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| . | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| . Second point: About the second point, painting vs architecture. Very good points!. Fixed to the ground vs mobile. OK. Absolutely Great! First point: About the first point, furniture vs architecture. I think there was a misunderstood, I didn,t said ,,,,,,,,, Is furniture undervalued vs. real estate,,,,,,,,,,, I said that furniture is OVERvalued vs architecture. So I,m with you, and agree with all your points. Now, I,ll go on with your end. Thanks, you clarified things to me a lot, but I,m afraid I coudn,t complifexied things to you not even a little. So I,ll retry :- ) Other thing, I love the ,,tone,,, the way you speak, It,s not the DCwilson we usually listen, I mean, It,s more a Dcwilson real Estate Agent. And I love it!. That,s what I wanted. It seems Real Estate Agents are the same everywhere! : - ) So, I,ll should go on with the Designer-architected-divine artist -god blessed-all-beatifuuull, point of view? It seems Designers-artist are the same everywhere! : - ) Beacuse, I still think architecture ,,signed,, in UNDERvalued in general (compare it with whatever), And you are still thinking is: ,,,,what it is?, the reality,,,, and ""Markets are unrelated to architectural merit, IMHO."" And ,,,,Brilliance of design, or stupidity of design, cannot alter the basic, underlying economic and financial dynamics,,,, At least we agree signed architecture is Undervalued vs signed (better say stickered) furniture. To me, Things are changing, and faster that what we could expect... First, smell... S M E L L, I think I,m asking for smelll (,,olfato,, in Spanish). ((or intuition)). Second, Proofs If we need concrete proofs, I,ll collect them. Here are some: | |||||
| Oh, pshaw, Aunt Mark! | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Oh, pshaw, Aunt Mark! Danacook, how long between the one that I screwed up and the one that I did well? Mabye 5-6 years? But in between I just gave up and didn't even attempt that kind of seat. The first one I did after watching the videos was the one in the photo. I watched the videos and literally said, "OH! THAT'S how you do it. Duh." And then I did it. Here's a crude computer drawing of my shuttle after battling my iPhone trying to get the photo off it. This is not drawn perfectly to scale but it's close. Just do your own drawing according to the measurements and you'll be ok. The main difference between mine and HH Perkins' is the middle section is a lot longer. The first one I made had a very short midsection but turned out that meant that I ended up with a round ball of cord that was very soon too big around to fit between the front rail of the seat and the rung below it. I could not put much cord on the shuttle at all and had to do more knots than I would like, plus loading up the shuttle is a boring task and I don't want to have to do it every 15 minutes. So--longer midsection means a long, flat load of cord that will fit between rail and rung. I got almost up to the center back slot on the Wishbone before it ran out. I did wind the shuttle very neatly, being careful to keep the distribution as even as possible so that i could fit as much on there as possible. Sand the edges of the lauan--goes without saying! It's very splintery. They don't have to be satin smooth, a rough sanding is ok. Oh, one other thing---the guy in the video clamps his chair to his work surface as do the guys in the Danish factory. I thought I'd see how mine went without a clamp before i put any time into rigging something up and turns out I did not feel the need for it. | |||||
| Having had the privilage ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Having had the privilage ... Having had the privilage of seeing several pieces of Girard furniture over the years and i have always stated that i love his stuff. I think a real easy analogy of his furniture would be like saying Girards stuff was to Herman miller line like the Edsel was to the Ford line . Although Girards stuff was way cool but it always had a feel of a idea here from Eames and a idea here from Nelson, Sander as all his friends and associates called him was a genius for color, and they loved him , He got the commission on his own from the Lafonda del sole and took it to home base Herman Miller and Charles and Ray Eames to design the Lafonda chair, Contrary to what some has said the side shell was first as that was the dinner chair at the Resteraunt and shorthy after the armshell back was introduced. the arm shell was used in lots of office applications and with coasters, After Miller associates liked the new stand it was designed along with several of his designs only to be short lived in the commercial success of Herman Miller products, but Braniff loved his stuff and continued using it through the early 70's when every thing went out of production. for a new look by the clothes designer Halston and Puccci, but it was Girard who came up with the idea to paint the planes multi color when most were using aluminum color, The single best idea for identifying the Braniff airways. | |||||
| A good rubdown | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | tktoo | General discussion | |
