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| Nope not in there. There are... | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| Nope not in there. There are... Nope not in there. There are a few similar case pieces, but not that. Checked thrice. And I've never seen those handles on an Aasbjerg piece before. The snappy is blurry, but they remind me of Hvidt & Mølgaard. maybe a clearer shot would show the differences. The gamut of his design choices consistently surprises me. For example, many designers can be identified by their drawer handles (e.g. Vodder, Hvidt & Mølgaard, Nils Jonsson, Aksel Kjersgaard), but Aasbjerg uses at least three main styles. The same for legs. A Mogensen case piece has specific legs. Aasbjerg has at least three or four known styles. He was very eclectic as a designer. Is there any indication in the catalog that the pieces are solid teak? One thing that jumped out at me about the 1960 catalog was that some of the case pieces, like 233, the room divider, were veneer. And it gives the appearance that the solid teak idea was new to the line that year. If your catalog has all veneer Aasbjerg designs it would strengthen the suspicion that it is an earlier catalog. You could narrow the early side of the publish date window by cross referencing other known designs' design year. Are there V annotated designs in this catalog? It is such an odd feature of the 1960 catalog. | |||||
| Be still my beating heart, another thrilling lamp ID thread.... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | TinyArmada | Identification | |
| So I picked up a lamp and have come up with bupkis in my research thus far so I come here begging for help from you wonderful people. There are lots of lamps out there that are very similar in style and look, but not quite a match. The really interesting thing about this lamp, to me, is what it looks like under the shade - it resembles a simple Poulsen pendant lamp and is metal. ( it's the best way I can describe the non-harp set up of the lamp.) The cone where the bulb goes in is enameled metal. There is an "F" on the knob/ switch. The 2 guesses I've had so far from educated guessers is early Thurston or possibly Poulsen, but all I can find with those designers is close but no cigar. The fabric shade is in mint condition due to a plastic shower cap like cover being on it all these years. Just curious if anyone here recognizes it. I don't know if this will help but it was purchased from a man who was a photographer & ran a camera store for 60 years. Much of the other lighting fixtures and lamps there (of which I bought a few) were industrial lighting for photographers' studios. Thanks to any one who has any input of any kind to add. Direct links in case the others fail me. - Maria | |||||
| Yikes, really? | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Yikes, really? You really like the bronze things? To me it's a total hack job rip-off. Design is inherently tied to materiality. The first Eames chairs were remarkable, in part, because of their material. Same goes for the Wiggle chair. Whats funny about the wiggle isnt it's shape- its the realization that what you're sitting on is cardboard. Same goes for something like an Emeco chair - the lightness of the physical material belies its mass, strength, and durability. When you remove the materiality and work only with shape you've removed a critical element of 'design' and moved it towards 'style'. And, if you mess with the shapes of the classics - as the bronze fellow has - you totally eff up their grace (see his "noguchi" and his "yanagi" pieces). Now supposing Jeremiah, that you made a Navy chair out of lead. That would be funny. It would totally confound the entire purpose of the Navy chair (lightness, durability, strength). But like I said, you can't rely too much on the gimmick of making something in the total opposite. Thats why I brought up Starck as borderline. He gets the materiality thing - the fancy shape of the Louis chair made in faux-glam material (polycarbonate). However, Starck relies a little too much on it - the gilded guns, the kitchsy gnomes etc - and it all becomes the same joke. | |||||
| I was given some lovely | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I was given some lovely things by my wonderful kids yesterday, among them this Arabia "Anemone" platter and this teak ice bucket. Years ago I had one of those "the one that got away" experiences at a local auction--a big set of Anemone dishes in great shape. Only one person bid against me and I knew her--she would have just kept bidding until she got it. I went as high as I could have paid at the time, but it's one of those things I just never forgot. The sight of all of it...oh well. (I do prefer to eat off white dishes but dang that stuff is so gorgeous.) So anyway, this platter is much appreciated. The ice bucket is smallish and I'd admired it for a long time for its acorn shape. It has a heavy glass liner that is painted black. It's incised "Siamese Teak Ernest Sohn"---dunno much about it and couldn't find another online. It had a lacquer finish that was coming off in places so of course the first thing I did was to strip that and oil the teak and now it's beeyoootiful! | |||||
| Democracy In Action | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | crankyd | General discussion | |
