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| That sounds like a... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| That sounds like a... That sounds like a fascinating book, dc. I'll try to track it down. Don't know much about the history of the hotel here, except to say that Lincoln had its downtown one, (similar I think to The Curtis) known as the Cornhusker, which was imploded sometime in the 1980s, with a new Cornhusker being built just a few blocks away. One thing I can say for certain is that the new one, built to the same specs as the old one, lacks what, for better or worse, could be called the old one's soul. And, while I tend to accept, and am intrigued by, correlations of cultural upheaval in the US tied to the big box notion of industrialization, I don't think we give nearly enough credit for our demise to the more subtle small box notion called television. Speaking of that, I recall my dad telling us kids that day in the early 1970s - when he drove us downtwon in the station wagon to see the great Kansas City sites - that Truman had a penthouse in the Muehlbach during his presidency, making it, he claimed, kind of the midwestern White House. And I remember my uncle Jack - sensing our total lack of admiration or wonderment - adding that the Beatles and Elvis had also stayed there, his Elvis sadly, of course, being Elvis circa Follow That Dream or Blue Hawaii, and not the only one we knew at the time: a singing sweaty fat guy with big sideburns, in a white bell-bottomed jumpsuit. | |||||
| What is this Paul McCobb style table? | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | furnishmevintage | General discussion | |
| I have this table which came from a house with a Paul McCobb white and black louvred bereau. Not sure if it is actually Paul McCobb... and not sure exactly what this piece is. This table is too tall to be an end table or coffee table. There are two sets of legs to make it taller (cocktail table height) or shorter (more like coffee table height). There is a lid that opens to reveal a storage cabinet. Anyone have any idea of what this thing is or what the value is on such a piece? This one is in very good condition. | |||||
| Nelson Thin Edge Dresser/Legs | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | juanearl | General discussion | |
| I'm suppose to buy this dresser this weekend and am under the impression it's a thin edge dresser. The legs look off to me though and it is 39 inches tall. Does anyone know if these are maybe legs for another thin edge piece or just something similar? Looks like the two inner top knobs have been replaced with generic silver knobs. Also the two knobs on the outer top drawers look larger? Maybe someone combined different parts from several thin edge pieces? Any ideas whats going on with this thing? I cant get anymore images. It's cheap but I dont want to spend 700 on new remanufactured legs from Hume. | |||||
| Help me authenticate a Hans Wegner Papa Bear Chair Please | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | bkpiazza | General discussion | |
| Hello, I recently purchased a chair which I believed to be an original Papa Bear and was told it was the original upholstery. A couple things have been discovered that lead me to believe it is a reproduction, or at the very least has been reupholstered. The first is that it only has 7 buttons. 4 in a row along the top, 3 in a row underneath. It seems his chairs usually had 12. The other thing is that the fabric has been stapled along the bottom, and cut pretty crudely. I have seen the underside of authentic examples and they usually have nails holding the fabric in. I am unable to see a mark or sticker because the fabric covers the sides and bottom of the underside of the wood, the top part of the underside wood has no visible marks. Any insight would be appreciated! Thanks. | |||||
| Negotiation | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | ticker | General discussion | |
| Negotiation If you get a patent, then you can license the design regardless if it is a new functional invention or just a pretty design. A typical markup for things I've heard are 2.25 percent off the wholesale pricing. This means it's marked up 55 percent to the consumer by the middle man. For mass produced goods, I've read 3-5 percent on wholesale manufacturing. This includes the cost of packaging and the product. Some products can be sold a variety of ways, so the royalty may fluctuate depending on how it is sold like a tool that is marketed in a tube or in a blister pak. As a result, it may be better to settle on a royalt amount as a fixed number regardless of how the product is sold. People like to buy ideas outright because it's cheaper and they don't have to track the royalty. If you think the idea is awesome, you may want to fight for the royalty with a minimal amount of product produced each year binding in the contract. This way your gauranteed money. There's a lot of other considerations to take into account but the nice thing is that you can create your own sweet deal.... if you keep the forum open to negotation that is. I'm in the process of licensing a cutter I designed to a huge manufacture in the home-improvement market. I've also designed a gag-gift and am also in the negotiation stages for that too! | |||||
| Looks great! I would not | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Spanky | Repair | |
