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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| All you have to do most of | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| All you have to do most of the time is to compare the chair in question to photos of the real thing online. There are a number of authorized dealers and all have photos taken from several angles, making it pretty easy to check various characteristics against the real thing. In your case, it took me all of 15 seconds to find a photo taken at almost exactly the same angle as yours. The base is the most obvious difference but the gap between the back sections is very different too. There are other things too but those two are all you need to know in this case. If you really want to learn about the real chair, there's an excellent book which you can get on Amazon---The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design by Martin Eidelberg and Thomas Hine. | |||||
| cont. | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| cont. The functions you are pointing out, and rightly so are the Post Modern functions. It has always been my impression that there was no fundamental contradiction and that the Post-Modern mouvement could very well have developed inside and as a continuation of modern functionalsm. We could and would have discouvered that there is more to a buyilding and a product than objective criteria. The unfortunate thing is that functionalism did not take itself seriously enough. The pretended to be "functional" but that would have been the basis of a better understanding of function, both objective and subjective was seldomly done. The nasty thing about this oversight was that the next generation could not build on a body of knowledge and by lack of it....it build on a body of....style. | |||||
| "Teak I am using a chunky... | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| "Teak I am using a chunky... "Teak I am using a chunky rectangular solid teak table with walnut DCMs, but I think ash would work just as well. " I do really want wood, but I don't seem to think a blonde table would look good with the blonde chairs for some reason ... too much of one thing? Walnut is too contrasting to me, and looks weird. I was wondering if a medium teak would work ... a little darker than the ash, but not too contrasting. Other than that, white laminate is the only other thing i can think of. I like the Eames table fine, but I want this to be warmer, more elegant, more formal.... | |||||
| Haha, you don't have to be... | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Joshua F (USA) | General discussion | |
| Haha, you don't have to be... Haha, you don't have to be diplomatic. I know how absurd and tacky it sounded. We have two cats, and one is a Siamese who has claws and loves to ruin rugs, and to be honest I have been hesitant to get fabric covered shells for this reason. We also have 15 foot windows in our loft, and try as we might, light does get in. I know it is a grandmother thing to do, but I did not mean as an all the time thing, just while I am away during the day ( an no one is there to see them) , as I cannot watch the cats or control the sun. I am possibly willing to forego my pride ( I am a shoe designer by trade, so I promise the idea even mad me shudder at first with visions of my Italian grandmother covering couches with plastic ) to ensure my Girards stay cat claw free. As much as I love our cat Yohji .... I mean look at him, you know he is up to something. | |||||
| Restaurant Supply wins again! | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Restaurant Supply wins again! I have a bunch of these tongs. Both the long and the short versions....that one above is a shortie. These things are SO useful. For the grill, for sauteeing, for getting pickles out of jars, you name it. Heck, I even use the long ones to get stuf down from the high shelf! But, I have always prefered two separate tools for tossing salad. I don't find them inefficient at all. The tongs have a tendency to crush delicate greenery. Right now I'm using a pair of long bamboo finger type of thing and they're only OK at the task. I've been searching for the right thing to replace them with. I've been liking these from Blomus and below is a link to another pair I quite like. http://www.allmodern.com/ZACK-20811-zac1494.html | |||||
| The Walter Dorwin TEAGUE quotes | 1 Relevance | 23 years ago | jan m. | General discussion | |
| The Walter Dorwin TEAGUE quotes Here come the promised Teague quotes: I am trying to persuade you through these quotes, Koen that design has not always been considered as redesign. (Beside Teague, my other witnesses could be people I know we both highly appreciate, such as Eva Ziesel, or David Pye, whose writings can in many ways be read as direct or indirect polemical arguments against the functionalist, ie. redesign-hostile, theory of design they were aware was powerfull in their day.) I admit though that, in contrast to Teague, the writing of many other industrial designers from the 1930s, and 40s and 50s, such as Henry Dreyfuss or Harold van Doren, represents a much more redesign-friendly view, i.e. much more in agreement with your thesis) The Teague quotes: " ... the ultimate form of any object - natural or man-made - is inherent in the object itself: it must be evolved naturally to suit the function which the object is intended to perform, the materials out of which it is made and the methods used in its making." (Teague, Design This Day, 1940, p.40) "The function of a thing is its reason for existence, its justification and its end, by which all its possible variations may be tested and accepted or rejected. It is a sort of life-urge thrusting through a thing and determining its development. It is only by realizing its destiny, and revealing that destiny with candor and exactness, that a thing acquires significance and validity of form. This means much more than utility, or even efficiency: it means a kind of perfected order we find in natural organisms, bound together in such rhythms that no part can be changed without wounding the whole." (Teague, Design This Day, 1940, p.53. "There is no longer any justification for looking beyond our horizons, or back into history, to dicover a form for the thing we are making: we feel a compulsion to look within the thing itself for the form it should have, and we are the midwives of what we find there." (Teague, Design This Day, 1940, p.216) | |||||
| Huh, who'da thunk it? | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Huh, who'da thunk it? I have two reactions to reading his quotes. First, thet indeed his consciousness seems to be reaised, which is a good thing. I was never really a starck fan. I found his stuff too frivoulous...and I guess he now thinks that too. But my second thought is that he shouldn't be ashamed of his work. Yes, much of it was design for the sake of design, which is landfill fodder in the making. Rather than design to meet a need or solve a problem...where beauty of form arrises from the elegance of the solution. But, something Starck did do which, I'd argue was valuable even if it was unintended, was to create design awareness. His 'star power' brought the idea of design to the masses. This IS a good thing. The more we are conscious of what we design and consume the better. | |||||
