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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Stephen i did not know ... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| Stephen i did not know ... Stephen i did not know that you and Olive were friends you state you know we've always been mates and I think you are a really hot woman, with a great body who looks like a thinking man's Cameron Diaz. If thats the case no ones gonna have a chance to get any chairs cause they are all going to Austrailia C.O.D Side bar to Olive I think for selling purposes the best thing would be to sell the shells only seems that most folks do not want the H bases, the effiel towers are so popular and it seems all my customers request them . I have no idea where the Japanese are they were the biggest buyer of Eames shells but for some reason that market has dried up, I got 20 Lafonda shells from the University of Texas at Austin two years ago slated for the dumpster, so i know the feeling of a big score, the only thing i can say is good luck dealing with a 50 can be overwhelming, | |||||
| I like Riki's idea! | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | william-holden-... | General discussion | |
| I like Riki's idea! I can't really see the sofa and chairs in the annex area-- for what would become of the main room? As for a rug under the dining table, and messy toddlers-- it doesn't necessarily have to be something plush, you just need the visual 'island' that a rug would provide. (Does anyone have any ideas for an indestructible rug? Indoor/outdoor carpeting, made to measure? Is there such a thing as a colored rubber mat style rug-- seems I've seen this type of thing in photos of high-tech 1970's rooms.) With the sideboard in the main room, I could see a desk and wall-mounted bookshelves (along with a lounge chair) in the annex with the playpen. (What's the vertical white rectangle protruding from the wall, to the right of the sideboard?) | |||||
| What is the original finish? | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| What is the original finish? An oil finish is meant to be maintain and renewed. A film finish like lacquer is meant to be permanent. This sort of thing makes a difference apropos of your question. (If you are going to fix the joints, please knock the chair apart so that you can clean the old glue out first, then re-glue and clamp well. PVA glue does not stick to itself well at all, so they oft seen repair of squeezing new glue into the edge of a joint over the old glue does not help, and in fact makes it worse, because there is just that much more glue to clean up.) Regardless of finish, though, they are not brand new, and shouldn't look it. All of which does not mean they need to show every scar either. Opinions will differ, though. Auntie Mark always stands up for the scarred boxer in the room, which is a beautiful thing. | |||||
| SDR, with all due respect | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| SDR, with all due respect How I manage and protect my kid is a very personal thing. Do you have children? No offense meant, but if you did you would probably understand that questioning a parent in this manner is as inviting as religion or politics at a party. He is walking a straight line, but 2 year old little boys are all kinetic energy and have accidents all the time. The proof is his missing front tooth! As it stands he constantly looks as if I toss him about carelessly. If I am designing something from scratch, wouldn't it make sense to hold that into consideration? Why not? I mean he is the most important thing to me period, so he is my every thought. Including design. That being said, please offer your wisdom (as you have quite a bit). You're not usually one to derail a thread. Particularly one about actual design. DOn't you have anything constructive to offer (besides "constructive" criticism)? | |||||
| Tabby | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| Tabby Cat is white and tabby - but he doesnt really get up on the furniture much. Its been so hot lately that we keep finding him lounging in the bathtub - the porcelain keeps him cool. Area rug is light grey & dark grey. Nelson ball & eye clock are in the same room. Would it be crazy to have an orange Risom lounge? Or is orange too fleeting a color? One interesting thing I've seen at a local caning shop is a chair webbed in alternating black & red. Ugg.. I'm great at dishing out advice for other people but I absolutely collapse when it comes to my own spaces lol. Also - no word yet on whether leather was an upholstery option on the originals, or an afer-market thing. Anyone have old Knoll catalogs or know a good resource for Risom? | |||||
| IKEA, heres an example of a... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | HP | General discussion | |
