Comments on: R.I.P. bent plywood

By: Nomi

Nomi — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:15:35 +0000

Check out what this New Zealand sculptor is doing in bent ply: http://ambientesdigital.com/gidon-bing/

By: Anthony Merrill

Anthony Merrill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:21:43 +0000

hi
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good luck

By: Cody Copeland

Cody Copeland — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:39:00 +0000

hey..i think your chair is really awesome. was it on the oprah winfrey show? the reason for my asking is that i am a 17 year old, independently working clothing designer. i have been working on a clothing line for about 2 years now, and i thought that i had came up with the perfect name for it, because my designs are constructed from felt. the name i wanted for the company is Felt Up. i know i know.. i thought i was such a genious, for 2 years, i made hand stitched tags sporting the name and then i found out today that the name had been taken. i was crushed.. actually i still am crushed. im just curious- do you have a pattend for this name? or any copyrights? you dont understand.. this is my dream and ive worked so so so hard on all of my hand stitched, hand cut shapes and images from felt, and i planned on going to college to have a major in business and also take numerous fashion and art courses, just so that i could persue my goal of opening the store of my dreams: Felt Up.
and so, it would be much appreciated if you were to send me an e-mail on any copyrights you might have to this name.
i truely wish you luck in your business though. you and i both share a love or felt that no one else can understand, and i hope that you go far in life with all of your creative and stylish ideas.
sincerely,
+cody copeland

my email address is copeland850@earthlink.net

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:00:00 +0000

They can be ordered at Personal Interior Design http://www.pid.se

By: design*sponge

design*sponge — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:58:00 +0000

miss r- i fear we’ve come to an impass. perhaps my article was vague on the issues that seem to concern you. my only addendum is this: i have no problem with the origins of bent ply. i think it was a wonderful movement and i even devoted a section of the article to it. i only have a problem with the proliferation of bent ply designs that lack creativity or innovation, which is what i feel the market is full of. i have no problems with repos or knock offs of classic designs- those designs were beautiful and i would never walk around proclaming such classic pieces “in” or “out”. oh, and congratulations on your eames chair, it’s quite a lovely piece.

i feel my argument is rather clear and i guess that’s all i can say. i think we’ll just have to agree to disagree, which is the beauty of this medium- we can communicate our opinions and explain ourselves to one another all the while altering and strenghthening our own thoughts, which is a wonderful learning process. so thank you again, i appreciate the spirited debate on bent ply. in closing, i’ll have to refer to the words of the great steve harvey, “these are my opinions, therefore they are the right ones.”

before i go, i wanted to add one more note- the only reason i discuss williamsburg frequently (although note, i didn’t discuss it in the bent ply piece) is because i live there. writers write about what they know best and so, quite simply, i cover that area because it’s what i see the most and know the best. so, my apologies if it feels threatening that i discuss the neighborhood frequently.

in the meantime i’ll be here- tying myself into knots about what sneakers to wear,

design*sponge

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:25:00 +0000

But, Grace, you I’m still not clear on why pervasiveness of items that were initially innovative is a bad thing. I think it’s appropriate that Crate and Barrel still carries the Aalto vase. The cycle from innovation to production to commidity isn’t inherently bad, provided the commodity item reflects the spirit of the design and is well made. DWR is founded on the principal that we are not bound by faddish declarations of ‘in’ and ‘out’, but should embrace design quality mostly in absence of such considerations. Unless of course you do believe Bedford Avenue is the center of the world, and then you can tie yourself up in knots about what sneakers to wear. Me, I want to wear well designed sneakers, regardless of fashionability. If ‘in’ and ‘out’ is more important than a sense of critical rigor regarding when a particular piece fails and when one succeeds, then your opinion should only be taken in the context of concern about what a narrow subset of consumers (who likely don’t even consume all that much) thinks is ‘cool’ at a very precise, and ultimately useless, point in time. Do you mean to say that if you came into my apartment and saw the Eames plywood lounge chair, you would sniff ‘Oh, so over’. And then if I told you if came from a friend who had been given it by Phillip Johnson, and yes, it spent years in his New Canaan house, and may be one of the original prototypes, would you have a different opinion than if I had purchased it from DWR last week? And if so, why? How would you differentiate between the two without my claim? — Miss R