I used to use it as a laptop but it kept cutting off the blood supply to my feet.

Formby, I was just about to post the Robin Day school chair. A piece of modernist design that everyone knows, to see to touch to hear to stack. Wonderful stuff.

Last edited by Liam Mac (2012-01-02 14:47:39)

Some classic modernist designs posted above with Formby leading the way as point man.

B&O have indeed some good industrial design aesthetics and having conducted my own subjective auditions with Ellington’s Uptown/Hi-Fi album that was used for demonstrating the sonic capabilities of 1952 hi-fi’s, I can confirm that B&O are generally underrated by audiophiles at least on Japanese remastered 24bit CD’s. Of course, vinyl sounds better on mega-valve amplifiers on the equivalent 14 grand plus systems, but along with the crackle and whizz, there’s the whole storage issue with mammoth collections of vinyl that you don’t get with CD’s. I’ve a couple of thousand CD’s stored in my living room taking up small space, if that was vinyl there would be no room left and rest assured once your married you can’t turn the living room into a library for your precious record collection.

I purchased a pair of Shuron specs last year, and it took awhile for me to get use to the browline style, my first impressions were that they made me look like a grandmother. It took awhile for the Milt Jackson and modernist fifties aesthetic to sink in and not look strange. A lot of these style of specs in the opticians at the moment, many, like Oliver Peoples (made in Japan) selling for three times the price of the original American frames that can be purchased direct from the source quite cost effectively: a true post-war American design classic.