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	I was all for the simple...	1 Relevance	15 years ago	Spanky	General discussion
	I was all for the simple... I was all for the simple wooden cars and trucks for my kids but they preferred more realistic ones. I mean like Tonka and Matchbox, not Mattel junk. My daughters liked Barbies instead of the sweet, classic rag dolls and sock bunnies that I made for them. I think I was the same way. I wanted toys that looked as much like the real thing as possible. My grandson, 3, seems to like simple wooden vehicles, realistically detailed ones, and Mattel junk equally. Go figure. I think it's quite possible that it's some inborn thing having as much to do with personality type than anything else. Plan Toys makes some really great wooden toys, by the way. Their little cars have almost no friction in the axles and will whiz a great distance with just a little push. Melissa & Doug has (have?) a lot of nice toys, too. These little Plan Toys cars are three for $10. They're a little less than 2" in length.
	Koen de Winter...	1 Relevance	17 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	Koen de Winter... Every piece of his I have seen is a subtle tour de force of design, not about the auteur, but about the thing designed. His signature is that the product looks simultaneously like the latest rationally beautiful evolution of a product (no matter how big or small, complex or simple) and, simultaneously, as if it had always existed--as if it had always been waiting to be revealed. He can look into any product more deeply than thought possible, discern the legacy principles of its design, work through and improve upon them, and yield a product that looks, as I said, both new and as if it has always existed. It is a remarkable skill capable of being exercised only by a first rate mind with the antennae of an artist, the conscience of a humanist, the will of a master, and the heart of an angel. So many great creative artists work by literally destroying what has come before, or by the aesthetically violent means of dialectical destruction of the thing they work on. I am thinking here of someone like Picasso and his product design equivalent, Wegner. The old--the legacy--is brought into the blast furnace of their imaginations, like so much scrap steel being recycled, and transmuted into new forms that leave nothing in their wakes. These artists can be incomparably great (certainly Picasso and Wegner were), but there is no mistaking that a fundamental part of their technique is destroying what came before to break through to the magnificience of some new thing. There is a certain majesty and intoxification that goes with witnessing and admiring the products of their destructive brilliance. But there is also the obliteration and disconnection from the legacy that comes with what they do.
	Herman miller made the she...	1 Relevance	19 years ago	LRF	General discussion
	Herman miller made the she... Herman miller made the shell chairs in three factories and a lot of chairs made in 1973 to 1980 are not embossed with the Herman miller name. alot of them have some form of sticker, and all have a code number on them, why they got away from the embossing is any ones guess, I bought 10 from a University in Alabama that had nothing on the bottom only the code number and rubber shock mounts that they supposedly got away from in the the early 70s, in favor of the screw mounts, I tell you anything that anyone tells me about this company i believe i find not one thing, the same, I can honestly say i have seen almost every shell chair, just last November i had two in the shop that were smaller by 1 inch on each side, the only thing we could figure out that they were designed for tandem seating for a pole that was at the airport or bus station, So to answer your question some are embossed some are not,
	lovely looking little machine...	1 Relevance	18 years ago	HPau	General discussion
	lovely looking little machine... lovely looking little machine, they just keep getting better but my old beast still edits audio, video and 3d models quite well, so not ready for that yet. One thing I did like was the marketing language "the unibody is carved from a single piece of aluminium" Carved? Carved? I suppose 'pressed' or 'stamped' makes it sound cheap. As a quick aside I did something a while ago that I'm really happy about, my computer was working super well, (its got excellent software on it...bit torrent er hmmmm...and it started making a sound that wasn't pleasing to the ear, turns out it was just dust in the fan. Anyway I got the whole hard disk cloned using 'acronis universal restore' it cost $45.00 to get done and c drive is now sitting in a locked box, so if this mschine ever fails or I get a new one that I don't want to have to go through the complete pain of reinstalling EVERYTHING, I just physically put the new disc in, and boot up yay! Its like having a free computer considering how much you can pick up a cpu for now. Sorry rambled a bit there, but it is a very handy thing to get done.
	I have seen these often	1 Relevance	8 years ago	waffle	Identification
	I have seen these often enough that I was forced to research it is a back roller. A messaging thing......
	What? I thought that when 25	1 Relevance	8 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	Identification
	What? I thought that when 25 dealers all say the same thing online that means it is true....
	Please use the aptly titled	1 Relevance	9 years ago	Herringbone	General discussion
	Why don't you use the aptly titled thread "the last thing you acquired" to let us know things like this?
	I don't think it's at all	1 Relevance	9 years ago	objectworship	Identification
	I don't think it's cynical to be aware that the thing you're chewing on tastes bad. You know your apples.
	looks familiar	1 Relevance	18 years ago	whitespike	General discussion
	What is this thing? http://austin.craigslist.org/fuo/1060945312.html
	Knowing me it was probably in	1 Relevance	10 years ago	leif ericson - Zephyr Renner	General discussion
	Knowing me it was probably in the context of Scandinavian furniture that I've seen this thing somewhere. I just can't figure out where, yet.
	Sweet bejebus waffle, that	1 Relevance	10 years ago	Reamie	General discussion
	Sweet bejebus waffle, that redwood is a thing of beauty!
	Thanks for your opinion Leif!	1 Relevance	10 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	Thanks for your opinion Leif! I kinda think the same thing...still a cool little piece.
	I'm green.	1 Relevance	10 years ago	MLF	General discussion
	I'm green. What is disassembly and reassembly like on ESU? Seems like the sort of thing you wouldn't want to do more than once.
	yes	1 Relevance	12 years ago	Eameshead	General discussion
	yes appropriation is a whole different thing than a repro. Good luck in your endeavor.
	Possible Designer	1 Relevance	12 years ago	DanishTiev	General discussion
	Possible Designer Willy Van Der Meeren is the closest thing I can find...