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| Moller 78 chair repair | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Evelyn | Repair | |
| Today I bought 3 beautiful chairs for peanuts. They were bought by the seller's grandmther about the beginning of the 60's he thinks. They have been retwined not too badly, until you look at the reverse side. But more worrying is the split in the wood on 2 chairs in the same place. I shall add photos. The bashes and scratches are for the most caused by carelessness it seems. I also will add photos of the identification discs. I'd be grateful for advice on how to repair the splits, or at least minimise damage. Drspite the splits the chairs are all pretty stable. Thanks a lot! And another thing.....by the discs, can the chairs be dated? | |||||
| my home designed in 1964 ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| my home designed in 1964 ... my home designed in 1964 by Doug Wixson and Edward Vance Kershner, Kershner one of the greatest architects in Oklahoma did fantastic mid century modern homes, Doug Wixson was his son in law. The home is 5000 sq ft with celestial windows and maple wood floors, looking very Richard Neutra style, with new crap orchard stone, similar to the stone that Neutra used on the Kauffman home in Palm Springs, but that stone was called Utah Buff Quartzite stone, found in that area, The great thing about my home it is much like homes Marcel Breuer ,Landis Gores,John Johansen,Elliot Noyes, and Phillip Johnson were designing in the New Canaan Conn area in the 50s and 60s , This house that i live in could have been on any block in Conn.as for a mid century modern home it has a lot of sq feet, and has 40 ft ceilings that make the home with the floor to ceiling windows seem much larger than it is. To say the least I love this home as i have furnished it with the furniture of that period, and it seems to just pop that is why when some one ask me what style did you furnish it in, I say POP 60s | |||||
| Dear Stephen... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear Stephen... As a keen observer of the culture of our time, you must have noticed that in design, very much like in contemporary art the "Artefact" alone is not considered the same thing as the "artifact+narrative" In that sense the new edition of the Eames elefant is not the elefant you and I have known and admired each time it comes up in a publication. Now it is "the" elefant of de Eames' (the ignorant is implicitly encouraged to read the books) and it is a "limited" edition for the 100th anniversery, a quality that the new owner is going to point out to anyone that pays attention to his or her new piece(not intended for the children's room by the way). With the kind help of Vitra he or she will be able to show a bronze plaque that confirms both the Eames' story and the limited edition. So, this is not a reproduction it is actually a new product, a product grown out of sophisticated 21st century marketing knowledge, skill and opportunism. Technologically it might have some roots in the fyfties but culturally it does not fit anymore in mid century North America. In fact mid century north america did see it for what it was, an experiment, grown out of the playful creativity of people that were able to and wanted to develop the technology of bend plywood. Unfortunately that is history....by the way I am sure that for an extra $500 you can get one with a certificat stating that Dimitreos Eames has sat on it. | |||||
| LRF, you say: "It may seem... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | essai | General discussion | |
| LRF, you say: "It may seem... LRF, you say: "It may seem that way but i have never benefited one dime from your forum". We don't know about that and you are probably not aware of it either as people don't always mention how they get to know you. Anyway, it would not be a problem for us if you did benefit from the forum. If a participant of the forum, from his contributions, proves that he is competent, it is normal that he benefits from the confidence of the readers and that it sometimes leads to a commercial relation. What bothers us, is when you use the forum to clearly advertise your own business! By the way, we have to admit that we are also getting tired of the regular marks of arrogance in your posts and your emails. Some readers will probably find that our tone is more severe than usual, but they should know that it is also in reaction to emails that LRF has sent to us directly and that are definitely less pleasant than his interventions in the forum. Just a small example: "I don't need any business from any one as I have more than enough. Judging from the readership you have it would not be worth advertising on Design addict" If the judgement on our readership is quantitative, you will probably be interested in knowing that we will soon reach 5000 threads - 40000 posts and the readings counts per million. If this judgement is qualitative (what we fear), there is only one thing to say: we are very proud of the quality of our readership. During almost ten years of existence of DA, we have always been amazed by the knowledge and human qualities of the regulars on DA. Some became friends, and as for everybody, we do not like when one insults our friends. Before acting as a disappointed customer for the quality service of Design Addict, perhaps LRF, you should ask yourself first how much you are paying for this service? Nothing! | |||||
