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	I think the hand stitching...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	I think the hand stitching... I think the hand stitching that Knoll (+ FH for PK) use really must contribute at least a little to the price difference. I'm sure most readers have seen this site but it does have a very short photo essay on the manufacturing and good detail about grades of steel etc. Grinding down welds and polishing is an extra-ordinarily dirty and tedious job, also when you roll flat bar into curves the ends allways remain flat (up to about 9") which you can see being cut off in one of the pictures. I think these manufacturers must be milli ...
	Classic SNAD	1 Relevance	18 years ago	rockland	General discussion
	Classic SNAD Hang on to the e-mails from the seller. And don't be angry. (or just a little bit for not asking here before you bid:) Who knows. The seller may have been fooled as well and is passing it on and hopping the buyer doesn't notice the difference. Or just an antique collector confused by the whole MCM gold rush. Alvar Aalto's design is difficult to describe to a non-woodworker. "The leg, which he dubed the "bent-knee",...He solved the problem not by bending a solid piece of wood at a ninety-degree angle but by forming a sandwich of thin laminates th ...
	Dyrlund own design	1 Relevance	19 years ago	Danish-homestore.com	General discussion
	... a bit odd. The tables colour is also important in the lighter top and darker leaves. If you recolour the top to match the leaves it is painfully obvious and something i personally love not to do. There should be a difference to show the age of the table. but thats my oppinion. Simon
	Can you get	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	Can you get Can you get a shot of the shockmounts? I dont know if that will tell me anything, but it may help. As I just explained in another thread - there were often times in production, especially early on, when no marks were present and they relied on the paper labels. Your chair is definitely a European production - there is a slight difference in the way the back rises from the arms. It might have been an outsource manufacturer logo.
	How much would a pair of "authentic" marked Aalto stools go for?	1 Relevance	18 years ago	dashes	General discussion
	... so it was the bidders who brought the price up. Why is that the fault of the seller? I read the ad but did not see them claiming them to be "vintage" or "authentic" or "original" or marked or even who the manufacturer is. All that was said is that the stools were designed by Aalto - and is that true or not? If you cannot tell the difference except for a label, then I'm guessing they are certainly of the Aalto design. Maybe the seller does not know the fine details of which manufacturers produced "authentic" Aalto stools, or what the label might look like. ...
	pt 3	1 Relevance	18 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... that he imposed. And there also can be no doubt that I. M. Pei was in fact practicing some post modernistic mythologizing himself when he imbedded the glass pyramids that thrust up in the midst of the old Louvre. But again there is this fundamental difference. The glass pyramid, whatever its mythological references may be, IS essentially a geometric form found in nature, where as the old Louvre's architecture is geometric form language wrapped up and subordinated to an ornamentation rooted fundamentally in the human imagination. I see a crucial distinction ...
	four Plycrafts here	1 Relevance	18 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... tilt, so I've decided to stick with my Plycraft and put my money into things that matter more. They do look really good when redone in a good quality cowhide. Makes a huge difference. I also upgraded the armrests on the one that I kept. Usually the leather is just wrapped around to the underside and stapled but I redid them with boxed welted covers like on the Eames chairs. It just gives them more of a quality look. The wrapped leather looks cheap to me.
	Jeez!	1 Relevance	18 years ago	Riki	General discussion
	... are the hippest of the hip. Do you need to rub our noses in it? Seriously, traditionalists can be hoity-toity in their own way. I don't think "modernists" have cornered the market on snootiness. We can go on and on ad infinitum about the intricacy of the toenail carving on a ball-and-claw foot, or the thread count in a Persian rug (and if calling good old Iran "Persia" in this day and age isn't pretentious, I don't know what is!), or the beauty of irregular dovetails or the inlay of bone in Scottish chest knobs or the rarity of yadda, yadda, yadda. It c ...
	Burke vs. real	1 Relevance	19 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Burke vs. real I have an aluminum Burke base that I like a lot. I couldn't tell the difference between its shape and that of a Saarinen until I saw the two side by side. The Saarinen is more graceful, and I was told that it doesn't tip as easily as the Burke. I don't care---I like my Burke. The top has a nice edge, too. I hate the square-edged ones. I do have a real Saarinen in the small end-table size.
	Starting an item at a low price	1 Relevance	19 years ago	william-holden-...	General discussion
	Starting an item at a low price is a calculated risk-- will enough bidders see it? Does the item have enough of the "right" keywords to find an audience? I learned my lesson when I sold something that I expected to get $250-300 for. I started the bidding at $99. It sold for $107. (I had very good photos, and a good description, by the way) The buyer sold it on Ebay months later, and the final price was around $300. The difference between the two auctions? He starts EVERYTHING he sells for $4.99. Low starting prices suck buyers in.
	Cherner and Goldman	1 Relevance	19 years ago	kixrix	General discussion
	... and now they comfortably sit around my Florence Knoll oval dining table. Just a note--when you compare the legs of the vintage ones vs the Cherner Chair Company's newer reissue, there is a difference. The older chairs' legs are more tapered at the base. The newer ones feel just a tad clunky in comparison to the classic. The design of the 15 ply neck is quite brilliant and the chair is very comfortable.
	Also - you're right in...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	finch	General discussion
	... market. Its disappointing because it undercuts the legitimacy of their own designs... I really don't see how it does. I think I've pointed this out before, but here goes again: if there is even a singular example of an American Based company, employing US craftsmen, who can make the same product with the same materials, to spec, as a licensed supplier, for a faction of the cost, then it is enough to make any sensible, skeptical hi-end furniture buyer (not collector) ask himself where the difference is made up. And indeed, Modernica is only one of the anomal ...
	First off	1 Relevance	18 years ago	LuciferSum	General discussion
	... and a bright canary yellow that is also absent. I'm sure many colors were added, and probably many were removed. It has always been my understanding that there is a great difference between what is considered "rare" and what is not. According to Roan John Barrion of Modern Love.com (who once quested to have a shell chair in every color): Rare indicates a scarcity of quantity - usually reserved for 'contract' colors. Contract colors needed to be special ordered, whereas a standard color could be bought in any amount from a dealer. Rarity should not be con ...
	Doubts..	1 Relevance	18 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... I do not include everybody, for collecting or for getting particularly attached to a past period in design, or for participating in some kind of design process, was an addiction. What if a deeply rooted sense of insecurity made us compulsive lovers of Nelson?s clocks, Eames? shells in real and faded colors or makes us look for our Mahogany Association Number. It is not, as some might suspect, a sense of aesthetics. Most requests for identification of an often badly photographed piece of furniture are for run of the mill, designed ?me to? products that survi ...
	yao.	1 Relevance	19 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	yao. it all comes down to sniping anyway... 7 vs 10 days probably doesn't make much difference.