| Democracy In Action dc wilson, I must say, that sounds like a wonderfully creative; if not fantastical idea. However, I would humbly submit a few more specifics to the R&D aspect of this project. Since we are living in times of enormous national deficit, we would obviously need to use every shortcut available including no advance planning, inferior materials, getting by with only very limited resources and using engineers of only limited experience, perhaps in a field completely unrelated to this endeavor, (think Iraq). And what would be a more patriotic symbol that "freedom is on the march" than relocating the office of The White House and its inhabitants to this testament of America's creativity and resolve. When the first Category One storm comes along, the nation will be able to see our democracy in action. The image of Condi Rice dangling out the window from Cheney's necktie while she tries to duct tape the failing cardboard support column seems heartwarming. Rumsfeld can man the buckets,catching whatever comes through the plastic sheeting roof. Both Bush and his little dog will probably be under the bed, hiding in John Bolton's moustache. I can hear "The Star-Spangled Banner" booming over the roar of the winds; defiant, with that swaggering "Bring It On" American attitude. If the whole thing crashes to the ground, America will rebuild! Just collateral damage, after all. Remember, if we don't do this soon, the terrorists win. God bless America. Not France. | |||||
| mullacc | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Peruche | General discussion | |
| mullacc - 09 Sep 2015 from spanky's comment: "...1stDibs' cut isn't exactly peanuts. And one other thing---just because something is listed for $2,000 doesn't mean that's what it will sell for. Many times dealers will accept lower offers." This has been my experience too. Which makes me wonder how 1st Dibs' "cut" works? It can't work like eBay or an auction house where the fee is a percentage of the selling price because 1st Dibs doesn't seem to require exclusivity. A dealer's items will be listed on 1st Dibs, the dealer's own website and in the showroom. I can't imagine many transactions actually occur via the 1st Dibs website. So does 1st Dibs just charge a flat fee per item, or maybe a flat fee per dealer? I have a good friend of mine that sells on 1st Dibs. He has a shop in midtown were I live and rarely opens it up to the public because most of the items he has the average shopper couldn't afford at his escalated prices. My friend told me that he pays 1st Dibs $1400 a month plus a small percentage of the final sales price. The last time I was in his shop (3 months ago) he had just sold a Edward Wormley for Dunbar round coffee table to someone in New York for $8000. Good for my friend but to be honest...... That Dunbar table wasn't worth $8 grand....... Peruche | |||||
| what year did mid century modern become popular again | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| I was at a party and a interesting subject came up that i was more than interested in, someone had seen the article on the net about how I collect mid century modern furniture and a very serious collector and lover of the mcm furniture, several people were interested as they remember it as furniture from the 50s and 60s and really had not heard the term mid century modern , and wondered how that got started? as a term of its own, I told them that term just does not mean furniture from the mid century I told them about DA that i had learned a lot being on the forum for the last 14 months but several good points did come up and it was kinda pin pointed around 1994 that the look and style of the midcentury started to become popular and took on a life of its own that we know to day; I checked the time line of Herman milller and found that more than likely they were one of the promotors of the current wave of midcenury modern design, the time line states Herman Miller returns to the residential furniture market with the launch of Herman Miller for the Home. Its offering includes new designs as well as reintroduced modern classic furniture from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. I found this whole thing to be real interesting as i have been collecting all things modern for 30 years and around 1994 things resurfaced as i had not seen before. new magazines like Deco Echos (sad it folded it was a great magazine was first published, and other magazines followed suite, any one feel this is correct? | |||||
| Build Quality | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Build Quality First off, no matter which way you go, know your build quality. What's the frame made of? Whats the spring system like? How old is the foam? Secondly, the kids (and adults) are going to impact the sofa in two ways. 1. Surface. Whatever fabric/leather you get on the sofa make sure it's stain resistant and durable. Check or ask about cleaning codes - can you uses just water or do you need a solvent cleaner? Leather is always more durable than fabric - when its real leather. Bicast/bonded/split etc. are just crap thats inviting disaster. 2. Frame. Eventually even the most durable of fabrics can be cut or marked up beyond repair. That's where the frame comes in. A solid frame can be recovered in-perpetuity. Knowing what it's made of and how its made can help your decision. However these two things are harder to ascertain on a vintage piece than on a new piece. I'm not against DWR products. I've got a Neo sofa from them that has held up against me, my boyfriend, 2 old roommates and a particularly evil cat. A friend has the Theater sofa in leather and that has held up to her boyfriend and her great Dane. We both got them about the same time 4 years ago. But if you get the cheapest sofa you can through DWR you can bet it's got a cheap fabric on it. (or any dealer for that matter) Thirdly, I would buy new. It's just an ickyness thing for me. Vintage hard surfaces - wood, plastic, plywood - I'm fine with. Anything vintage and upholstered gives me nightmares about bed-bugs. | |||||
