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Hi there!
I'm new to the forum, dropping in to ask if anyone owns a Beogram 900RG. I'm a journalist for Grand Designs and am featuring the Beogram in the next issue as a classic design, but we're struggling to find an image large enough (even in the B&O archive!). If anyone owns a Beogram 900RG, and would be prepared to send a photo, I'd be really grateful. Any questions, ask away!
I assume you can't use photo's from here:
http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=379
or the Google images where there are plenty:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Beogram+900+RG&newwindow=1&biw=1680&bih=935&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=FaQrVd-2Oc_laPCegeAF&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ
I have one in a dark Rosewood which is intact with radio, turntable and tape. What do you exactly want a photo of?
This was quite a nioce image from Beoworld:
http://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.00.04.83.95/photo.JPG
Dave.
Hi Dave, thanks for replying! I can't pull images off Google because of permissions (it will be used in print), and the images on the Beoworld page for that model are too small (although they would be perfect). I'm looking for a reasonably well lit photo of a unit straight on, without anything on or around the unit.
Thanks for the link too!
Open, closed lids? Or is it just the exterior styling that interests you?
Mine is in a room full of B&O stuff so I'd have to move it to photograph it. Deadline for photo's? My step-daughter has a Canon EOS 1100D camera - would that be OK for you? Do you want it on a plain background or in a room setting?
Hi Dave! It's the design which will be featured - a straight, face on shot is what I'm looking for. It will be for print, so a shot that's around 10cm at 300dpi (with a little room for manoeuvre). My deadline would be in around a week but that's also flexible I think! A plain background would be fantastic, no preference on lid open or closed!
Thanks so much, I look forward to salivating over it. A rosewood one... so gorgeous.
Would any of these be of any use? It's been really difficult doing this as we don't have a bare wall anywhere! When we took it outside the light was bad so we waited for this mornings sunrise - but it was cloudy! I've got 44 pictures in total which you can copy, photoshop to edit out the blue screen etc. The right hand edge looks cut off in these but the originals are complete.
Let me know the type you want and I will have more that are similar.
Hi Dave! These are fantastic! Thankyou so much for going to all this trouble! If I DM you my email could you send the originals through? Just these that you've included would be great.
Also, I'll ask for an image credit and a copy to be sent to you, if you'd like to receive one. Let me know the credit you'd like.
That's some really good looking hardwood.
:-)
Thats some job you did there Dave, The 2nd last is my favorite, just beautiful. Now lets wait for Jennifer to tell us where it get published. We BeoVirus infected BeoLovers tend to help where we can, but mostly never see the end result.
Collecting Vintage B&O is not a hobby, its a lifestyle.
Fantastic shots Dave, consider me jealous!
Did you have to do some work on the wood when you got it to get it that good? Looking forward to seeing the final result too,
Ben
Ben_S:Did you have to do some work on the wood when you got it to get it that good? Looking forward to seeing the final result too,
Hi Ben,
this 900RG was one I collected from a guy in the Netherlands in the back of a Mercedes C220 Coupé Sport - good job the legs come off!
All I've done is treat the wood with Danish oil every now and again. There are a few small scratches but it just adds to the patina. I use Danish oild on all of my wood. Not too often otherwise a residue can build up. It really brings the colour out.
I've not heard back from Jennifer yet so don't know when or where publication is. I'm sure she will photoshop out he blue cloth background etc so I'm also looking forward to it in print.
Just an update for those who may have been following this:
No publication as far as I know. I've e-mailed Jennifer directly for info and had no reply. I guess it's died a death. After all trhat effort doing the photo's too! Never mind.
Dave Farr: Just an update for those who may have been following this: No publication as far as I know. I've e-mailed Jennifer directly for info and had no reply. I guess it's died a death. After all trhat effort doing the photo's too! Never mind. Dave.
You know how it is Dave, you help people with something and you want to see the result of your help, you see it with some new members also, they show up for help, they get help and you never hear from them again, some people lack a bit of education.
Or courtesy! A reply to the e-mail would have been nice.
Pity, agree with what you are both saying. I bet it was a fair bit of effort to have to move the unit and take the photographs as well.
At least we get to enjoy the pictures. Very nice work.-sonavor
Beautiful piece of furniture, agree with sonavor - at least we get to enjoy the pictures. It is an absolute beauty
Hello all!
Apologies for the extremely belated reply, I've had very little internet access due to a house move 3 weeks ago, and a small ordeal to get reconnected, so have been clawing through an ever increasing tide of emails to get to this thread.
So, an update. Publication of this is confirmed by my editor, for the July edition of Grand Designs magazine in the UK, which usually reaches the shops around mid-late June. It will be on the tech news page which is about a quarter to a third of the way through. I asked for a credit to be used with the image, but since I'm a freelancer, I do not get final approval on the pages so cannot confirm if that went through (I bloody hope so!)
Enormous thanks to everyone responding (especially for the beautiful images!), I found it very inspiring to see such a buzzing community that I never knew about, and after a trawl around the forum myself I now have a wishlist of old B&O pieces (!) As a part time carpenter (as well as a journalist) I never knew that so much of the older pieces were made out of such gorgeous timber (some types of which aren't really available for builds any more), and so a renovation project looks to be on the cards as soon as I get settled in my new place....!
Many, many thanks, for all your words, pictures and information, on this thread and elsewhere in the forum, and apologies again for the very late reply. Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Jennifer
Thank you for coming back Jennifer, and I love to see that you been hooked, beware of the BeoVirus, and as you are into carpentry we will appreciate help and advise in this matter, our wood repairs are mostly done on a try and hope basis, also our knowledge of newer glues and repair procedures are limited. Hope to see you again here welcome to the forum and thank you for the update
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