| edit the toys | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| edit the toys One thing I did with my three kids when they were little was to edit the toys. They had an awful lot of toys but didn't play with all of them all of the time, so we would pack away the ones that were out of favor. Then every month (or two or three or whatever) we would rotate some into and out of storage. For them, it was almost like getting new toys. Also, whatever you get to store the ones that they do have out, make it a main area storage solution, not something geared to kids. They don't care what it looks like as long as it's easy to use. I'm not that great at rearranging furniture via photos, but I will just suggest that you hang the family photos on the wall instead of having them on top of furniture, especially on that nice teak sideboard/hutch thing. (Which you were probably gonna do anyway, but just thought I'd mention it.) | |||||
| For a while | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| For a while When I first got started I was really freaking out about every little thing - from stacking shell chairs, to MCM appearing in TV commercials. After about 6 months of that my friends banned me from saying the word "eames" or talking about chairs. Now it's mellowed out into an underlying thread that most of my friends and family assume. When I got my Nelson clock i made no big deal about it, but my family was like "ooooh..nice clock, whats the story about it?" The funny thing is that people assume everything I own is 'high design'. Someone recently asked me what the design story was for my curtains. I told them "IKEA" and everyone got a chuckle. | |||||
| LRF, -if I'm not mistaken HM... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | alexandersforum | General discussion | |
| LRF, -if I'm not mistaken HM... LRF, -if I'm not mistaken HM kept the black mounts on the fiberglass chairs all the way until the end of production in the early eighties? I think it was only the upholstered ones that didn't use them after mid 60's? Anyway, I wouldn't change an original design as long as replacement parts are available. You are right the Zenith's are the ones really worth preserving, but I have a really nice HM armshell covered in a Girard Harlequin textile. It is not Zenith, but I wouldn't change a thing on it... I also have a rocker in the color 'Light Greige' from the early 60's, also wouldn't change a thing on that... If it is a nice chair, keep it original if you can... | |||||
| Here ya go | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | James Collins | General discussion | |
| Here ya go Just did my bath this past spring 2007. I like the Kohler hatbox toilet and the Duravit Starck bath fixtures. Here's a before and after. I especially like the Starck pedestal sink because it has ample space for setting junk next to the sink and it's the easiest to clean of any bath sink I've ever seen. The whole thing is one continuous surface of porcelain. Plus a couple towel bars that you can't see in the photo. One thing that helps it feel modern is tile right to the ceiling on all the wall but two very different kinds of tile to avoid looking too institutional (white porcelean 3/4 subway tile and green 1" glass tile). Maybe not, anyway I like it. | |||||
| It was not so uncommon to | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| It was not so uncommon to offer credenzas with an array of options, so it can be tricky figuring out which details are the universal ones, and which details were frequently changed. For instance there might have been a variety of legs options (or plinth and floating mount), wood veneer options, contrasting top options, internal storage options, length options, etc. Sometimes the best thing to look for is a little inconsequential detail, like a hinge or how a drawer is made, that the manufacturer is likely to have used everywhere, and then try to progressively narrow the field of possibilities. You are cursed not to have handles on that piece, because they are the one thing that the customer can be relied on to actually touch frequently, they often got a lot of attention from the designer such that they are signature details. | |||||
| Simplify | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| Simplify I would get rid of the bulb altogether. It is a forced irony to read a bulb, as reading a bulb is not a logically sound reversal. More importantly, you bury two very good things about the book by making the book/ bulb dialogue. Without the bulb, the book itself ironically references illuminated manuscripts in a more logical way than the bulb thing, and there is also concept of the mental illumination of reading. By comparison to those 2 features of the book alone, the bulb thing feels very forced. I do love the illuminated book btw. It would certainly be a stronger and clearer piece on it's own. | |||||
| Googled modern quilts, there... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | HPau | General discussion | |
| Googled modern quilts, there... Googled modern quilts, there are some striking things out there. I use a wool duvet (pockets of wool instead of down) and its pretty good, never understood why people pay for these expensive covers when you can buy any type of fabric you like and get a cover and pillow cases made for next to nothing, a good plain one will last a long time, its a want rather than a need thing isn't it? Its such a popular hobby there must be clubs and shows where you could get a one off or maybe try your hand at making your own. Olive, thats the type of thing above I was thinking about with topographic contour lines or perpspective drawings etc for your own work, mmmmmm wall hangings. | |||||
| riki | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| riki Sorry. I've overstepped my bounds. LRF not true at all !! you are free to say anything, any time about Chinese crap. as you are 100 percent correct , dealers have been buying containers full of the stuff for the last 5 years. The interesting thing is it still keeps coming in and will be popular as long as it is reasonably made decent and the price is still right, with the low price of the dollar, I seriously doubt that the Chinese, who purposely priced the original furniture low so we would take the bate, can keep making the same stuff with out going cheaper in their materials, with out a wopping increase, and then the interest will wain, One thing about it knockoff or no knockoff the MCM is a popular look, cause it is classic look, and has already survived for 50 plus years. | |||||
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