The chairs I actually like,...
The chairs I actually like, especially the huge one which is no longer in production. The lounge chair they have now was the medium sized chair back in the day. The one back then had head support, wide arms, and came with an optional ottoman. I like that one best. With his work it's kind of all or nothing for me. I want it brass (which can be disturbing to some) or big and overwhelming. I don't know why.
I have always wanted that brass Platner coffee table or a Schultz petal coffee table.
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Vivienne, I am not that inconstant in my style decisions and a corpse will stain the floor worse than the cup of tea that I knocked over there. (Hence the need for a table)
Modernisbetter: that is an interesting table, but the Womb and its ottoman have a lot of legs and I wanted a pedestal shape so I won't have a 'leg forest'. Actually a hunk of rock might look cool....now where did I leave that 1/2 ton hunk of marble...
Some1: I think a stack of books looks like I was too lazy to put them away, and I am a clutter-phobe. The Eames stools really do look good with the Womb, I've seen them together in several catalogs/shelter mags.
Whitespike: I agree too much chi-chi furniture looks synthetic and TV-sitcom-ish. (think Fraiser...I might have liked his Chihuly glass, tho)
AzC: I'd love to see your home someday; I think you have a great eye. Somehow, I have never really liked Platner. His stuff always hits me as sterile, attractive but totally unemotional. I do like Shultz, tho. As for the kitties, I don't think that Harlequin and Punchinello (Poor kitty #3, Scaramouche, was coyote breakfast) would bother a smoothed and oiled/varnished piece of wood and even if they did, so what? I will have paid nothing but a little labor for it.
I am still thinking that the piece of red birch out in my woodbin is just the perfect solution...or maybe a hunk of rock...
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I think its the nickel Platner that can be cold also people in the past employed his stuff only he is an ALL ME type person.I recently bought two largeish table/blocks(actually book matched box construction filled travertine slabs, now where to fit em in,something must go.I think stone is very under used by people, esp NOT in an over the top luxe way..
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the stump-table would be an inverted cut, so the top surface would be a little larger than the bottom (footprint) ? Is your piece of firewood that big ?
I once knew a man who was in the business of converting Florida cypress stumps into tables -- he had built an elaborate iron routing frame with which to prepare parallel top and bottom surfaces, on these wildly tapered and irregular objects. Crazy California import -- wonder where he is today ?
Another idea: a chromed wire milk-crate on its side (can you still find those ?), with a nice thick butcher block or cutting board as a top ? Casual yet smart (?). Or, a wooden box base, also open in front (or side or back) with wood top ditto. . . You could hide the paper in the base, something not possible with a solid chunk of something -- though I like those sugested objects anyway !
Here is an interesting...
Here is an interesting auction Olive:
http://cgi.ebay.com/STOOL-EAMES-END-TABLE-DANISH-MODERN-SIDE-NAKASHIMA_W...
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whitespike, that's cool and just the right idea. Chunky and handmade looking. Rustic to balance sleek.
SDR, neat idea, however I've got one of those chinese water baskets to hold the reading materials, so a solid object will do nicely. Just something to set a cuppa onto. You're right about the shape of the red birch hunk, it's a piece from near the tree base and it shows that the tree had split into two spires further on, so there's a neat ring pattern and a flared irregular shape. But since last night I am leaning towards stone. We have a mason/stoneyard not far from my house and I think I'll go have me a look-see this weekend.
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