Architecture and interior design thread

Possibly a re? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29082338

New photo archive from a Town Planner of some brutal gems.

Passed the RIBA part 3 last month, now officially an architect :)

So are you now going to do prole artthreatcure? :)

that cumbernauld shopping centre
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A collegue of mine are going to be in London during the Open House thing.
Any specific recommendations for a danish architect looking for current/contemporary inspiration?

Good afternoon.

Can someone help me with a rough valuation for a table?

Art Deco style, no idea of its heritage or material. It's in the house I'm renting, and I'd like to buy it for the house I've bought. There are a few scuffs, and I think the pattern on top is just veneer, which the extensions don't have. There is also a chip on top, and the veneer has some kind of strange blue-green discolouration, which looks like copper residue and only really shows up in sunlight.

Sorry for the godawful pictures.

Any ideas on provenance/age/material/value?

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Tommmmmmmm the table top looks like oak veneer, with light iron staining that produces those blue marks. As for treatment maybe you could discuss with a furniture restorer about oxalic acid wood bleach on the staining, before having it repolished. No idea about period or value of the furniture. But if you like it make the owner a realistic offer.
Good luck.
Al

Thanks Al, do you have any idea what would realistic might be? I genuinely have no idea what would be fair for it, I know chuff all about furniture valuation.

nice dining table, looks almost Masonic.
Would £200 be realistic? I have no idea really.
Al

Cheers, I know I wasn't very helpful but I was after a kind of ballpark figure, whether it was in the low hundreds or somehow loads more.

I will see what he says about that.

cool table tom, get it! be cheeky and hope the owner doesnt know its worth. damn london capitalists!;)

It's nothing special he should be happy if you offer to trade him an IKEA piece of roughly the same dimensions.
:)

It reminds me of something I'd seen before

http://modernism.com/items/39/coffee-tables/176-113-modernage-american-art-deco-streamline-blond-coffee-table

It's not this but maybe this will help the search

Cheers for that, all.

I've offered to source a replacement for him, and may be able to get my fiancee's mum's dining table, which we were going to have, to offer in a straight swap.

Also, the flatmate who I'm not getting on that well with really wants the table to stay, and told me I can't take it, and the landlord told me this morning to 'ignore all that bollocks' if he decides to sell it.

This made me smile...

I'd make sure there was a competent engineer's stamp on that...

It's essentially a truss tied down with a big foundation

Bit of a shame the bracing obscures the windows, but it's still a fun project.

Is that drawings of the actual house? The whole thing hangs on two beams?

That drawing doesn't show that it's cantilevered from the middle of the house.

Feels safer man

Still, it'd be quite the lawsuit if a kid got squished on that swing

" hang on lads i've got a great idea "

the italian job

You can go and live in it for a week, if you're feeling rich.

http://www.living-architecture.co.uk