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Author Topic: Triangular candle - ID = Ice Stone by Karel Konak  (Read 2485 times)

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Offline Frank

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Triangular candle - ID = Ice Stone by Karel Konak
« on: March 04, 2007, 01:37:00 PM »

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Re: Triangular candle
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2007, 06:16:22 PM »
Hi Frank,
Desna/Ornela??
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Marcus

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Re: Triangular candle
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2007, 08:01:45 PM »
Thanks Marcus,

Could be:
"Ice Stone" candleholder,
design Karel Koňák,
No. 27869 00 080
diameter 8 cm
* other dimensions 6; 7 cm
Unfortunately sizes seem at odds and Desna's picture distorts it a bit.
Link:
http://www.desna-glass.cz/pages/en/toaletnisoupravyen.html

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Re: Triangular candle
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2007, 08:09:33 PM »
Confirmed it, the 8cm is the horizontal distance beween the base apex and the top apex, the 6 and 7cm are the heights of the top and side triangles.

Interesting way of measuring and with 6, 7 and 8 obviously a design point!

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Re: Triangular candle
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2007, 09:06:46 AM »
Quote from: Frank
... Interesting way of measuring and with 6, 7 and 8 obviously a design point!

It's an interesting, novel, and brilliant marketing and sales point, Frank.   I wonder how many mathematicians have puzzled over this in the shop and then just had to buy a pair ("Sorry, Sir, we only sell them in pairs") so they could get them home and measure the angles, other dimensions, and the volume.   My first reaction was that I couldn't remember such a special property of octahedrons.

It's those extra few sales that make you the profit.

Bernard C.  8)
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