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	For every one slotted head screw I have stripped the slot on...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... I have ever worked on. The virtue of the Phillips head is that with a magnetized electric driver, you can stick the screw on the driver and use both hands to control the driver. Alas, this virtue means very little when half way in one hits a knot or some other friction and one strips the head. Frankly, I've never worked on a carpentry project where I didn't hear someone cursing at stripping a Phillips. The reason they strip so frequently is that one invariably does not have just the right size of Phillips driver to seat perfectly in the Phillips head. But I ...
	Well now Azurechicken,...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Well now Azurechicken,... Well now Azurechicken, Wright may have opened up the box but he didn't necessarily intend to let everything out. I can appreciate your sensibility and your architectural preferences. One additional thing regarding Olive's sense of Wright spaces, many of the residential designs employs a very overt and heavy exterior presence (lots of massing, overhangs, cantilevers, etc.,), which may indirectly impact their interior feel; that is, while there is no reason a large-boned rock of a home cannot have an expansive interior feel, in some c ...
	The lights of Modernism...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... some 20 years even prior to that (1877), and I believe it was at this time his vision, especially his view on ornamentation in design, began to shift dramatically. As far as Modern is concerned in the States, I continue to believe that it was primarily Wright and Stickley who facilitated and advanced the movement in the most profound manner. For whatever reason, I do not see Sullivan as Modernist, even if Wright has acknowledged him as one of his only influences. To read Wright of course, one would be led to believe that the most comprehensive vision origin ...
	She may have a point......	1 Relevance	20 years ago	DLD	General discussion
	She may have a point...... The first chair I sat in at DWR was the Bertoia and I was uncomfortable. Design is relative. I'm rather petite and the chair didn't conform well to me physically. However my second choice was the Eames Eiffel Side Chair.
	Ah, cats...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	Jay	General discussion
	Ah, cats... I had a house, and I had a cat. And then I got a roommate. Before he moved in, I warned him I wasn't going to be held responsible for my cat's actions towards his furniture (I guess I didn't want him to move in quite as much as he wanted to move in). Somehow, my cat picked up on this, and over the course of a year or so, had her way with the ends of the guy's sofa. She really dug that nubby texture. Claw city. Anyway, the womb chair is something to think about. It looks more substantial than the bird chair, esp. since I've gained a pound or two o ...
	Chair 037 by Harcourt for Artifort	1 Relevance	20 years ago	mamagem	General discussion
	Chair 037 by Harcourt for Artifort Hi Ben, I just saw the discussion on the forum. I knew my chair was by Harcourt because the lable on the bottom said so. I didn't know the type number and year of design. Thanks to your information I can put the correct date on my site. Thanks, Paulien Pearls of Design http://www.pearlsofdesign.nl
	To redo, or not redo	1 Relevance	20 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	... thoughts: As I see it you have three options: a) Learn as you go and restore the chair yourself b) Live with the chair as it is, save some money, and have it professionally restored. Obviously restoration is going to cost some money. But, it will also dramatically increase the monetary value of this chair. An Eames 670 is between $1000 and $4000 these days. It will cost some money to get there, but it could be worth it in the long run, especially if you ever want to resell the chair. Of course, having only paid $65 for it you will undoubtedly make your ...
	reply/insurance	1 Relevance	20 years ago	bootsymod	General discussion
	... what to shedule these older items then in our case (Erie) does not want us to use the item, other-wise if some thing should happen they seem to feel that our older items are not of value. We are looking for farir market value for replacement of older items and we have yet to find a ANY company. We didn't know this was a problem until we read the fine print on our ploicy and found out that items over 25 years do not receive replacement value, unless they are "scheduled", I wonder how many other people think their items are insured and really are not?
	more on materials choices	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	more on materials choices Jeez, I do run on---didn't realize there was a limit on length for these posts. Here's the rest: I don't think you have to stick to vinyl for reupholstering. I did mine in a Unika Vaev fabric that looks really great with the aluminum. I have also considered leather and the only reason I didn't use it is because I liked the fabric even more. These chairs are a great design but I don't think they're something that has to be true to the original to have any value. Leather is a great choice. If others are reading and considering re ...
	I'm impressed by what you've accomplished with these waste...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	I'm impressed by what you've accomplished with these waste baskets...Part 2 Why I am going on about this is not only to clarify the idea/paradigm of this development process of a new, or evolving Deep Design, but to say that in this digital age of accelerating crosspollinization of ideas and work, it is quite reasonable to suspect that if it took a century or two to accumulate the intellectual design capital necessary to precipitate the original blooming of Modernism, it might take only half or a quarter of that time today. And since Modernism collapsed of i ...
	Oh, how I wish we had decent...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	cwoo	General discussion
	... aluminium group lounge chair from same. Price: $30 total, but I have been on the lookout for a matching headrest and ottoman since then. Find #2: about 3 dozen Aalto K65 barstools from a restaurant remodeling. The owner must have thought I was mad that I wanted to take them all off of his hands. I'm still a bit sore I didn't take the damaged ones (footrests had been replaced in metal, water damage on the lower part of the legs, etc), and have imagined making my own 3-legged stools out of the "spare parts". Price: about $10 each Find(s) #3: Not so much class ...
	one thing....	1 Relevance	20 years ago	AC04	General discussion
	one thing.... One thing I should have mentioned is that while I didn't think the price was too bad, for the work involved and what is a complex piece to cover, it's alot more involved than you might imagine. When the material is removed, the foam usually comes with it as it is bonded. This means that they will replace all of the foam on the chair too, essentially just stripping it down to the fibre glass shell. I was told that two metres of material is needed, I'm not sure what this equates too in leather skins. The chair really does warrant being done prope ...
	The Herman Miller company...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	decoboy	General discussion
	The Herman Miller company... The Herman Miller company didn't get the name and history of the chair wrong- whatever firm does their adwork, PR, copy, or "online presence" did. These kind of mistakes happen more often than you would think... somebody's bored, underpaid assistant at the "word firm" gets in touch with somebody's bored, underpaid assistant at HM and it's like a game of "telephone"... everything gets screwed up. There are a plethora of possible reasons why the mistake wasn't caught by those higher-up in either company... the most probable is that ...
	There is a way to know	1 Relevance	20 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	There is a way to know Read "The Design of Herman Miller." Near the end of the book it discusses Herman Miller in the 1970's when Propst was a big factor and HM was gearing toward more contract work rather than residential. It made a brief statement about Charles Eames and George Nelson along the line of (paraphrased): "Occasionally we will hear from Charles and he will scold us about the direction of the company. George won't even call anymore." Starting in the 70s Herman Miller began to lose it's touch and it's original attitude toward design and designers ...
	Koen,	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... of the post modernists. Thinking of the philosophical underpinnings of movements since functionalism, one gets the chilling sense of a steadily decreasing seedbed of philosophy being passed down from movement to movement, generation to generation. Functionalism: didn't take itself seriously enough to leave much for the Modernists. Modernism: modernist basically truncated the philosophical legacy and tried to reinvent the wheel. It left little more than a dogma in its wake. Post Modernism: embellished a dogma with stylistic cues. Neo Modernism: abandoned ph ...