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sorry
but this made me spout a nose bleed.
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gilding the lilly?
I like it too, it is actually pretty funny , much as I dislike po-mo wit .
Oh well, doomed to a hell of Robert Venturi chairs and Tubular Bells.
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Now, my challenge to you,...
Now, my challenge to you, original poster, is to take into consideration the above posts and stand by your original attraction.
This is actually a subject that fascinates me -- the manner in which people vacillate between liking something and not liking it, based upon popular preference or committee. Science has indicated that a decision arrived at by committee is almost always a better bet than one arrived at by an individual, based upon a collective frame of references, etc. I don't know if this goes for aesthetic matters as well, but I find it interesting how very little faith many posters on this forum seem to have in their sensibilities. I am not referring to anyone in particular, by the way, and this is not an attack -- but there does often seem to be an overwhelming need by many posters for acceptance; to be safe inside the little box, just outside of the box, if you will.
I often dither on the details myself; matte or gloss; high or low; brown or red. But once I get it right, I am solidly faithful to the end result -- perhaps even defiant. I don't sense the same on this forum very much, and it makes me wonder why.
Just some food for thought to start your weekend with...
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Because consumption of gratuitous design is fashionable right now, its the new thing to do! Yay! or not. Lets splash cash on anything that means we're with it.
And when people are following a fashion they don't know if the bell bottoms match the plimsolls because the idea that there is a principle behind any behaviour or product doesn't occur to them.
I think at heart Tynell probably really likes the chair becuase its not taking itself seriously and feels a contradiction between this and how seriously design usually takes itself...so is a little unsure, perfectly understandable.
Or maybe it was just a facetious comment?
I like the chair, the idea is silly and its smart, just like Borat.
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posted by
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Ha
coincidences abound - I was just talking about 'glaming' up the Eames at work the other days.
In my opinion this chair is a little funny, but not enough. If you're going to 'tribute' the Eames you've got to do it in a way that reflects not only your adoring devotion, but also their own sensibilities. This chair would have had me rolling on the floor if it was a beat up old greige armshell - something totally common - and the shockmounts had been gilded. Or the feet pads.
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blingtastic!
i would probably bid on it if it was encrusted with some cubic zirconias... or at least rhinestones.
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11-Jul-08 |
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here are my thoughts on this piece.
i see the arm shell chair as sculpture and especially the version on the eiffel base.
the addition of gold leaf to the piece makes it seem more of a sculpture , finished, rather than the base fibreglass.
don't get me wrong, i am not about to gold leaf my evans lcws, or my three legged dcm, but i like that someone had the balls to do this in the first place. we are slowly (or some quicker than others) getting a little high strung over such cheap(at the time)objects and adding this bit of whimsy, my most reviled word btw , but i will use it here, lessens the aggressive attitude some are feeling towards keeping items as real and original as possible.
i myself and somewhat of a purist when it comes to rare or early pieces. i have had them all from prototype on and would never even consider touching an original finish. a basic chair however to me is fair game.
what i am saying is, this chair is a basic arm shell. not a zenith piece, not even a rare or unusual colour, so spraypaint it, stencil it, dip it in rubber... whatever. who cares? if it makes you happy or even if it becomes a conversation piece, enjoy it at that level.
and for all you who think Charles and Ray would be rolling in their collective graves..... think about the gold-leafed coffee table they had in their living space for decades.. they were certainly not afraid to spice it up once in a while.. and they would most assuredly be stoked to see the ambiguous design lightened up. i believe somewhere, charles is smiling at the mere thought of a gold leafed arm shell. ray might be too.
now you will excuse me while i gold leaf my rosewood lounge and ottoman, and have the ambassador leather reupholstered in ostrich skin. ; P
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posted by
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11-Jul-08 |
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imo
it seems like an "elaborate" attempt to make money off a chair which was probably in sub-par cosmetic condition.
but if someone else likes it and is willing to pay for it, more power to them!
the custom sticker is a nice touch..........