| I came to the conclusion studying literature... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| I came to the conclusion studying literature... that all artists build from other artists' concepts and for the most part start by copying something they think is great and do it so relentlessly and repetitively that their personal style emerges inexorably inspite of themselves. All great artists in all fields say essentially the same thing. It is the hard work of doing it again and again until it gets worth noticing and then again and again for a living that forges something recognizable as great individual style. The artist knows what he wants to carry forward from the past. The artist knows where he wants to go. But the artist can't know the effect of repetition and suffering to get it right will have on his abilities and on exposing his inabilities. It is this process of working endlessly that yields a Wegner. All you have to do is devote yourself to doing anything for a couple of years--not thinking about it, but actually doing it, whether for pay or not, just getting up and doing it every day for a couple of years and one cannot help but be surprised at what one's work turns into. It is almost like your work transforms into something by another person. Why? Because that is exactly what happens: you change by working. Working is the most dynamically altering activity there is for a human being. Do shit work for a couple of years and you become more shitty. Do your best for a couple of work and your work becomes better. Your work becomes the sum total of learning of your struggles. You become your work...whatever you do. You do jack off work and you become a jack off and vice versa. It is one of the biggest mystical experiences of human existence. Everyone has it. And almost no one even mentions it. It is taken for granted. Don't. | |||||
| RE: Canoe Wooden Bowl | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | guyinSF | Identification | |
| Posted by: leif ericson - Zephyr Renner This is the Hundevad & Co early mark which naively appears to be CHO but was used to represent H&Co. So I believe that the C is well within the domain of a letter by the standards of danish companies of the era. There just may not be any sort of equal weighting to the K E and C and the question of order is uncertain. I would think that K probably comes before so CKE or KEC. In this case I think the three letters probably are the three names of a Dane. For example ESA on bowls stands for Erik S. Angelo. Attachment: 20BAB1C9-0D26-4A58-8D4C-44CBDBB9D284.jpeg Good point Leif. If the C is in fact part of the whole thing I would also think it's the first letter in the name and not the last letter. People usually dont emphasize the last letter in a name. | |||||
| you have my gratitude ... kin1117 + tktoo | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Loftguy | General discussion | |
| you have my gratitude ... kin1117 + tktoo first off, thank you for responding promptly. I'm just cleaning my Noguchi table when I saw your post. Thank you for taking the time typing up a great walk thru of the process. I did figure that's how I'm gonna be doing it, however, you just made a well deserved page to preserve for future readers that may do some research once they find this beauty. The panels did have some crevices between the grains of the back panel, a friend once told me that Rosewood does have them due to age. I was leaning towards not using steel wool and I thought of what you said about the fibers getting stuck between the grains and overtime may oxidized and rust. I haven't taken off the clips as I just removed the panels Sunday night and due to day job and the fact that the chair is in my mums house that is 15 miles away from my loft so its just a little uneasy, so my project continues tonight. I see what you meant to take off and mimic that finish under the clips. One thing I missed to mention and it doesn't show on the pics is that, I accidentally put a tape on the arm pads and yes, as soon as I realized that its a mistake some leather went on the tape ... that's a dumb move. I'm ordering new cushions though from Herman Miller (pretty pricey) and hopefully it fits exactly to the original clips. I should post on the cushion thread later, but has anyone done that yet? New cushions to old panels? Does it fit? | |||||
| Suspected H.W. Klein chair identification | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | artraou | Identification | |
