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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Arne Jacobsen swivel office/desk chair | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Ronaldo | Identification | |
| Hello all, This Arne Jacobsen office chair would look really nice in our office. We have actually already agreed to buy it. Just to be safe, could anyone please tell if it's an original? It has four legs which would indicate it's an older edition. The wheels however are black which we've seen on some younger editions as well. Some of the older editions have different wheels. Is the circular piece which connects the seat to the base also something to take a look at in order to check if it's the real thing? We would really welcome any information. Thanks in advance and have an nice sunday. Best, Ronaldo | |||||
| Danish upholstered chair with teak base | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | Zephyr | Identification | |
| I picked up this interesting chair at an estate sale that I stopped at on my way into work. The last thing I need is more chairs, but something about this one begged me to pick it up, or maybe I was just in withdrawal. In any case, I feel reasonably confident that this chair is Danish. It has a solid teak base, and what looks like Kvadrat Hallingdal 420 upholstery. The dust cover was ripped in a location and I can see there is either Pirreli or Rotex webbing, then a jute weave cloth, and then a quilted fabric as a seat support. latex foam seat cushion that is completely deteriorating, and the cushion has a brass zipper at the rear to change out the foam. It certainly is not top of the line construction, but it does seem to be a notch above the typical volume production. Does anyone recognize it at first glance? It kind of said Ditzl to me, but I do not think that is right. I still need to d\really dig in and search for answers, but I thought I would throw it up on the board and see if anyone recognized it. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Attachment: IMG_4849-copy.JPG | |||||
| RE: Folke Ohlsson - Made in Sweden | 1 Relevance | 3 years ago | Raijin | Identification | |
| It could also be that there is a lot of confusion with the Shield Company of California chair which is probably what that chair you linked to is. Notice the corner supports, those are mostly an American thing and the end of the legs are fatter on the Dux chairs. I have had several of these including ones that still had the Shield Company stickers still on them. I believe they were all made of ash like these and simply stained differently. Attachment: IMG_8735.jpeg Attachment: IMG_5602.jpeg | |||||
| my three favorite finds that I kept | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | dialh4hipster | General discussion | |
| my three favorite finds that I kept 1. I used to have a vintage store so occasionally people would call with something they wanted to get rid of. One woman called and said she had two "tulip" chairs to sell. I went to her house, expecting to find two Saarinen side chairs (or worse, knockoffs) and she had a pair of Fritz Hansen Jacobsen Swan chairs. The foam was shot in both of them so she gave them to me for $100 for the pair. 2. Browsing around at a local consignment store, I came across a cool little modernist antelope sculpture which I bought for $4. Later I found out it was a Frederick Weinberg piece (and a nice one in that it didn't have that retro kitsch thing going). 3. I was driving past another junk store in town one day and they had three yellow Eames shell chairs sitting out front. I went and bought them ($40 total) and when I got home I discovered the bases were strange and the shock mounts different than normal. I did a little research and found out they were very early Eames shell chairs manufactured by Zenith (although not the rope edge), worth quite a bit more than I paid! Of course there are a couple other great finds that I ended up selling (including a free Wormley sofa by Dunbar). It was a good gig! | |||||
| I've gone back in with | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Watsonette | General discussion | |
| I've gone back in with stripper to remove the last bits of the old dark paint and something has happened to the wood! It has a "beached" look where ever I applied the stripper. I tried to sand an area but that hasn't changed the appearance. Should I apply an even layer of stripper again or will this make the teak completely grey? I was also thinking of a de-greyer. Obviously I want to do the most straightforward thing that will fix the spots... Further, would the suggestion be a light sanding, and leave whatever further imperfections remain in the grain of the wood? Leaning a lot on these projects! 🙂 | |||||
| Marsala? I always thought of | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Marsala? I always thought of that as "mucous membrane pink". (Really, i have. For years and years.) Gray is big, too. Or mabye it's on its way out and blue is new gray? I don't know. I blame Apartment Therapy. Someone took this dresser with what was very likely the original white enamel paint job and decided to do something really...um, innovative?? Commenters raved about the gorgeous wood grain that she uncovered. The two wood colors are on purpose. She stained some of the drawer fronts but left the paint-grade birch unstained on others. I don't know why. I confess to a morbid fascination with the whole thing--the project, the comments, all of it. | |||||
