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| Okay, I'll take a crack at this outfit... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Okay, I'll take a crack at this outfit... Heatherwick is at its best, when it designs a thing to facilitate a single, rational activity, and not when it designs a space for a complicated, irrational activity. To wit, the bridge is an elegant solution for walking across a basin, or for letting a boat pass. However, I would argue that a much smarter solution would be one that let both happen simultaneously. Wouldn't a flat bridge that morphs into ascending and descending escalators and then morphs back into a flat bridge make alot more sense? The vent is another wonderful, but complex form for a simple activity--venting exhaust. I like it, but I'm not sure why it needs to be this big and complex. I would have to see the aerodynamics of the exhaust to believe this was the most elegant solution. But as the number of functions increase dramatically, as they do at the restaurant, the aesthetic and engineering elegance of the above designs by Heatherwick give way to the high concept of persons sitting in a kitchen and what at least appears to be an absense of aesthetic and engineering elegance in their solution (I can't really tell much, except that I don't like what little I can see in the windows. Similarly, if you ask Heatherwick to do the irrational and try to make retail shoppers behave irrationally and walk up stairs to shop, when there is already a vast retail world at the ground level, then you get a building with an absurd hillside designed into it. | |||||
| continued | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| continued I mean, I prefer a functioning republic with a market economy and reliance on millions of small choices made by by millions of competitive producers and billions of competitive consumers, but so long as we are dominated by producer oligopolies (i.e., no real producer competition in any classical, or neoclassical economic senses) and so long as our republic and our perhaps former market economy is to a great extent being subordinated to a central bank planned economy, shouldn't we at least have rational feasibility studies performed by our apparently new de facto leader, the central bank, and create a paper trail of research that we and future scholars and policy wonks can all review and understand as good faith attempts to be improved upon in order to organize our economic activities with improved fit in terms of humaneness, environmental impact, and efficiency? Or is it smarter to have the central bank reorganize our economy based largely on the subjective value models resident in the heads of a very small minority of persons running our central bank? Can Benjamin Bernanke and his immediate assistants really know if it is best for us to have toasters, or not to have them, without such studies? Could even the worshipped Allen Greenspan know such a thing without such studies? | |||||
| Derrick, you said that the | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Derrick, you said that the "quality is outstanding"---have you seen it in person? The upholstery looks kind of awful, in my opinion. It was most certainly redone and there is too much padding on nearly every surface. In addition, the padding is lumpy--probably cotton batting, which yes, does tend to be lumpy if you don't know how to deal with it. And if you use a thin fabric, like this stuff appears to be, the texture of the cotton batting really shows through. That twee little head pillow looks like an invention of the upholsterer. It looks pretty much flat, so I don't know what kind of comfort it adds, and the huge silky drapery tie-back tassel in back probably hangs by a silky rope-style cord, also used for drapery tie-backs. The top seam of the pillow is very puckered; whoever made it didn't clip the curve nearly enough. The chair's seams are also kind of puckery. The seat deck is so overpadded around the edges that the seat cushion looks a size or two too small. And last---that square profile cuff-thing at the top of the legs (which I agree don't look definitively teak--maybe maple?)---I have seen that before but I don't believe on anything made in Denmark. Where did you get this? Were you going by a written description only? I think you can improve the look of it a lot by getting it reupholstered professionally in a good quality solid color wool, and tell the guy you want it about half as fat as it is now. Or less, maybe. I don't know if you would get your money out of it if you plan to sell it someday, even with a really bang-up upholstery job. But if you really love it and want to keep it, it might be worth it to you. | |||||
