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“I came across the Chippendale School while I was working for a sculptor in Brooklyn, New York. The Chippendale International School of Furniture was founded in 1985, and is this year celebrating its 30th birthday with UK Best Business and Best of the Best Awards. The fungi in the wood ‘battle’ each other and collide in a way that creates dark lines and rich colours,” he said. Spalted is another word for rotten – so at first I worried I was making a chair already past its prime, but the outcome has amazed me. “Spalted cherry has a beautiful grain, a grain so intricate that it looks like a hand-rendered drawing.
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I liked the idea of sliding into the chair, reaching for my martini, pressing play, and listening to my favourite music,” says Isaac. “The chair’s design was inspired by the exaggerated lines and movement of the Maxell advertisement. The reinvented chair, finished with linseed oil and carefully polished, was designed and made in three months by Isaac Thompson (24) from Orange County, California, who is a sculpture graduate of Bates College, Maine. The School will shortly be recreating the famous advertisement on video, which will be shared on this website and on its YouTube channel. Now, an American woodworker studying at the renowned Chippendale International School of Furniture in Scotland has recreated the famous chair in spalted cherry for a new generation who may only dimly know what an audio cassette tape looks like. In the advertisement, entitled “Blown Away Guy,” his hair, necktie, and dry martini are all buffeted backwards by the volume of sound. To a theme of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, a reclining man in a Le Corbusier chair is seen being blown backwards by the power of sound coming from speakers in front of him. I haven't found a reason to throw them away, regardless of the format.It was an advertisement that became an icon of pop culture, transforming a humble audio tape from Japanese electronics company Maxell into a global phenomenon. Over three hundred old cassettes, similar I will probably not play again, but do you throw away Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Patsy Cline, Black Sabbath, Jim Croce, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix Billie Holiday or the Beatles? I've always had all the Beatles, except for when they were still releasing recordings. Beatles White Album on FerroChrome, barely played. The MANY who don't care would hardly notice any difference and CDs could sound so much better for everyone.īut we tender few who DO care would probably buy more.Īs far as giving up on cassettes, we all did that long ago, BUT, I kept my best player and I have things like a very rare "Kind Of Blue" on metal cassette that I will have a hard time parting with. Just by catering to the few who care they would increase sales. I agree, Brad, even Redbook CD could improve for us by huge leaps just by companies getting over themselves. I'm glad those days are over, all the way to the annoying CD process which as far as I'm concerned might as well be an 8-track anyway.be gone with the CD I say! Baawaaaahhhhhh That was a funny ad, I remember when it first came out