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Blinkin' not for me
I like things left in there original state. But, I guess they accomplished what they set out to do. Unless that chair is solid gold I wouldn't bid, and if it was I would bid and melt it down. Now, I'm just wondering if that stuff could possible be sand-blasted? There's a thought. But hey we're all different, if you like it more power to you.
Hmmm, a rhinestone Chair...that I would have to see. I'm sure its out there, anyone...anyone...
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posted by
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The
link doesn't seem to work.. so I C&Pd
'To celebrate 50 years of the iconic Arne Jacobsen Egg chair, artist Tal R has created 50 unique designs of the chair, which were revealed this past week at the furniture fair in Milan. The 50 designs will be exhibited at Galleria Carla Sozzani through April 27, and then will travel to galleries and museums around the world.'
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were they done by bk upholstery.... jklolololololol.
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When in doubt
We used to have an expression in art school:
If you can't make it good, make it big.
If you can't make it big, paint it red.
I love the idea of goofing off with Eames chairs. Someone on this forum once posted a side shell that had been auto-painted a pearl red with a college sports team logo in the center. Brilliantly tacky!
like I said before - this piece is funny, but not funny enough. What if he had sent it to LRF for recovering - in mauve chintz with cabbage roses? Or what if he had hand painted a portrait of Charles & Ray right on the seat. This is, as noted above, an attempt at ganking more money for something than it's worth.
Speaking of worth - Tnellbuyer - that three legged DCM is totally worthless...send it to my house and I'll dispose of it for you :-D
A few silly images...some intentional, some not.
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Robert
The patchwork quilt eggs are the worst ever. They really make me cringe. Now the armshell with illustrations is kind of neat. I have always thought sending some to LRF and getting weird fabrics would be funny. A floral? Maybe a plaid (would actually be cool)? Something extremely French? Patterned red silk?
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I do love art.
You know LuciferSum these are actually sweet. The assorted HM bench is great, the Eames chair is what I would call creative...the 3-eyed Monster Lounger, tacky-wacky.
Ohhhwoowza! The patchwork quilt eggs are the worst ever. (Ditto) You really shouldn't hire quilt makers for an upholstery job. I think this picture should go under "laughably crap replicas" yeah not a replica but CRAP indeed. Luckily, they can be saved.
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News item
I think I remember reading about those eggs in USA Today a while back. Apparently this DWR truck collided with an Amish buggy. . . .
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I totally Agree!
Just another 'Concept over Execution' in the name of 'Art'
The concept should never be more important that the execution..never ..ever
If you look at modern artists working in 'craft' say Mark Quinn, Damien Hirst or The Chapman Brothers..those works are beautifully executed..
Ideas and concepts are like arseholes..everybody has one..
...until these concepts are beautifully realised they are worthless..
I don't care that the 'artist' says they should look home made..this work is supposed to be celebration of the chair..not a massage for his artistic ego
it is a huge let down for the chair, and is the antithesis of the what the chair is about.. very poor
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posted by
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Wow
from the sentiments it seems like I'm the only one who likes the patchwork eggs.
I think they're exactly the kind of humor we've been talking about here. I certainly dont take them seriously as a sole expression of Jacobsen's designs. But in the right context...
I can imagine one of the US Flag ones in a psuedo modern Cap Cod cottage - preferrably next to a floral couch with a dust ruffle, and a Windsor rocking chair. Maybe a fireplace, some rusty whitewashed andirons.
Or perhaps one of the crazy color patchworks in a super-chic white box minimalist loft. Japan meets Amish country as someone pointed out.
To me the patchwork is a direct reference back to the playfulness of Panton and the kind of exuberant love of unique forms/playful colors that Fritz had in the 60s and the 70s.
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Sure, I like the *idea* of an unexpected chair upholstered in the US flag in a Cape Cod cottage........
but I don't think this is the chair..or it has been properly executed, had it been, I wouldn't question it..
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I'm not big on the design mee...
I'm not big on the design meets humor aesthetic. I just like regular old stuffy perfect design!
If I want to laugh I'll throw in a Will Ferrel DVD. I'd prefer not to laugh at my own design decisions.
