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Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Cleviebaby — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:48:33 GMT

Nick:

Good spot, it is Cleve. I actually sell Modern Design for a living, but am a big collector of Vintage Eames, George Nelson and Florence Knoll furniture (as well as Richard Schultz, Warren Platner etc!!). Do you have any Eames?

Sadly, no. Original Herman Miller lounge chairs and ottomans in Rosewood seem to fetch significant sums at auction. I'm not convinced by the quality of the copies that seem to everywhere these days.

Cleve

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Nick — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:09:27 GMT

Good spot, it is Cleve. I actually sell Modern Design for a living, but am a big collector of Vintage Eames, George Nelson and Florence Knoll furniture (as well as Richard Schultz, Warren Platner etc!!). Do you have any Eames?

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Cleviebaby — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:51:38 GMT

Nick:

My HIFI was sat inside a Florence Knoll credenza, but now sits upon it's own rack. Talking of Dieter Rams/Braun, here is a recent project to bring this little radio back from the dead..

That looks lovely, Nick. Is that the back of an Eames' DCM in the foreground?

Cleve

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Nick — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:17:28 GMT

My HIFI was sat inside a Florence Knoll credenza, but now sits upon it's own rack. Talking of Dieter Rams/Braun, here is a recent project to bring this little radio back from the dead..

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

dilznik — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:31:03 GMT

This table from Naos holds the Beo4 for the living room. And my beer.

This holds my Beoport. And some other stuff.

And this holds my BeoLink Active. And some other stuff.

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Cleviebaby — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:20:33 GMT

Lex Lance:

Thanks for that..brilliant stuff.

Part of my Dieter Rams & Jacob Jensen collection....Although the Fan was in fact designed by Reinhold Weiss, under the guidance of Rams.

Love the HL 70 - trying to find a white, boxed one on ebay, but they are rare.

Cleve

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

beocool — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:20:19 GMT

Large48:

Still love my Attyca, especially with a white 5500 stack on it.

I have one too, a gift from my friend Anders. I have no place for it right now but I will move to a bigger apartment in the near future. Or at least I hope so. Can't wait to see my Beosystem 7000 on it!

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

vikinger — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:37:45 GMT

I've got my white BM 2000 (1970's) mounted on a white Ikea 'Lack' shelf with invisible supports. Unfortunately the standard shelf isn't strong enough to take the weight of a Christmas card, so in my case one end is butted-up against a side wall where an extra support for the front edge of the shelf has been concealed.

Graham

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Lex Lance — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:01:06 GMT

Thanks for that..brilliant stuff.

Part of my Dieter Rams & Jacob Jensen collection....Although the Fan was in fact designed by Reinhold Weiss, under the guidance of Rams.

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

mason — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:48:24 GMT

This might be of interest to anyone who likes Dieter Rams

http://www.bibliothequedesign.com/projects/exhibition-and-environment/design-museum-dieter-rams/

http://www.bibliothequedesign.com/projects/communications/dieter-rams-ten-principles/

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Cleviebaby — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:28:59 GMT

Lex Lance:
My next thing will be the Dieter Rams Braun music players and speakers.

Now you're talking.

Braun made, under licence, a Dieter Rams designed version of the Quad ESL57 Electrostatic Loudspeaker. A fabulous design for a wonderful loudspeaker that still sounds exceptional today, over half a century after it came into production. And then there's the TS/TG series from the 60s and the Studio 2 series from the late fifties and of course, the iconic SK4 or 'Snow White's Coffin'.

I have a long standing admiration for Braun and the work of Dieter Rams, who has had an enormous influence on modern consumer product industrial design - just listen to Jonathan Ive of Apple talk about Rams' influence on him and look at the current Apple products.

Oh dear, I'm off to change my Avatar!

Cleve

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

fraberg — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:59:43 GMT

Any ide for storage of CD ,i have more than 1000 ,i like to se the front of the cover so i easy can flip trough my collection .

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Søren Hammer — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:38:28 GMT

As a poor Danish student, I have to say that some Ikea furniture works well for B&O

I currently use a discontinued model of the long running series of "lack" stereo/tv tables. Two tables together makes exactly the same amount of space that my Beomaster 8000 and Beogram 8002 takes, and I has space underneath for my 5500 components. Um, just needing a shelf above the tables for my Beogram 4002 and forthcoming Beocord 9000

If it has to be good: B&O Attyca FTW

-Søren

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Large48 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:04:42 GMT

Still love my Attyca, especially with a white 5500 stack on it.

Re: Best furniture for B&O machines..

Lex Lance — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:30:43 GMT

The Vitsoe stuff is just beautiful. Missed out on a vintage vitsoe 601 chair that ended up going for around $2000 a couple of months ago. My next thing will be the Dieter Rams Braun music players and speakers.