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SkyeAuroline posted:Okay, I know. It's ancient by American standards. It's weirdly constructed. It's been refitted over time. The log cabin part is one of the oldest surviving wooden structures in the Western Hemisphere (its competition is a carpenter's shed in NY) and is better preserved with fewer modifications than the houses at Plymouth Colony built in the same era. The fact that it is still standing at all is a minor miracle.
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Youth Decay posted:The log cabin part is one of the oldest surviving wooden structures in the Western Hemisphere (its competition is a carpenter's shed in NY) and is better preserved with fewer modifications than the houses at Plymouth Colony built in the same era. The fact that it is still standing at all is a minor miracle. Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I seriously respect the preservation - although, is that grafted-on roof "fewer modifications"? If so I'm a little scared to see those.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I seriously respect the preservation - although, is that grafted-on roof "fewer modifications"? If so I'm a little scared to see those. Oddly the photo in its Wikipedia page taken in 2010 has a slightly different roof  Apparently they were trying to sell it for $2.9 million in 2017. The old lady who's owned it for 50+ years and lives in the 18th century addition seems very reluctant to part with it. There are a bunch of articles and videos of it showing the amount of maintenance that they have to do to keep the place up, definitely a labor of love.
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Who doesn’t want to live in the local museums recreation of a colonial shack
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I'm pretty sure I saw a fireman pole in the Lake Arrowhead, CA one, which is absolutely baller. The house has so many weird but cool decisions in it. I love it.
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Did the pole still work?
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This room and especially the fireplace are ugly as all hell. The rest is fine, I guess, if you want to play indoor hockey.
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do you know what chair that is? pretty sure it's the same one from the Sopranos that the psychiatrist always sat in. Maybe it's one of those Piersall ones?
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IDK but there's plenty of knockoffs found under "wood and fabric mid century lounge chair"
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yeah that's not surprising. I figure the one in the picture is authentic given it's the loving Vanderbilts. It does seem like that style
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actionjackson posted:yeah that's not surprising. I figure the one in the picture is authentic given it's the loving Vanderbilts. It does seem like that style That condo is near Vanderbilt Avenue, not actually owned by the Vanderbilts. It looks like typical NYC apartment staging to me.
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Youth Decay posted:That condo is near Vanderbilt Avenue, not actually owned by the Vanderbilts. It looks like typical NYC apartment staging to me. oh poo poo haha whoops
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My cousin-in-law got married at Elm Court about 10(?) years ago and it was exceedingly swanky. We stayed in one of the restored rooms and felt like we were trespassing.
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Youth Decay posted:
I’m concerned I’ve not spent enough on windows, any suggestions? Yes, why not replace some internal walls with the most expensive windows ever conceived.
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If this is their understated I don't want to see their outlandish.
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Azza Bamboo posted:If this is their understated I don't want to see their outlandish. here's the interior designer's website http://angelicahenrydesign.com/ she has a thing for wacky sinks     edit: forgot this one  Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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Look at the effort that went into making sure the plug sockets match the stone! Also that last sink looks like it'd dump water on the floor every time you turn the rod more than 15 degrees from the center.
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jesus christ why would you ever desire any of those sinks
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They're trying to invoke the sublime by challenging what it is to be a sink: playing with its form and materials. It's a cute concept, but it's so heavily focused on the individual's own idea that it's almost masturbatory in its existence. This demonstrates no practical skill like the gaudy rococo sinks of French manors, nor does it demonstrate any consideration to function like the typical porcelain sink. These sinks are merely an idea someone had the funds and the contacts to bring into being. As a work of art it's on the same level as those YouTube videos where chirpy Australians decide what next to throw off a large tower. Valid, but vacuous and self aggrandising no less, much like this post.
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actionjackson posted:do you know what chair that is? pretty sure it's the same one from the Sopranos that the psychiatrist always sat in. Maybe it's one of those Piersall ones? It’s a Selig “Z Chair”.
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kreeningsons posted:It’s a Selig “Z Chair”. nice thank you friend
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Oh man I love this kitchen And this house. All that brick and wood inside is so good.
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It's great but there's still a part of me that thinks you could put an extra room in that ceiling space.
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Elder Postsman posted:
Agreed. There's something very homey and comforting about that particular 70s interior vibe.
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Iconic Italian lighting designer and co founder of Artemide, Ernesto Gismondi died right before New Years. I was lucky enough to find an early model of the “Sintesi” lamp at a thrift store a few years back, which was the first lamp he designed in 1975. Fun fact about Gismondi, he had degrees in and taught aeronautical engineering and missile design and I can sense it in this early design. (See John Belushi’s apartment in my previous post for an example in situ).   The Discovery lighting he designed a few years back looks really cool. Transparent sheets that diffuse a perfectly even rectangle (or circle) of light. I really hope the rectangular versions are available long enough for me to afford one some day.  His company’s roster is extremely impressive. IN-EI collaboration with Issey Miyake in 2012:  The Tizio lamp which pretty much became shorthand for high tech design for a full decade:  Truly a powerhouse of Italian design, cutting edge lighting and materials application, and a huge loss to the design world.
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For the "understated" Arizona one, I did a little stalking and apparently a lot of the furnishings were designed/executed by the homeowner, who's majorly into woodworking http://angelicahenrydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/PHG-Sept-2014-article.pdf
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kreeningsons posted:Iconic Italian lighting designer and co founder of Artemide, Ernesto Gismondi died right before New Years. Which decade was that? I worked at an engineering company that also did ~design~ and we had those as desk lamps. They probably got them in 2010ish.