| i dont think nelson had ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| i dont think nelson had ... i dont think nelson had any thing to do with the design of of the Meridian clocks , i think all he did was have his office design a series of hands for these clocks but i do think he approached Howard Miller about the idea to do the ceramic clocks. I currently have found four sets of hands that are used on the meridian clocks, still doing lots of research and data. if you come across anything of interest on the formation of any of the clocks please post dont bother to tell the Irvin Harper Nagguchi Fuller story as that is well documented, I need to find out all I can on the Arthur Umanoff.era as i think he took over after Harper left the Nelson office in the Spring of 66 and added his signature style of thin orange hands and a very slick late 60s 70s pop op look. with large numbers on his clocks, Sad to say none of his clocks bought the big bucks and became as collectible as the Harper Nelson clocks, I have no idea... maybe someone out there can tell me why they did not bring the big bucks, or even the mid bucks, more like the little bucks, The meridian clocks have gone in cycles the guy this summer who had the big collection on ebay averaged around 300 to 450, but he did have some unusual ones, I have searched all of the auction house from 2001 and find that most Nelson clocks averaged 250.00 dont post and say you saw one for 500 plus cause some are still bringing the big bucks, Sad to say after 1976 I would not have given 49 cents for a Howard miller clocks unless i wanted a old chimer, they just seem to say the hell with this modern bull lets go for the grandads clock, ugh, | |||||
| Modernist Small Wooden Desk | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| I have had this desk for ages, and I've never seen another thing like it. It has "graffiti" names and dates of 1956 and 1957 as well as "Riverside CA" and an address in Little Rock AK. I don't know what wood it is. It smells of kerosene, which might be that the wood smells of kerosene (it is very oily wood), or it might be that it was bathed in kerosene.I assume it is American. And I assume that it was made in the 50s. It appears to be production made.Anybody ever seen anything like it? | |||||
| Roll pins are a standard | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | racecar | General discussion | |
| Roll pins are a standard piece of hardware, I'm not sure what you call them in Australia. They're basically cylinders with a slit cut in them, punched in for a tight fit. That's what it looks like the top bar is held in place with. If you search the site McMaster (dot com) for "roll pin" you'll see a few pictures of 'slotted spring pins' that would probably work putting everything back together. You might have to cut them to length. Mine measure 3/16" by about 9/16" in length. They might not be reusable after you bang them out unless you spread them. The frames on the chairs I have all have indentations around what I'm calling the roll pins, so they were probably installed with something like a pneumatic rivet gun at the factory (just a guess). I've seen a few sets of aubergine framed chairs for sale, but they weren't leather. I thought they must have been a custom thing. The ruffled back is blowing my mind though. Does the chair with the split in the leather have a tilt base or is it the antler type? It will be 100x more comfortable with a tilt/height adjustable base if you can get one. I have a spare aluminum group seat that's just taking up space. Looking at it now I can feel at least 5 pins per side holding the fabric in place. Looks like these have to be drilled out as there's no way to tap them out. Seems tricky, but not impossible. I'll post a few pics if I tear into it this weekend so you can see what to expect. I've used a 2x4 cut to length to wedge the seat apart while removing/installing the base to keep it from getting scratched. This should work to get the backrest bar back in place. | |||||
| part one | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | finch | General discussion | |
| part one ((Finch asks if the knock-offs have an effect on the auth'd products. I say yes for several reasons. a) Most importanly - marketplace confusion. )) I say caveat emptor. The onus is and has always been on the buyer, and if we don't do our homework, then we get what we pay for. My problem isn't buyer confusion, it's buyer negligence. People who don't care. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that most people who get into a certain style of furniture are not people who stumble onto it in a storefront, and buy it in a whim. They're bookish about this sort of thing. They're into it to some degree. They know what they're doing, so I don't cry too many tears for them. ((b) Cost. When knock-offs are introduced they skim off a percentage of sales of authentic pieces. This means the licenced dealers are losing sales, which means the price of the auth'd piece will go UP - making it less accessible.)) You could also look at this as a way of keeping the licensed vendor's feet (or at the very least, their toes) on the ground when it comes to pricing. For example, most buyers wouldn't feel better knowing that 7% of their $8000 sofa went to the actual material/labor/advertising of a product, while the other 93% went to the licensee's yacht payment -- all for the sake of loyalty. And if the quantifiable differences between licensed and non-licensed products are marginal, (which in some instances, they probably are, not to mention the cases where the unlicensed versions trump the licensed versions), to what then does a buyer owe his loyalty? It's a fair question, at least in some cases. | |||||
