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In Reply to: RE: Can you identify these components? posted by BillH on May 03, 2017 at 13:32:55
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I can't compete with the dead (Buck W. 2010)
$45 gets them out the door tomorrow. $50 gets them out the door yesterday (Byrd 2016)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
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...all are very cool (or at least kinda' cool) on the outside and very stark, uncomfortable and borderline boring on the inside.
Its almost as if he didn't design homes to be lived in... as if the inside was an afterthought.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
spoiled it for me
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
I think it was a "rec room," which were popular then. I can imagine kids dancing there, or maybe a pool or a Ping-Pong table.
It's likely they didn't listen to music the way we listen to music. But the shape of the room has potential as a listening room, IMHO. Place a couple of chairs or a sofa at the long edge of the carpet, take out the center benches along the short wall, and go from there.
The seating facilities look cold and antisocial. It might be good for a doctor's office or a shoe store though. And the stereo speaker placement is just for background noise, while the patients wait. And, I only see one electrical outlet for laptops and no USB ports! :^) It is a good place for swingers though.
Frank Lloyd Wright built a lot of, Ok I'm going to say it, "crap" perment fixed furniture designs like that. If you ever go to his Taliesan West house in Scottsdale, don't make a special trip, that is exactly how the living room is built. Long built in bench seats against the wall with some funky shelving units.The killer of all this is on the tours photography is STRICTLY forbidden. Like someone is really going to build that stuff today. The FLW people are friggin insane and about 60 years out of touch. As a furniture builder you can't even buy or get plans for their chairs or other pieces - luckily.
FLW was an great artist but a poor architect. The overall plans "look great" but I don't think they were designed to actually be live in.
Edits: 05/06/17
I think airtime paints with too broad a brush, but it seems widely acknowledged that FLW furniture tends to be impractical and uncomfortable. OTOH, much of his architecture is beautiful and functional.
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I think his architecture is beautiful. It's like living inside a piece of art work. And about as functional as living inside a piece of art work. Having a degree in architectural drafting/engineering we studied several of his designs.
If you tried pulling that on a real client, even if they WANTED art, you would have been out of a job.
He drew out the concept and left the devil in the details to the poor engineers that obeyed as commanded - poor bastards!
As my drafting teacher said to me, "hey kid do you have an uncle in this business?" And recommended I start thinking of another career.
I designed the ceiling.
I can't compete with the dead (Buck W. 2010)
$45 gets them out the door tomorrow. $50 gets them out the door yesterday (Byrd 2016)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Edits: 05/04/17
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