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In the early 1950’s my parents bought a modern, Danish style set of table and chairs that fit quite well in the dining area of the tenement apartment where I grew up until age 11. This is when Danish furniture was something new and exciting and Ikea did not exist. The furniture my parents actually bought was Danish style American made by Paul McCobb. The table is long gone, given away to a cousin, and eventually discarded. But the chairs I have always liked and over the past twenty years, all but one of the set of six have migrated to my apartment.
The newsworthy bit of all of this is that after 60 years the glue that holds the legs on is starting to fail and several legs have collapsed, requiring a repair. The legs are threaded and screwed into threaded holes in the chair bottom. Wooden pads build up the thickness around the leg sockets. The pads were simply glued on with four small nails to keep them steady while the glue dried. Wood movement over the years has caused the pads to crack and the glue, which was originally poorly and spottily applied, has given way on many chairs, causing the leg to fail.
If the leg comes completely off, what I do is clean off the glue, and reglue the pad and leg on. This seems to work. But on some legs the pad has begun to give way but isn’t exactly off, and the leg cannot be just unscrewed. My solution, which is really just a patch, is to force glue into the joint, apply a little pressure and then hope it all sticks. The glue being stronger than the wood.
Many years ago I learned this trick from Maurice Fraser to force the glue deep into the joint (which is critical). Ideally you use a piece of cellophane wrapper from a pack of cigarettes (preferably Will’s Gold Flake). It’s thin and rigid. Sadly I don’t smoke so I didn’t have any cellophane but I did have a lot of plastic wrap. This didn’t work as well but it worked pretty well. You have to be careful as the plastic wrap bunches up as you slide it in and out of the joint. What you do is apply a lot of glue on the outside of the joint and then try to slide a single layer of plastic in and out of the joint pushing and spreading the glue into the joint. Then clamp or squeeze shut the joint and let the glue dry. It works pretty well. Not as well as being able to take apart the joint and cleaning and preparing fresh surfaces, but it’s better than nothing. This is a handy trick to use on any glue starved joint where fully dissembling the item is impractical.
I used yellow glue, another option would be Old Brown Hide Glue, which now that i think of it might be stronger, and of course Old Brown is reversible.
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This “Tools & Craft” section is provided courtesy of Joel Moskowitz, founder of Tools for Working Wood, the Brooklyn-based catalog retailer of everything from hand tools to Festool; check out their online shop here. Joel also founded Gramercy Tools, the award-winning boutique manufacturer of hand tools made the old-fashioned way: Built to work and built to last.
Fuyuu is a set of wireless speakers inspired by the Japanese concept of shibusa—a subdued experience of intrinsically fine quality, with economy of line and form. Currently, wireless speakers all skew toward soft, geometric shapes. Fuyuu purports a different design language, bringing a form factor with more permanence and more of a presence.
Equipped with 4 tweeters, 5 midrange woofers, and 4 subwoofers, Fuyuu delivers high quality sound in an evocative form factor. With Bamboo veneer panels and Kvadrat fabric, both the audible and tangible aesthetics of Fuyuu resonate with thoughtfulness and considered design.
Leveraging a hybrid-API approach, Fuyuu syncs with existing music streaming apps, allowing users to carry over their music and taste. At the same time, a “Fuyuu-specific” profile is generated on these apps, allowing playlists to be tailored to the specific settings in which users listen to Fuyuu speakers.
Suspended from the ceiling of Seoul’s Gana Art Gallery is COS and Snarkitecture’s latest collaboration: a huge, lilac-colored marble run. The installation (titled “Loop”) has four tracks on which every five seconds, a glass marble is released and travels……
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by Sun Bak
We’ve been longtime devotees of Lazy Oaf, the fun London-based label that truly lets you wear your (even most curmudgeonly) feelings on your sleeves. Founder Gemma Shiel launches new pet project G.E.M. today, and the statement pieces……
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Dezeen promotion: this year’s Sleep – an annual gathering for hotel architects and designers – will focus on the role of design in creating loyal, returning hotel guests.
The two-day event takes place from 21 to 22 November 2017 at London’s Business Design Centre. It will include a range of installations, exhibitions, networking opportunities and panel discussions.
To follow this year’s theme, the Sleep Set competition will ask five creative studios to design guest rooms that explore “loyalty to the planet, the neighbourhood, the hotel and to one’s self”.
The participants – Stonehill and Taylor, MKV Design, 1508 London and Il Prisma – will present their concepts to a panel of judges and a conference audience.
This will be accompanied by a pop-up bar designed by Moscow-based studio Sundukovy Sisters, which aims to “emphasise the importance of human interaction in eliciting loyalty between people but loyalty between brands and individuals”.
Attendees will also be able to attend a free conference on hospitality design, its challenges and future, which will be led by Paris-based architect Tristan Auer and New York architect Jeffrey Beers.
Panel discussions will include a talk on “post-cool” hotels and an exploration of “slow design”, where international designers will debate what it takes to create spaces, products and brands that enhance everyday living.
On display will be Italian design studio Egoluce‘s Megavide – a lamp designed for both indoor and outdoor use – as well as the upcoming autumn winter collection from London-based fabric supplier Kai. Other exhibitors include Sans Souci, Ercol, Ligne Roset, Laufen, Chelsom, Alpi and Fabbian.
Visit the Sleep Event website to find out more about the conference, exhibition and design features, and to register for a complimentary pass.
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