| Looks great! I would not worry about those splits. Just mist the back of the cane with water every few months to keep it from getting too dry and it should be fine. Be sure to dry the teak parts off immediately because even a mist can cause water spots to appear. I think gray felt would look good! Charcoal gray wool with teak is one of my favorite combos. Maharam's Divina Melange in the 180 colorway is really, really nice. I just redid some chair seats in it and it was so easy to work with and looks fab, too. For loops I usually do glove leather---cut a strip about 3x as wide as you want the loop, fold it lengthwise, and with a leather needle machine stitch two lines down the center about 1/2" apart. Trim the leather close to each stitching line. Not all home sewing machines will sew leather without skipping stitches; if that's the case with yours, then you can use a single layer of heavier leather with no stitching. I happen to feel that stitching gives it a more finished look but not if the stitching is a mess! You can also just do strips of felt, maybe doubled, stitched and then trimmed close. It's infinitely easier to cut wide and trim after stitching than it is to stitch neatly very close to the edge. I think the main thing to do is to keep the loops narrow. I've seen wide ones on a lot of cushions and it just looks amateurish to me. | |||||
| Big difference between the best art... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| Big difference between the best art... ...and selling a painting !YOU implied that "the marketplace and buyers" were the final say about what was deemed ART, as every idiot knows what they are looking at. Lets just go ahead and put Keane in the Louvre, okay? I simply disagreed with your rather stupid point about buyers defining the contemporary art environment with regards to quality in art. You are dead wrong about that. I never made a point about "starving artists" other than to say that good art was not always supported financially-- I simply and some examples. YOU got all obsessed with this silliness about "who was MORE starving" and in your thoughtless glee, once again missed my main point, and failed to address what I said. THERE IS NO SEEING "ANOTHER SDE" OF ANYTHING. This is not about two sides of the same thing. There is good painting and weak painting. And then there is your universe of kitsch. You want to lube it all up as if its all the same, but you are simply clueless. Pollocks entire support system consisted of about 4 people. For a very long time. Clyfford Still stopped showing in commercial galleries after about 5 years. He is in every major museum in the world. His art didn't have to pass through your grubby hands to be deemed great. The original group of abstract expressionists consisted of Kline, Pollock, Still, Newman, de Kooning and possibly Sam Francis. They invented it. America's first world class school of painting. Everybody else comes after that. | |||||
| mutant bertoia side chair | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| A friend of mine recently finished a house he was rennovating for someone. Along with the house came two Bertoia side chairs and one Diamond. Although the original owners claim to have bought the chairs as a set a long time ago from Knoll there are some design issues that lead me to believe that these might be knock-offs. They powder coated them and are using them as patio furniture (they were used like this to begin with and were rusty) so I am not concerned for value sake, but I am curious. All in all they look exactly right, down to the pad. The base looks no different than my Bertoias. The weird thing is that the side chairs have a double-wire rim. The Diamond has a single wire rim, making me think the sides were purchased separately and possibly from someone other than Knoll. I think someone on this forum has said that double-wire rims indidcate a knock-off (they possibly could have been reffering to contemporary versions), which I would agree, but these seem exactly to spec otherwise (with design and quality). Also, isn't the outside single wire usually thicker that the rest? The outside wire on the Diamond seems to be about as thin as the rest of the wire mesh. Maybe all of them are knock-offs? Perhaps there was a brief time that had a slightly different manufacturing process? This doesn't seem too hard to believe. I have seen some pretty obvious manufacturing details that were left out of the design history books. Has anyone here come across this? | |||||
| A designer by any other name... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| A designer by any other name... Ya know when thinking about it, truly everything that is manufactured is first 'designed' and therefore has a designer. My dad spent his entire working life as a tool designer designing the jigs and widgets that a company uses to help make the things it actually sells. No one ever knew his name, but his efforts allowed for the manufacturing precision his company was known for. He was a very good designer. My point being that many things of anonymous design are, in fact, of very good design. I have no idea who designed my waiter's corkscrew, yet it is beautifully made and wonderfully functional. So is the hairbrush I use every day, and the pencil sharpener, and the packing tape gun and, and, and....ya feel me? Having a name, whether famous or not, has very little to do with the usefulness or quality of these items. If it's good; it's good. Period. Furniture is but a small aspect of the world of design. But, on DA it seems we spend most of our time nattering on about furniture and MCM in particular. Although I'm not much for collecting or that whole thing, I can see the attraction that it holds. It's like stamps or coins or butterflies. However, if we see design as encompassing more than collecting famous furniture, I think thinks become a bit more interesting. Add to that that we all have viewpoints as to what makes for good design in our lives. I value functionality over form and I've taken quite a few punches to the gut from those that feel that form is the primary aspect in rating a 'design'. But as Riki said above, I'll take a home over a showroom any day! | |||||
| FUNCTION is secondary in furniture design ？ | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Waver | General discussion | |
| Jiangli,the famous furniture designer of China,said:The function is secondary in the furniture design. The important thing is to express the feeling of people.And she also think tne feminine design is the mainstream in furniture design. I don't think so. Firstly,I agree witn the view of "situation following function". Although a good design is the combination of function and art the function and comfort is the most important. Secondly, I think male design and the cartoon design and so on is very common and popular. How do you think about it? Please share your view with us! Thank you very much ! | |||||
