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| no one?...except me | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| no one?...except me According to Vitra's website the fiberglass chairs went out of commission in 1993 for environmental reasons. Production was restarted using injection molded polypropelene for the seating. In changing materials Vitra changed the design slightly as well. Instead of rubber shockmounts the chairs now have a built in nipple to which the bases can be screwed. I am sure this change has meant more efficient production times for the chair, and on the user end - less damage to the chairs because of shockmount failure. The surface and flexibility of the chair have also been affected by the change- polypropelene has a surface that is slightly textured. It has almost no shine, and (in my opinion) gets dirty very quickly. The fiberglass chairs flex slightly in the back - I find the poly chairs to flex even further. I also believe Vitra made some changes to the bases - altho I dont know enough about that to comment. In personal opinion I like the fiberglass chairs better. The plastic ones may be lighter - but there is a luminosity I find lacking. The only thing I can think would be better in the plastic chairs is a quicker acclimation of the material to the temperature of my buttocks. LOL. As anyone with a fiberglass chair knows - the material does not change temperature rapidly - making for a brisk seat in winter months. lol. | |||||
| I don't know a lot about | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I don't know a lot about Eames because they're not in my little sphere of interests (not that I don't appreciate them, it's just that there are only so many hours in a day). But ok. Here's what I do know after 5-10 minutes of hunting around online. That's an H-base chair. What that means in terms of value or desirableness, I have no idea. (Tip: asking prices mean little. You need to find out what stuff actually sold for to know what the market value is.) The holes are original. Probably for letting air escape when the foam is compressed, which matters more with leather or vinyl upholstery. You don't have any detail photos of the color change of the trim, but by right-clicking on the photos and selecting "view image in new tab" and then zooming in, I found one that shows it (below). And I have no idea what that is. It looks too evenly done to be painted that way and I don't think they did that kind of thing anyway. Maybe it has darkened from light exposure? Who knows. Weird. Definitely has a vinyl look on the backside. What's going on with the upholstery? It looks like it has lost its adherence to the foam and is sagging. Is the foam hard and crunchy when you press a finger into it? If so, there's no way to restore that. It's just what happens to latex foam after a few decades. There is a ton of info on this board and online in general about how to clean and restore fiberglass shell chairs. I came across one site that sells kits in my brief general search so there are probably more of those around. There a lot on how to deal with pitted chrome here, too. I generally just go over chrome with #0000 steel wool and a lot of oil or other lube to prevent scratching, then wipe down thoroughly. The pits will always be there but you can get rid of the rusty bloom that way. It'll eventually need to be done again but it's quick and easy to do. | |||||
| Question | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| Question Barry, You did not answer my questions. You said that you are confident that Herman Miller would be able to reproduce the BCG. I don't doubt that that could if they chose to. Really, anyone who wants to could make those pieces (see Daniel Donnelly again). The question was do you really think they can make them with the same quality at a price which is accessible? The case goods do not knock down for economical shipping, so they would have to be made here in the US with US material costs, US labor costs and standards. These things are expensive and the price of the product would reflect that. Also, you did not tell me what is wrong with buying vintage. You like the design. If you want one, why wouldn't you buy vintage? Do you really think there are hoards of people wandering the streets wondering just where they can get a simple, well designed dresser or bookcase? Personally, I love vintage and I have pieces from all three lines in our house (steel-frame in the kid's room, BCG in the guest room, and thin-edge in our master). The fact that it is vintage and that it is not available in every home design store in every city makes it a little more special to me. It ain't the rarest thing in the world, but if it was commonplace I'm afraid that I would loose some of my interest in it. Lastly, you said, "I love the CSS, but it would be too difficult for Herman Miller to bring all the pieces back into production, and honestly, only a few of us understand how to put it together and keep it from falling over!" What the hell are you talking about? It's a shelving system, not rocket science. | |||||
| Get Real (is this advertising?) | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | Alfie | General discussion | |