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:Which decade was that? I worked at an engineering company that also did ~design~ and we had those as desk lamps. They probably got them in 2010ish. It was introduced in the 1970s and into the 1980s these would be featured in countless magazines and at trendy design companies. Esprit (the clothing company) had these on the desks at one of their headquarters. I believe it’s still produced, but with LEDs instead of the original halogen light bulb that got screaming hot.
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Azza Bamboo posted:They're trying to invoke the sublime by challenging what it is to be a sink: playing with its form and materials. It's a cute concept, but it's so heavily focused on the individual's own idea that it's almost masturbatory in its existence. This demonstrates no practical skill like the gaudy rococo sinks of French manors, nor does it demonstrate any consideration to function like the typical porcelain sink. These sinks are merely an idea someone had the funds and the contacts to bring into being. As a work of art it's on the same level as those YouTube videos where chirpy Australians decide what next to throw off a large tower. Valid, but vacuous and self aggrandising no less, much like this post. hey fuk u watching dudes throw poo poo off tall poo poo inspires the gently caress outta me to think of my own things to throw off the top of tall poo poo.
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kreeningsons posted:It was introduced in the 1970s and into the 1980s these would be featured in countless magazines and at trendy design companies. Esprit (the clothing company) had these on the desks at one of their headquarters. that's pretty awesome. do you like anglepoise? I just picked up a tolomeo mini for a friend at an office liquidation place for hella cheap. a bit too industrial for my own tastes
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actionjackson posted:that's pretty awesome. do you like anglepoise? I’ve always wanted to gently caress around with one of the anglepoise giants so I can pretend that I’m a doll in my doll house surrounded by normal sized objects 
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Azza Bamboo posted:They're trying to invoke the sublime by challenging what it is to be a sink: playing with its form and materials. It's a cute concept, but it's so heavily focused on the individual's own idea that it's almost masturbatory in its existence. This demonstrates no practical skill like the gaudy rococo sinks of French manors, nor does it demonstrate any consideration to function like the typical porcelain sink. These sinks are merely an idea someone had the funds and the contacts to bring into being. As a work of art it's on the same level as those YouTube videos where chirpy Australians decide what next to throw off a large tower. Valid, but vacuous and self aggrandising no less, much like this post. I sort of like the concept a few of them are going for, but I would appreciate more focus on function. Like that one that's just a kind of natural-looking depression, I could see that as a nice theme piece in a further nature-themed bathroom- wait, shower gravel, abort, abort. But no, if you made it, like, a constant flow and deep/wide enough that you could actually wash your hands in it, it would be like washing your hands in a mountain stream, and if that's an aesthetic you're going for, I can get behind it. Granted, the only constant-flow plumbing I've ever seen was at Evans Plunge, a hot spring water park.
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Azza Bamboo posted:They're trying to invoke the sublime by challenging what it is to be a sink: playing with its form and materials. It's a cute concept, but it's so heavily focused on the individual's own idea that it's almost masturbatory in its existence. This demonstrates no practical skill like the gaudy rococo sinks of French manors, nor does it demonstrate any consideration to function like the typical porcelain sink. These sinks are merely an idea someone had the funds and the contacts to bring into being. As a work of art it's on the same level as those YouTube videos where chirpy Australians decide what next to throw off a large tower. Valid, but vacuous and self aggrandising no less, much like this post. are you the sinkreviews tiktokker and/or are you familiar with their work
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I had my interior designer come by today, very excited for my living room plan. still waiting for my rug :/ side table (in blue) https://www.dwr.com/living-side-end-tables/circoe-table/2197483.html?lang=en_US very affordable, probably because the legs are rubberwood this ottoman (in charcoal) https://www.bludot.com/hecks-ottoman.html so the idea is i have this bluish gray sofa, blue table, black hexagon ottoman, mostly blue rug. this lamp by the sofa https://www.dwr.com/lighting-floor/yuh-floor-lamp/100106282.html?lang=en_US okay before you start laughing too hard, ONLY if it goes on floor sale. i'd pay like 500 for a super high quality floor lamp, but above that you are just paying for a name. but i love that lamp in the other corner, this lamp, black base, 60" high https://www.dwr.com/lighting-floor/elise-floor-lamp/525.html?lang=en_US pablo lighting is cool, most of it is a bit too futuristic though for my tastes. this light fits the little corner space well though
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The Zillow search term of the day is "deep sills" aww yeah gimme them deep window sills baby (most of these are old stone houses in Pennsylvania) https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/121-E-Main-St-Lititz-PA-17543/187256407_zpid/     https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/281-N-Guthriesville-Rd-Downingtown-PA-19335/9158573_zpid/     https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1105-Albany-Post-Rd-Gardiner-NY-12525/32842147_zpid/    https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/312-Burnside-Ave-Jeffersonville-PA-19403/10062166_zpid/   https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/473-Orrs-Mills-Rd-New-Windsor-NY-12553/84102238_zpid/   https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1320-Saint-Peters-Rd-Pottstown-PA-19465/2124834663_zpid/      https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/94-Front-St-Canajoharie-NY-13317/31055069_zpid/   https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/51-Main-St-E-Mississippi-Mills-ON-K0A-1A0/2077176083_zpid/ there is a giant glass tumor attached to this 1871 house with pathetic narrow sills   
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Buttchocks posted:That table is freaking me out, like it's going to start chasing me down the hall. 
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