| new tips | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| new tips So I mentioned above about wrapping the front rail and doing the warp strands in the same pass. If you do that, your front rail is gonna look really pretty on the inside (first photo), vs. not quite as pretty what with the overlaps (2nd photo). Moller chairs are usually done the second way originally, at least as far as I've seen. So either way is ok. The early Wegner CH23s that I'm doing right now are the first way. You can't do the back rail at the same time. It has to be wrapped in a separate step. Now---I'm almost embarrassed to post this next one here because it took me forever to figure this out and it's really quite simple. When wrapping a rail or when weaving a CH23 or any pattern where you can't pull the cord off your big coil, you have to use a cut length of cord. I've always coiled the cut length up and tried to keep it neat while sticking it back and forth through the rails and wefting or whatever. But it always, ALWAYS comes undone and gets tangled and I spend valuable time untangling it, and more valuable time swearing and chastising myself for letting it get messed up. SO. I just figured out that if I make a hank out of it rather than a coil, and then tie the hank in the middle---loosely, with another piece of cord---that I can pull cord from it as I need it without undoing the whole thing and messing it up. The tie around the middle keeps it neat (a coil can't be tied without having to untie it every time you need more length). I would like to think that I'm brilliant except that it took about 20 chairs or more to figure this out. | |||||
| Help needed to ID these Danish Lounge chairs | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | HanaleiKim | Identification | |
| We picked these up, along with a ton of other furniture, last year at the estate sale of an older couple who had owned a Danish Modern Furniture Store in Southern California back in the 50s/60s. We can ID everything else we purchased except these. They look so similar to the Eames Aluminum series chairs but the tops are made from teak. Swivel bases are aluminum. I'm trying to ID the maker and see if anyone can direct me to a photo or drawing that would include the original cushions. I'm getting ready to just make something up for the cushion design...and that's not always a good thing.Thank you for any and all information you can provide! Clues, links, other pics, etc. And before I get any peanut gallery comments, yes, that is my 1960s beach cruiser bike in the background of one shot 🙂 | |||||
| Olive | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Olive Okay, now I get it -- must be a wonderful house! Last thoughts design-wise; it could be difficult to get a tight fit to the ceiling if it is at all out of level (not an unusual thing in even the finest construction) and the top six or eight inches of a wedge- shaped cabinet might be of little use (?) so an alternative could be a small ledge where a plant or pot could live and/or where a light source could be placed? But that might not be the look you are going for. One quarter-inch panels could be the best material to clad the cabinet end and the peninsula with. . .Sand existing finish to scuff for glue, pre- pare some cauls (flat plates) of 3/4' or thicker plywood in convenient sizes, glue with polyeurethane glue (Gorilla Glue, Titebond, etc) and press the panels to the cabinets using the cauls and 'spring sticks' to the opposite walls (!) if they are not more than 10-12 feet away -- the sticks can be 1x or 2x material, six or eight foot lengths clamped together to create appropriate overall lengths and supported (on chairs, boxes, etc) to provide overall uniform pressure. OR, if you want to use thicker panels, they could be screwed on from inside the cabinets, or thinner panels could be finish-nailed on with wax fill- stick used in the nail holes. Or some combination of these techniques can be employed. . .will you have a cabinetmaker do the work? He/she will want to decide the best method(s) to use. Keep me informed if you like. SDR | |||||
| Danish Lounge chair - Is it really Ib Kofod-Larsen? | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | lowwall | Identification | |
| I bought a pair of these today. I've found a few images on the web attributing this chair to Ib Koford-Larsen. Is this correct? The back spindles seem to appear on several Selig pieces, although usually with the thick point closer to the top of the back. There is no label, just the "Made in Denmark" stamped into the stretcher (which was assembled upside down on one of the chairs :-)). The thing that is throwing me is the scooped out armrest, it doesn't seem to appear anywhere else. Perhaps this was a short-lived variation?Any info would be greatly appreciated. | |||||
| Thanks, spanky! I am | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | mgee76 | General discussion | |
| Thanks, spanky! I am including several pictures... tried to capture all the visible seams, but the seat is tricky to see. This is kinda what I'd like to recreate; the invisible lines. You are right about the foam... I think it is latex, judging by the small amount of orange dust that covers my hands if I am too vigorous in gripping them? But it is quite soft, also, so who knows...I am not an expert here, clearly. What about the cord for the welting? Reuse that? I haven't seen cord like that. My hope would be that the upholsterer could get a pattern from one chair and recover to match the other untouched original, and then use the complete chair as a guide for that one? But I don't know how reasonable an expectation that is. I really like stuff like Tonus, that sort of thing, but the scratchiness is a factor. | |||||
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