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Apt. Therapy is clearly going the way of every other shelter publication that ever purported to dedicate itself to people living in small spaces (or at least in apartments).
Sad to see it go, but this article is further proof that Apt. Therapy has lost its way.

Here's a problem: That first photo is great and I immediately recognized it from the excellent book "Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art" from 1973 by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro - so, out of curiosity, I checked to see if they were credited. Sadly for Messrs. Boericke and Shapiro, it took a lot of scrolling and 6 clicks through 4 different sites before I finally found accurate attribution on the 7th page - but not without first seeing the photo mis-attributed twice. Then, at the online source of the image (i.e., the person who scanned it onto the web), the guy who posted it in Flickr included a note that it isn't his image but even he didn't bother to name the author or photographer and instead just gave a link to a bookseller with the full info. That isn't how this is supposed to work. Indeed, that is a crap way to treat the original creators of solid content - their book is out of print so they aren't going to make any money on book sales now, but the least AT can do is say their names and credit them for spending months hiking out into the woods 40 years ago and photographing (on actual film) these great houses and documenting some amazing design so that we can enjoy it today without lifting a finger or paying a cent.

I'm happy with this one that I did about 4 years ago: http://www.skypiece.com/projects/mosaics/P1030386.JPG - but it took a lot longer than most people are going to be willing to spend on a project like this.

How about this: http://www.skypiece.com/projects/mosaics/P1030386.JPG

But dusting must be a bitch.

I look at this thing and I think, cute, but do I really want a toothpick somebody handled - if only to carefully arrange it?

Even if you're a careful porcupiner and try to hold these mid-shaft, once three toothpicks are inserted, you can only insert the rest by holding them at the tip unless you have the most delicate fingers. I'm not a germophobe, but my mother once told me not to arrange the candies in the dish too carefully because certain things should look unhandled - like toothpicks and chocolates. No one talks about it, but that's some wisdom my mom dropped on 8-year old greasy fingered me.

Probably reasonable to suppose that nothing more will be required to connect it to the grid will be the same sort of power inverter that one uses with solar panels. I just want to know if there are any ordinances that would prohibit putting this on a Brooklyn Brownstone provided it is not visible from the street.

Oh Lois. Oh Joan. 'Tis the death knell of a good website, this sort of inflationary language. For a thing is to be called a "Good Question", it ought at least be a question, the answer to which we have once wondered at and the solution to which might be immediately useful to someone aside from she who posed it.

But, again, this is not that. This is a highly esoteric question which might prompt some interesting discussion about storing an item virtually no one has. And that in turn might be adaptable to other storage solutions for similar sized or shaped items (e.g., canned sardines) which belong in the same room of the house (scratch canned sardines). But have we really so exhausted our need for storage solutions for things people actually have that we are now moving onto items several degrees removed from what we have or care about?

I love this site, or I did. And I am surprised no one else sees that this is not a "Good Question." It is a request for help with a unique storage problem. Collectibles are interesting because the people who collect them make them interesting. I usually love seeing people's collections because their collectors' attention and devotion justifies their asking for my attention. But this collector has demonstrated neither attention nor devotion. She is asking for our help and has not done her part. This is where AT goes from being a useful interactive home/decor/lifestyle magazine to a highly esoteric hobbyist help page.

But if this is what AT is to become, shall we next ask our fellow readers to propose the best solutions for mounting the 8-Track player Sue removed from the dash of her father's 1977 Ford Truck alongside her B&O Stereo? Shall we spend some time on that too? Is that a "Good Question" too.

If we can't encourage quality control, oughtn't we at least ask that things be labelled correctly? It wasn't a good question. It was just a question.

I have two Modernica fiberglass armshell rockers (in moss and elephant). I love them. I looked at the Herman Miller "Eames" brand version and it looks cheap - it is the Eames shape, but by no means the Eames look.
In the same way that the original design Eames Storage units have exposed plywood edges, the visible irregular fibers in the Modernica version draw attention to the application of industrial materials to decorative purpose - which is what I love about Eames design.
The "Eames" branded version from DWR or wherever looks plasticky and productified.
Also, remember that the Modernica version have the black bumpers underneath which look engineered and cool whereas the Herman Miller version has been re-designed to incorporate the bumper element into the armshell material itself.
The choice is obvious for anyone who think the Eameses knew what they were doing and care to respect the integrity of their designs.

What is that stool? It looks like a paperclip / BluDot design.