jmedgar

Is the forum a comparative negligence state? The jury may have decided that while the plaintiff was negligent, the defendant was also negligent. If both were equally negligent and the total proven damage was $3 million, then the damage award of $1.5 million seems reasonable.

Also, folks, $1.5 million is not that much for a lifetime of disfigurement and impairment -- not considering lifetime earnings.

"Krenov was influenced by Malstrom, who is defined as the forerunner of danish modern. Malstrom was influenced by tne Barnsleys"

Sid Works:

I am familiar with Edward Barnsley. Is there another one?

I guess I was not aware that Danish Modern (actually Scandinavian Modernism) had ever gone away.

Certainly the principal themes of the movement: simplicity, functional practicality, extensive use of natural materials with simple, easily restored finishes, and ease in manufacturing are still with us, underlying much of modern furniture design. In fact, combine the Bauhaus School and Scandinavian Modernist approach and you can easily isolate the principal influences on almost all modern furniture designers.

For reasons unknown to me, design genius struck Northern and Central Europe between the world wars. Virtually all modern design is merely a variation of the inspirations of Aalto, Rietveld, Charles and Ray Eames, Breuer, Mathsson, Jacobsen, Olsen, Malmsten, Wikkelso and the like -- almost all of them either Scandinavian or central European. I look at the new Herman Miller Aeron Chair and I see a Charles Eames chair revisited and updated for materials and manufacturing processes not yet invented in the mid-20th century. It's not new. It's just another interpretation of an existing theme.

I have enormous respect for both Maloof and Krenov. But when I look at their work I just don't see design genius. I see interesting variations on design themes perfected long ago -- and so persuasive, so different, so striking and so in tune with 20th century thought that nearly a century later we still refer to the designs as "modern".

The work of both Maloof and Krenov is inspired but not original. There is no evidence of a new insight or design philosophy, no abrupt change in the direction of furniture design, no distinguishing themes inherent in their work. It a variation on what came before -- in many ways an inspired variation -- but still only a variation.

Certainly not like any campaign chair I have ever seen. But an amazing creation. It would be very useful, rudy, if you would post pics of the folded chair and the hinge detail. Very nice work.