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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| I don't think there has to... | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| I don't think there has to... I don't think there has to be other reds. Having a couch in red is a lot of red to begin with. It matches itself. I would go for neutrals perhaps. Let that be the only thing with a bang. | |||||
| WHY | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| WHY do I wear a bow on my ear every Nov. first, simple I worship HELLO KITTY,shes a perfect little thing.... | |||||
| . | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | azurechicken (USA) | General discussion | |
| . You will have a luxury chair far longer than a luxuary car buy the real thing,its a far better investment... | |||||
| Squeal! | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Squeal! I'll bring my hair beading thing!!!! It'll be SOOOO awesome | |||||
| RE: DA old timers | 1 Relevance | 7 years ago | Spanky | Off topic | |
| If they didn't transfer the "Last thing you made" thread from the old form, you can always start a new one! | |||||
| RE: Danish bowl | 1 Relevance | 6 years ago | tktoo2 | Identification | |
| Came up with nothing after spending too long. Ceramics are not really my thing, but that is a beautiful bowl. Welcome back. | |||||
| I think it's a pretty | 1 Relevance | 11 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I think it's a pretty impractical thing for the restaurant to have in that area, but it wouldn't be the most impractical thing ever done in a professional kitchen, I guess. That said, I'd try Murphy's oil soap straight, first. I've used it to clean filthy teak chairs where the backs had that built-up black grime that comes from being handled for decades by unwashed hands. You know, where the grain is pretty much obscured completely. The oil soap by itself cuts through this without going through a gummy phase first. Once the soap has cut through the crud completely, rinse with water and dry immediately. Teak oil is equally good at cutting greasy grime but health department code may have some regs about using stuff like that in a food prep area, I dunno. I mean, if the restaurant staff are the ones who will do it in the future, in the restaurant. Ammonia is really, really good at dissolving grease but it would dry out the wood, I think. | |||||
| jesgord | 1 Relevance | 15 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| jesgord I just this minute finished the last Wegner chair and I did just that---shifted all of the weft cords row by row until they looked pretty even straight on. I also nudged the warp cords a little because they tend to drift to the right for some reason. I probably yank harder on them in that direction by a little bit. I dunno. Sometimes they're just a tiny wavy. One thing that is really starting to drive me nuts is this giant 15 (?) lb coil of cord. I'm pulling from the center but at some point the pulled strand caught a couple of loops from the rest and now it's impossible to undo. The more length I pull out on the free end, the more it twists up with the caught loops. I tried several times to pull the cut end out from the other side of the loops, but that doesn't work either. This happens with the small 2-lb coil too, but usually only when I would get near the end of it. I still have a lot left on the huge coil and if I don't get it undone, it will just continue to be a problem until the thing is used up. Unless I redo the entire coil, but then I'd still be dealing with the tangled loops. OH WELL. I wish it was on a spool. | |||||
| the wrench..... | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | matty | General discussion | |
| the wrench..... i would lean towards MEDIA-blasting....there are a multitude of different materials that are used in this method that have varying degrees of abrasiveness/courseness...the problem i would see with chemical dipping is that powdercoat still needs a good a "scored" surface to adhere properly....the intricate nature of the chair has no bearing whatsoever, media blasting gets into the tightest of spaces providing the media is fine enough- which it usually always is... there is definitely such a thing as powder coat primer, but in this application i would say its unnecessary and in all reality would result in a good amount of build-up [pwdr ct primer+ pwdr coat color = high mil thickness] and would detract from the design of the chair... one thing that doesnt seem to have been mentioned is inspecting closely after whatever process you choose for weak or broken welds...i know these are prone to that and it would be a shame to find them after the fact... | |||||
| Not familiar with that particular water.... | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Not familiar with that particular water.... but... The bottles are made of PET (Polyethyleneterephthalate, part of the polyester family) and the smartest thing to do is to make the label from a biaxially oriented film of PET made into a sleeve that is shrinked around the bottle. In doing so one allows the label to be re-cycled with the bottle. High quality re-cycling will even be able to take off the label and recycle it separtately (because of the colorants in the pinting inkt)The most stupid thing to do is to glue on a paper label. The glue makes re-cycling almost impossible unless it is shredded and the contaminated pieces are taken out. The paper also becomes a contaminent. I reasonable third solution is a shrink label in another plastic....but PET or Mylar, Dacron (commercial names for PET) is easy to print and so, why using another material. Considering that it cristalized for 60 to 65% it is relatively easy to make it into film that will shrick in a hot air tunnel. Good luck!! | |||||
