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	Basically...	1 Relevance	20 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... onto the wooden part that serves as a re-enforcement for the steel plate thatholds the legs. The shell is moulded out of an uneven number of layers of veneer to form a plywood seat-backrest combination. The moulding can be done between two aluminum moulded plates or between one mould (in this case the interior of the seat and backrest and a sand- or air-bag (small series) The chair dates back from a time when combined curves were still difficult to make (it is still not an easy job) so Arne Jacobsen was smart enough not to combine curves and so the curve b ...
	dudette here	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	dudette here The first chair I reupholstered had the welt sewn to the seat cover. I tried to re-do it that way and it was VERY difficult to get it all just right. The welt has to be alligned with the edge of the outer shell and that's just too hard to do! Stapling it on separately to the inner shell gives exactly the same look when finished but is way easier to get perfect. What kind of arm rests does your chair have? Are they single plane platforms or do they have two planes? Both will have leather over foam with the leather wrapped around the edges an ...
	I could be wrong here, but...Pt. 2	1 Relevance	20 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... improvements accumulate to something superior, because their engineers, designers, management and employees continue to sweat the details. American culture likes revolutionary ideas and big leaps of progress (perhaps because we were born of revolution), and then we seem to like to live on our laurels. Maybe all cultures do at some time or another and we are just at that moment on the life cycle of a society. Regardless, I think this streak in Americans can push us to some pretty huge accomplishments, but it can also seduce us into some pretty stupid short c ...
	--	1 Relevance	20 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... than sitting aide when it was made (resulting in an unpleasant sitting). I don't know if comfort and aesthetic are your two most important criteria, and if they are then disregard this BUT it seems like that would be potentially very expensive/ difficult to have reupholstered if you ever needed to (I could be wrong, I don't know too much about upholstery). It also seems to be low to the ground (again could be wrong) which could be difficult to get into and out of as you get older. In other words, I like to anticipate what it might be like 20-30 years ...
	Everything has two handles...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Failure 101. That is the nickname of an engineering course Henry Petroski describes in his new book, "Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design" (Princeton University Press). And if it sounds as if the course (like the book) must be full of self-help advice for engineers, that is partly true. Failure, Mr. Petroski shows, works. Or rather, engineers only learn from things that fail: bridges that collapse, software that crashes, spacecraft that explode. Everything that is designed fails, and everything that fails leads to better design. ...
	Sometimes...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	Sometimes... the initial narrow scope of a desk leads to a somewhat wider view of the world. It can also lead to an even narrower view and we could concentrate on the different qualities of steel and how they affect the radii of the bending and the possibility to chrome plate the bend when it is over stretched. We would even look into the very nature of that over-stretched surface and try to understand why it is in fact difficult to chrome plate. To either narrow or enlarge te scope of ones understanding is one of the many joys of being what we are. In readi ...
	Good writing IS designed...Designs future may be redesigned.....	1 Relevance	21 years ago	dcwilson	General discussion
	... correct. And certain kinds of literature have an architectural dimension to them that makes literature be experienced in more simultaneity. For example, Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" are quite consciously designed not only around the conceit of a carriage trip to Canterbury, but simultaneously around the architecture of the Canterbury cathedral itself. The tales are told from the carriage in a very linear way. But the symbolism, imagery and so forth frequently take on the characteristics of a walk around or through the Canterbury cathedral. The tales are ...
	That's a great	1 Relevance	21 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	That's a great story. I bet you left a happy client behind. Was it initially difficult to convince her of your "unusual" prescription ? Even the most seemingly egocentric designers sometimes surprise us by their real devotion to their client's needs and wishes. Wright's story is filled with anecdotes which make it clear that this was a goal of his -- at least some of the time ! And as a designer I can attest to the value of having a "brief" (as the British call it) -- a set of client requirements (and other constraints) that constitute the initial assignm ...
	May I....	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... that it is difficult to find reproductions at "real scale". I have no reproductions on the walls, but I buy them sometimes because the scale in books is often too small. But most often I have been shocked when a did see the real thing and the quality of the chosen scale. A painting that comes to mind is Picasso's son Paulo in the harlequin costume. I love the painting and I probably owned a reproduction at postersize at the time, but I was blown away when I saw the real thing which has such a wonderful size that I realized at that point how important the re ...
	xyz	1 Relevance	21 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	... of what we're collecting: Buy fewer but buy better. I too wish that I can trade my 25+ Nelson clocks for 3 or 4 really good and rare ones. But as anyone with the collecting bug knows, it's hard to follow this sound advice when one sees a "good deal". And like Whitespike, I started off collecting vintage design, but now am much more into buying / collecting art. There's really too much to say about this, but the one thing I'll say here is that collecting good art with relatively limited funds is much, much more difficult than collecting good design. Giv ...
	Quality in art	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	Quality in art is difficult to translate in words, so I will spare you my attempt to do so, but my own experience might be useful to someone. Over the years I have collected both paintings, engravings and japanese woodprints, but also a substantial quantity of ceramics. Having done this for many years, I now struggle with the end result, which is the question: "where do you put it". A dear friend of mine is a stamp collector and has done so for many more years than even I have been alive. Recently I asked him how many of these small graphic wonders he owned ...
	Max Bill	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	Max Bill In good condition, as it seems to be, the value is just around U.S$2,000. Max Bill has not designed all that much. He was of course the first director of the Hochshule fur Gestaltung Ulm, and architect of the builings, but he also did some interesting sculpures. Although he is known as an educator, he was never considered a great architect or designer or sculptor. In my view he was all four but the difficult history of Ulm never served him well. Congartulations with a very nice product
	I have not seen one other...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	norm	General discussion
	I have not seen one other... I have not seen one other than photos. This pic is the first time I have seen the frame with any detail at all. I think that this will turn out to be a difficult piece to find, obscure and most likely not labled.
	I won't even mention the...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	Cloudburst2000	General discussion
	... the chair should be taken into account. If you are older, have arthritic knees, are over-weight, etc, then the bird chair will be more difficult to get out of so I would go with the 'hopper chair. If these are not problems, then go with the bird chair. You seem to really like that chair more than the 'hopper anyway, and it happens to be one of my top three fave mid-century modern chair designs.
	misunderstanding again	1 Relevance	21 years ago	designite	General discussion
	... leather vs a Rietveld zigzag chair. You send first your armchair to your trader who receives it fine, but feels unsatisfied by what he considers as a pretty bad shape for a barcelona chair. Therefore he, who was supposed to send you the zigzag chair item has not done it and refuses to deliverit to you. What can you do? Not much . Trading worked fine with the kula ring in the pacifical island to exchange goods in excess versus living good islanders cannot get otherwise. When it comes to design, which is not a matter of life and death merchandise, the trading ...