| IKEA, heres an example of a... IKEA, heres an example of a company which ahs recently gone into bent ply for a lot of its furniture, we all know what Ikea stands for, we know what the style they tend to use is trying to communicate. The shells are mostly pressed in China, we don't know what the labour conditions are like and weré pretty unlikely to, can we trust Ikea to do the right thing here? Theyré so committed to low price that the quality is appaling, they probabaly dilute the glue with cornflour to bring costs down and what veneers are they using? Harvested in China no doubt to worlds best practice? So a consumer who is trying to do the right thing buys one of these products and I think is being told a very subtle lie. I'm not in the mood for any sort of defamation case from Ikea so if anyone can prove me wrong about their protocols please tell me, I may well be wrong. But this and the Artek example bring me to another point, decent licensing agreements (for manufacture) with proper quality control are good ways of reducing transport costs, If I bought say an Eames lcw, I would much rather buy one manufactured from Australian timbers using Australian labour, I think it would bring high design out of its ivory tower. Wether or not the Australian market is large enough to do this sort of thing...but probabaly the region could. | |||||
| Yes | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| Yes There is a mechanical connection between the desk top and the return/ credenza (you are right, they are basically the same thing). You can see it in the photos you posted. There is an L shaped piece that makes the desk top "float" off the return and there are 3 or 4 long bolts that connect the desk top to the return from underneath. So yes, you could buy a credenza, have a desk top fabricated, and attach the two to make your own EOG. You could have the modesty panel recreated as well I suppose. The harder thing would be to have a set of matching legs made for your desk top. Difficult, but not impossible. The EOG came with options such as the orientation of the return and the configuration of the return/ credenza. But if you find a credenza that is a configuration that would work for you, the desk top is probably the simplest part to make. | |||||
| May I start at the end.... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| May I start at the end.... ...and follow kdc's lead and coffee cup exemple... If I relate it to the coffee cup, my original question would be: Why is it that we can not build on aquired knowledge, in this case about drinking coffee. We happen to know quite a bit about drinking coffee. It requires a material that insulates heat properly. Serving hot coffee was the original thought behind using a coffee pot and serving rather small portions into a cup in which you would add sugar and cream according to taste...and pour small quantities in the saucer to cool it to drinkable temperature, and drink from the saucer. A number of things have changed since withh the result that the old cup and saucer has been replaced by more specialized vessels to hold lattes, espressos,capuchinos etc. The regular cup has more or less evolved to a mug. Of the mug we know that it should hold 300ml (a quantity that has been increasing over the years) we also know that dishwashers are build to hold 80 mm (3") diameter cups, so a "good" mug should have that diameter. We also know that the most comfortable and secure way of holding the mug is with two fingers and that the handle should be shaped in such a way that the fingers are not touching the hot surface...unless that surface is insulated in which case you do not need a handle. Ideally the handle should not be wider or bigger than that it fits into the square that you would trace around the circle...just in case you care about not wasting packaging. We also know that a small rim around the edge prevents most people from spilling coffee so that it runs down the outside surface of the mug. I could go on like this about restrictions in production etc. but I think that you get the point. My question was, why is it that in spite of this knowledge we prefer to ignore it in order not to be restricted in our so called creativity, and why is it that we willingly produce products that are substandard when it comes to applying that knowledge. If we now go back to DCWilson and his idea of rejection of authority, I think that most of us, in reading my "rules" understand or at least feel that he is on the right track. | |||||
| the eyesore problem | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | taptaptap | General discussion | |
| the eyesore problem Yes, absolutely these big-screens are ugly! All the manufacturers seem to offer the same cheesy glossy plastic black finish, which they try to tart up as "piano black" or some such. Hopefully they'll evolve .... We chose the Sony (first pic) partly because it was the least ugly when it was off, just being a black slab on the wall. In fact we made the Best Buy salesman turn off all the tvs on the wall so we could compare. He thought we were nuts, but seriously, the thing is off in our house a lot more than it's on. @ mdcounts --your setup looks great -- it took me a while to finally mount the thing on the wall, but it made a huge difference. Instead of just squatting there on the mount it now seems to float -- it lightens the "big black slab" effect a lot -- well worth the effort! | |||||