| Hey, First time to this site and love it. I have a vintage black swivel office chair that I know was my grandfathers. I remember playing in it at his house when I was very young and he died when I was about 2 yrs old - about 34 years ago. I think that it's 1960's but I know less then nothing about antiques. The closest thing I have been able to find online is a H.W Klein black swivel chair but my chair seems to have extra stitching between back base of seat over arms. There is no brand mark on the base or on the seat or under the seat but I'd love to know what I have. Thanks for all of your help in advance. | |||||
| You're probably using too | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| You're probably using too heavy a vinyl. Vinyl comes in many weights and with varying degrees of stretch. I've never redone a Plycraft in vinyl but I've done a few other things and realized what a difference the weight makes. You must also stretch and staple the right way, otherwise you'll end up with ripples. Tack the vinyl at the midpoint on one long side, then stretch it taut and tack on the other side. If you're happy with this, continue adding a few staples on either side, stretching and smoothing as you go. On the straight edges, stretch the vinyl at a right angle to the edge. Perpendicular. Don't stretch it to one side or the other. When you get close to the curve, it's probably easiest to find the midpoint of the curve (bisect it--remember geometry class?) and tack it once at that point with the staple at a right angle to the edge. Then pull and stretch the vinyl towards this on either side, stapling as you go, in the smallest pleats possible. The smaller the radius of the curve, the stretchier and thinner the vinyl needs to be. Plycraft arm rests have very small radius curves, so... If it's any consolation, this is hard to do neatly and takes practice, even with the right materials. And the bad thing about vinyl is that it can tend to tear. If you're lucky, you will be able to yank staples and restaple without wrecking the vinyl. Good luck. | |||||
| I'm just happy that the whole south side of my house is glass | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| I'm just happy that the whole south side of my house is glass and I have very few walls. That way I don't have to hang any thing there. Personally, I'm not a big hanging art person. I like functional art such as bowls, vases and teapots. I also like scultpure. So I don't have much, that hangs, but what I do have is all over the map as far as style goes. Here's a list: A Mark Rothko print, one of his untitled colorfields Chinese rice paper scrolls A hand silk screened piece of gift wrap that I laminated onto a canvas One of my own primitive attempts at a graphic painting of seaweed A weird little mirror that looks like a circe du soleil clown. The mirror is useless, but the clown is freakish. I like him. A photo of the hull bones of a ship that wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod 200 or so years ago. The tides only expose the hull about once every 40 years and we were lucky to get an awesome shot of it in a misty sunrise. It looks totally ghostly, it's cool. A Remmie Mackintosh silks creened card I got at the school in Glasgow. A print of fish from the Aquarium of the Americas in NOLA, way pre-Katrina. Maori wise ancestor spirit faces carved from bamboo roots. Got these as a housewarming gift | |||||
| I would have suggested Ipe also | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Big Television Man | General discussion | |
| I would have suggested Ipe also but rejected it also for weight considerations. Plantation grown teak may only be marginally lighter. Have you thought of redwood. I recently refurbished an existing collapsable wood table for a friend, (Separated at the center, spun on a dowel and the legs scissored to fold flat.) It was made of pine so it was rather light weight, but many coats of paint over the years, it was built in the sixties, made traditional refinishing a bloody great deal of work and less then worth it. My solution, old fashioned decoupage. I covered the tops of the slats with old wine bottle labels, razoring the labels between the slats and wrapping and folding the labels over the sides and underneath. Covered the whole thing in about an hour and then three coats of waterproof, clear polyurethane. Beautiful, functional and a great table for a bite and sundowners at the beach. For a coffee house locale, you might be able to do coffee and tea labels (natch) and if you do go the decoupage route for the table top you can use a lightweight and less expensive wood, and put the money and the finish on a great set of legs. | |||||
| Hey. That's my car. | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | rockland | General discussion | |