| A good rubdown The nice thing about teak is its deep, rich grain and color and the natural waxy resins it contains that help to provide its legendary durability in harsh environments. For indoor use, it really needs very little care at all beyond keeping it out of direct sun to prevent excessive dying and/or bleaching and the occasional cleaning. You could wash them with a plain soap and water, but I would start by giving your chairs a good vacuuming and then the wood parts a good rubbing with a cotton rag dampened, not saturated, with white spirits working outdoors or in a well-ventilated space wearing gloves. This should remove any grime and most surface build-up of previous oil or wax treatments. Take care to keep solvents away from any leather, vinyl or textiles. After 24 hrs, or so, of drying, most or all of the solvent odor should be dissipated and close inspection should reveal the need for any further action, such as treatment of disfiguring stains. At this point, there is really nothing more at all necessary unless you wish to sand any rough areas or apply an oil finish and/or wax to restore some luster or sheen. Any good "Danish" oil finish like Watco should dry completely in a couple of days if applied in accordance with the directions supplied, though they tend to darken wood a bit. Paste-waxing, either instead of or after, oiling is also a good option for imparting a smart, protective, low-gloss glow. | |||||
| Who made/ designed this Italian? armchair? | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | user_94 | Identification | |
| This is very well made leather armchair. It has a very solid metal frame and nice quality padding. Same thing with the leather which is high grade. i believe it is Italian, but there are no tags or labels on it. Can anyone help with this? Thank you Attachment: IMG_9763.jpg Attachment: IMG_9769.jpg Attachment: IMG_9768.jpg | |||||
| I know lindaburns' post is | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I know lindaburns' post is just a shill for an office furniture company but just for fun I thought I'd compare the two---since so many people who are new to the world of design wonder if cheap knockoffs are worth it. The one she references does not look exactly like the Eames Aluminum Group executive chair. In addition to all the obvious differences (biggest one being the standard issue office chair tilt mechanism under the seat!), the upholstery material is described both as "bonded leather" and, farther down in the description, "bounded leather". Bonded leather is ground up leather scraps that are reconstituted with some kind of bonding agent into sheet goods that are then coated with vinyl or something to give it the look of leather. It doesn't wear well at all. Authentic Eames Aluminum Group chairs are upholstered in Spinneybeck leather. In this company's defense, their chair is obviously "inspired by" the real thing; they have made very obvious changes while retaining the basic look of the original. Many other companies make nearly exact copies and you will have to look harder for the differences, but they're there. The prices are a lot lower because they skimp on quality. You think you're saving $1,000++ but actually you're just wasting a few hundred. | |||||
| I found the same desk that so... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | flyingpatricio | General discussion | |
| I found the same desk that so... I found the same desk that sold for $450 and was supposedly in "wonderful" shape, but was also in the NY/Bos. area...inflated quite a bit more then here in A2. In our area I was going to see if I could get away with $300-350 in bartered trade. The one I'm going to get has a couple small water marks on the top, but all in all it's in great vintage shape. A little Howard's Feed-n-wax then the Teak will pop to. I opened it up on Friday to take a closer look. That thing is like a solid wood Transformer! Talk about articulated! I'm pretty excited to get all the pieces home. Schnadig Club chair & sofa, Drexel China Cabinet and the Teak desk. The last time I wandered through I came across a Danish Modern Teak & Metal Planter, Rosewood Queen Bed and a Teak Hanging Lamp that I'm going to see about as well. My profession is a plasterer/painter/wood refinisher, but in slow times I'll do just about anything short of shoveling shit and taking shit, so as to make the ends meet. Most of the barter work I've done for this woman so far has been extremely mundane...I've spent 7 hours putting together IKEA gear and arranging her new office. So 7 hours that normally would've been spent with me at home with no work has now turned into our new sofa and club chair. Not a bad trade/barter deal in my eyes. Pics will come as soon as the items trickle into the house. | |||||
| Object oriented programming cont'd | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Object oriented programming cont'd I think that the rational use of space is my biggest attraction to modernism. Modernist homes seems to be designed by people who actually tried to 'contain lives'. Sometimes as you pointed out, DCW, the over-minimal homes have nowhere to put the flotsam & jetsam of life. But mostly, modernist homes are logical spaces. I also really appreciate the Shaker traditional which was rationalist to a fault but always placed the needed storage right where it was most critical. The wall pegs, the skinny broom cupboards, the bench-boxes for shoes, that kind of thing. And yet, both Modernist and Shakers weren't prone to gadgets, solutions were integrated directly into the living space. I hate gadgets. I am forever coaching my clients to throw away the overly-complex organizer crap that's sold to the hopelessly disorganized that serve only to defeat them further. One does not need a special wall cupboard to contain their keys. In fact, the existence of the closed door and the myriad of little hooks ensure that the device is rendered unusable by the disorganized person, it's simply too dificult for them to use. An attractive bowl placed near the main point of entry for the home will work. It will look good and it will work. If homes could be created with the sample simple logic, life would be grand, but the need for acquisition and statement-making homes will keep me in business! | |||||
