Bridge? Poker? Family game night? Whatever your pleasure, you'll be playing in style with this low slung and sexy game table and chairs by
Harvey Probber, the designer of some of the most elegant furnishings of the 20th century.
The mahogany set has been fully restored and features dark legs with brass caps on the table feet, a beautiful, round piece of terrazzo in light tan with black and orange flecks in the center of the table, as well as four expertly upholstered chairs in orange.
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I like this set...I imagine myself with a beehive do and a pair of peau de soie kitten heels at this table. LOL
ReplyDeleteHave a Happy Thanksgiving, Dana!
I can imagine my mom with members of her bridge club playing at this table, eating bridge mix and little cookies shaped like hearts, spades, diamonds and clubs. :) (In reality, the bunch of young 30-something stay-at-home moms played at gray and black Cosco Fashionfold card tables in the living rooms of our late 1950s subdivision.)
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ReplyDeleteIs it still available?
ReplyDeleteUsing cross-laminated timber as the main ingredient in a building design CLT House has many benefits. Compared to steel or concrete CLT is reasonably easy to work with on site. Prefabricated sections arrive on a truck, are quickly craned into place, and are simply joined together with a skeleton crew. It has been said that if you see someone with a saw or a hammer on a CLT building site – it means something has gone wrong.
ReplyDeleteOf course when it comes to timber building – there is always the question of fire-safety, but CLT is vastly different from stick-frame wood construction. Mass timber is significantly more difficult to ignite and once it catches fire it begins to char, causing it to burn at a slow predictable rate. Believe it or not, engineered timber CLT building system like this can outperform structural steel in a fire. In one test, a glulam beam was pitted against a steel beam in a fire. The steel failed after 30 minutes, while the timber remained straight and true, retaining 70% of its structural integrity.
On top of all this – CLT is made of a renewable crop, making it one of the most sustainable and low carbon building materials on the market. Of course it isn’t all plain sailing designing CLT wood construction system with CLT. As with all new materials it will require a huge amount of rigorous testing before it will be widely accepted by building departments around the world. In addition to this CLT is unfamiliar terrain for many designers, so working with it requires the development of new details and ways of building.
Despite these challenges, mass timber represents a fantastic opportunity for the construction industry. The world’s population is both growing and urbanizing rapidly. This means more, buildings, denser buildings Modern CLT House more steel, more concrete and more carbon emissions. According to Canadian architect Michael Green, who is well-known for his use of CLT, steel and concrete combined represent 8% of the total greenhouse emissions. The building industry contributes 47% of the United States’ CO2 emissions. In his TED Talk, Michael makes a strong case as to why we should be building skyscrapers from wood.
We believe that it’s time that we look to alternative materials complete building system to meet the building demands of the 21st century. But we also have an urgent duty to decrease carbon emissions and unsustainable building practices. CLT provides a perfect solution for this complex issue. It’s sustainable, low-energy, and carbon negative, and it allows architects to dream, design, and build bigger.
There’s no doubt about it–Whistler is cold! But what if you could erect a house US Cross Laminated Timber House that requires no furnace and is toasty warm through even the most harsh of months? Well, that’s exactly the challenge that Treberspurg & Partner Architekten were faced with when they were asked to design Austria House – Canada’s first Passive House which made its debut during the 2010 Winter Olympics.