Windows for sale

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Sun Nov 04, 2012 6:37 pm

Michaan's Auctioneers in Alameda, CA has three FLlW items in their November 17 prmarily "Louis Comfort Tiffany" auction. Catalogue online.

Francis W. Little II skylight
Ward Willits window
Imperial hotel sidechair

inspected today. all in good to excellent shape. provenance, a museum in Japan that is apparently closing, or at least deaccessioning an enormous Tiffany (and a small FLlW) collection.

DavidC · Post by **DavidC** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 7:55 am

Michaan's Auctions

To view the items, download the PDF file, scroll to the bottom and look for lots # 174, 175 & 176.

David

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:00 pm

I wonder where that Northome skylight was located. Not in the music room. There was a skylight designed for the billiard room next door, but a vintage photo shows that was not made. An inner bath (closet on Storrer's plan) for the guest bedroom indicates a square skylight. Anyone with an idea?

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:26 pm

The Minneapolis Museum of Art has a wonderful wood model of Northome. The roof does not show any apparent skylight. The windows are highly detailed, so I presume the roof would show skylights if they were featured on the final construction.

I apologize for the quality of the photo - it was taken through glass and glare.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:51 pm

A patterned-glass ceiling pane needn't necessarily be a true skylight. There must be more than one or two Prairie-period houses with dining rooms or hallways located beneath bedrooms . . . ?

SDR

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:22 pm

SDR - you're absolutely right. I now recall that several FLW homes have "skylights" that are actually illuminated by artificial lighting rather than sunlight. Today we would call them "drop ceilings"!

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:02 pm

Laylight is a term I've heard for this kind of horizontal overhead patterned translucent panel. A dropped ceiling, in architectural parlance, is slightly different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropped_ceiling

SDR

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:09 pm

Sorry - I meant it tongue-in-cheek - it doesn't always come through on the interwebs

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:39 pm

Then I'm sorry too.

My dad once proposed a new physical gesture, to indicate when he was joking about something. I think it was for the benefit of my mother. Not sure if it got much use, come to think of it. Something like holding the hand over the head, fingers pointing down and wiggling . . . if you can imagine that.

S

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:38 am

Yeah - I was doing that, but I have one of those old-fashioned keyboards that didn't translate it right.

egads · Post by **egads** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:59 am

I think we internet users are supposed to use smilies or emoticons to signify intent, but I always feel silly doing so. There really isn't one for sarcastic or pulling one's leg. The closest seems to be razz:

Or wink:

jmcnally · Post by **jmcnally** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:38 pm

And I refuse to use "LOL." I might actually LOL (although I don't ROFL), but I consider that a private moment and don't like to reveal too many emotions.

I do think all chat software should have a "like" button, though.

Jeff Myers · Post by **Jeff Myers** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:48 pm

jmcnally- I agree there are times where I'd like to "like" a comment on here instead of saying "I agree" maybe instead of a "like" button it can be called "I agree" button.
Now I shall let this return to the topic

KevinW · Post by **KevinW** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:51 pm

On Facebook, I require my friends only use LLOL...if indeed they are literally laughing out loud..

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 6:26 pm

For those of us who don't text, and have't immersed ourselves in online culture generally, is there a comprehensive list of acronyms somewhere ? I saw one in use the other day that left me stumped.

Maybe people who use them could follow the lead of certain broadcast journalists, who follow a guest's use of an acronym or an initialism (yes, that's right) with a complete rendering of the name or phrase intended -- for the sake of the lay audience. Any chance the posting public might follow that lead -- and spell out what their acronym stands for, after employing it ?

Heh-heh . . . just asking.

SDR

PS Maybe that'll happen the same year that I give up using $20 vocabulary gems . . .