George Nelson for Arbuck - table and chair sets  

Ta Da!
It turns out I am 100% correct. These tables were made by Frank and Son circa 1953 and no George Nelson did not do any designing for Frank and Son.

Call me crazy but much like y...
Call me crazy but much like your claims of a mysterious "Nelson Archive" and your "1958 Arbuck catalogue" I would ask for something more than just another baseless blanket assertion, with no proof, from you.
Come on, I dare you, give me a picture of THAT table and chair set in a catalogue, or brochure, with a made/designed/manufactured attribution, PLEASE!!! I would be thrilled to have this shit solved, because the worst outcome to me is never fucking knowing. Pretend I'm Jack Nicholson, your Tom Cruise, and were in that crappy Gitmo Navy (but less homoerotic than TopGun) movie, and screaming shit about "handling the truth" - but this is the gay ass MCM online version of that scene BUT and this is important - we still get to wear snazzy uniforms. (Not to paint my self as the evil antagonist, but I call a sharp, well cut, officers SS uniform designed by Hugo Boss. I will also decadently smoke a lot - using a long gold cigarette filter - and blow smoke in your face when you displease me. So Even if I'm wrong I will still look smashing.)
Put Up or Shut Up, I don't need no mo' empty blabbing up in this thread. If you put up I'll send a caravan of skantily clad nubile, adonis like 20 year old boys to hoist you on their muscular shoulders and parade you through the street, lighting your way with authentic Paul McCobb lamps, singing Queen's "We are the Champions"
- Maria

spacepirate...
was right.

Ha.
No, I'm just a long standing member of the faghag club - but way campier than most of the male members. (Prolly an effect of repeated veiwings of Xanadu and Grease as a 4 year old)
Always been a worry of my terribly hetero boyfriends. Aaron will be very perplexed by my above post.
-Maria
Edit: I got Aaron into MCM furniture, not that he had much choice living with me, but I warned him he would be in a very rarified club of straight guys who know anything about the stuff.

I can't speak for anyone else, but...
To me, the conversation between Mark's outfit, his lamp, and his B&W prints is the most appealing of all. Nicely done, sir!

Why thank you tktoo!
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No proof
By the same token you have never provided proof of the initial attribution either.
I have already given Jad at Rago and Lisanne at Treadway my research materials on this issue and will happily provide them to any other qualified researcher who cares to ask.

Yawn
Show me the carfax. I'll believe it when you present it.
And while you are at, I would love to see the picture of the "one of only two" room dividers in the entire world that you have by Paul McCobb, and that $9,000 Paul McCobb lamp you just picked up for $45 that you mentioned on the phone last week.
- A.S.

Stray light posts weak sauce excuse - surprise, surprise
Straylight, thats some lame ass bullshit excuse. you've posted some pretty flismy shit claiming a "nelson archive" and "arbuck 1958 catalogue" that you never explainded or offered on iota of proof on. But, this latest excuse for having "no proof" takes the cake. So only "qualified" researchers, I mean auction houses, are able to view this rock solid proof that they never asked you for? People who actually want see the proof can't? Does that make any fucking sense?
I guess us peons on DA arent in the same rarified air a super serious reasearch blogger like yourself is and should just take your opinions as proof and assume you shit gold. I think you are a legend in your own mind at this point. I've never seen anyone get so uppity about "period references" and "academic research standards" but then never actually use any when you make your claims, even when you are repeatedly asked for it. When you finally can't ignore the repeated requests for proof suddenly only "serious researchers" are allowed to see it? What a complete joke.
I think if you had any real proof you'd post that shit so fast I'd barely have time to find one muscular Adonis and McCobb lamp for your parade.
I call total bullshit.
Sincerly,
Maria

You two
are a lovely couple.

So... I'm late to the party..
And I just now read this thread.
Wow.
You're really going off the deep-end here, huh? And just because a couple of people are giving you an opinion you don't want to hear?
And what's with the weird, passive-aggressive gay-bashing? Oh, sorry, it's okay, you're a "fag-hag"...
Seriously though. What part did I miss? When did this become a "slap fight," or a "sissy fight?" When did everyone get "uppity?" Anyone see anyone here get shitty besides tinyarmada(s)?
Ask yourself this question: what motivation does straylight have for taking this "glory" from you?.. what does he gain by making it up? You asked his opinion, apparently exchanged emails with him, because you knew he knows his stuff and was a good place to start... But when you don't hear what you want to hear, you explode, start calling names, and try to embarrass him by making (really... weird..) assertions about his sexuality... and that's BEFORE you attack his professional abilities and the quality of his character..
There are lots of things that might pop in to our heads... but the awesome thing is, we don't ACTUALLY have to say all of them! Sometimes a simple "I understand what you're saying. I guess I just disagree" does much better "You're a stuck-up, bullshitting sissy."
You done lost yo' damn mind.

Glad I wasn't the only one who blanched at
the bewildering assumption that all DAers are homos, followed by the boast of being a "member of the fag-hag club".
Women who call themselves "fag hags" irritate me, though I can't quite articulate why.

I believe that
it's an "Appalachian American" phrase. But then, I know quite little about West Virginia.
(edit) except that most people have more toes than teeth.

I believe that at this point...
any proof supplied by straylight would be accused of photoshopping by the armadas

Shiftless and lazy
Maria and Aaron,
I told you the maker and the year. You have far more information than when I started working on this question. If you truly wish to know go do some research.