I sometimes think Mr Deam has never left coastal California in his life, I
wonder what it would be like
sleeping next to one of those bare aluminum walls in a great plains winter
storm with 50mpg gusts outside!
Steve
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Oliver Filippi <ofilippi@roadrunner.com>wrote:
> **
>
>
> Hunter,
>
> Once again, I think Mr. Deam has missed the mark in his interpretation of
> Mid Century Modern.
>
> Modern does NOT mean STERILE !
>
> The design trick with clean lined furniture and design is to include
> colored
> and textured accessories to display against the simple background.
>
> Putting an aluminum trim extrusion around the edges of the countertop is
> DUMB. It is an impractical decoration which is a pain to clean. Today, we
> have much better countertop materials that modernist designers would have
> drooled over. [Like post formed high pressure laminate (Formica, etc.),
> solid surface materials (Corian, etc.), even TIG welded stainless steel.]
> If Mr. Deam wanted to include an aluminum trim accent, he could have
> recessed it in a groove on the front edge of a solid surface top.
>
> Check out an In 'N Out Burger restaurant. They use white Corian table tops
> with a piece of red acrylic plastic integrated into the edge - no grooves
> to
> collect food or grime.
>
> Oliver Filippi
>
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>
>
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