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| RE: Finn Juhl Chieftain chair arm rest replacements | 1 Relevance | 3 years ago | halcyon | Repair | |
| I think the hard thing is finding a blacksmith who is dedicated enough to study the forms of the arm rest to get it 100% | |||||
| RE: Curve leg side table with cut outs on lower shelf? | 1 Relevance | 2 years ago | tktoo | Identification | |
| Odd little thing for sure. My first thought was that the cutouts were meant to hold plant pots. More photos might help. | |||||
| not exactly a feud | 1 Relevance | 20 years ago | LuciferSum | General discussion | |
| not exactly a feud but still an interesting story: George Nelson recalls the iconic design of the Ball Clock as being a result of a night of drinking with friends and associates, Isamu Noguchi, Bucky Fuller, and Irving Harper. ?And there was one night when the ball clock got developed, which was one of the really funny evenings. Noguchi came by, and Bucky Fuller came by. I?d been seeing a lot of Bucky those days, and here was Irving and here was I, and Noguchi, who can?t keep his hands off anything, you know- it is a marvelous, itchy thing he?s got- he saw we were working on clocks and he started making doodles. Then Bucky sort of brushed Isamu aside. He said, ?This is a good way to do a clock,? and he made some utterly absurd thing. Everybody was taking a crack at this,?pushing each other aside and making scribbles. At some point we left- we were suddenly all tired, and we?d had a little bit too much to drink- and the next morning I came back, and here was this roll (of drafting paper), and Irving and I looked at it, and somewhere in this roll there was a ball clock. I don?t know to this day who cooked it up. I know it wasn?t me. It might have been Irving, but he didn?t think so?(we) both guessed that Isamu had probably done it because (he) has a genius for doing two stupid things and making something extraordinary?out of the combination?.(or) it could have been an additive thing, but, anyway, we never knew.? George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design; p.111 Later on Irving Haper claimed authorship of the design, as well as many other "George Nelson" designed items. (see link) http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0601/har/index.html | |||||
| Api, YES!!! | 1 Relevance | 12 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| Api, YES!!! How exciting! That's the first one I've seen in original condition, or rather, with original upholstery. Thanks for posting! They really do need a head rest. One of the previous upholsterers had come up with something that was comfortable but looked very flabby. That built-in thing is very interesting---I will have to imagine what it looked like before the latex foam lost its loft. The main thing I'd wondered about was where to put the seam around the perimeter--the foam shell has a 1" thick, squared-off edge and I didn't know if the seam was originally on the upper or lower corner (?) of this edge or if it was smack dab in the middle. I'm pleased to see that I guess right on what I did (middle). I didn't do welt but rather a hand ladder-stitched seam which I've seen on the Bramin swivel lounge. The buttons are interesting. Anyway, thanks again! Was this in a shop for sale? ETA: sad that the styrofoam is broken on the right arm rest. I wonder if and how that could be fixed? Also, are you in Denmark? Just noticed "stol" in your file names... | |||||
| Designs | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| Designs which flaunt illogic are always suspect. In this case, a drawer bay which would naturally lend itself to a series of horizontal divisions has instead been overlaid with -- projected upon -- a group of vertical panels and pilasters. Why ? Just to show that it could be done ? To flaunt some supposed technical feat of woodworking wonder ? Is it thought that disguising one thing as another somehow proves something ? I suppose that the verticals have been back-carved enough to serve as pulls, lest the "game" be given away by the application of pedestrian metal handles. . .which are of course good enough for the doors. Yes, yes, I do protest too much, echoing what we were all taught about "honesty of design" in our Bauhaus-derived design schools, half a century ago. But it's true, isn't it ? Otherwise, the forms and proportions of this credenza are pleasant enough, I suppose. If novelty weren't such a temptation, the problem dealt with above wouldn't have been present, I suspect, and a better piece of furniture would have been the result. But we all know how easily we are bored by "the same old thing" ! | |||||
| common effort | 1 Relevance | 22 years ago | SDR | General discussion | |
| common effort koen -- I pick up on this one phrase of yours as it calls forth the question of who "owns" design: not legally but morally/ethically(?). Where does art come from? While striving to be original, to make a new contribution to the family of objects and ideas (and to be able to lay claim to such invention), are we not always brought back to earth by the realization that there is probably really "nothing new under the sun" (who said that, anyway?)? And, if that IS true, does our ego have to suffer for it? After all, the commonest, i.e., most universally repeated solutions may have the merit of being the most useful and appropriate ones for most people most of the time, and mankind may continually "reinvent the wheel" for the simple joy of it, if not to feed the natural or the commercially-driven requirement for the "next thing." I have often felt that what I come up with and commit to paper might very well already exist, in the ether or the collective design-unconscious or somewhere, and that whether or not I pluck it out of that ether and put it down, why couldn't someone else on the globe do the same; the more worthwhile an idea is the more likely it seems to me that it should have occurred to others as well. And if that be true, then who really can claim to "own" any good thing, whose existence is more or less inevitable? Thus, the "common effort" of which you speak? Anyway, I like what you have to say about these things. . . SDR | |||||