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How about an Egg upholstered...
How about an Egg upholstered in a Dilbert printed cotton?
I do know what you mean, I find the gilded chair funny but its only funny once and an essay on the contradictions in the design industry would be far more rewarding. But no one would read it and I suspect a lot of people would look at the gold chair and think "duh cool I want one".
The patchwork Egg chairs I can't grasp at all, if it was PK his wife would be having conniptions, I wonder what they'll F up next?
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Don't take offense; I have an odd sense of humor.
yeah I'm with Whitespike on this one, I know everyone is entitled to there own opinions. But to me the gold seems like something you'd learn off PBS. How about we all sit-down and watch a DVD on one stroke roses, so I can start painting my beloved pieces. I just think some things are better left as-is. Different styles sometimes don't mesh. I may sound boring to some but that is just me.
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It seems the current trend is...
It seems the current trend is to favor wittiness over good design. Sometimes you can have both, but there is a fine line. There is evidence in the tendency to mix the ornate and the modern together (when done correctly this is a nice departure) or to add tiki or retro elements to otherwise throughly modern efforts. In the end, pure design will win overall. Throwing together disparate objects for shock value looses it's shock value almost instantly. Honest beauty is forever. It's statement is always valid.
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posted by
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Whenever I see this design,...
Whenever I see this design, I still think of this chair embellished by Steinberg's illustration. It is emblazoned in my mind in that way, as I saw a period B&W photo of it in a book many years ago before being really familiar with the Eameses work (I knew their films before I knew their furniture) I like it. It is fun.
Apologies for attempting to get cerebral (read, HEAVY man) regarding how impressionable people are when it comes to their taste or instincts. I noticed that was quickly brushed off like a bit of dog hair from a double-knit trouser leg. My genuine fear is that things (no matter how beautiful) could get very samey if one purist template were to emerge for how things should look and be and correspond with other things. I see a lot of uniformity around me, and it doesn't strike me as a good thing.
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however...
painting something gold doesn't exactly make it better (or different).......
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Gold has connotations, plasti...
Gold has connotations, plastic has connotations, its at the very least an amusing juxtaposition. Finch is rightly concerned about how homogenous or shallow peoples ideas about design are ,design itself is not so homogenous now, perhaps even not enough.
I get concerned that for all the emerging visual literacy people are supposed to have (not so much here, but further afield) many can't read a design or artwork beyond its surface.
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Apparently, comic standards are low, when it comes to art and design
Woody Allen movies are funny, old issues of National Lampoon are irreverent, George Bernard Shaw plays are witty.
A commonplace piece of furniture juxtaposed with a luxe material (or, vice versa -- a rarefied piece upholstered with something low) just never does it for me, sorry to say. Do we call these things "witty" just to acknowledge that we "get" the intended joke?
Seventy(+) years after Merit Oppenheim's fur tea cup, the joke's wearing thin, dontcha think?
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I agree oddly enough, it is a...
I agree oddly enough, it is a fairly 'low' joke but a lot of people, especially the thousands salivating over Eames chairs on ebay couldn't even grasp something that thin.
Perhaps I am underestimating the consumer.
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yes I agree, both materials...
yes I agree, but it is the juxtaposing that slays the cow in a few not so subtle ways. Plastics will inevitably increase in value though its allways been held as cheap, but not in the collectors market, but that was its original promise, etc etc, most people here can read this much into the chair I'm sure.
What about the ceramicist who casts porcelain teapots in the shape of plumbing fittings? Is that witty? Not to me, maybe I don't get that one. Or when Droog insert chair back into logs to make benches, theres all sorts of wit around and I suppose it just depends on if you think its sophisticated or not.
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great to read how much co...
great to read how much comment this chair has generated as it proves what this thing that we call a forum is all about,
The gold chair looks like something given away on Regis and Kelly , last week they gave the golden slipper, for high heel running, the golden fork, for grilling, the golden stool, for entrainment, so this could fit nicely with design if Gelman the producer buys it on ebay,
but on the other hand this is what make the world go around.