| Hey. That's my car. Zippy little monster isn't it? (still on my first tank of gas) Nice crib! : ) You have obsessive chair disorder as i do. Very hard to eliminate. I could easily let go of a few. I've got a dozen stuffed in the guest room right now. One is a Wassily. I don't know Miami that well from above, (my sister lives at ground level), but a good start is your morning 'desire path'. With the first cup of coffee or tea, i bet your view is the first stop in your routine. The path to your balcony feels clogged. An obstacle course of sorts. The couch makes a nice division of the dining area. Dining chairs backs are too tall? The table next to the couch is a road block? How you spend your day and what you like are important. Not all seating likes each other. I don't think Platner likes the Saarinen stool. Does that make any sense? Maybe it is just the dining table and chairs that don't fit in. Too aggressive? Your kitchen packs alot in a small space. Well done. Maybe new fronts someday. I agree to leave it be for now. Not sure if that is much help, but my first walk through your photos, i wanted to change out the couch with a smaller, lighter one. And replace the dining set with something warmer, lower profile. The other couch, love it! What is it? I'm off this week and doing the same thing...but avoiding painting so i am way behind you. (i think i'll go off and burn that tank of gas) | |||||
| james | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| james All World this was a good find for us all and thanks a lot James, I think everyone who reads this forum must of gotten at least 1 of these clocks I know I did and I understand that they ordered a lot more I bet they were pleased with your post, I have not seen the Alphaville line in a long time I have several friends that have stores that carry there merchandise and they say they keep getting it better and better so that is great to hear, I guess they will be the last man standing in the reproduction business as some of the earlier fakes by cheap Chinese companies cured many from wanting any thing, I think it is interesting that you saw a saarine table cause his hard wood good stuff for some reason was never reproduced very much, other than the tulip tables and chairs and end tables as everyone got in to that act not even the womb chair or Barry's beloved Kangaroo chair I have seen out in the market by any reproduction companies (Moderica was the only one to reissue the kangaroo ) could have been the public was not that well educated as Eames and Mies, and several others. I guess as MCM is here to stay we will see other items reproduced by designers, that we thought that we would never see, I know some on this forum will have a problem with that, and others will be delighted, My copy of Metropolitan magazine for January arrived , of course it was somewhat of a sleep aid, but it seemed they were putting homes that were not that cool looking in the magazine with furniture from the mid century , by designers that I had never heard of, This could be a trend they are trying to go with, as every knows and loves the classics , just my own observation, | |||||
| ID these pottery birds? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | NULL NULL | Identification | |
| I bought three different birds by this same potter, all in the Baltimore area but from different sources over a period of 5-6 years. They're approximately life-sized and made of brown and red clay with earthy glazes. The eyes on each are exactly the same---charcoal brown glaze with a hint of metallic in it. I only have pics of two of them. They're all signed with "AD" written as one unit. I've looked up every possible group of tags for these and haven't been able to find a thing. I love them, love how they look with my 50s Danish mod furnishings, and would really like to know who made them and when (and how many others there may be!). Anyone got a clue? | |||||
| denialism | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| denialism i took a quick look and imeadiatly saw things that didnt make sense to me. i then recalled that lately right wing global warming deniers are now singing a different tune. they have switched tactics and now are starting to admit that it exists, but are now saying its a good thing with ideas like we will get more farmable land farther north and other absurdities. in cases like this, a fast way to evaluate claims is to find out who is funding the group that is doing the studies. go look at denialism.com from april 13 2007 and you will see that koen is spot on. but i see hybrids as a poor stopgap measure anyway. the solution is to get rid of internal combustion engines altogether. from a pollution and energy management standpoint it makes no sense to me to have millions of little power plants spewing out filth when electric cars are very doable right now. regional power plants based on sustainable technologies (wind etc) would be far more manageable. also i am scarcely impressed with the mileage of the hybrids. in 1990 i bought a geo metro xfi that was stickered for and got 53 and 58 mpg. and i put 250,000 miles on it with only normal maintenance and no other problems. this was acompletely conventional car! what could it do as a hybrid? this post reminds me that i need to find and watch the film "who killed the electric car?" | |||||
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