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it is universally functional, beautiful, and *unimprovable*.
Likewise, Eameshead, about hearing of other examples. Show LTR porn if you got it!
I think with the more handmade process of the vintage ones came more variation. With today's more automated manufacturing comes greater consistency.
jdip
To me, the LTR is a great table because of it's simplicity, proportions, versatility and design restraint.
It is rudimentary and small and basic and humble, yet exquisitely refined in all aspects of finish, proportion and function.
But I digress!
My #1 favorite aspect of the LTR is reduction.
To me, it is the simplest definition EVER of what a table IS -- in the most radical terms. A "floating" rectangular top on a see-through base. It almost isn't there.
There may be simpler tables, but this one has a way of making one notice how dangerously close to "nothing" it is -- and is proudly IN YOUR FACE about it. It is as close to ground zero as you can get, and still BE something.
I like the earliest thick plywood edged ones the best because they seem to have more of that spirit. The Eames' didn't try to "pretty up" the low brow standard plywood edge by adding some flashy moves. Even when the table was THIS small, he stayed honest.
Its almost humorous in its ridiculous insistence on brutal directness, but that's why it is the best table ever! Because it is the most extremely reduced and risky example of what a table is.
Indeed not to everyone's taste. And in many situations, the table is just too small. But its perfect if you enjoy a LOW flow to your interior orientation, and it goes so well with the LAR "cats cradle" or LAX lounge shell bases, or the LCM or plywood lounge height chairs.
OK. Sorry. End of rant. I obviously like this table.
objectworship, I might take another stab at uploading someday soon. I just love pictures, but hate the constant battle I seem to have with uploading. Besides, its not like people here have never seen a thick plywood edge LTR!
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You already said you like new. Do you have to destroy the authenticity of this cool table just so you can tell your friends you scored it for a song? I would be more impressed by someone buying low, selling high, then buying something they ACTUALLY want with the proceeds. I like my DCMs because they are older than my parents, twice as old as I am, so I clearly couldn't be responsible for every stray mark. That is what is cool. Thinking about the other lives people lived using this same furniture. If you caught a foul ball at a baseball game would you imaginatively wonder about who may have handled the ball or would you wash it because it wasn't pearly white? Come on now. Don't go sending this along to the living room in the sky, festooned with drilled through 670s, varnished Time Life stools, spray painted DCWs and the like. Every time someone modifies an older piece it is one less of a finite supply.
MLB
Fun fact- No MLB ball that is played with is ever pearly white. They are all coated with Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud. Rubbing the balls with "Magic Mud" makes them so they aren't shiny and gives the ball a better grip. I've heard that the exact spot where this mud is mined, is a secret.
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