Girard had Brannif jets painted colors , Caulder did designes on the Jets, Roy Licenstine, painted BMWs, The Eames loved Stinebergs painting on their shell chairs,
If you all knew how difficult to redo a egg chair you would cringe so it must really mean something for Fritz Hansen to get behind the quilt project
who knows maybe it benefits AIDS cause quilts are the purest form of art work, and really are something if you study them but on a egg chair not my first, choice,
The last thing is color,
I live with it every day meaning my home and my wife who is the most colorful person on the planet, who else would have the foyer of our home painted , raspberry, the walls orange,
the dinning room citrus, and love it as well as 125 people who toured the home from the Architectural Society, in May.
I get about 50 shell chairs a month and most all want to be different after they have a conversation with me, most thing that putting Miller stripe on the chair, is stepping, out but Girard was doing this almost 50 years ago,
so next time you pass a vintage piece of furniture think what it would look like in Purple, or Red or Pink?
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Lloyd is right
I recently saw Jehane Kuhn speak - she worked at the Eames Office for the last decade of it's existence. When I asked her about the idea of reverence - that these pieces were icons her reply was basically - prototypes were treated with due respect to their history - but everyone around the office used whichever production chairs they could find. The furniture wasnt taken as seriously as the function it provided.
If too much reverence is placed on items they lose their purpose - like a hollow ritual instead of a living ceremony. While I probably wouldnt have a patchwork Egg chair I am happy that they are available. It shows that Fritz Hansen doesnt take themselves too seriously. This is, after all, the company that produced much of Panton's work....and Panton was NOT about being serious.
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Hmmm.
Yeah, I agree to some extent.
I am after all an art major therefore unless the artist can articulate "there vision" I call it everyday things bunched up together design as it maybe even for there basic elements (material, shapes, color etc.).
Kind of like a pile of garage, is trash art? Sure I guess it depends how you see it. I just don't want it in my house. :D
http://everydaytrash.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/trashtastic-t/...
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Appropriate
From the perspective of a designer, I still think "it's just stuff, have at it, there are other things in life that may actually be sacred". For me personally, it would be great as a salvage project for a shell that had been drilled, cracked or terribly stained (we don't know what this one was like). Ive seen them get tossed for these flaws. It could be appropriate like what LRF does with his upholstering of shells. Don't be wastefull. Specifically for our gold one, I like it. It slays Ideas of preciousness with one big gesture. Especially on a shell that was never intended to be precious in the first place. To see how this works, imagine the same treatment done to a 670. It wouldn't work because they are already precious. So if it was intended as an artistic statement, it very clearly speaks to the human condition of obsessiveness in a decisive way. and clarity of message is one of the main goals of artistic speech. Perhaps the message bothers some posters here, but it put a big smile on my face.
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i think...
you're reading too much into it.
the seller / "artist" is just trying to make some $$$.
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The sculpture doesn't make sense because its Dada.
Looking at what the combination of plastic and gold might mean is about the simplest reading possible, what the makers intention was isn't that relevant once it gets into public view, a naive peice might have connotations undreamt of by the artist.
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I am reading too much into it. I didn't pay attention to the description. So also, are all who thought it was cheap humor. The description has it as reverent flattery. Seems like it would only work for that if it were a redone basket case. The description does not specify, however. I wish it had been as my previous post. It would have been a keen observation in visual form. pity.
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I have looked at the ...
I have looked at the Gold eames chair several times and have reevaluated it and i am sure some will strongly disagree with me cause i am in the business of redoing cool chairs, but in my humble opinion it is one ugly chair, really ugly, stupid ugly, yes that is how I feel, something that someone would give as a gag gift at a benefit
the ebay owner does not have an idea on how to respond to a question as i have written asking him two, so the DA person who said he made it for a quick buck is right on!!!
as of this posting no one is tearing down the ebay sight to buy it, and i doubt that it will even draw a bid, and my question if it does is Why would any one want to buy it .
I will be more than delighted to recover it for a modest fee, as you would be getting a good deal on the dow base,
Once again this is my opinion and i think it is ugly stuff.
