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	Actually,	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Actually, It is very difficult to force cross-banded wood veneer (plywod) into a true compound curved plane; while the back has some compound curvature at its edges, the seat curves one way for most of its depth, arrives at a straight line near the front, and then curves downward from there.
	.	1 Relevance	22 years ago	azurechicken (USA)	General discussion
	. Olive,its hard to describe visuals,color is very difficult and subjective.My comment on the asian thing,sorry...
	M-man:	1 Relevance	21 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	... As far as I know, he was never challenged about it to his face, and never recanted. As to his height, the quote I gave is the only mention he made of his height, as far as I know -- though the 1954 quote is likely a repeat of an earlier statement. It's frustratingly difficult to locate quotes by the man from his extensive writings, because none of his books is indexed, including the vast "Autobiography" of 1932, which contains so many gems. It may be that someone has undertaken such an index; I haven't searched for one. His biographers -- Grant Manson, Bre ...
	As far as...	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	As far as... your doggy-bag box in foamed styrene is concerned, I would not go there. Although it is vacuum-formed (the vacuum replaces your sand bag) it is one of the most difficult materials to transform that way. It took us months in spring and summer 1966 at Shell's Plastics laboratory in Delft before we could form something as simple as a tray for stacking and transporting apples. Foamed materials in general are quite a challenge because on top of the thermal insulation of the plastic itself you have to overcome the insulation of the air in the foam. It ...
	Extruded versus cast	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... is a rather unstable material. Please do not overheat. Most commercial plastics are much more than the simple chemical formula. For many reasons they hold additives, from U.V. protection to additives necessary to facilitate the polymerisation process or to make it more environmentally friendly. So...always work in a well ventilated area and never take your eyes off a heating piece of plastic. But it is not as difficult as it seams. I have formed numerous pieces when prototyping was still a big part of our daily activities and I have never burned a piece of ...
	Just to keep	1 Relevance	21 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... That same year Poul Kjaerholm designed the famous logo for E.K.C. with the double "K" (one for Kold, one for Kjaerholm) There might be exceptions that I do not know of, but the E.K.C. products and certainly the EKC 61 is in chromed steel, not in stainless. When Fritz Hansen acquired the rights to produce the Poul Kjaerholm collection they made the PK 61 in Stainless steel. If your frame is realy brass (which I doubt because it does not make much sense both from a construction and economical point of view) and it has the right measurements (80 x 80 x 32 cm) ...
	Thanks	1 Relevance	22 years ago	Annette.sco	General discussion
	... you say, really convenient to get it from them. I may be being too fussy - difficult to know when I havent seen the bench that Europe by Net sell. I had emailed them to see if they can get me a Herman Miller 5ft and am waiting for their reply. They say they ship to the USA - so, just as a matter of interest, has anyone any experience of thie firm?
	Dear Azurechicken,	1 Relevance	21 years ago	essai	General discussion
	Dear Azurechicken, Design Addict is now visited by 200 000 people each month. We have been running this website since 7 years and, every now and then, we need to take decisions (hopefully the best but sometimes the least bad) about the evolution of the site and how to handle difficult situations. We appreciate your fidelity to the forum and your engagement in it, and we understand your position. But we are the ones who have to make the final decisions and we can't take into account each contradictory advices from all the visitors to the forum. The decision h ...
	Thanks for the backup,...	1 Relevance	22 years ago	beaucoup	General discussion
	Thanks for the backup,... Thanks for the backup, Whitespike. Let me throw you another curveball. Perhaps the problem is that we choose furniture strictly in terms of like and dislike. Perhaps it might be possible to strive for an appreciation of things based on their other merits. Consider this: When the Barcelona chair and all the other modernist pieces debuted, the aesthetics of that new work was shocking. It would have been difficult to the palate of even the most adventurous people. But certain people did choose the new because there was a deeper motivat ...
	You put your finger on it.	1 Relevance	22 years ago	koen	General discussion
	You put your finger on it. The technical challenge is the combination of the two materials. The porcelan is glazed with a simple transparent glaze. The insides of the mortars and the grinding part of the pestles is not, for the obvious reason. The stoneware is only vitrified. The difficult part is that the shrink in the second (glaze) firing of the porcelain is 5-6% more than the stoneware. Vitrified stoneware does not absorb any stains or colors but in most cases I glaze the interiors. No matter how well I make the moulds, the vitrified stoneware has a "abr ...
	I have to agree...	1 Relevance	22 years ago	koen	General discussion
	I have to agree... with Ian, and somehow DC-life proves the point by providing us with different links. Somehow the urgency of the problems we create by over-producing and over-consuming is not well understood. As many times in the past designers react emotionally to the problems they are aware of....remember H.Van de Velde pleading in the late 1890ties for the development of aestetics based on "industrial production" I would love, he said, to see my "creations" produced by the thousands...yet he did not have a clue in what the possibilities of the industry ...
	Good	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Good question. . .perhaps difficult to answer with complete candor, for some? But a short series of responses would be interesting to read. . .
	I've just seen,	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	I've just seen, in a news article about Scandinavian furniture collectors (San Francisco Chronicle, Jan 5), a reference to Hans Wegner's Model 19 wing-back armchair, which has cantilevered upholstered arms. "Wegner put in those. . .arms so you can put your head in the corner and stick your leg over the arm and sit all catawampas and still be comfortable. . .Those Danes are pretty smart. " It can be difficult to put multiple "strong" designs side-by-side in a space without producing a "furniture showroom" effect, I sometimes think. . .
	I may be naive but I still ju...	1 Relevance	22 years ago	NULL NULL	General discussion
	I may be naive but I still ju... I may be naive but I still judge a person by what they do. It seems to be difficult for some of you to understand but there are lots of people in this world who are not as judgemental as many of these threads presupose. I do not care what your orientation of any kind is, but I do care about your hangups towards me based on how you may think that I might react towards you. This sort of thing seems to be flogged to death here. Gay, christian , muslim, jewish, male, female, short, left handed, green, purple, whatever? Show me! I ...
	on durability	1 Relevance	22 years ago	koen	General discussion
	... his opinion on FLW ambitions for his work. There is indeed a certain sloppiness in FLW's work and major restoration has to be done to keep them in good shape. I have no idea if it is historically true, but the story goes that one of his clients called him on an un-civilized hour to tell him that the roof was leaking. FLW's answer was: What is your problem don't you have a bucket? It might not be a true story but it exemplifies a typical FLW attitude.This being said, it is difficult to imagine that this "sloppiness" was the result of a lack of attention for ...