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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Gino Sarfatti Lamp?? | 1 Relevance | 14 years ago | cooljjay | General discussion | |
| Anyone know if this is an authentic Gino Sarfatti lamp? I picked it up at a thrift store, as you can see its in need of a restoration. I notice similarities between my lamp and lamps from Sarfatti but the shades are mounted differently. | |||||
| Enough, already | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Riki | General discussion | |
| Enough, already Good Gosh. This debate has gone on long enough and crossed over into the surreal. These poor souls on 1stdibs are dealers, for goodness sakes. There is ALWAYS a pricing differentiation on furniture, folks. There is a price for whole container buyers, stocking dealers, regular dealers, interior decorators and the general public. The retailers who post a price on 1stdibs are posting the retail price. That price goes down if you are a retailer yourself or a decorator. Retailers and decorators never, repeat never, pay retail from another re ... | |||||
| Help Authenticating an older Womb Chair | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| ... an Egg chair in my bedroom 🙂 I have not seen this particular chair in person but do plan to drive out and inspect it before paying.The price is good/fair (especially compared to brand new) but not low enough to be "to good to be true." I have done all the reading I can in past threads on Womb chair identification on this forum and still have a few questions. The cushion clips/fasteners look different than the others I have seen posted here. Now that is only a few pictures so it could be that they were made differently over the years and it is still "re ... | |||||
| Coffee table? Bench? Mahogany Assoc. | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | johnblue | Identification | |
| I bought this piece of furniture for restoration, its pretty beat up, but I love everything about it. I'm trying to determine what route to take in the restoration, and determine if of any importance historically, if its not I'll re-do it a bit differently. I couldn't find anything similar with "rounded slats" which make it a strange design for a coffee table, but comfortable as a bench 🙂 Inside the drawer is a partially scratched off Blue mahogany assoc. Label, the number isn't visible, so no luck there. Thanks in advance... | |||||
| ARM-R-SEAL is a wiping | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Zephyr | Repair | |
| ... resin, thinner, and often drying agents. These will cure far faster than straight tung oil, linseed oil, or boiled linseed oil. Also, since they typically have a little resin in them, they will build a film ... eventually. If you have low humidity and higher temperatures (75F or higher), oil will cure pretty quickly. you could do one coat per day for 3-5 days, then 2-3 coats per week for a week, then let it sit for a week or two, it will be a very thin film, that is reasonably protective. The Watco teak oil seems to have the highest resin content of th ... | |||||
| Thonet ?? | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | maxbernat | General discussion | |
| I'll pose this question differently... I recently came upon a bentwood vanity with a sticker underneath reading Thonet Sambo. Can't find anything about it in my research...at all. Anyone help? I've attached a link to photos of the sticker and the vanity... Any reason to believe that it really is Thonet? Can't find the design in any of the online sources. Thanks http://www.llum.com/files/thonet/index.html | |||||
| These are most certainly | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | sirlampsalot | General discussion | |
| These are most certainly authentic. I've seen a few knockoffs of these over the years but the back is always shaped very differently and they are made with a cheaper material. These however have the correct embossed label on the bottom. Selene chairs are not particularly rare in some areas (maybe the reason of the low pricing) but they are nice looking sturdy chairs that are great for dining or extra seating. Don't expect someone to spend more than 30 minutes sitting in one though. | |||||
| Was looking through my Esempi | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | jesgord | General discussion | |
| Was looking through my Esempi Tavoli book from 1950 (trying to find Leif's rosewood table) and came across these images. These chairs look similar to those in question and also use tacks to attach the webbing (but differently). The table is attributed to Neil Morris for Glasgow....but nothing about the chairs. Could be worth some additional research? | |||||
| the legs are beech i believe, | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | pingpong | Repair | |
| the legs are beech i believe, definitely not walnut or any darker wood. I have only sanded one side of one rail, which I stained with minwax dark walnut oil stain. as you can see (on the right) it's quite different in color and you can still see the grain and lines of the beech unlike the original. This is after one coat. I'm pretty open to trying different things, either restarting and trying a gel stain or continuing with more coats of the oil stain then lacquer. Tinted lacquer..do you mean adding a dye to lacquer, or are there premade products you recomm ... | |||||
| Definitely stained beech. | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | Zephyr | Repair | |
| Definitely stained beech. When beech is stained, as Cd was talking about, the grain takes the stain differently. Some areas will soak the stain into the grain pretty deeply (especially the end-grain). To remove this stain, one must sand quite deep. I think it is this heavy sanding that worries most refinishers, as you need to be very conscious of what you are doing to maintain the original sculpting of the piece, and not compromise the design or structural integrity. In my first stained beech refinishing attempts (a pair of Wegner-esque Yugo folding rop ... | |||||
| I am not the Dunbar expert | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | General discussion | |
| ... match you would have something. Have you tried looking for the black legs and apron? Also, easily overlooked things like the hardware, those door catches in this case, can often be illuminating. If you can find the same door catches on other pieces by a company, it can suggest you are on the right track. If you can't find them on any Dunbar piece, it miht suggest differently. | |||||
| Well, if you run into any | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Well, if you run into any trouble, post here. I ended up doing the backs a little differently than how they were originally done because there were aspects that were very hard to do outside of a factory set-up. The end result looks the same, I just took a slightly different route to get there. | |||||
| also, I am currently | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | LCA | General discussion | |
| also, I am currently reupholstering cushions for both the Jalk lounger as well as the Vodder non leather lounger with foot stool. If anyone has any information that would show that the sprung cushions for one were handled (wrapped, foamed, felted, slip covered) differently than the other I would appreciate any comments you can add. again sincere thanks | |||||
| To me, the wire chairs look | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Eameshead | General discussion | |
| To me, the wire chairs look very different from the vintage Eames wire chairs. Mostly on the underside. It's possible that the newer editions (or Vitra) might make them differently, as everything else that Herman Miller is re-making is also different from the originals. But my guess is they are not Eames chairs. I can say that the table that the chairs are sitting around is a knock-off Saarinen table, so perhaps so are the wire chairs… Hope this helps! | |||||
| I did two of these a while | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | jesgord | General discussion | |
| I did two of these a while back (with upholstered seats) and used the thread below as a guide. http://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/Replacing-Rattan-Bi... The seats look to be done the same way as the backs in the advertising picture. Yours look like they were done differently and it looks significantly more work intensive....like weaving danish papercord with rattan. I can't even imagine trying that. I posted some pics of the chairs I did before/during/after. It was a lot of work and cane is a pain in the ass to work with...but its totall ... | |||||
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