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Eureka!
A bid has been placed.
Who here wants to fess up to it??
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There was a feature in one...
There was a feature in one of the Sunday magazines a few years ago on fashion designer Sonia Rykiels Paris apartment, she had an Eames lounger and ottoman re upholstered in Kaffe Fassett needlepoint, it looked great!
Couldn?t find a pic unfortunately :(
http://www.kaffefassett.com/
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Woohoo
The golden Eames is going to Italy!
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Hm
..might just work in some gilded palazzo on the Grand Canal I guess ;)
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only if it has batteries...
I liked the gilded shell a little. But off to Italia it is.
Do they accept chairs? I know they do not allow shoes through customs.
They have enough shoes i suppose.
In the late 80's i was gilding everything, even my shoes. Doc Martins.
We were also peg-legging our levis. Ew.
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"Gold chair goes to Italy" could be a low budget film?!
Heath, that lounger isn't that bad I actually like it. It must be the setting it is in, so if the environment is right some "funkiness" does work. BUT, still hating the gold chair. And here I thought I was a purist...hmmmm
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yeah that sort of room is...
yeah that sort of room is unselfconsciously self conscious, if you get my silly drift :) Its why I liked the gold chair, no one with that chair has one of those painful houses where the Georg Jensen ashtray perfectly captures the reflections from the symetrically positioned Panton lamps *big groan*
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i have 23 shell chairs ma...
i have 23 shell chairs maybe i should paint them All gold and put them on ebay with 120 dowel wood base . and i too can get 450..
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Heath
Thats what I'm talking about!!! Love the Eames Lounge!! But even that is too 'good' when done in the Panton fabric. Imagine it in a bad 50's floral print. Or in some thick, shaggy flokati!
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HAHAHAHA
Litteraly laughed out loud on the LCW picture. Amazing! WTF are people thinking? "oops... we bought lounge chairs and we really wanted dining chairs....Ta DA!! Problem solved!"
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Hmm
That's actually quite beautifully executed
Not quite sure how I feel about that one ..
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I'm going to say that series...
I'm going to say that series 7 chair is only for visual purposes (art)? It isn't functional for its intended purpose (I dare you too), but I bet it does cast a cool shadow.
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RAR Nascar Edition
This shell was sold previously and is now being re-sold. Painted white with black racing stripe.
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Salinger and that anal pansy...
Salinger and that anal pansy whitespike are spot on. Humorous design/art, while possibly mildly humorous at times(though not likely), has the staying power of Michael Bolton.
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Michael who?
Just kidding, love that guy.
Miss his old hairdo though.
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Cool R/B, Jeremiah 1223
I was intending to do the red blue in tubular steel and acrylic! Never got round to it. I also had some PEL chairs I was going to chrome plate and change the wooden seat and back for acrylic!
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I think a lot of the...
I think a lot of the postmodern arguments about furniture being "witty" or "amusing" neglect the role the stuff actually plays in one's life--imagine a guy who told the same joke every night at your cocktail party: no matter how good a joke it was, after a few months few people would characterize that guy as "witty" or "amusing"....
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In fact I do!
Don't tell me that he cut his hair off as well??!!!!111
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posted by
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no.
woody.. not redone. the weirdness is the glue under the foil label. forms under the raised sections of the tag. have had a few in that shape in the past..
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270262276268
"Add this authentic Knoll label [which costs $100] to any of your vintage knoll item's and increase the value by hundreds of dollars"
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the fun thing is that the...
the fun thing is that the puzzle-leather Loungechair was shown at a furniture fair by Herman Miller in 2006 to "celebrate" the 50th anniversary of 670/671... sick
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Recurring theme
I'm noticing a recurring toilet theme here lately. Perhaps we should start a new thread devoted to crap loo design?
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that kid cannot be comfortable in that chair, check out his legs ouch. And poor chair I don't see why they had to cut holes in it. As for the Eames poddy chair, I'm speachless.
