Eames Chair
Posted by: woodface on 06 January 2004
I really want one of the classic Eames chairs for the music room however they only seem to be avaialble on line at not cheap prices - £1600 with footstool. Has anybody out there bought one of these and could recommend a good retailer? Many thanks.
Posted on: 06 January 2004 by John G.
Posted on: 06 January 2004 by Lo Fi Si
Posted on: 06 January 2004 by anselm
The chairs are beautiful but bloody uncomfortable if you are 6 foot or above IMHO, i loved eames, jacobsens designs but these were designed when everyone was 5'8" and not for this centuries ever taller people, I recently went to the urban interiors show in london and found most 'design classics' beautiful but uncomfy. therefore not good VFM
the only one that was ok was Arne Jacobsens Egg Chair, but is tiny, but it does recline.
Anselm
all art is contemporary; it is the way we look at it that changes...
Posted on: 06 January 2004 by Jonathan Hales
We have them round our boaroom table at work.
They have just been recovered in tan leather.
It is hard to have a meeting of any importance in there, I almost always pass out.
Donald Fagen also refers to them as one of the "things I miss the most" on the new Steely Dan album 'Everything must change'.
They are stunning along with the two original Mies Van de Roer Barcelona chairs I rescued during a refurbishment last year from a skip parked out the back of the buidling.
One of the dipshit, blond PA's didnt know what they were.
Jono.
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Top Cat
I went through this a few months ago and did a, (cough) dem of various recliners. They must have thought I was nuts, I basically tried every recliner-like thing they had, with a manic intensity of audition that probably had them on the brink of calling security.
I went for the Stokke Peel II recliner - much more contemporary than the Eames (which may or may not suit), a little less expensive - I paid £1200 but full retail is around £1600 I believe - but infinitely more comfortable and (in my opinion) much better made. I know that a number of different companies make the Eames Recliners, with varying prices depending on the build - and I guess the one at Sterling Mills was either one of the shoddier examples (cheap and nasty laminate wood, like a particularly tacky fifties coffee table, and rather plasticky leather) or the Eames is all hype.
I know that seems quite a trolling thing to say, but I really went in there expecting to sign for an Eames and I haven't been so disappointed since last years Uefa cup final...
The Peel II is very unusual - do a search for my original topic re: the Eames and there should be a picture attached.
John
TC '..'
"Sun went down in honey. Moon came up in wine. Stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord, the band kept us so busy we forgot about the time."
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Brian OReilly
quote:
Topcat
I know that a number of different companies make the Eames Recliners, with varying prices depending on the build
Best quality should be from a German/Swiss company called VITRA.
quote:
Originally posted by Jonathan Hales:
They are stunning along with the two original Mies Van de Roer Barcelona chairs I rescued during a refurbishment last year from a skip parked out the back of the buidling.
Jono.
You found two Barcelona Chairs in a skip ?
And did you wake up next to Kylie and Danni this morning ?
Brian OReilly
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Jonathan Hales
Yip!
It's the gospel truth.
Someone thought they were a bit old fashioned and most of the leather straps were broken so an office manager decided they would be better off at the tip.
We noticed they had been removed and it was only at this point that they were rescued and repaired.
They now adorn my work station as a reward.
I enjoyed telling our MD they are worth about $8,000 NZ new each.
Funny old world.
Posted on: 10 January 2004 by seagull
When I went to audition some recliners the guy in the shop actually told me to come back with a good book and a walkman and try my favourite for an hour or two...
I chose a Stressless chair with a beer table attached...
Posted on: 10 January 2004 by Wolf
I got a black leather Eames chair from a friend that was moving and had no room for two of them. Mine is a bit worn with a tear in the seat and left arm and tilts to the side a bit (he got it for $35 at a second hand store, very unloved till he took it), I use it for morning paper reading by the window or when I'm playing my stereo for friends who get teh sweet spot on the couch. I usually don't sit in it for more than an hour tho as the seat is rather flat and tires my butt. Some day I'll get it reconditioned, it is a classic.
glenn
Life is analogue