| It was like a Master in Real Estate! Expressss! | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Gustavo | General discussion | |
| It was like a Master in Real Estate! Expressss! Very good points. Thanks. I,m still thinking about it. Another thing: Is furniture ("original" "signed") over valuated VS architecture("original" "signed") under valuated? Let's see, take a chair...: "a classic", "original" ,"designed by a famous classic designer", chair, How many time more cost vs ordinary/regular one?, 5 times/10 times/ 20times/ up to 50times? Now take an architecture building...: "a classic", "original" ,"designed by a famous classic architect" building /house How many time more cost vs ordinary/regular one?, 1 and 1/2 times / up to 2 ? 3 times! First I thought, one reason could be: well somebody could have spend 20,000 extra in a chair, but not many 20,000,000 extra for a house. OK, but, if we compare with pictures? masterpieces, I mean (a Picasso, a Van Gogh), they could cost 150,000,000! No way, architecture "signed" houses are under-valuated to me. Plus: If have an "original" chair, Designed by, let's say Le Corbusier, it will be sharing his "originality" with 10.000/100.000 other "originals" produced legally 60 years later..., hard to find the Le Corbusier hand their endeed. Compared with the original house designed by Le corbuiser, only one, a single piece, "haute couture", made to the size and needs to the original customer... Is furniture over-valuated and architecture under-valuated? | |||||
| Outrageous! Don't delete! Fight Stirling/Classics Domain! | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Outrageous! Don't delete! Fight Stirling/Classics Domain! To: Design Addict Owners Don't bend to their idle threats! I'm sure you can find lawyers who will be willing to volunteer their time to assist you... pro bono. You stand on solid ground. Any good lawyer can blow their threats out of the water! Classics Domain or Stirling (?) could easily have replied to the posts about them, if indeed, those posts were false or defamatory. Back door letters demanding you to delete open forum posts is just ludicrous, in my opinion. This should be a public and open forum for the design community. Just because a manufacturer gets a couple negative feedbacks from their clients on this forum, the forum should not be shut down. Sure, delete messages for lies, false claims, slander, colorful adult language (?), etc... But, don't delete messages because someone cries out for help in this forum in order to get Classics Domain to return their money back to them. Maybe look into strengthening your disclaimer about the forum. You are not defaming anyone! You just run the forum so that people like me and thousands other can come together and discuss all things design! This forum will be gutted and no one will come back to it if all the different retailers and suppliers mentioned in here began demanding the same thing. Don't let big business shut down individuals, designers, consumers.... This all sucks! Hope you all have a nice day, anyway. | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 13 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| So good to see folks making stuff, did you find the bamboo harsh on your saw SDR? I vaguely remember (try to forget the place) putting formica over formica from a place I worked at years ago and it seemed to be normal practice, though I'd try and scuff the surface with an orbital or use penterol or something. This is my latest, still a WIP, wanted something like the Nelson bench but with a bit more air in it. The timber is a regrowth Eucalypt and the worlds tallest flowering plant so the fibres are very long and can get away with slenderer slats only supported by that contrasting timber. I routed some nice sliding dovetails to connect them all which looked good but for some reason ditched that and redid it with a straight dado. I'm not happy with the legs (should have left that tenon a little proud) but they did force me to make a jig for loose tenon angled bridle joints that will come in handy for a Borge Mogensen-ish chair I'm working on. And this is another bench I did a while ago, stupidly got wd40 on the first coat of black which left disgusting fisheye spots all over the second coat so its a mess atm and is awaiting attention, the legs look very slender but the whole thing is pretty rigid with a spine running underneath connected with bolts. This is just a render but its how it looks assembled. Building the mold for the curved ply was a bitch but came out well and will be able to use that curve for some scoop like chairs I want to make sometime. | |||||
| The rails on this chairs are | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | Repair | |
| The rails on this chairs are only going to be finished where the cord does not cover. Per tktoo, do a quick compatibility test with the spray paint. However, I put enamel in capitals, because it is oil based and ought to stick well. Latex water based spray paint is a much more delicate chemistry and it probably will not stick. If the enamel spray paint does not stick, for some reason, you could do a coat of shellac. It is hard to put on uniformly, so read up on your technique, and prepare to sand out lines in the shellac. But I really don't think it will be necessary. I have put oil based finish over the original finish on a J16 before. It was one of the rare brown ones the factory did In the early 1970s. Unfortunately the mix of pigments gets 'burned' by UV light and turns a sickly green. One side of he poor chair was green and the other brown. This is the same thing that happens to Selig's 'saddle' finish. Anyway, the point is I have successfully done this before. I just wish that I had used enamel spray paint instead of oil based gel stain. It would have been much easier to get a smooth, proper finish. I would really caution against stripping this chair. It is goin to be a massive amount of work and it will be very hard to get the paint out of the many corners. Also finishes tend to unevenly soak in to beech wood, so some areas will have a very deep dark stain. Others will be fine almost immediately. You may have to sand the wood far, far more than you want to remove the deeply soaked areas completely. | |||||