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Its post post post post modern
I like it too. Its the Jeff Koons of modern design. This would not be wonderful without the "high art" influence of folks like Koons--it seriously ironic and wonderful and tacky all at once. Thebride.
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I am the Artist
I am the Artist that modified the cream shell with the "reverse zebra pattern" and the so called "chocolate dipped" shell seen in other threads. Critics tend to use analogies and philosophy to describe art, Artist just create.
To those who hold a mass produced piece of plastic to a higher standard because the item was designed by great minds such as the Eames' that is fine. I saw an ordinary item, a blank item and just could not help myself.
Jake- modernmovements@gmail.com
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show me your work
No, I did not create the Eames shell chair, just as the Eames' did not create the first ever chair. I am sure when they unveiled their first design for the side shell chair their were also closed minded people like you that were unwilling to accept new ideas.
The fact that the Zebra shell I painted was purchased by the Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art must say something.
So show me your work lunchbox. Are you an interior designer? Do you arrange other's designs? Is that not creating a new design from other designs?
Jake-modernmovements@gmail.com
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Laughable...
Your ridiculous comparison of yourself to the creator of this design. Sad, really. All you've done in effect is taken a classic design and made it your canvas. Zebra stripes. Wow. I assure you it would not have sold had you chosen some lesser design. And don't quiz me about my work. You're the one who came on this forum to toot your own horn. But it is impressive your intuition. To think me an interior designer... What vision.
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thanks for supporting my point
previous post by LRF
Girard had Brannif jets painted colors , Caulder did designes on the Jets, Roy Licenstine, painted BMWs, The Eames loved Stinebergs painting on their shell chairs,
If you all knew how difficult to redo a egg chair you would cringe so it must really mean something for Fritz Hansen to get behind the quilt project
who knows maybe it benefits AIDS cause quilts are the purest form of art work, and really are something if you study them but on a egg chair not my first, choice,
The last thing is color,
I live with it every day meaning my home and my wife who is the most colorful person on the planet, who else would have the foyer of our home painted , raspberry, the walls orange,
the dinning room citrus, and love it as well as 125 people who toured the home from the Architectural Society, in May.
I get about 50 shell chairs a month and most all want to be different after they have a conversation with me, most thing that putting Miller stripe on the chair, is stepping, out but Girard was doing this almost 50 years ago,
so next time you pass a vintage piece of furniture think what it would look like in Purple, or Red or Pink?
The Eames' where all about progression and creativity.
Sure not everything I or anyone else creates is always going to be great, it's part of the process.
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Right...
If you will then, do me the pleasure of explaining how your paint added to a shell chair is progress...
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"I am sure when they...
"I am sure when they unveiled their first design for the side shell chair their were also closed minded people like you that were unwilling to accept new ideas."
Not being rude, but painting on a chair is not a new idea. The Eameses interpretation of what a chair is was a new idea. Apples to oranges.
I write songs. If someone doesn't like my songs. Fine. But I don't tout my songs as new ideas, or as a new sound. I rip off the best, my dear sir ;)
To me, painting on an Eames chair, while not sacrilegious, is in questionable taste. And it's just a little predictable. Just my humble opinion.
There was an artist who took really nice vintage or new classic pieces and burned them just enough that you could tell what their iconic silhouette was under the charred black surface. Now, while painful, that was kind of original.
Maybe it's just my distaste for animal prints ... or for people who call themselves artists in general (I prefer artists who just call themselves people).
Either way, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Lastly, just because someone is the director of a contemporary art museum doesn't grant him impeccable taste from the design gods. I know some pretty shite architects, painters, what have you. People get jobs for all sorts of reasons .....
Cheers.
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WOW
I shudder to think what his interior looks like.
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Below is my all time...
Below is my all time favorite. I tremble as such, that I feel like a newborn kitten at play in the verdant pastures of life.
mew...mew
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why settle?
Why settle for a plain old simple, aethetically pleasing, and perfectly functional Eames chair when - and this is for a LIMITED TIME ONLY - you can get one decked out in pink house paint!?
And woof woof... I think you're doling out a little too much praise with that online-design-degree....this is more what I'm thinking:
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