| Not a Grinch, but... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Not a Grinch, but... we don't really 'do' Christmas in my family. We're all pretty much agnostic... just plain not at all religious. So we get together as a family give each other gifts and eat lots of fattening yummy things, but that's as far as it goes. And sending printed cards is such a bad thing enviromentally. All that paper, all that fuel used to deliver them, I'm glad I never picked that habit up. E-cards are a much nicer idea, though. And if I might get up on my green soapbox for a few moments, here are some ideas to reduce/reuse/recycle at this time of year... 1. Use the Sunday comics from your local newspaper as wrapping paper (if you get the paper that is) Or use hand-decorated grocery bags. I have several predecorated boxes that I've collected and I reuse them year to year. In the US,we create about 5 million tons of additional trash during December. 4 million tons of that is wrapping paper and shopping bags. 2. If you like to bring homemade goodies as gifts, wrap them in reusable plastiware or just use a real dish. Disposable anything is bad! 3. Give virtual gifts. Make a donation to a charity in that person's name or give them an online magazine subscription. Give them an experience such as a massage or or movie tickets, or restaurant gift cards. Anything to avoid creating more landfill! Güd Yule! | |||||
| every one is right on... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| every one is right on... every one is right on their postings !!!! I do not consider my self a expert on anything but this subject, having redone over 350 chairs in 5 years. When you take that cover off the chair it is taped in 5 spots the tape is dry and leaves a bad mark the foam is the worst, we use high speed buffers, and it takes 30 minutes to grind to the fiberglass( also please wear a mask). I have seen it done where someone has taken off the cover and cleaned it and it looks great, the only thing i can say about this is, They must have a lot of time on their hands cause this is not how i would want to spend a Saturday, but if it is your passion to have a fiberglass shiny seat from the factory go for it, cause when finished you will know you have accomplished one of the most difficult things to do, to bring a shell back to life, so I would be proud of your self after accomplishing that one. we use solvents just to kill any of the old foam and then re foam with new spray glue, we use a crimp cord from Germany. we charge 275.00 started 5 years for $225 and the cost of foam has gone up 3 times in 5 years, My shop foreman and partner in this business, tells me it is taking 3 hours on these shells, at shop time of 60.00 a hour, so for 90 bucks it is a big whoop for us. It is very time consuming but every bucket and side shell looks great when it leaves, If our company is known for anything it redoing the shell chair. i truly am glad that we get to save a Eames shell chair a Icon and truly a piece of Modern History that every one loves from the new collector to the old, every one has that chair in their collection..... | |||||
| Not anonymous either... | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Lunchbox | General discussion | |
| Not anonymous either... Modernesia bought a few things from me in the past, before I got wise to his little operation. And recently I did in fact purchase from him. So as Pegboard said, puzzling response... The guy has every intention of misleading buyers. He targets the international audience not only to get more for each piece but because he knows they don't have the knowledge to recognize his "conditioning" as he calls it. The fact that he freely admits it to the poster above yet still claims "100% ORIGINAL" in every listing is evidence enough of his dishonesty. But it's much worse than that. My experience was quite enlightening... eBay item # 250873116023 resold once I returned it as... ebay item # 250887318573 Below are photos of the shell which I purchased. The first thing to note is the shameful photoshopping. He does note in the description and I quote... "That said there are random areas where the fiberglass has darkened with age creating a slightly yellowed cast and subtle darker spotting universally on all surfaces of the shell, this affect is internal to the aging fibers and not on the shells surface (see pic 4 of inner seat)." Whatever the hell that means... But as we all know, the photos tell the tale. And his washout job makes the shell look as if there's barely any discoloration to the seat, if any. I've had a few emails from people, some who think he's producing them or is in cahoots with someone who's producing them. I don't think that's the case, although it's not an impossibility. I do think he bleached the shell I purchased which made the discoloration stand out all the more, the moron... | |||||
