Featured Fixture Furniture

Here's the latest tasteful addition to the Hoardatorium's collection of Industrial Furniture. We bought what was advertised as a welding fixture, which was basically the table shown with a heavy, complex aluminum crown-like structure bolted on top (can't find my "before" pic.). Removing that piece left the cute, all-steel "tea table" to which we glued a Formica "work surface" we had lying around. We still need to trim the corners to match the steel plate table top's rounded corners, otherwise it is ready to hold smaller hoardlings that need a table. 32" x 24" x 26". Hard to see this but what I think gives the table it's character are the tapered legs, which are made of angle-iron. I want to look at the legs close-up to see if I can tell what type of machine the maker used to taper the angle-iron so neatly.

 

That's what makes it so elegant. I like it.

 

Dainty & strong...at the same time !!!!

 

Id jump on that in a second! Fantastic lines,and industrial is VERY hot right now.

 

Good to know, I wonder if that trend was influenced by steampunk teens of ca. 2007 marrying and having to furnish their homes now?

 

Industrial has always had its audience,but all the salvage shows like Flea Market Flip,Salvage Dawgs,etc has really brought it to the forefront.Id venture to say Steampunk probably did have a lot to do with it. id never thought about that before.

 

Speaking of Steampunk, check out this bath recently installed in NYC and, if you have to ask how much, you can't afford it.

 

Not sure I'd want that in my house, but I like it. All that copper means it'll just get better with time if left alone.

Spring's table is already cool - it would sell in any hot furniture shop in a minute.

 

Not sure I'd want that in my house

Yeah, it's a bit much and on the dark side no doubt. Kinda tells one where the market is though these days. Hire an architect & interior designer not to mention the construction guys, someone REALLY wanted a Steampunk bath.

 

Well I think that bathroom is amazing ! Id get tired of that wallpaper sooner than later,but i seriously love the rest.

 

Very good looking table.

 

Agrees, the ultra thin top is a nice feature.

 

So form only APPARENTLY follows function? It's stylish, but I definitely won't be asking "how much?"

 

So form only APPARENTLY follows function?

LOL, it depends! most men i know function rules the day, with women, exactly the opposite, form is their choice. I don't think i have ever won a function over form argument with a woman.

 

Ha!

Actually, what I was remembering was the aesthetic arguments that modernism made to justify it's poverty of imagination in ornament and detail. They stole Louis Sullivan's old dictum, "form follows function" until it became an unspoken and misunderstood law of design. And let's not forget Mies van de Rohe's "Less is More." What simplicity of form most often equals is "cheap."

But now, in an effort to get around the stale modernism which still rules the roost, we get fake Victorian squiggles of copper tubing masquerading as functional (with an artistic twist, of course) and old (truly) functional Victorian bathrooms cast aside.

Such design ironies are everywhere. But, as an aside, I don't really see it as male/function vs. female/form, but rather just straightforward vs. not so much.

 

fake Victorian squiggles of copper tubing masquerading as functional

Well, i don't know about all that, all those copper bends are readily available nationwide & the bath is functional, including that pressure gage measuring the PSI of water pressure. I would call it more whimsical or humorous. It's Steampunk ghopper! lighten up!

 

Golly, I'm so old I remember the apartments my family lived in when I was small had those tank toilets with the chain. Usually, the tank was oak.

 

Grandmother had a zinc lined oak tank one in her bathroom until the 1960s - the one in the service bath had been replaced with a porcelain tank, but it was quickly replaced with a "modern" toilet as the water in NYC comes so cold from the tap that the porcelain tank would stream condensation in the summer.

 

what I think gives the table it's character are the tapered legs, which are made of angle-iron.

Agrees, those are Hepplewhite legs and they are striking in this table. Hepplewhite is considered one of the big 3 in furniture design during the 18th century, the other 2 being Sheraton & Chippendale.