| Danish Stool - Unknown Designer/Maker | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Sarah Wilson | Identification | |
| Hello As ever, I would be grateful if anyone has any thoughts with identification. The stool below is made of oak wood with, I think, Halingdal 65 upholstery which made me think it's Danish. The other thing which made me think it's Danish is the joint construction which reminds me of the Johannes Andersen trolley. I lifted the black lining material on the underneath of the seat and couldn't find any markings on the frame. Have also had a look under 'oak' stools on the Danish Design Museum furniture index but couldn't find anything. Many thanks Sarah | |||||
| Thank you, KVC06! | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Thank you, KVC06! I just picked this up at a local thrift store for $25. I know that old wooden steno chairs aren't that unsual but check out the undercarriage! WHOA. All wood. The chair swivels but this whole contraption is so that you can lean back in the chair. I have never seen such a thing in wood, always in metal with a big spring! There must be a spring in there somewhere, since it slides back on its own, but even the turn knob is wood. There are no labels or marks that I could see. The finish is a tinted varnish and it's worn off in some areas. I think the chair would look great if stripped and refinished in a subltle oil-rubbed whatever, but I will be selling it as is. Just thought all you industrial style people would get a kick out of it. (Oh, also, it's pretty small scale--almost child size but not quite. For a petite stenographer.) | |||||
| RE: Finn Juhl Whisky chair | 1 Relevance | 4 years ago | Andersen | General discussion | |
| Thanks herringbone for the nice explanation! House of Juhl should be praised for resurrecting such design, and I hope more will be done in this direction to fully celebrate the genius of Finn Juhl. I am probably too conservative when it comes to restoration or reproduction of these amazing pieces to make any compromise. Do you have any reference to Vodder using walnut ? Not to question you at all, just for my curiosity. What‘s the metal used for the feet ? Is that really brass ? The thing is that the volume of furniture produced by house of Finn juhl is relatively small that it should use the best materials available still. Including teak of the best quality, which may be available from certified sources too. This would justify the effort of spending Juhl‘s name and the sums asked. One question is: are the pieces produced nowadays going to become valuable in the future and last through generations ? I am not totally convinced that for some pieces walnut will work as well as teak in terms of stability. Am I wrong ? Honestly, I would not mind saving for such a chair if it was done with proper materials. I believe there is a share of potential customers that are refraining from spending these sums because of the pieces do not exactly match the original intent. What do you think ? Look at the Japan series in oak ... the butterfly table is at least also offered in teak, that piece I am dreaming of ! | |||||
| There's a strange, newish | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| There's a strange, newish hair enhancement technique called "microcylinder intervention",---where individual hairlike fibers are cemented to the person's own hair, making it look thicker and/or longer, or something. One of the people who does it (possibly the inventor) has a salon in Trump Tower in NYC and that is allegedly where Trump gets his hair serviced---not his daily grooming, which he does himself with a can of Aqua-net in his airtight penthouse or whatever, but the stuff he has to hire out. Anyway, this kind of engineered hair can be tousled all day long by Jimmy Fallon or whoever and not come loose. Ex-wife Ivana has said in sworn testimony that he had a scalp reduction surgery, one of the reasons for which is to make bald spots smaller. He denies it, of course. I think his hair is so fine and pale and there's so much airspace in there too, that it just doesn't read as a mass. It's too ethereal to show up as a defined thing in a photo or video, kinda like smoke. It is just this side of a foul odor, maybe---you have to rely on the expressions of people nearby to get the full picture. This article is by far the most plausible explanation of what's going on atop the oversized cheezy poof that is his head: http://gawker.com/is-donald-trump-s-hair-a-60-000-weave-a-gawker-invest-... | |||||
| Dear Jeong | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear Jeong I will answer you on your E-mail address, but to answer your question shortly and for the benefit of those who know even more and could contradict me. From what we know, soft materials are not very good for the simple reason that different parts of the lower body have different muscular mass and are more or less able to support the body. Especially the transition between the gluteus maximus and the adductor maximus and the semitendinosus. To make things a little bit more complicated the body is also a complex dual system of blood circulation and nervous system. Comfort can only be achieved if both systems are able to work well. So...the best seems to be a well shaped seating with stiffer support in those areas where the body is able to support more weight, coverd with a rather