| Persevere | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| Persevere The commonality in all of this advice appears to be perseverence and so I shall keep on keepin' on. To address your other points, I am in South Carolina where people from other places go to retire, not the other way around, and therefore you don't have tons of folks cleaning out their homes when they retire and downsize. There is also alot of poverty here and a good portion of the population just doesn't have anything great to donate in the first place. I'll bet the thrift stores in Atlanta have better stuff, I'll have to broaden my search area. On my choice of vehicle, ahem, I was in a horrible car accident in my 20's and I have a phobia of small cars. If I could drive a Sherman tank, I would. My H2 is the next best thing. This my second one, before that I drove Land Rovers but they didn't hold enough "stuff". The H2 could hold the Land Rover! It's great for going to auctions close to home. Further excursions, I drive my pickup. Remember, gas in SC is cheap, cheap compared to y'alls so we don't have that crazy expense here. (Yesterday, $3.51). A bike? Moi? I might sweat and I don't do sweat.:) Dashes, don't rule out antique stores. Go to big antique "Malls" that have alot of different dealers under one roof. I got a conical planter in a hairpin leg stand that somebody had painted barn red trying to make it look "country" for 20 dollars. I painted the stand black and the pot white and it looks great! | |||||
| I would not worry too much... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I would not worry too much... ...about the lack of materials to recycle. I agree that it should be part of our environmental considerations. The other day a styrene re-cycle plant in Ontario Canada closed down because of lack styrene to be re-cycled. Of course the direct result is that the available styrene is not recycled anymore. As in most human activity, there are few problems with single solutions. In a sustainable way of life, we should both restrain from useless consumtion,...and buy high quality, durable products of "timeless" beauty,...and use materials from sustainable sources,...and use carefully those materials that are not,...and recycle as much as possible, and reduce energy consumption,...and develop renewable sources of energy,...and grow as much wood we can, both as a carbon dioxyde trap and as an excellent construction material,...etc. etc. Non of these solutions can solve the problem on it's own and all should be combined in a new set of ethics. This being said, I think the last thing we should do is to create the illusion that we have reached the end of our technological possibilities and that we have to put the breaks on human ingenuity. Imagine what wind farms would look like without sophisticated glass/kevlar or carbon fiber re-enforced resin blades... There are no general solutions, so, let's not promote them, but look closely at every need and after asking ourselfes "why" do I need this, let's answer the "how" with the full creativity, wisdom and knowledge, human intelligence is capable of....and a happy new year to you to! | |||||
| Mark, | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | niceguy | General discussion | |
| Mark, I believe you may have more interest in shoes than the average person (not a bad thing). Robert1960 is the only other contributor that appears both well groomed and impeccably attired, but it is unknown if he is a Gucci fanatic. I thought you may enjoy these Chuck Taylor "knock offs" made by Gucci. Actually they are just plain red leather Gucci high tops (retailer: Neiman-Marcus). My tailor (apprentice trained master Milan 1960) made a big deal when I wore them for a fitting. He has seen a great many good shoes in his time and they brought a smile to his face. My personal favorites are alligator cap toe lace ups and Armani Collezioni suits. Everyday is Levi and Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna et al cotton shirts. Hush Puppies are more than likely a well constructed shoe in that price range. | |||||
| RE: Anything you can do about bleached mahogany finish? | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Spanky | Repair | |
| Hey- I've stripped a ton of chippy old lacquer finish with just acetone. On flat surfaces I lay a single layer of cheap paper towels down and then saturate them with acetone. The paper towel keeps the acetone from evaporating before it completely dissolves the lacquer---and if you don't get to it before it dries, you can just pour some more acetone on it. It also keeps it from running down the sides so much. Acetone has a very low surface tension--worse than alcohol, I think. Anyway, then just wipe the finish off with the paper towels. Go over it again with paper towels saturated with clean acetone. I don't like to use rags because they collected the dissolved lacquer and you end up reapplying it---diluted, yes, but still. I want it all gone. Work in small areas until you get an idea of how much you can do before the acetone evaporates. You will end up wasting some acetone but with care you can minimize the waste. You must use heavy duty chemical resistant gloves because acetone dissolves latex and most plastics within a minute. Also, use a respirator. I sometimes will do a small object outside with no respirator (I just hold my breath) but when there's a lot of acetone you will feel it after awhile. Even outside. Oh, and one more thing--acetone will make your skin feel very, very cold. I don't notice so much in warm weather but when it gets down to 55 F. or so, I have to wear fuzzy acrylic gloves under the heavy rubber gloves and even then I need to go inside and warm my hands up under running water and then go back out again. It can start to feel like frostbite, even. Anyway--have fun! Be safe! | |||||
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