| Honey, you are missing our attempt at humor to make a point. | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Honey, you are missing our attempt at humor to make a point. The DA community is BOMBARDED with requests, sometimes even hostile demands, that we do your research for you. And we are tired of it. Just look at the recent threads and you'll see just how many are asking us to do this...and for free. Although many here are quite expert, for just as many this kind of thing is their livelihood. It's not respectful to come here and expect to get your questions answered for free. Time after time one of our members, Fastfwd, has shown how a well-crafted Google inquiry will bring precisely the answer required. The DA community comes here to discuss design not provide research and appraisal services. I'm not meaning to offend or insult you, you certainly are one of the more polite requestors of information, but the whole 'tell me what this' is thing has really gotten to be a major drag! Good Luck with your search. | |||||
| Alright, old what's-your-name...Pt.3 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Alright, old what's-your-name...Pt.3 At the center of this example of our vase is the issue of the dialogue between designer and user. Did the dialogue among ourselves constitute a dialogue with a user, model one, or fool us into thinking it did? Did we know any more about the consumer and what he wants after the design process than before it? In some ways I think we did learn more about the consumer, but then I am concerned that we only listened to the part of the consumer that allowed us to make some thing more complex, something more technological. Despite its wonderful aesthetics, we have a more complicated mouse trap. Have we trapped ourselves, or the consumer, or both? Or did vases need a bit more complexity and technology embedded into them to make them work better? This seems one very central question for design in an advanced. technological age. Does the thing being designed need more technology, or less? | |||||
| Interesting... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Interesting... Some of what you say is spot on. I'm no kid that's one thing off-base. I was a real punk rock chick back in college so my black clothing thing is a hold over from the late 70's. Just never grew out of it like I did the blue hair and safety pins. I can use my router as well as I can slick on the eye liner, so you're right a gurlie-gurl I am not. As for the TV, we have a nice den for that. A room with 50 feet of south facing windows is a bad place to put a TV. I hate talking on the phone. We do have over 500 CD's but they're in a cabinet, I don't like the visual clutter they produce. If you peeked though, you'd find the selection runs from Bach to Tuuvan throat music to ZZ Top and have a hard time figuring us out from the music. The rest of your observations are pretty much accurate. So describe you rabode and let me have a whack at deciphering it. | |||||
| I agree | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I agree Dear "b" I was not very clear in my comments. I know it is not a very convincing excuse, but I learned english rather late in live... and sometimes it is very late in the day or earlyin the morning that I get to DA. This being said. The practical thing for Philippe to do is to choose four objects, to list them on this forum, and I will take the time to explain how they are made...The funny thing is that we live in the same corner of north america (like myself he is probably more fluent in french and has to write his paper in french) this being said you would be amazed by how little is published on manufacturing technology that is accessible to designers and people interested in how things are made. This also refers back to your comment on finding people on this forum that are interested in books. | |||||
| By the way, re my "DEEP MCM" | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| By the way, re my "DEEP MCM" offering, I have to say that I really HATE the term "Mid-Century Modern", and I hate the "MCM" abbrieviation too. It sucks. But what else can we call it? "Post- War Modern"? No. "Post-War Modern" has the word WAR in it. And POST is pretty ugly word too, So even though it is better than MCM, it's not gonna fly. Besides, PWM is a really tweasily-looking abbrieviation. Maybe someday "Modern" alone will be enough. Once we get DEEP enough-- or far enough away from the time frame-- the term will need NO pre-qualifiers. That will be so cool. Re the topic: "The next big thing"... Industrial Furniture (as on the current nearby thread) is pretty cool, and might still be folded into the MCM (cough) thing? | |||||
| aaaaah (relieve) | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | bj | General discussion | |
| aaaaah (relieve) thanks for the response!! i bought the chair in a second-hand shop, a sort of salvation army thing ('kringloopwinkels' their called in dutch). it's weird: through the d.a.forum i get sometimes an appetite for certain products and design...(this isn't always a good thing..), like some months ago when there was a topic about desks. i got very fascinated with small, elegant desks (gio ponti, nelson,..) and then eventually, out of nowhere, stumbled upon one myself. the same happened with the chair: the last weeks i had a certain craving for wingback chairs (wegner, papa bear-chair, ox-chair...), i really liked it's form and sort of classical character. and bam, this week i see this one hiding between a tacky laminated kitchentable and a faux-teak armoire! i hope this theme carries on! | |||||
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