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26/06/2008 6:36 pm  

Thank you Robert - I was...
Thank you Robert - I was wondering when someone would get round to that - I was beginning to think there was anti -Race conspiracy!!


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26/06/2008 8:38 pm  

Wired Magazine HAS to run a story on wired furniture...
This is insane...I never knew there was a wire subculture. 🙂


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26/06/2008 9:54 pm  

Speaking of sub culture and...
Speaking of sub culture and Tom Dixons Pylon Chair, join your local chapter of the Pylon Club and appreciate those towering sculptures. Secret handshakes? Buried treasure?
http://www.pylons.org/


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27/06/2008 7:21 am  

patio chairs
OK, this is a test. I saw these wire patio chairs on ebay and am attempting to put the link live on this forum. I hope it works. I sort of like these chairs.
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1950S-MODERN-PATIO-CHAIR-LOUNGE-SET-EAMES-ERA-N...


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Robert Leach
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27/06/2008 1:20 pm  

Hi Riki
I have a very similar set here in England, only mine are white and red
I'll post a pic tomorrow- they're at my weekend place 🙂


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Robert Leach
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27/06/2008 11:35 pm  

My Wire
Here are my garden chairs


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28/06/2008 12:48 am  

Robert
Thanks for adding Ernest Race! I love his designs. He has some very nice upholstered pieces too.
Who designed the chairs in the second photo? I like them. They seem to be a widely used generic sort of design perhaps, but I wonder about it's origin.


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Robert Leach
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28/06/2008 1:05 am  

Race
Race or Milne would be my guess, but somebody else might know better ??
The second pic is also from the Festival of Britain, but the style seems to have lasted right through the 50s..they are similar to the US ones Riki posted, and my own ones- I may even get ball feet for mine when I refurb them 🙂


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28/06/2008 4:55 am  

Springbok
The chairs around the planters in Robert's picture are Ernest Race 'Springbok' chairs. I think these were only made for the Festival - I've only ever seen one (very tired) example in the flesh. Incidentally nice film of the Festival on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtHHY9H_50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtHHY9H_50


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Robert Leach
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28/06/2008 1:30 pm  

Great video
Paulanna.. Thanks !
and there's this :


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28/06/2008 11:00 pm  

There also Mategot who did...
There also Mategot who did some great designs in wire


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Robert Leach
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28/06/2008 11:27 pm  

jesgord
24 hours later, I'm still laughing at :
'When tapped with a clove of garlic (un-peeled of course) it produces a sound not unlike when a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear/see it fall.'
But Yes! there is some fabulous Mategot wire stuff 😉


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29/06/2008 2:39 am  

another nice Mategot
(it does help to have a sense of humor when annoyed)
http://www.architonic.com/mus/8101343/1


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29/06/2008 3:53 am  

Frilly
I'm not crazy about the first two Mategot designs in the pictures. They look a bit too fussy. Were they earlier, perhaps, like 1940's?


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29/06/2008 4:05 am  

Also, we musn't forget about...
Also, we musn't forget about Sol Bloom's Scoop chairs


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