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Donny's TOS Enterprise Interiors

I've been watching HGTV's A Very Brady Renovation the last few weeks, where the Brady cast and various HGTV hosts attempt to renovate the house used for exterior shots on The Brady Bunch into a duplicate of the TV show's sets. I was very amused to find out that the chairs around the Brady's kitchen table were Burke Chairs of the same type used on the bridge of the Enterprise. I guess they were still readily available in 1969.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/232083568/cushion-for-saarinen-or-burke-tulip-side?ref=shop_home_feat_1
 
Yeah, if they were commonly available, I'm sure it would be much easier to just buy new chairs instead of undo all the changes the TOS set designers made.
 
The base is the give-away iirc, whether it is round or a cross. (Saarinen v Burke)
At least on the chairs. Someone w/ more expertise will weigh in, I'm sure.
 
The base is the give-away iirc, whether it is round or a cross. (Saarinen v Burke) At least on the chairs. Someone w/ more expertise will weigh in, I'm sure.

Don't sell yourself short, there. I believe you're "on the mark" about the difference between brands.
 
Saarinen was the Tulip Chair designer. Knoll was the manufacturer. IIRC, the designer of the Star Trek version was Maurice Burke, and it was manufactured by Arkana.
 
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There's someone selling a 3d stopper along with the "cork" on Ebay (or maybe Etsy?)
To reproduce one yourself, It's just a solid piece of wood cut on a bias.
I don't need the stopper. I just have to rip out the broken cork and replace it.
 
I am not no stopper, did anyone else who want to build a real star ship on the ground?. I am looking to do this subject.
If you want to talk with me I will be glad to here back from you soon?. I am looking into things for the land right now. I will like to get you and I together to?.
 
I don't need the stopper. I just have to rip out the broken cork and replace it.
Oh... Me too...Lol!!

I have a few tops laying around with their cork remnants and a bag of corks of various sizes...
Just one of those projects that get pushed to the back of the pile!
 
So, as I'm putting the finishing touches on my TMP/TWOK engineering sets, I've set my sights on returning to TOS Land for a while to scratch a certain itch I've had while watching episodes of TOS and STC.

Without giving too much away right now, I'm wondering if anyone knows what kind of texturing this is called....and where I might find examples of it in the real world. I surmise it is some sort of fabric pattern, but my knowledge of the world of fabrics is rather limited. I'm not quite sure how to even describe it. The pattern has an almost "zebra" like quality to it.

It can be seen on the ceiling of the transporter chamber in Season One:

And notably on the walls of the briefing rooms of the two pilots:




Any ideas? I'm looking to replicate the pattern via textures and materials in Unreal, but am at a loss of where to find real world examples of this so I can perhaps extract the pattern via images found online.
 
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