| Scam movers, not entirely funny... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Scam movers, not entirely funny... I think I've mentioned before that my family has a long, long history here in the New England area. Well, when I was a teenager my two spinster great-aunts, who were both in their 90's, passed away within weeks of each other. They left to my family a ginormous victorian in South Boston that they'd lived in their entire lives. It had belonged to their grandfather, a Clipper ship captain who'd done the 'tea route' from South Asia to Boston for years. The house was jam-packed with truly priceless antiques from Asia, incredible carpets, glassware, china, and even a couple of authentic Paul Revere silver pieces, that really belonged in a museum. During the time that the family was meeting with lawyers, archivists and appraisers to determine what to do with all this incredible stuff, a moving truck came to the house and emptied it of everything valuable including some of the fixures of the house itself. The neighbors never suspected a thing as the crew was there all day long, and was very careful with the packaging. Incredibly audacious and totally theivery. Despite months of police work including some federal help from some department that does stuff like recover stolen art, nothing, not one piece, was ever recovered. We're talking big, big money that probably would have paid for college for all of the various nieces and nephews that stood to inherit. Stealing or switching isn't really all that funny a thought... | |||||
| I don't object | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| I don't object in principle to classification of posts by topic -- but I agree with those who say it sometimes induces a sense of missing potentially interesting posts. After all, the only way to be sure of what's "up" would be to visit all topics, anyway -- no ? Another issue: some posts qualify simultaneously for two (or more) categories: make and model, repair of, correct use of, designer of, etc. I agree: no avatars, no color (I see we just now have a full-color boxed ad on the page -- jarring on this beautiful site ! Would advertisers consent to reduced intensity of those colors ? Fussy, fussy, I know. . .). Just editing, links, images, placing the posting boxes with the thread visible, and perhaps the typography options mentioned (after all, this medium strains to be conversational, and some means of substitution for tone and expression, other than just CAPITALS, would be useful). [As a digression, can anyone inform me of the keyboard functions that allow for underlining, superscript accents, etc in any context (even if not enabled here) ? I've never figured that out. . .] I see I missed with my intention to express the image code that works here; let's try img src="[URL]" , the whole thing bracketed with __________________________________________________ This is the explanation of some search functions, as given on another site that uses phpBB: Search for Keywords: You can use AND to define words which must be in the results, OR to define words which may be in the result and NOT to define words which should not be in the result. Use * as a wildcard for partial matches. __________________________________________________ Could someone type an example of the above, to demonstrate how it would look ? I don't get it. . .] ThAnKs ! (smiley face here) | |||||
| very radical thinking on yo... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| very radical thinking on yo... very radical thinking on your part lucifersum!!! great that you are a orthodox pureist, but the rest of the world could care less about the Eames. We do cause we are design addicts less than .000000000000001 percent of the world or a very small group, The Eames were nice people who were ahead of their time and came up with some great stuff in a mid century post world war 2 world, If you want to be 100 percent pure , put your money were your mouth is , get to it and start looking for 50s vintage Eames ESU at all the auction houses, get the check book out and be prepared to pay big bucks for your rusted out ESU Shelf with lots of rust on it, Nobody and I repeat Nobody loves the originals and respects the designs and owns the originals more than i do, after 30 years i have built up a great original collection, but i am not stupid. In a minute if I needed to put my flat panel on a ESU I would not put it on any thing other than a solid shelf that can accomodate this expensive piece of equipment ,and if i wanted the ESU look I would get it, So Lucifer lets just take all the fakes,Moderica,Modern wood, etc out of the picture cause they are not going to work for you, and Herman Millers will not work cause the 42 inch plasma just won't cut it with out the modification, Once again the Eames were great people but for g-d sake let them rest in peace they made their mark on this world, in a world that had not that much to offer at that time. I think you are the only one who thinks they would be mad if they saw modifications of their designs, I think they would approve that anyone would be thinking out of the box with a little help from them, | |||||
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