| W.H.C. | 1 Relevance | 16 years ago | Pegboard Modern | General discussion | |
| W.H.C. You said, "For me, it was an 1940's industrial sun-lamp... I thought it was THE coolest thing I'd ever seen, and promptly installed it in my bedroom to use as a reading lamp" I hope you fitted it with a regular bulb so you were not sitting and reading under a sun lamp! My cousin was "tanning" under her sun lamp and dozed off only to wake up with a nasty burn. As for your "rosebud" question, I can't point to one specific thing that sparked my interest. From very young I was always drawing and making art, so my interest in aesthetics flowed easily from pictures to objects. I do remember when I was in college there was an elephant-hide gray Eames armshell in my studio. grew so fond of it I trolled the art department until I found another. Then I took them home. I still have them today. And like Heath's story, for many years I lamented not buying the Noguchi coffee table that was in the second-hand shop because I was a poor art student and could not justify paying the $80 pricetag. | |||||
| @Starline-"Experimental" is... | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | keewee | General discussion | |
| @Starline-"Experimental" is... @Starline- "Experimental" is the key word here. As I said, there were some interesting things, but they were often experimental/boutique/museum-y type things. You didn't see it in a lot of homes. For one thing, it wasn't especially liveable. Some of the chairs from that era look like they were designed by an executioner in his off hours. On the low end, you might have seen "the look" in a lot of homes-especially when Miami Vice became really popular. But often "the look" pastel chairs and chrome, was made in China and I can't imagine that anyone today is going to go into a store and buy no name made in China furniture just because it's from the 80's and pastel. The baby boomers that could afford the real thing-artist designed pieces-are wealthy enough to have redecorated many many times since. Around the same time they went through rehab for their addictions to white lines and came to their senses. They probably dumped that stuff 20 years ago at least. Even at the low end. Way different than their parents and grandparents who bought that Heywood and kept it until their 90's. Thanks, but I'll stick with the metals from Italy manufactured in the 70's. | |||||
| sweat problems | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | whitespike | General discussion | |
| This might prove to be the weirdest topic yet, but I have sweat problems. For the longest time I blamed these orangy bleach spots on my shirts on my detergent, only to find someone else with the same issue (trust me, the relevance is coming). After moving I noticed a few orangy-pink spots on my sofa. They aren't too noticeable, but I paid to have this sofa recovered two years ago in Modernica Type 1. Shouldn't upholstery of this type be more resistant against this sort of thing? What can I do to remove the spots? Anything? Sorry to gross the whole DA community out, but I feel slightly ripped off that the color of the fabric would be compromised by such a common thing as sweat. Who hasn't been on their sofa with a little sweat on them from time to time. This shouldn't happen! It's not like I jump up and down on it after playing football. I don't take naps on it after yardwork. It's just regular ol' "it's a tad warm in here why don't I crank the AC" sweat. Anyone? | |||||
| But on the other hand... | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | ChrisG-52 | General discussion | |
| But on the other hand... Hmm... well, if I may play devil's advocate fro a moment: For at least a few of these designers, their intent was to create well designed, solidly constructed furniture for the masses. It could be argued that, now that they have passed on, the holders of their patent wish to cater to the elite- making their designs unavailable to those they were intended to target. Of course, one could easily counter that "the masses" generally have more pedestrian tastes, and lack appreciation for such urbane pursuits as "good modern design," regardless of the designer's intent. My ethics on this matter say: A.) If you can afford the real thing, buy it. Both because it is ligitimate, but also for yourself- I've never known a knock-off that had the fit and finish and quality of construction of an original. B.) However, if you cannot afford the real thing, buy the best "reproduction" you can afford. Not only should you not go without for lack of money, but by having a replica, you are promoting the "brand" of the original. i.e.: Anyone who sees you as a barometer of taste and design, and who can afford an original, will get an original. My 3¢ | |||||
| the greatest find I found... | 1 Relevance | 19 years ago | LRF | General discussion | |
| the greatest find I found... the greatest find I found was the Cado units they can house every thing from stereo to books. magazines, for some reason Desk are the hardest thing to find and buy from the mid century , I bought the George Nelson roll top on the wall but I use it in the studio .makes me feel like a famous architect, My big desk is a 1980 Baker Desk, sorry to say not designed by any one famous but made by Baker furniture and not Modern. hard to believe but when i bought it in 1980 I was still buying the traditional furniture, i have used this desk for almost 30 years, great desk made a lot of money sitting behind it and lost a little money sitting behind it, but it has been a part of my life for half of it.... and still looks good, | |||||
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