining table or my walnut cutting board, I make a paste from the cleanser, and put it on the stain, and so far I have not encountered one that did not disappear completely, and some have been pretty dark. So far I have not seen it negatively effect the natural color of the wood itself. | |||||
| check out Eames film | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Our gracious host Patrick and Alix have posted on their new blog the film about the eames lounge chair I saw this several months ago on the HM website I loved it then , and love it now , It is so great, thanks for posting it , I was impressed with Charles and Ray Eames but i was taken back by Arlena Francis a figment of my childhood , as i remember her well, her elegance and charm, and style, she truly was the first talk show host and the standard bearer that all talk show host try to emulate to this day, Charles Eames he had a lot of class and humility, knew what to say and how to say it , was one sharp man and very complimentary to his wife, when back then most men would have said the little woman needs to be barefoot and pregnant and she should be in the kitchen cause she makes a mean chicken fried steak, I can see why this couple were so successful cause they worked well together, I think Ray had Charles check his ego at the the front door next to one of his colored ball coat racks, I will go out on a limb here and i am sure some will weigh in on this one, It seems their toy stuff to me just never really made it, I sure don't remember it Every thing i have seen in all the books looks kinda hogey I liked Robert the Robot and Mr. Potato head and my ant farm and don"t forget candy land; The Eames stuff could not hold a candle to these great Icons. | |||||
| Umm, not so much. The other | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| Umm, not so much. The other Europeans on here are going to have to help me explain this (again) to the Americans. Europe is the land of personal responsibility. There is no such thing here as "punitive damages". If you are so stupid that you would stand really close to a train platform THAT HAS AN ONCOMING TRAIN GOING BY at a high rate of speed and you are sucked over the edge into the jet stream and die, well, sorry. Don't stand so close to the edge. If you are hiking up an Alp at 2500 meters and a marmotte runs across your path and startles you and you fall off the side and die because there is no barrier, well, sorry, don't hike in the Alps until you are ready to deal with marmottes. This is always a good one for the Americans. Imagine you move to a European country like Switzerland, (where I live during the week), and you have a child who is 6. Imagine your child coming home from school one day and he tells you that HE CLIMBED ON THE MATTERHORN and he took two buses and a train to get there and it was really fun. If you are a Swiss parent you say, "ah, oui, and did you see any chamois?" If you are an American ex-pat parent you say, "oh my God! Are you alright? Did you get hurt? Where was the permission slip? Why wasn't I notified of this? Who can I sue? Was your bagged lunch vegan and completely gluten free?" The only reason I am putting up any kind of barrier at all on my terrace is because my visiting family is American and they truly don't know how to watch out for themselves so I must do it for them, unfortunately. | |||||
| Most of us | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| Most of us in the states are returning from a holiday. Thanksgiving. I visited my family, a four hour drive south to the Eastern Shore. And then we take small drives to see the childhood sites and get away from the family insanity. My grandmother was American indian so i cook her specialties, corn-pone, oyster stew, etc...a wonderful holiday. Many roadside junk shops. Usually a nasty old computer somewhere and a crazy person on e-bay. Never price tags on the good stuff when we see a few random pieces. Ikea is so exotic that it is usually twice the store price. (no ikea nearby) So what do i spot from a distance? And i said 'oh shit, not another chair'. This one had a price tag, 30 bucks. What the heck was it doing there? The nice thing about DA is that the catalog is posted so i know the cushions are a bit wrong. Just the back one is a bit high. And the seat is repaired so bringing back the clips and original straps seems impossible. The teak is minty. Just a bit dusty. The cushions are brand new, an odd pink/salmon mohair. Strange but fun find. I don't think i could have cushions made for 30 bucks. It had an bent ugly brassy headboard on top of it but i saw the 'z' arm and remembered this post. | |||||
| Need help to dismantle a Tulip Chair for restoration purposes | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | kevin.retrodesign | General discussion | |
| Hello everybody, After reading some of this forum's posts I decided to jump in a be part of it as well. I'm a design addict as well and I love to search auctions and markets for original items at bargain prices. I guess that's my joy.. Anyway, I'm writing because I need some assistance to disassemble a set of 4 tulip chairs I found for sale. These are old and need to be repainted, that's why I need them to be disassembled. I have read the previous thread regarding a simmilar issue of someone else's tulip chair but the instructions given were not of good use in my case.. After inspecting my chairs I haven't found any C-Clamp between the seat and the base.. I also haven't got any screw with bolt visible at the axis of the base when looking from below the base.. The only thing that is visible are a set of 6 bolts on the circular metal plate that rests on the seat and is hidden by the seat cushion.. The problem is that these bolts seem to be welded to the circular plate. I'm afraid that these are welded from origin, but I'm not certain of this feature. I'm not sure if my chairs are the swivel model or the fixed base model. They don't swivel, but that can be due to the age and condition of the chairs. I would apreciate any help from you. Please let me know if you require any photos. Looking forward your reply Best regards Kevin | |||||
| Danish knockdown chairs with pivoting backrests | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | UXtraordinaire | Identification | |
