marble top chewbacca
take the wood to the marble shop and let them cut the top to the exact specs of the wood. and it will be heavy enough that it will sit perfect and you wont have to drill holes.
The reason i say to take the old table top in my friend had them cut to his specs and for some reason they screwed it up and for now it is sitting on the wood real bad) but they said they will redo it.
also make sure they polish the edges, you will flip when you see how cool it looks agains the stainless steel or angle iron depending which one you have,
and if you look on line they cost with a high grade marble over 2000.dollars with the stainless, The neat thing is when
you go to a marble store have the guy show you remnant pieces left over from other jobs and you can find some killer pieces, that he can fit on top. I got lucky since mine was 30 x 30 he only charged me 100.00 but even if you have to pay 200 for a killer piece of marble you are doing good.
Good luck
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George Nelson had nothing to do with that clock
I own several as our company use to give them away as Christmas gifts to all our good customers and yes we use to buy them from the Howard Miller clock company for around 15.00 each and if you wanted your company logo add 3.40
that clock was designed by Nathan Howitt who also did the mavodo watch but got ripped off, here is a short
write up.
In 1947, Nathan Horwitt designed a wristwatch with a plain black face without numerals and a white disk marking the 12 o-clock position. The following year, his design was produced, without credit or compensation, by Zenith Movado. It was a prime example of design piracy, and Horwitt sued, but justice would take 27 years. In the meantime, the design was placed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1960, and become known as "The Museum Watch.". In 1975, Movado finally settled with Horwitt for $29,000 and after Horwitt?s death, Movado heavily promoted Horwitt and his classic "Museum Watch."
Nathan George Horwitt (1898-1990) was already a well-known designer before the Movado watch. He had designed the Beta chair for the Howell Company in 1930, which was displayed in the famous New York Machine Art exhibit in 1934, along with work by other pioneer industrial designers like Walter Dorwin Teague.
The Movado watch was not the only famous watch in design history. In 1904 Frenchman Louis Cartier designed a special wristwatch for air pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian living in Paris who built a series of fourteen single seat airplanes and achieved the first European successful flight. In 1918, Cartier designed the Tank Watch in honor of members of the US tank corps for their defense of France during the war. The Tank Watch became enormously popular in the US.
Nelson clocks...
I have about 100 original Nelson clocks, including most of those pictured on this and the other thread and Barry's clock that he sold me on ebay. I have the obligatory wall of clocks in my foyer.
I definitely appreciate that Vitra and Howard Miller are keeping interest in them alive, but nothing beats a true original in my book. I really hope the book project eventually gets off the ground at some point, as it would be a shame not to catalog them all.
Yowsers MidMod50, Color me...
Yowsers MidMod50, Color me jealous. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we'd love to see some pictures of your collection. Congratulations on owning perhaps the most enviable collection on the forum (no offense LRF -- yours is nice too).
MidMod50 would you pleas...
MidMod50 would you please contact me at lfadem@cox.net I would like to visit with you about all your clocks as i am gathering data for the future book that i want to do .
I have a world class photographer lined up so now i just have to g et the engery up to get it done.
I also have a possible 2 publishers who are still interested schiffer is not one of them !!!
so if you have 100 clocks you are no doubt the leading source, i have 20 nelson and 40 other clocks from the 40s to the 60's It sounds like one impressive collection, that you have.
midmod
I definitely appreciate that Vitra and Howard Miller are keeping interest in them alive,
I wish this were a true statement Vitra cause they see money along with Jacquline Nelson, estate. but Howard miller could care less i have talked with them along with some others and as far as they a re concened these are some step kids that they would like to forget,
It erks the hell out of me that one of the greatest compies of the 20 century who made there survial on the Nelson clocks would have such a low regard for them and not have a full time archivest who could tell you and give you information on each clock. and why they would let them expire like a lease on 57th and 5 th Ave in NYC for no reason,
There opion not mine was they saw no future in replicating some of the original designs and the one they did replicate, they pulled out of circulation when the last clocks were bought up by vendors (astrick clock)
When Nelson whent to the grave, and that big MCM place in the sky the designs whent with him. along with the Nelson office and ideas,
Thank g-d Vitra had enough for site to get hold of Jacqueline Nelson and make a business deal with her and hats off to Modernica .
I don't always agree with all there case study stuff but they sure as hell got it down perfect on the bubble lamps they are better than the howard miller ones, and they did something right
Now there fiberglass chairs, sorry folks they suck!!!!!!
One thing for damn sure this would never happen with the Eames office and Eames grand son who knows how to drain the last nickel out of the Eames name, if they were grandpas clocks they would be making every one of those clocks and a gold sticker for the 100th birthday on the back so hats off to that clan.
Pity about the Nelson family, taking what ever they can geton 8 out of 100 clocks.
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