| Latest find, congolese tables | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | bj | General discussion | |
| Hello everyone, I just bought these tables from a lovely lady. She stated these were ordered by her father, made in 1958 by a congolese carpenter. The tables are all made of different woods, species wich were present in Congo that time. The workmanship is quite striking: the edges are sharp, the underside beveled-rounded, the legs are all uniformely wedge-shaped. The style is modern too, a lot of furniture during the colonial period was decorated with motives referring to african symbols, even during the fifties. I have a coffeetable (huge thing) in solid african hardwood, also imported from 'zaire' back in the days. I also spoke with a man selling a lot of african things, his father was half african/half belgian, an artist working in a crossover style between Kuba and modernistic motives. He had some striking vases in turned wenge-wood, finished with stylised Kuba motives. I find these things all very fascinating, the history, the people, the exotic.. I would like to go further with these things. Do you know of any scource, artists, designers...? Do you own an artwork or object yourself? | |||||
| Crashdesk | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| Crashdesk Much of the information you seek has been discussed and documented in various threads on this site. It could just be a matter of organizing that info into a more cohesive and simple format, in my opinion. (Right now, it's not exactly "one-stop shopping" for info, I will grant you that, but much of it is there) Many of the inclusive dates, are very well known by the design community at this point, but fine-tuning them any further than in my post above becomes a matter of educated guessing. For example, the chair glides and bases info that you mentioned, I posted in my first entry on this thread, and that is pretty close to as good as you're gonna find (with a few possible refinements and arguments, of course) It is also known that Herman Miller employees are often not good sources when it comes to historical details. This site is much better. But stuff gets buried and is often poorly categorized. When it comes to details, you often have to search for answers. Eamesdesign site has good info too. You are right that there is a need for more easily accessible info of this nature. It would be a good thing to have, and would eventually help to chip away at the many "grey areas" that persist. Sounds like you are on a learning curve, so it is important to note that even when the hundreds of details are banked, there will STILL be a lack of absolute dates in many areas. (Again, my second post above reflects what is generally known, but also reflects the vagaries that may always exist) (These persistent and specific grey areas are also quite well known-and even legendary- among Eames design fanatics) Hope this helps. | |||||
| On 2nd thought Vitra | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| I was in NYC last month and made my way into Vitra, DWR. and Modernica stores and I also made the mistake of going to the forign zone of White on White wow what a joke. I really want to know where Vitra gets off and trys to make up there own version of great designs with the permission of the George Nelson estate and the Eames Estate . The nelson clocks do not look one bit like the George Nelson clocks made by Howard Miller in the 50's and 60's i bought one for 285 to add to my collection of real howard Millers it does bug me somewhat cause it does not look like the original but at least it is not a cheap forign knock off for 40. bucks. Did Nelsons wife sell out just to get some money to Vitra and let them do what they want? Then there is Modernica with there case study bull crap that is hiding under the Eames cloth ( i gurss they fiqured out a way not to pay the estate for there ripped off stuff. but at least there Bubble lamps are 1st class!! and the best of the best !! I give them a standing ovation for those lamps they are even better than the original ( i have 3 of them from the original Howard Miller and 1 from the new Morernica collection. love them . DWR only sells stuff they don't make any thing from the past just sell. and now they a re only dealing with the big 5 companies of yesteryear. But last and least and i don't have enough time to write about White on White that stuff just looks bad even someone who enjoys furniture from Sears, Pennys, and Levits. could tell there is something wrong with this stuff . keep an eye on that one . | |||||