| I've been searching everywhere to try and ID these chairs. Best I can tell is that these are Beech? The only markings found are "starbright, Ice Blue" which refers to the Mohair upholstery. These chairs breakdown without unscrewing a thing as seen in the photo. I purchased these along with the guitar pick table designed by Yngve Ekstrom seen in the photo for scale and reference. The table I believe was imported by DUX. I was thinking maybe the chairs were DUX as well? Closest I've seen any chairs come were Arne Vodder and Kofod Larsen models. Any ideas? | |||||
| As often, | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| As often, Annette is saying it more clearly and shorter. Yes, one of the major obstacles in introducing the use of the pre-fix re- next to the regular use of the word design is that there is no clear-cut line between the two, but a sliding scale. Re-design as been used for quite some time, as Jan points out, to discribe less innovative changes to an existing product. But this negative interpretation of the word is only negative if you assume that bigger and more innovative steps are better than many small ones. The question, at least for industrial designers will always be : "how innovative can you be without losing contact with the consumer". If we set aside the problems of both polution and depletion of natural resources and look at the car simply as a product, it would be difficult to argue against the simple fact that this particular product has reached a level of quality that is exceptional, and yet, in the last 100 years of it's existance it has only be re-designed. In fact, a number of more innovative versions (Tucker etc.) have been commercial failures. Chaires on the contrary, a product in which form-innovation has been so frequent, is still a rather un-comfortable thing where most of the time you have to compromise between, price,quality and looks...I am realy looking forward to W.D.Teague's comments, but just the fact that you mentioned Sullivan remided me of the fact that Sullivan's intentions were quite different from how we have used his "form follows function", which is almost always quoted out of context. | |||||
| This might help, I hope. | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | _ | General discussion | |
| This might help I hope to answer the question on who made the current versions for Knoll, http://www.bgccraftartdesign.org/items/show/1 http://www.bgccraftartdesign.org/files/original/ae13ce2063954edba328c17b2531ec74.pdf And no it is not a Daddy Dearest expose. " MN: Yeah we were trying to do that with my son. But people nowadays associate Nakashima with what they call one-offs. Everything is individually designed and crafted and made specifically for them, so what we had thought would be a semi-manufactured line that my son would be in charge hasn’t taken off at all. We took it to Architectural Digest, we took it to Neocon last year and we’ve tried to promote it and it just hasn’t taken off. I mean we would like to be able to. There’s just the way these things are made there’s no fast way to make them. Knoll has taken that chair over there which is a straight back chair, and mass-produces that, but that’s the only one. And then there are knock-offs for the Conoid chair. They’re being made in Southeast Asia and they’re fairly inexpensive—so if you want a Nakashima knock-off—[laughs.] MS: It has to be the real thing. [laughs.] MN: The Knoll chair is actually true to the design, it’s just the manufacturing is different. MS: So the material is different, the finish is different? MN: The construction is different. Well the construction is basically the same but it’s put together by machine and it’s a catalytic varnish and the wood is steam dried and so it just looks different and feels different because it’s not handmade...." | |||||
| Hallo! | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Tom Swift V | General discussion | |
| Hallo! This seems to have been posted a year ago, but I can tell you what you've got if you haven't figured it out yet. I bought the same piece about three months ago and puzzled over it myself until last week. First, let me say that the extra piece you have seems rather rare. Neither the desk available on 1st Dibs nor the one on Etsy has it. While the extra piece is great for holding magazines, it was designed to hold individual pieces of paper while they were being copied - as in a letter or other piece of correspondence. The slatted, open grid creates negative pressure and you'll see that if you put a piece of paper on the stand while its on the desk, the paper will not slip, slide or move. Ingenious! I love this little gadget, it seems so well thought out and designed and as I said it seems to be something of a rarity. Mine luckily came with one too. One last thing. In the pictures you show, you've configured it more like a book case with all of the slats facing one direction. I find that the concave slat works best at the first or second highest position - like a desk - with one of the smaller slats reversed two or three positions lower to hold Apple TV, and other Hard Drives and Media. The top takes the monitor and the very bottom takes my Laser Printer and my slippers! Hope this helps. Enjoy the piece. All the best, Tom Swift V | |||||
| Koen, there seems an important lesson regarding this critic..... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Koen, there seems an important lesson regarding this critic...Pt. 1 one quite independent of which music embodies modernism and the Beatles proto-plunge into post-modernism. The critic you mention I find both moving and foolish. This person withdrew in disillusionment from what the Beatles wrought with Sgt. Peppers and imho did us all a great disservice. He should have kept up his advocacy and, if he had to stay au courant with the young to keep getting published, he should have turned his intellect to developing a complementary new critical criterion for this apparently--in his eyes--aberrant thing called post-modernism. A critic's job is not to be a censor and rule out forms of artistic expression. A critic's job is to: a) find the tradition that the new work descends from in order to deepen our understanding and appreciation of it; and b) sift the wheat from the chaff in work in this form. Should we recoil at the evolution of a new species of flower, even one we judge a weed, and live in fear that it will extinct the other long bread and refined flowers? Or should we appreciate its new beauty and try to breed and domesticate it as we have previously done with more traditional and prized flowers that were once weeds themselves? Of course we should do the latter to diversify the beauty of the garden. | |||||
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