| Get Real (is this advertising?) Don't Get Knock Off. (is this advertising?) You have a $500 lounge chair that is broken. To repair it will cost around $400 not including any shipping and handling. At the end of the repair you now have a $900 chair that is worth less than $500. Get Real!! This type of lounge chair is readily available with cushions in poor used condition on ebay or craigslist for around $250. Do your homework. If you contacted us we would suggest that you purchase an ebay lounge & strip it down and then build a solid chair from all the parts. You might even want to list the left over parts on ebay. Don't muck around trying to save the snapped lower back panel, its done. If this was an Eames Lounge then maybe we would consider repairing the panel in a similar way that Olek describes in the previous thread but to be honest if a panel has both ears snapped the only thing to do is to replace it with one of our custom made 7 ply rosewood veneer lower back panels. If you e-mail to us a detailed picture of the snapped panel we can match the veneer grain and refinish it to match the rest of the chair. Remember this only applies to an Eames Lounge not a knock-off. Drop us a line with pictures and we can generate a quote for you. (edited by Design Addict - no advertising on the forum please) | |||||
| barry | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| barry barry all of the chairs with the exception of the shell chairs and the coconut must be hand sewn and glued to the foam The coconut takes a lot of time cause you just have to start from the beginning on that one and use almost 200.00 worth of foam and make a cover and make it fit tight with glue, If you make a mistake you must peal it off and start over some times you can save the fabric sometimes it is trashed, If you do not use a heaviy enough fabric, the glue bleeds right through and it is trashed that happened on my egg chair I chose a a great looking knoll fabric and it was to thin , I went to messenger Maharam and it was fine as it was thick enough, The womb is just as difficult as the process is the same, On the womb a lot of the cushions are missing for some reason and we had to create our own pattern for them as they are no more than a ordinary small pillow, The shell chairs after doing almost 200, we have that down to a science, ( The science of armshells not offered at College) you must grind out all of the old foam and then sculpt it back, glue it on and put a crimp cord on , I have no idea why no shops want to have any thing to do with them but for some reason we have been blessed in that department as it seems every one sends us that one chair to do, and they are my favorite, every time I see one of the guy s working on one , I love it as it seems someone wants to preserve the heritage of that chair. enclosed are two of three chairs that we redid last week.... the owner sold me one ... YEA | |||||
| Poor flash user interface | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| Poor flash user interface While the Flash interface is quite kludgy you can navigate directly to the full portfolio for the Ligotto factory conversion which includes 20 images. As this is the sort of thing I used to design for a living I have a knack for figuring them out, follows these steps: 1) Mouse over the title Renzo Piano Building Workshop Beneath the title appear options RPBW/WORKS 2) Mouse directly to the word WORKS and a drop down menu beneath lists two options: Short list All projects Click on All projects 3) A world map appears. Roll over the green dots to find Italy. The word Italy appears in a balloon. Click on it. The map zooms in on italy 4) Roll over the green dots to Torino, Italy (upper left). A balloon pops up with three choices. Click on the third choice for the Ligotto Factory. 5) You get a single view of the factory and a text description. Click on the image and you get thumbnails of all the images of the project. Click on any of the thumbnails. | |||||
| NY modern show | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| my good friend who i buy a lot of great furniture from just came back from the NY modern show last week in NYC. First he said it was good. I went last year and thought it was great , but what do I know right folks!! He said they should have changed the name to the NY modernism/1st dibs show cause that is what it really was, all your high end 1st dibs dealers who manage to figure out a way to sell their goods for prices out of the Universe, and avoid of Cheap EBAY buyers, He said the hot people are Kagan, Parzinger,Probber,The Pauls,Evans, Frankel,Mies early stuff,Nelson early stuff, he said and i quote that Nelson must have made so many prototypes we have just see a few of them, there are a lot out there and that is bring the really big dollars, and the one every one wanted to own was Alexander Girard furniture, Braniff stuff as it is now coined, since it was so cool with his great fabric on it, (not surprising to me since he was so great. He said no one bothered to have the usual suspects, of Eames,Sarraine, Bertoia bread and butter stuff, other than his real fine art statues, that are big bucks!!! , b Eames Lafonda stuff was making a big splash (i always attribute Girard with that furniture but it really was Eames, and it was made for s uch a short time and has become highly collectible, cause not even Vitra is making any thing from that collection and Last but not least he did see the Wooden Elephants while in the City. at Vitra Nice but no buy for him | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| cont. So, what makes us so uneasy about perfection?Is it what Satre in ?L?