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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| You're probably right, but | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| You're probably right, but since if I bought anything from R&B or DWR, I'd have to pay for shipping plus sales tax. If I buy something from the other offical Herman Miller or Knoll distributors on the web, delivery is free and no sales tax. I'm considering the 2-seater Eames Sofa and at $7000.00, delivery and sales tax would be a nice chunk of change. My primary frustration is going to either of their website and not finding all the items available for order. Also, I may be wrong, but when Herman Miller has their annual sale, I believe I sent to R&B's websi ... | |||||
| Good reply, finch | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | barrympls | General discussion | |
| Good reply, finch Isn't nice to have differences without it getting nasty? Refreshing, to be sure. Regarding the old thread about the ESU, unlike some people, I'm living in 2008 with 50, 60 and 70 year old furniture....furniture that is beautiful and still amazing modern and forward looking, but I'm still living in 2008. If I wanted to get an ESU cabinet for my LCD TV, you bet I'd make some alterations, so long as it wasn't a mint original. At one time, I was looking for a nice MCM desk that I could adapt for my computer - with the essential pull-out drawe ... | |||||
| kaujiter | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| ... States. The woman at Vitra probably wouldnt be able to tell you anything about the knock-offs because a) there are so many out there, and b)she's not a representative of their companies. There are many differences in the authentic chairs vs the knockoffs. First is quality. Herman Miller and Vitra chairs are made using very high quality machinery, and very high quality materials. -The Santos Palisander wood is a form of rosewood. It is sustainably harvested - meaning that it is grown in controlled forests, and new trees are planted in wake of cutting down ... | |||||
| part one | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | finch | General discussion | |
| ... My problem isn't buyer confusion, it's buyer negligence. People who don't care. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that most people who get into a certain style of furniture are not people who stumble onto it in a storefront, and buy it in a whim. They're bookish about this sort of thing. They're into it to some degree. They know what they're doing, so I don't cry too many tears for them. ((b) Cost. When knock-offs are introduced they skim off a percentage of sales of authentic pieces. This means the licenced dealers are losing sales, which mean ... | |||||
| Hej Arnar | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Hej Arnar Especially when there is a substantial time laps between the first production and the re-editing or in this case European production there might be differences. One reason is new technology. For instance the Polypropylene version of the Verner Panton chair is clearly computer modeled, it might have been done from a physical or an optical scan, but it certainly shows traces of computer modeling whereas the first moulds were copied from a model on a Deckel copier. I used to work for a company that produced Knoll furniture in license and there to, eve ... | |||||
| I definetly think there are... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | alexandersforum | General discussion | |
| I definetly think there are... I definetly think there are some differences between the Vitra production and the HM. The Vitra shells look generally smaller I think, but I'm not sure of exactly in what way, since I only have the HM version myself. | |||||
| While looking at... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| While looking at... Tilanus' link to the IKEA website in the Netherlands I I was surprised by the differences between what is available in Holland and what is available here. I used to see the British catalogue and noticed some differences with the Canadian one but never to this extend...so even large international retailer that promotes it's own (swedish) culture has to take local cultural differences into account in order to be succesful....so much for an international style... | |||||
| Swish it around | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | Sound & Design | General discussion | |
| Swish it around The Internet has been a immensely powerful resource. Now anyone, anywhere can scour the world for just about anything. With that comes the discovery of major price differences. Once discovered, everyone thinks that's the true value, then dealers/auctioneers think they can pump it even more. It becomes a cycle of absurdity. A growing problem...to me at least. Largely because many mid century furnishings were mass produced...hardly handcrafted "rare" like Paul Evans or Phillip Lloyd Powell to name two. Sure demand is high, but a patient/resourc ... | |||||
| 670 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | glassartist | General discussion | |
| 670 i recently saw an ICF 670 for sale and eventually bought it. in deciding what it was i did a little research and found; this chair has a very different base (like a five star task base) and an extra pair of mounts on the backrest. i assumed it was a knockoff until i referenced it in two design books (both european, one from about 1960, the other from the 70's both citing eames/miller). i later found two examples of the same chair. one had a hille/ herman miller label and the other had an ICF/herman miller label. mine is just labeled ICF. apparently vitra ... | |||||
| whitespike [and... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | kdc (USA) | General discussion | |
| whitespike [and... whitespike [and olive]:: among other things, i think panton's stuff is insightful, creative and highly energetic. i also think it's not the answer to every residential interior. far from it. as we know, interior designers use everything at their disposal to communicate a message, convey a mood and create opportunities for the varied purposes of their work. i'm in agreement with you that i want my home--for the most part--to be a place of peace, relaxation and tranquility...a sanctuary from the noise of commerce and pressures of life. howev ... | |||||
| Thoughts Pt 2 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| Thoughts Pt 2 This is actually a very complicated and diverse set of forms to orchestrate in comparison to what Nelson had to grapple with. And alot of them are concentrated in the table top and joints at the table top and this creates visual top heavyness to a form that ought to look rather light and "space-y" given the intermittency of its elements. This top heavyness is probably exaggerated by you not using the visual tricks often used by Danish Modern designers on the cross members between legs of tables. They would create cross members to strengthen the ... | |||||
| I was preparing... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| I was preparing... ...an answer, expressing more or less the same opinion. I suspect that Alexa James refered to the kind of general "me too" attitude of a lot of Ikea products. They often design "...in the spirit of..." Sometimes comming very close like the "Urban" chair (900.872.49), sometimes the differences are minimal. The "Knappa" fixture (600.713.44) for instance is quite an accurate copy of Hoyrup's "Cactus" fixture....anyway Spanky said it better.... | |||||
| Dear Wazi | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear Wazi Now that a picture of the real thing is available may I point out the differences with your table? - the top of the element that touches the glass is straight, yours does not seem to be straight at least on the picture. The inside of the two end shapes is ever so slightly convex and yours are ever so slightly concave. These are the details that made me conclude that yours is not a real Naguchi....not to mention the black stain, but that could be....wear | |||||
| From a purely subjective pers... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| ... and besides which the softness of the seat is a purely subjective matter. I prefer stainless steel over chrome and so would personally tend towards the Alphaville over the Steelform, but even I must admit that I'm not sure if I could identify one over the other if asked to do so. And so I'm afraid it must come down to a question of authenticity and of course price. This is where we can really dig our teath into objective differences. Knoll's glorious chair is the only licensed Barcelona Chair on the market; the only chair to bare an imprint of the Mies sign ... | |||||
| HP and glassartist....Pt 1 | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| ... It is all very insightful and IMHO useful, especially Kandinsky on applied aesthetics, Michaelangelo on art and its politics, and Aristotle's Ars Poetica on poetry and art's purposes and possibilities. For what can happen to art/philosophy and what can become of it, it is also good to contemplate the cascade from Socrates (Q&A for the ordering of knowledge), to Plato (institutionalizing knowledge into a more or less fascist bureacracy and academy), to Aristotle (ur-renaissance thinker), to Alexander the Great (ur renaissance man of action and nightmarish po ... | |||||
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