| "There was great loyalty | 1 Relevance | 21 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| "There was great loyalty amoung Danish architects" was the first thing Arne Jacobsen answered when I asked him the same question. "So, early on the chair was sold in substantial quantities, allowing to improuve some of the construction details quickly and to make the production efficient. Apart from the qualities of the chair itself, which is of course the real reason for it's succces, I think he touched on an interesting subject. It is a fact that few copies have been able to achieve similar strength at the same thickness of the laminated wood, forcing many "followers" to make the seat thicker and thus heavier and less elegant or less durable. But the loyalty of the Danish and scandinavian architects certianly played an important role to. For decades it was difficult to imagine a Danish building without the A.J. chairs. Alvar Aalto could probably have said the same thing about his furniture....the rest is exposure, exposure, exposure.... | |||||
| Stewardship, indeed! | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | Olive | General discussion | |
| Stewardship, indeed! You are quite right, Lucifer Sum. A cultural mentality of stewardship is what we need to cultivate. It's some thing that we had when our ancestors emigrated here from 'the old country' and lost during the post war boom years. It definitely needs to return to our societal habits. I admit that having grown up with parents who had a strong depression-era mentality, that when I was younger I rebelled against everything having to be old, reused and handed-down. But as I've gotten older, items with history seem to be appealing to me again. That and stuff that can be repurposed to new tasks. One of my favorites in that department is my $30 find of and old Tesuke Pueblo chili mortar, carved from a single trunk of mesquite. Turned upside down it looks for all the world like an Eames stool, only a bit more 'used'. I love it. That the kind of thing that I value these days. And speaking of stewardship and reuse...now that my life has settled down somewhat I have GOT to get those Eames shell chairs out of my garage! I've photographed them all and written up a speadsheet detailing the condition. I'll start a thread soon so that folks can contact me for the details! | |||||
| Dear DC.... | 1 Relevance | 17 years ago | koen | General discussion | |
| Dear DC.... ...Not only do I have to write books, I also have to re-design the paper towel holder? Well?Lucky me! I did one already, a few decades ago?If the base is large, heavy and anti-slip you can actually operate the thing with one hand as long as there is enough resistance on unrolling the paper. My solution was to end the cylindrical central tube high enough to make space for a plastic ball (the whole thing was in ABS) with a steel weight inside. The ball had a spark eroded (textured) surface and by sliding over the central tube it would centre the cardboard tube of the paper towel roll. It was heavy enough to create enough friction on the cardboard. When pulling slowly the paper would unroll, when pulling faster the paper would split on the perforated line? It stayed on the market for a number of years and eventually the buyers wanted to see something "new". | |||||
| pt3 | 1 Relevance | 18 years ago | dcwilson | General discussion | |
| pt3 A car was not a happy thing. It was beginning to be seen as part of the problem. A few particularly organic persons had begun to pretend a car could become a green thing. A car was not even a hot rod or a joy ride back then; again, that was late 50s and early 60s think. By the early 70s a car was an existential machine to be used to deliver you from the nightmare the 60s had turned into and the ghastly tackiness of design that was overwhelming the early 70s. All the true gear head cars had been out of production for at least 3 years by that time. The last truly great and legendary gear head car was the original Z-28 Camaro from about 1969 (the rare 302 ci v-8) and maybe a Pontiac Tran Am from the same year. A Boss Mustang, Shelby Mustang, or a MOPAR Hemi rig could also count. But by the time the mid 70s Smokey and the Bandit Trans Ams came out, they were jokes for rich kids that had to be stripped down, and have their engines allowed to breath, before a gear head could take them seriously. Corvettes in the early 70s were a joke, except to look at, again, unless you went to the parts bin and let them breath. In the early 70s, the movies "Two-Lane Black Top" with a black primer 55 Chevy and "Vanishing Point" with a MoPar rig signalled what cars were really about to me and my friends. I suppose Frank Bullit's car fits in there somewhere, too. Going no where fast in a morally bankrupt, hostile world, was where it was at. There was no point to racing as a purposeful act. Racing was corrupt, too. And we didn't look up to Marlon Brando in the Wild One, because it implied that rebellion itself could be cool. Thinking nothing was cool was the only thing that was cool; that and earlier true gear head cars. | |||||
| I'm not sharp enough on | 1 Relevance | 8 years ago | Spanky | General discussion | |
| I'm not sharp enough on finishing to spot the haze you're talking about. This wax-filled divot is the thing that jumped out at me: | |||||
| One more question - What's a | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | frnturelvr | Repair | |
| One more question - What's a good source of steam for this kind of thing? Does it require specialized equipment? | |||||
| you could peel the rest of | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | objectworship | Identification | |
| you could maybe peel the rest of the label off, or just not sweat it.. it'd be nice to get a little closer to the thing but I'd probably lean toward just not sweatin it | |||||
| They didn't write out the | 1 Relevance | 9 years ago | leif ericson - Zephyr Renner | Identification | |
| They didn't write out the name because they were Danes. It was (and perhaps still is) a cultural thing. The full name was very intentionally held back. | |||||
| I don't really know---I don't | 1 Relevance | 10 years ago | Spanky | Identification | |
| I don't really know---I don't pay a whole lot of attention over time to that kind of thing. I have seen relatively few chairs whose model numbers are in the 80s. I live in an area where a lot of M | |||||
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