ëtre et le Néant? identifies as knowing too much, so much that the mystery is taken out of it? Or is it the reciprocity of Plato?s remark in ?The republic? that everything that deceives may be said to enchant? in other words if it is too ?readable? too ?clear? it does not appeal to our capacity to make emotional links. Maybe we should go back to Walter Stahel and his ?Teddy Bear effect? to understand that perfection leaves little room for emotion. I would borrow Chapman?s thought on consumer products and apply it on Calatrava's architecture and conclude this contribution with ?Calatrava?s buildings are like stories with an incredible opening line, but which just continue repeating it throughout. Their narrative capabilities are pathetically limited? One last thing before I start the anxious wait for other replies...Virtuosity in any profession demontrates great skill and imagination is a great gift but buildings and products, very much like any other form of applied art are not made to demonstrate virtuosity or imagination, they have their own reasons to exist and virtuosity and imagination should be used to service those reasons, not the other way around. I think that Calatrava is on the edge of crossing that line or is clearly over it. Unless it is a communication tower that becomes one of the major architectural symbols for a great city, I would hesitate in crossing that line | |||||
| I am unsure when the Finn... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Starline | General discussion | |
| I am unsure when the Finn... I am unsure when the Finn Juhl re-issues came about or the quality. A store in Australia Great Dane actually initiated re-issues of some Danish pieces from Arne Vodder.Even the Wikkelso V11 chairs are now made new but I don't know who started that.No surprise being one of the nicest Danish sofa designs out there.A friend bought the set and it's so damn comfortable and nicely made. I know the owner Anton chased up Arne Vodder and others to have certain pieces re-made.He was shocked many designers were still about including the original manufacturers.Arne could not initially understand why he wanted to start making them again but eventually loved the idea.Unfortunately Arne has since passed a couple years back. Anyway with some items like desks and sideboards I did notice the difference in quality to the vintage pieces.The new are more fresh and modern but the super fine details where veneer meets edges and difficult spots seem not as refined.It may be because the finish is now kind of matt and the old stuff usually has coatings of polish or just patina over many years. To be fair the majority of people would never notice as I am just fussy and look straight at sharp details out of habit.It's a Scorpio thing so I'm told. | |||||
| Food colors | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Food colors This is the first time I've read this thread, interesting topic! Dick, I am a color person, I spend a lot of time thinking about color and it's emotional impact. It's a very personal thing, but some universal truisms do seem to apply. For instance, when I am helping my clients select colors for a kitchen I always steer them towards 'food colors' and away from blues, beiges or muddy tones. Orange is a such a perfect food color as it is also a food! So I think it is a great choice for your shop. So would be yellow, green, red and the always popular bright white. I think that using these colors can help you establish the identity of your shop. Use the idea of the color to give you information about what the logo should look like. For example orange is a luscious, juicy color which suggests rounded possibly pop-art forms for the text. I think 'Kitchen' is a great idea for the name and I assume you are using the English word versus 'Kök'. The English word contains several rounded letters and would lend itself well to a rounded font. I think adding a graphic element into the logo would be good as well. Something like a fork, spoon, spatula, ladle, pan, or a whisk for instance. Or since we are talking about Sweden how about using a food element that is common like a fish. | |||||
| Kit and Joint | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Ernst | General discussion | |
