Furniture Reporter

Albert Togut, the interim chapter 7 trustee in the PLVTZ, Inc. bankruptcy cases, has sought the retention of his firm, Togut, Segal & Segal LLP, as counsel.  The PLVTZ cases were filed on November 8, 2007 as chapter 11 cases and were converted to cases under chapter 7 pursuant to an order dated Octber 27, 2008.

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The last few months in the dps office were spent excitedly putting together a wine and cheese tasting event to celebrate our fall window vignette in a New York lighting center. We were approached by Lampworks to be a part of their Designer Showcase. With the dp studio collection starting to gain recognition, you can imagine that we were thrilled with the opportunity! The wine and cheese event, which happened October 16th, was the perfect venue to do more than talk furniture. With Raven’s amazing food displays accompanying the incredible wines and catered plates, all of which were organic, guests found more than just the furniture to be inspirational.

If you missed the event, please stop by the Lampworks Showroom at your own convenience to see our display. You’ll receive an exclusive look at the brand new Concave Chest, our latest product to coordinate with the very successful Concave Armoire. Now on display as part of our fall window vignette, the Chest continues to bring versatility and style in eye-catching colors. The Chest can be viewed alongside our most popular pieces, including the visually stimulating visually stimulating Luxe Sofa Table, featuring a Macassar ebony inlay top. Other items include the Wave Tiles, installed with wall-mounted antique sconces; the graceful Hand-Tufted Lotus Rug; the lime Tt & Viv triangle ottoman; and the oval Otto High Table, which boasts a walnut burl inset top and cream lacquer reveal. For more information on dp studio and the featured products, or to see the full collection, visit dpstudiousa.com.

To make an appointment with a showroom rep, please call 212.308.8390; or visit our vignette at Lampworks through the end of November.

Lampworks | 231 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022 | 212.750.1500

The Transformer Shelf, designed by Martin Sammer, features multiple sliding drawers and shallow trays, resulting in a customizable, and extremely useful, storage unit.  

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What better example of the marriage of art & function can there be than the commonplace chair?  We all want one.  We all need one.  This post explores the Art of the Chair.  

The Caldera Chair designed by Cameron Van Dyke.  A caldera, according to Encarta Dictionary, is “a large crater in a volcano, caused by a major eruption followed by the collapse of the volcanic pipe walls that form the volcano’s cone. It may later contain a lake.”   Van Dyke’s chair certainly lives up to its name.  But is it comfortable? 

The London Design Festival reflects the growing worldwide recognition of the power of design to change things for the better, to help deliver economic prosperity and to improve quality of life.  The 2008 festival addressed the widest possible range of design disciplines including furniture made from balloons. 

Niels Schuurmans' Balloon Furniture

According to TreeHugger.com:

Niels Schuurmans’ Balloon Furniture was one example of whimsy taken to the extreme. He took those long tubular balloons that clowns usually use for making balloon poodles and filled them with fiber reinforced polyester; which made them hard and solid. You can sit on them; they are not very comfy, but they would be colourful and witty outside on a balcony or deck.

Via  InventorSpot.com  I learned of the Magritta chair, now being produced by the Italian design store, Owo.  

Recognize the reference to Belgian surrealist painter     René François-Ghislain Magritte and his painting, The Son of Man (1964)?  I wonder if the Magritta chair lives up to the standards of Magritte’s surrealism, whose artworks feature the elements of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and the non sequitur? 

Sketch Furniture by FRONT uses a unique method to design furniture.  Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture. 

I was interested to learn of the art of grown furniture and arborsculpture.   The concept of training and grafting trees to form useful objects is quite intriguing.  Via ArtNewsBlog. 

Decorative stuffed animal chairs from the Campana Studio are a fitting accompaniment to grown furniture.  Make sure to check out the website of Fernando and Humberto Campana.  It’s really quite amazing.  Via InventorSpot.com.

And finally…

Gallery 202, Partners in Art, Inc. is an Ohio-based non-profit art organization that specializes in community art programs for all ages and encourages the interaction between Artists, Patrons and Businesses.  Go  here  to learn of their Chair Is Art exhibit.

Care to visit other posts in  The Art of…  series?   Try one of these:    

The art of doodling

The art of the environment

The art of culinary research

The art of the miniature book

The art of the summer read

The Art of Jell-O

The art of the barcode

The art of the plastic bag

The art of fooling around

The art of the box office

The Art of Webcomics

The art of the dictionary

The art of tape

The Art of ‘Tsutsumi’

Chill Seekers, or the art of ice

The art of camo, or Can you still see me?

The art of the egg

The Art of the Comeback, or “Post No-posting Guilt Trip”

The art of automobile design

The art of camo

The art of fruit and veggie

The art of the lawn

~MadSilence

This is Wan Rathnor

Wan came over last weekend and got his parts done for 4 furniture songs. Exciting because this would be the first session on amplified guitars in the new studio. Time to unsettle the neighbours!

An X-Y mic setup for ambient parts

We opted to do the slower songs first that involved more ambient guitar work. After Wan got his tone right through the Bassman, I planned to go crazy experimenting with miking techniques. The first setup using an X-Y stereo pair of sm57s about 15cm from the grille sounded so nice that we just went ahead with it. I was afraid if I moved the mics I’d never get that sound again. So much for my earlier ambitions.

Here is a short clip of ambient noodling in stereo miked glory:

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Wan typically creates a lot of guitar ambiance on this song when playing live. For that we tried an old tape delay that completely obliterated all the high end leaving the tone sounding ‘underwater’. It worked with the song so we went with that.

Next we worked on Lagu Chenta using the same mic setup. A part called for a guitar slide and I din’t have one, so we improvised with a porcelain pepper shaker.

Pepper shaker slide guitar

Here’s what it sounds like with the raw mix:

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On to the grittier songs now, Infinite Impossibilities and Entrails which we always play as a pair at gigs. Wan went through all the distortion, fuzz and overdrive pedals at his disposal and eventually settled on one (the Rat). We also tried switching amps to the Ceriatone JCM 800 but it din’t agree with his guitar, so we stuck with the Bassman.

Testing a whole bunch of distortion pedals

I needed the sound to be more close up and direct, so we changed the mic setup to a single sm57 on one of the Bassman’s 4 speakers, right up and perpendicular to the grille and slightly offset from the center. Here’s a raw mix of that from the final moments of Entrails:

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In retrospect, I could have been a whole lot more diligent with mic placements. There were many things I din’t account for, like close miking on alternate speakers to find the best sounding one, and removing the back panel from the Ceriatone speaker cab, just to name a few. We’ll save that for the next session.

On the plus side, I found a new addition to my arsenal of studio gear:

The pepper shaker slide