The AAAC Bespoke Clothing Proxy Thread

[RJman]

Originally Posted by lasbar

The bunny in the pan could have been censured on Style Forum..
You can put a picture of the Centre Pompidou if you really want to create some aesthetical debates between the classicists and the Modernists...
Or the Colonnes de Buren... or the Bibliotheque Mitterand :fessepaume:

Originally Posted by Artisan Fan

I joined this recently but it has been ages since I posted and no replies.

I thought the only bespoke you had was Amesbury, from years ago. Don't the Bespoke Forum rules state that you have to provide the contact information for bespoke artisans whom you have used in the last three years? Or did they allow you to provide the information of Ciro and Massimo from your Kiton MTM?

Despite the AAAC Bespoke Forum title description of Charvet, Matuozzo and Rubinacci bespoke, AFAIK no one who actually has any experience with such makers' bespoke has been allowed to join it.

 

[Will]

Originally Posted by Artisan Fan

I joined this recently but it has been ages since I posted and no replies.

Completely independent from the lack of postings in that forum, you didn't write something that warranted a reply.

 

[binge]

Originally Posted by RJman

Or the Colonnes de Buren... or the Bibliotheque Mitterand

One cannot fully appreciate the genius that is Bibliotheque Mitterand until one has seen the snails hard at work underground.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by binge

One cannot fully appreciate the genius that is Bibliotheque Mitterand until one has seen the snails hard at work underground.

I've been inside and to my knowledge no building I have ever been in had such stringent security. Yet with the ID of a French female friend I got in.

 

[binge]

Originally Posted by RJman

I've been inside and to my knowledge no building I have ever been in had such stringent security. Yet with the ID of a French female friend I got in.

Did you walk through the cafeteria? The floor is made of some completely frictionless space-age substance. I thought with one moderate push, I could have skated the entire 100m length in my leather soled shoes.

And the coffee was terrible.

Succinctly put about the security though. All the doorways were unlocked by card-key, yet on day two the entryway guard already greeted me as an old friend and waved me through. And computer security was like all large, bureaucratic institutions where it was actually very tight, except for the fact that for anyone to get anything done, they all had to log in as root all the time.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by RJman

I've been inside and to my knowledge no building I have ever been in had such stringent security. Yet with the ID of a French female friend I got in.

You passed for a woman?

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

You passed for a woman?

I'm guessing it was the Delos suede boots, which are challenging to hoi polloi.


- B

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by binge

Did you walk through the cafeteria? The floor is made of some completely frictionless space-age substance. I thought with one moderate push, I could have skated the entire 100m length in my leather soled shoes.
I don't think so. I remember walking down enormous, incredibly long subterranean halls because the reading rooms were in the center (?) of the structure and one had to walk along the perimeter to get there.

Succinctly put about the security though. All the doorways were unlocked by card-key, yet on day two the entryway guard already greeted me as an old friend and waved me through. And computer security was like all large, bureaucratic institutions where it was actually very tight, except for the fact that for anyone to get anything done, they all had to log in as root all the time.

I seem to remember a door that was like a bank vault. I also had to check my backpack and put all my belongings in a clear plastic bag so I couldn't smuggle any French books through on the way out.

Originally Posted by GQgeek

You passed for a woman?

No, you bottom-feeder, there were places where the card had to be swiped but no one ever looked at the ID. Incredible, given all the security there.

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I'm guessing it was the Delos suede boots, which are challenging to hoi polloi.
You're just jelos of my Delos and envyin my Lanvin.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by RJman

You're just jelos of my Delos and envyin my Lanvin.

I say that we work together to mug Matt of his dad's cufflinks.

You can have the ones with coral.


- B

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

I say that we work together to mug Matt of his dad's cufflinks.
Ooh, I'm not greedy...

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by RJman

Ooh, I'm not greedy...

It is not greed to covet what is wonderful.


- B

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

It is not greed to covet what is wonderful.


- B
A big-timer would just go ahead and buy them and not knock off poor ol' matt.

Missing 2007?

There's a buttload of them on ebay right now, although some of the prices are close to retail.

 

[binge]

Originally Posted by RJman

I don't think so. I remember walking down enormous, incredibly long subterranean halls because the reading rooms were in the center (?) of the structure and one had to walk along the perimeter to get there.

Ahh, and therein lies the brilliance of the design. According to BnF lore, the towers were originally closer together, then just before construction began, the plan was altered to move them all out. This, coupled with the fact that books are stored on the upper floors of the towers, results in often waiting an hour or more for a book to be delivered from, say, some high floor of the NE tower; down the dumb-waiter; around those long subterranean halls, and finally to the poor researcher waiting patiently at a desk in the SE reading room. I was told that transit times for materials are on average a minimum 60 minutes to 2 hours.

IIRC, the reading rooms are all on the two ground/plaza levels, with offices from levels 1-6 (or so) and book storage above that. Except for one of the towers (at least) where some IT staff are tucked away on the penultimate floor. Atrocious office space, but fantastic view.

From what I remember, all the staff use the labyrinthine maintenance hallways and such to get from here to there. I swear, we had to fight the minotaur to get coffee one day.

On another note, the director of the group with whom I was working was a Parisian tour director in a previous life. After my last day at BnF, he took me on a tour of the not-for-public-access areas of Richelieu, as well as some of his favorite passages, including the one leading to the cafe where Louis and Auauste Lumière displayed the first films in 1895.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by binge

Ahh, and therein lies the brilliance of the design. According to BnF lore, the towers were originally closer together, then just before construction began, the plan was altered to move them all out. This, coupled with the fact that books are stored on the upper floors of the towers, results in often waiting an hour or more for a book to be delivered from, say, some high floor of the NE tower; down the dumb-waiter; around those long subterranean halls, and finally to the poor researcher waiting patiently at a desk in the SE reading room. I was told that transit times for materials are on average a minimum 60 minutes to 2 hours.

IIRC, the reading rooms are all on the two ground/plaza levels, with offices from levels 1-6 (or so) and book storage above that. Except for one of the towers (at least) where some IT staff are tucked away on the penultimate floor. Atrocious office space, but fantastic view.

From what I remember, all the staff use the labyrinthine maintenance hallways and such to get from here to there. I swear, we had to fight the minotaur to get coffee one day.

On another note, the director of the group with whom I was working was a Parisian tour director in a previous life. After my last day at BnF, he took me on a tour of the not-for-public-access areas of Richelieu, as well as some of his favorite passages, including the one leading to the cafe where Louis and Auauste Lumière displayed the first films in 1895.
I miss France.

And the RJ cat.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by RJman

A big-timer would just go ahead and buy them and not knock off poor ol' matt.

Missing 2007?

You are too easily discounting the pleasure of knocking off Matt.

As for 2007: was that pre-Obama? If so, I think not.

Originally Posted by RJman

There's a buttload of them on ebay right now, although some of the prices are close to retail.

Do they have that gigantic FNB gold sailboat?


- B