| Kit and Joint Tim, No problem, I will put a kit together for anyone, or build and assembled chair with your choice of finish (I'd rather not paint the chair, since it was a bit of a pain), see the stained samples above. Sky is the limit when it comes to all the stains available. Or I can assemble, and then you can finish it to your liking. I'm assuming that the seat and back are made from Baltic birch plywood. Probably the best thing to do is to shoot me an email (ernstpeischl@gmail.com) to iron out the details, if you would like to proceed to the next step. I live in the Chicago area. If you do want a kit, I will radius the edges for you, but you would sand the radius on the ends, and then finish sand (I use 220 paper) the pieces. SDR, The corresponding dowel hole in the side rail is a "through hole", thus allowing the impossible to exist! Great question BTW. Assemble the other 2 doweled joints, and let the glue dry for 24 hours. Then drive a longer dowel into the through hole, thus pinning the third plane of the joint. You may have to do some sanding on the diameter of the 3rd dowel, to be able to fully insert. ANY deviation from perfect; dimensions, feature form, dowel hole locations, and assembly alignment will all be compounded and evident in the "three-way" joint. Use a piece of wood against the end of the dowel to limit it's travel into the joint. It should be flush or a little proud of the surface. Let the glue dry, and then finish sand. Looking forward to pictures! Ernst | |||||
| I did a search for just Niels | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I did a search for just Niels Thorsø and found this old ebay listing for a small chest with a very clear mark: http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/291670992820? The stamp reads Niels J. Thorsø, and a search for that (in quotes) yielded this UK listing (no longer active so it should be here) for a rosewood bookcase/cabinet thing: http://www.arkmidcentury.co.uk/danishmidcenturybookcaseinrosewood But maybe you already saw those! I'm going to stick the photos in for future views since the listings will disappear eventually. | |||||
| Zeisel Tomorrow's Classic patterns | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| william-holden-caulfield was being funny trying to show ugly something can be by posting a piece of Tomorrow's Classic with what he refered to a "ditsy" pattern. He did this in the "Are these Nelson pieces rip-offs" thread. I explained why those beautiful Zeisel pieces came in all-white and were issued with patterns. He replied that it just goes to show how stupid were (back then). This is where some of you people are way out of line and indeed, stupid, too. Here we sit in 2009 making judgements not about the quality of a design from 1947, but the intelligence of the people making the stuff and those buying it too. Here's the bottom line, boys and girls, attack the quality of the damn designs but calling the people stupid is the kind of thing that I would like to see Patrick and Alix ban people from this forum over. william-holden-caulfield, I don't give a rat's ass is you like the gravy bowl or not, but calling people who would buy it stupid is wrong, no matter how you look at it. I patiently explained that it was Hall that required Zeisel to come up with pattern designs, since patterned china was popular with the post-war public that Hall was marketing to. That was the way it was, and rather than acting like you by calling the potential buyers "stupid", Zeisel went with the flow and had her students come up with designs. There were over 10 designs, and probably more. cont. | |||||
| More prosaic thoughts... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| More prosaic thoughts... DCW thanks so much for all of that. For certain hubby and I have been actively overturning stones and land auctions were found beneath several. They are certainly on our radar screen. The other very important issues of title, mineral rights, water right and govermental interference have also come up quite a bit. I am lucky in that an old family friend has retired in NM, a former colleague now lives in ABQ and a college buddy as well. We have folks nearby who are educating us quite a bit they have been phenomenal resources. your points about the history, religion, culture and natural vastness really hit home and are big motivating factors for us. Both of us are deeply changed by our time spent out there, especially hubby who has been there 50% of the time for the past year. He's even driving slower these days which is stunning. We feel a strong pull to go there leaving behind generations of eastern family. My family has been in the NewEngland area since the late 1600's and our idea of moving to the southwest is going to flatten the family once we do finally tell them. But as you say the change is profund, and totally inexplicable to others. I simply can't find the words. I need to go that's the only thing I can think to say. Koen, the Shaker hymn is exactly it. As you knew I would think, knowing my connection to Shakers. Life is simpler there, clearer and somehow more meaningful. I may want a modernist home but I also want a vegetable garden and chickens...possibly goats once I learn how to make cheese. | |||||
| Again... | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| Again... Friday I purchased a Philippe Starck Bubble Club 3-seat sofa, four (4) Bubble Club armchairs (two in terracotta) and a Bubble Club side table for Kartell on the secondary market. Last month (The Last Thing You Acquired #38) was a Philippe Starck Bubble Club 3-seat sofa, four (4) Bubble Club armchairs. The pool at my new (second) home is looking better at each turn. | |||||
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