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27/01/2010 9:54 pm  

Whitespike you win...
..hands down every time with that story, hilarious. Why not just ask for it as I have done on two different occasions. First time I saw a black Eames chair drove past it several times night and day the chair was just outside. Finally decided to inquire about it, the owners didn?t speak English, so I sent my friend who speaks Russian and got that one. The Bertoia chair I saw it sitting on a porch in a country house drove right up and asked if he would sell it. He ended up giving it to me for the best price of all FREE99.


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Riki
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27/01/2010 10:19 pm  

Spikey,
next time you are in Mississippi visiting the fam, I've got a Mr. Chair, disassembled in about 5 pieces, but still perfectly good, that you can have if you want it. None of my children are interested and it is collecting dust in the laundry room.
Easter? To bring the boy home to see his kin?


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whitespike
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27/01/2010 11:49 pm  

Wait, Riki are you serious?...
Wait, Riki are you serious? Why is the chair in MS? If so, THANKS!


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dsil
 dsil
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27/01/2010 11:51 pm  

if you don't steal, I mean...
if you don't steal, I mean save, it, someone else will.


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cali4sun
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28/01/2010 12:08 am  

Just offer some money for...
Just offer some money for it. They may say Yes!


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nervuss
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28/01/2010 2:09 am  

Ha ha ha
great thread... I would "nick" the chair for sure. replace it with some pieces of wire that you put on the ground and tell them a fox must have attacked it. Quite a few hungry foxes in the swiss alps I hear 🙂


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SDR
 SDR
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28/01/2010 3:06 am  

No --
of course you do not take someone's property without permission -- I'm sorry.
The Golden Rule -- you know that one ? How would you feel if someone did that to you ? It's an insult, if nothing else: "He's stupid, and I'm smart." Thanks a lot !
Come on -- if you want it, ask for it. It shouldn't even be a question, for heaven's sake, and I'm sure you know that -- right ? [smily face here]
If a bank or a faceless and greedy corporation (for instance) used the reasoning "I know what to do with this property better than you do," what do you think we'd say ? How is an individual's action any different ?
You might even make a new friend (or in this case, improve a relationship) !


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nervuss
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28/01/2010 3:25 am  

Hi SDR
I think we are all having a laugh..of course it's wrong to steal but it does no harm to joke frome time to time 😉


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rockland
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28/01/2010 7:08 am  

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As long as it is joking.
I have one in the field outside my garden.
it'll pinch ya!-broken spokes!
It looks good from a distance. But i rescued it from a E Village
garbage heap. Not worth restoring.
I like it where it is. If someone drove along and thought
i was some hillbilly and had no business owning it and took
it, that would be stealing.
I have way too many spare emeco chairs that i often leave out.
(from a NJ asylum that went out of business for obvious political reasons)
They look good around the garden table. They were free. From the garbage.
Hundreds of them.
And they look great on the landscape...and around my old airstream.
We only go up on weekends in the better seasons.
(wood stove heat only, a bit off the grid) Sucks that we have to lock
everything up all the time.


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khus
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28/01/2010 8:05 am  

rusty chair yard art
I had one in my back yard for years-with bikini seat and back. I kept it there because I thought of it as yard art and couldn't bear to toss it. My wife asked me repeatedly to get rid of it as she thought it an eyesore. Regretfully, it looked so tough with not much paint and it's bikini in pieces, I finally carried it to the trash one sad day...........


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SDR
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28/01/2010 9:25 am  

Interesting !
Sounds like there may be a theme going, there -- three Bertoia yard chairs and counting. . .


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Sound & Design
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28/01/2010 10:00 am  

Maybe ya'll can start...
Maybe ya'll can start searching abandoned Bertoia chairs to pilfer using google maps satellite view.
I found a rusty shipwreck on a south Pacific atoll. Quite proud of myself really!


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whitespike
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29/01/2010 12:27 am  

I also saw a pair of black tu...
I also saw a pair of black tulip arm chairs (Saarinen) by a swimming pool (above ground) outside of a trailer once ... in the middle of nowhere MS. That was funny.


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Riki
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29/01/2010 7:11 am  

The posters
on here from Europe probably just had to google "above ground swimming pool". To picture one of those with tulip chairs around it is just hilarious.


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NULL NULL
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29/01/2010 9:08 am  

I watched this old Panton chair
move around the yard for weeks in this realy bad neighborhood. I knew someone had to be using it, but am quite sure for them it was only a place to sit their fat ass. Finally, one week it got closer to the fence and I thought about lifting it over the fence and throwing a nice folding patio chair back over...but the next day it was gone! I am sure someone else had there eye on it to. I see nice chairs on patio's in bad neighborhoods all the time! I guess I should learn enough spanish to translate "Give me your chair or I'll have you deported! A couple a years ago on the Big Island of Hawaii I had to take the trash to the dump as they don't have pick-up service and low and behold the Trashmen where lounging on two "Elda" chairs by Colombo...I offered them 50 bucks for the chairs, they declined, saying they where not allowed to resell the trash!


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