Search result for: di frutta
| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| A descendent of the Butterfly Chair | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| ... and drinks) and a horizontal surface for a notepad, (or dinner plate and remote.) It had a velcro pouch in front for pens and change and two mesh pockets for gum and cigs. It was a joy to vacuum under.(Fold it up and put it on the fireplace mantle.) the beverage holders doubled as tidy little wastebaskets. It encouraged and rewarded slouching. didn't matter if you spilled spaghetti on it. It was pure comfort, pure utility, and its folding frame complimented Calatrava's doctoral thesis on..folding frames. Comfort and stimulation for $30! I sat in it a ... | |||||
| For starters... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | NULL NULL | General discussion | |
| For starters... I'm an acquaintance of Eames, in fact I was at the Eames House last Feb to celebrate his birthday. I asked one of the caretakers if anyone else had already built another version of the house. She said "no" but didn't seem to adverse to the idea. If their whole take on design and architecture was "for the masses" then why not. They used everyday objects to build theirs, maybe not everyday in the housing sense. Example, the stairway came from a boat builder. The location seems very similar, except for sea grasses instead of lawn. I am a member ... | |||||
| While I have | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| ... at the walls and I wondered why -- "It's a lovely color," I said to the client -- "this lavender you put on the wall, but I remember I specified sand-finished plaster." He said, "We didn't touch it. We love everything you do. You see, we didn't touch it." And I looked around and I said, by gum, this wall is lavender. And it is actually the natural, sand-finshed white plaster. The little granules of sand that were on the surface of the plaster cast numerous, numerous minute shadows; and because the light was of that kind of yellow which projected, which g ... | |||||
| Actually, | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| ... bending poplar, etc, between them to keep the curve "fair" and provide the best gluing.) Brandon, I hope that chair repair you were faced with worked out OK -- I remember there was some disagreement about which sort of adhesive would work best. Hope I didn't give you bad advice. . .? | |||||
| Somewhere | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Somewhere along the way my dear departed father decided it would be useful to have a signal to use to indicate that your statement was in the form of a joke. He proposed holding the hand above the head, fingers pointed down and wiggled rapidly. Needless to say, it didn't "catch on." As Olive says (and I second her "take"on this entire matter) something written may be needed to compensate for our "blind" communication here. Any and all suggestions will be gratefully received; simply choosing (and editing) words carefully would be useful exercise. . .? | |||||
| VERY interesting topic we... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| ... to determine the end product: fiberglass, plywood, steel. Sometimes I feel in order to get away from a derrivitive midcentury look in new design we have to change materials drastically or change form drastically. Honestly, I don't like the thought of it in a way ... it would have to be cleverly done in a way that it didn't seem so trying. I don't know, it was just an amazing time of design ... a time where there was something new under the sun. Many newer designs are rather biomorphic, using foam and upholstery. I really don't like that. I still like a feel ... | |||||
| I think | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| I think Olive's color suggestions are exellent. She stated several useful variables and their benefits. The intentional use of differing wavelengths of light is new to me -- makes a lot of sense. I would contribute only the thought that, in a semi-monochromatic space, one might want to employ that in such a way that two different "colors" of light didn't wash the same surface, within sight of each other, unless one intended to multiply the resulting surface colors in the room? That is to say, one might want to use this "asymmetrically," as opposed to havi ... | |||||
| Caplan, cont. | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| ... The 1946 exhibit, which Eames designed, included a motion-picture dsplay showing the transfer of energy from the seat of the chair to the leg. Even then, his impulse was to communicate process. "Eppinger still remembers the excitement and despair of his visit to the MoMA show. 'As I'm leaving, Eames is still there monkeying with the exhibit. He doesn't know me. I don't know him. I look at the stuff. I'm sick. Nelson was right. . .this guy was five years ahead of us.' "Later that evening, he was less sick, having learned by accident that Evans was looki ... | |||||
| Caplan, cont. | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Caplan, cont. "Jimmy Eppinger remembers: " 'What Herman Miller had been making was carved, painted, marble-topped case goods -- ostentatious beyond belief, but all hand-crafted and difficult to make. . .The fact that the Rohde designs were unadorned fit DJ's notion of Christian sincerity. He must have hated all that other stuff. Of course he knew nothing about design to start with, but he was self-taught.' " 'I came to see that the starting point of our design had been immoral,' De Pree says now. It was immoral chiefly in its pretense, but that pretense hid ... | |||||
| Mark's b-sting | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Mark's b-sting post is in the Ho Ho Ho thread (Dec 31); it has not been deleted. It was a humorous response to my grateful comment that b had "taught me" to use a dot in the title line when I didn't wish to show a title. (With the same issues appearing in almost every thread, it's no wonder stuff gets misplaced.) This stuff is getting really old. . .everybody have some more eggnog and give it a break, ok? Like the last couple of US elections (in my opinion), this is no way to start a new year, or a new millenium. SDR | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Mark | General discussion | |
| . b, If my comment(which wasn't deleted,by the way...see "Oh my gawd, it's the holidays,etc") about the b sting upset you, you have my heartfelt apologies. I didn't realize that you were so sensetive. What is it about insecure people thinking that everyone is picking on them? Again, I'm so sorry. | |||||
| Az | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| ... Rohde at Herman Miller: "Rohde's first Herman Miller project replaced the ornate, high-priced seven-piece bedroom suite that was the company's staple. Arguing that modern homes had neither foot space nor need for such a suite, he designed a substitute consisting of four basic large pieces. "When DJ saw the first drawings he was unhappy. 'I couldn't imagine that a chest of drawers shouldn't stand on a turned post,' he says. But Rohde was not only eliminating the turned posts, he was reducing the amount of wood and using plastics. "DJ politely wrote to Rohde ... | |||||
| Caplan, con't | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Caplan, con't "In the summer of 1930, a man named Gilbert Rohde walked into the company's Grand Rapids showroom and introduced De Pree to the subject of modern furniture - 'A subject about which I understood little or nothing,' De Pree says. (The company did have experience in *moderne*, though, which they began making after De Pree had seen an exhibition of French furniture design.) . . . "Providential or not, Rohde's arrival had sprung from a routine motive; he had come to Grand Rapids to sell his designs and was not having an easy time of it. De Pree was ... | |||||
| Finally, | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Finally, there is the qustion to be answered: what exactly did George Nelson do for the company, and what did he design? Caplan says, "He. . .served as corporate tutor, stimulator of meetings, peripatetic teacher of design and marketing. Sometimes he was called to Zeeland for nothing more than a day or two of walking around the plant and talking to people, an activity the De Prees [J D's three sons were actively involved in the business] regard as significant, if not measurable, in its effect. "In 1947, Nelson published a major survey of the American furnit ... | |||||
| Yes b, fusebox's tone reads... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Mark | General discussion | |
| Yes b, fusebox's tone reads... Yes b, fusebox's tone reads a bit caustic. I didn't know that any of my posts were deleted. No big deal, though. | |||||
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