thin material that can breath and assures blood circulation on the very surface of the body. One thing should not be forgotten: to sit is not the most natural position and so...mouving around and alternating sitting with standing and walking is still the best. As to lumbar support I think you should take a close look at Dr. E. Mandel's studies on how to maintain the natural lumbar curve without support. I was born prematurely. One of the "side" effects is that the first lumbar is still fused to the ilium, so I know also by own experience how important good seating is. I will get back to you! | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| . You really are a chimp aren't you? Its the same thing dumbo. Unfortunately there isn't a way I can explain by which I could be confident you would understand. Basically Ebay sees its future as being the place where people buy things like new clothes and cameras and household goods. The people like you who sell vintage and secondhand stuff represent a very poor Return on Investment (ROI) to Ebay. Less than 1%. You more or less cost more than you're worth. You've sold about 800 items in 10 years. Whatever the word is for something less than chickenshit then that's what you are to Ebay. You are a liability not an asset. People like you will be increasingly marginalised by Ebay because you're not worth it to them. Fact - Donahue describes people like you as 'noise' - I do too but for different reasons - part of Ebay's history. Where do you think the insistence on fast and free shipping is coming from? It ain't to benefit the likes of you is it now? Because thats impossible for people selling individual items to comply with it means they lose powerseller and top rated status. Higher fees, more marginalised and eventually out the back door. Like the first batch they ditched this month. This is Ebay policy. Laugh all you want but this is happening already with a lot more to come. The word I used by the way was MAY be no secondhand in 5 years. Maybe some really big hitters still there but thats it. Laugh all you want but I'm glad it isn't me planning my future on Ebay. Thats the funny one. | |||||
| Question Regarding Burke Saarinen Tulip Table and Chairs | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | we.r.1 | General discussion | |
| I was very lucky to purchase for little money Burke Saarinen table and four chairs last Sunday. The seats vinyl is lemon green and the table top matches the color of the vinyl. After a close inspection, it looks like - and it is - that the white laminate top at one time has been painted so it would match the vinyl. My question is: is it possible that it was originally painted by the manufacturer? And if it is not, I am thinking to strip the paint. Your advise and feedback is very much appreciated. One other thing , whoever owned this set before they have have stripped the old paint on the chair bases and the refinished then with a very hi quality powder paint - they look new...! | |||||
| RE: Eames PACC with no stamp - is it legit? | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | SynBiscuit | Identification | |
| @tktoo2 I'll freely admit I'm more interested in form than function in this instance haha - I'll only be using it as a desk chair for a couple of hours at a time usually so as long as it's not distractingly uncomfortable after a short time that shouldn't be an issue. I'm also fortunate enough to still be in my 20s and in possession of a (relatively) ache-free back so I guess I have the luxury of being able to compromise on comfort more than most 😛 Not totally sure I'd count a PACC as classy either, but it's certainly not ugly - just a little odd. My taste tends to be fairly minimal but with slightly oddball/kitsch touches to add a splash of interest/colour. I'm also eyeing a Huo-Tu Huang/Huangslite toucan desk lamp at the moment and waiting on getting my Peter Schmidt Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) print back from being re-framed if that helps you get more of a handle on my tastes. Unfortunately my bedroom/office is my only private space in a shared house, so having an outright ugly chair just *out* would grate on me pretty quickly haha. That's another thing that drew me to the PACC, actually - it can serve as both a short-term desk chair and armchair while being more compact than most forms of the latter so less of my (limited) space is taken up with seating. | |||||
| Bertoia Bird mounting bar irregularity | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | brbeard | General discussion | |
| Hey guys, There's a Bird Chair auction winding down that I'm thinking about -- there seems to be something possibly strange going on where the shock mounts...mount. that little short piece of wire isn't original is it? I'm thinking it's evidence of a broken mounting bar that's been reinforced...thoughts? Some pics of other chairs online don't have it, one other I saw did...(the thing that first caught my attention here, incidentally, is the fact that the one on the right hand side (look at from the rear) appears to be crooked or bent). http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350112229165&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching http://d1t1u890k7d3ys.cloudfront.net/cdn/farfuture/i3ALFevQ1eObjeK0nEJQkTJSQEyvKR-5HQ1H_p0QXKM/mtime:1487894013/sites/default/files/forum/8748_1.JP G" /> | |||||
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