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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| d.c. | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... contemporary design philosophy (or the lack thereof); prefer space to surface; coined "heavy modern" to distinguish contemporary modern revival from early and mid modern; find most contemporary modern to be post modern shorn of ornamentation, i.e., surface design rather than space design; all time favorite architects: Wright for his houses, Michelangelo for miscellaneous, John Russell Pope for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC, Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles for the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey; favorite contemporary architects: Arthu ... | |||||
| thanks for responses... I | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | farah | General discussion | |
| thanks for responses... I will think seriously about the maui chair. i've like the bertoia for a while but didn't feel it would work. but based on the photos it might. builder-- i kinda like my place with the lines. the only thing that rectangular are the tables. otherwise, the couch is actually rounded to match the curvature of the windows. but i think i can understand what you mean. there's barely anything in the space. once i have some more art, photos, rugs i'm sure it will be warmer. keep the suggestions coming! i have committed to a dinner p ... | |||||
| Until the Neo Modernist movement...Pt 2 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... resort to a number of fixes to avoid becoming moribund. It has ceased to focus entirely on modernist philosophy. It has taken to promoting ad hoc market phenomena like manufactured housing that expresses the modern revival look and green housing when it emulates a modern revival look. And it has increasingly catered to the nostalgia of the modern revival by calling attention in "Archive" lesser known mid century modern architect's work, while devoting very little to the philosophies that produced the work of these mid century moderns. The last issue of Dwel ... | |||||
| Drone on | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| Drone on Speaking as a former "drone" the GSA or general services administration conducts autions of surplus goods like office furniture but the reality is most furniture pushed by the GSA is used till it all but falls apart. Many of us 'drones' appreciated when we could put our ass in something nice. It didn't happen often. | |||||
| mathsson | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | modernisbetter | General discussion | |
| mathsson just missed out on a bruno mathsson pernilla lounge for 125 yesterday. i told the seller i was going to pick it up .. went by.. told me he just sold it!! is there no professionalism any more? he said he didn't know if i was serious so sold it to the first person to show up.. bummer. | |||||
| part 3 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| part 3 understand your brother is the eldest, so did he grow up in the villa? "Yes my brother grew up in the villa. He lived there the first eight years of life. I didn't, I was born in Caracas in Venezuela. My family had to emigrate and they first went to Switzerland. But in 1941 they feared that Hitler would march into Switzerland and then they emigrated to Venezuela, to Caracas, where they stayed for ten years, and then they went back to Switzerland again." And now you live in Vienna, not so far away, which is kind of amazing. "Yes, I went to study in Vie ... | |||||
| Don't know about recent reissues | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| Don't know about recent reissues Don't know about recent reissues, but I own a set of 4 teak ones from the 60s and they're all in good shape. Still very flexible. Only one of them has a crack across the narrowest part but it's in the top layer of the veneer only, no structural damage there. A friend of mine who's pretty heavy likes to lean back in them... this worried me at first, but I didn't see any problems on inspection afterwards. I find them pretty comfortable myself. Hope this helps. | |||||
| Pieff | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Robert Leach | General discussion | |
| Pieff Only used leather, they didn't make vinyl sofas... | |||||
| The reason question and answer is so crucial to... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... what we don't know about how they do what they do. My years as a consultant taught me that what I knew was never the crux of solving any problem worth solving for a client. The best solutions came from discovering what the client didn't know that I didn't know. When I discovered that, THEN I could alter this or tweak that among what he already knew how to do better than most anyone and then the client was off and running and leaving me in the dust...hopefully with a check. Once we discover what we don't know, THEN we can get about the business of solving th ... | |||||
| First...Pt 1 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... a similar conflict between doing expressive work (artistic work we may or may not get paid for) and functional work (problem solving we get paid for). I know I was always torn between a desire to write novels and poetry on the one hand, and on doing the real estate consulting work I was trained to do for which there was a lot of demand for. Why was the former so emotionally fulfilling to do, while the latter was fulfilling mostly on levels of mastery of technique and monetary reward? I wanted it to all come out of one thing. I was trying to treat my work li ... | |||||
| Well, at least | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Well, at least he's not a concert pianist endangering his fingers ? Of course, Koen probably plays piano, too ? Talk about "digging in a little deeper". . .! Have a good night's sleep . In re LRF's note, I recall a pencil drawing made one night at the new women's dorm lounge at RISD, c 1961. A random group of Wegner's most famous chair caught my eye -- though I believe at the time I didn't know what they were. Quite a nice amenity for a bunch of art students to sprawl in. . .? | |||||
| Post script... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Post script... I beg your pardon for not focusing on the difference between art and design, but I just think I would be doing you a huge disservice to encourage you down that path. And if you are determined to go that path then there are many here more gifted and knowledgeable that I am contributing on this board. I know Koen is going to make a speech about the difference between art and design, and that may make you feel vindicated in your choice of subject matter, but two things should jump out at you about this speech making of his: 1. He implies the art ... | |||||
| Neither | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Robert Leach | General discussion | |
| Neither Neither link works for me.. Lucienne Day gave permission for a couple of her 1950s designs to be rescaled and used for Converse..she didn't design specifically for them. | |||||
| Koen... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Koen... I hope you didn't think I was being demanding. I just was wondering. My god, I'm amazed you're willing even to participate, much less willing to do so much of the work. Thank you in advance for whatever you do whenever you do it. FWIW, I still think those student's at Columbia are about to get the best break in education they will ever get. | |||||
| gerrit... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| gerrit... I'd didn't mean to sound like a know it all above. I'm sure there are a lot of studies on this by persons far smarter than me. I began this thread just trying to see if anyone had read anything on the subject game theoretic analysis of panic behavior in evacuation situations. You would think the military and emergency management organizations would have done a lot of this. Its probably out there and I just don't know about it. | |||||
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