| There are a lot of genuine | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| There are a lot of genuine Saarinen tulip tables listed on 1stDibs and quite a few include photos of the underside of the tables. I could not find any that had even close to the number of screws yours has (though someone could have added screws at some point, I guess). But more importantly, I could not find any that had that groove or joint around the perimeter of the top of the base that yours has. I'm hardly an expert on these tables so I don't know the significance of that, but I do know that they were widely knocked off over a long period of time so I tend to think that yours is probably not genuine. You could also take a photo of the base from straight on against a plain background and compare the radii of the curves, and the diameter of the stem and top and base to the photos of the real thing from a licensed distributor or Knoll. Many knockoffs look pretty convincing until you compare them side by side, and then you start noticing little differences in the shape. | |||||
| Danish Sideboard? | 1 Relevance | 5 years ago | earthearth | Identification | |
| Would anyone know any thing about this sideboard? Length 182cm, Depth 46cm Intriguing external brass fittings on doors Attachment: IMG_3381.jpg Attachment: IMG_3389.jpg Attachment: IMG_3385.jpg | |||||
| Danish sofabed/daybed | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Cloudburst2000 | General discussion | |
| I'm looking to buy a mid-century modern daybed. The styles I'm leaning toward are the Hans Wegner adjustbale daybed with the back piece that rises, and the Hvidt & Molgaard/Soborg Mobelfabrik daybed with the teak and caning. I've also seen a France and Daverkosen teak and caning sofa/daybed on ebay...the only drawback to that one is the red upholstery. My current sofa is red and I want to get away from the red. The one on ebay is in almost pristine condition with original upholstery. IMHO, it would be a crime to buy it only to re-upholster it when the upolstery is already so nice and original. Below is the link for the France & Daverkosen sofa on ebay so you can have a better understanding of my tastes: http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-FRANCE-DAVERKOSEN-Danish-Modern-Sofa-JOHN-STUART_W0QQitemZ6583616346QQcategoryZ63584QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Anywho, those are the styles I am leaning toward. I was hoping you all might have some other options for me. I'm doing alot of research before I actually buy. I would need a daybed/sofa with a darker patina. I have a rosewood sideboard and a walnut coffee table so the daybed would need to be rosewood, walnut, or a darker teak. My area rug is cream, brown, and biege so I'm leaning toward perhaps a neutral color upholstery on the daybed. The one thing I do not want is a daybed with no back cushions. This is to be used as a sofa so back cushions are a must. I also don't want anything with leather...so no Barcelona daybed. Any suggestions? | |||||
| The Milo Baughman Directional Dining Table is Here! | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | cysco | General discussion | |
| I Posted a thread a couple weeks ago about a table I had purchased and whether I should refinish it or not. Well the table arrived yesterday and it's stunning. Any thought of refinishing it instantly went away when I saw it. This thing is flawless! I can't imagine how a table survives 50+ years with virtually no sign of wear. Even the two leaves have the same level of patina and match perfectly. I can only assume the table sat in someone's formal dining room with both leaves in it and was used rarely. The under side of the table and leaves are both marked with a hand written #55. I'm assuming that means this was the 55th table of this style made. The chairs are just cheap chairs left over from our previous table. They'll do for now until we find the perfect vintage set. Anyway, just had to share! 🙂 | |||||
| Tentative CADO dinning table and chair identificaction... Am I right? | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | jose-mara_a | Identification | |
| Hello all from Madrid! This is my first post over here. I found this website and forum the other day when I was trying to identify a teak dinnig table and chairs I have recently purchased. I love scandinavian furniture and I rescued them from trash, so I'm pretty happy. I'm attaching some pics. As far as I've researched I am almost sure the table was fabricated by CADO, The only thing is that I could not be able to search any cado label prior store it. It going to be stored from one year till we move to a new house we are now waiting for. Can anybody tell me where the label or a stamped mark should be placed? Besides the table I also picked six chairs. They match te table so I think they are cado too, but I coudn`t be able to find any seal, mark or stamp on them, and I`m now upholstering them up. I'd be grateful for any information about this topic. Thanks in advance and kind regards! | |||||
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