Beautiful pieces. My grandmother had an origional eames lounge chair growing up it always felt newer than any other piece of furnature in the house even though everything was from the 60's, I have that chair now and cherish it.
I actually prefer the expression of the metal disks or extended plate on the outside face of the rubber shock mount. Hiding the metal inside the shock mount does nothing for me.
Well I guess they intended it to be low cost, but manufacturing it was probably not as easy as they thought (with it being the first Eames' molded plastic chair). But Vitra's asking price of 8000$ always seemed not justifiable to me.
This is a little late but I ordered a copy of the book! It's been a while since I got a new piece of Charles and Ray but my "early Christmas gift" is a ESU 150! Hope you are well Daniel!
The official Eames Office website explains that the aluminum knob was first added to the DAT-1 chair in 1960. The aluminum base was added in 1958, though. I recently acquired a DAT-1 that is stamped 1959, and it has an aluminum base with a steel knob. www.eamesoffice.com/blog/the-finish-of-the-castings/
Hi, thanks for your feedback. For 20 years Charles and Ray Eames were consultants to IBM, they were brought in by Eliot Noyes, IBM Director of Design. This is one of many projects that resulted from that relationship and the relationship between IBM and the Eames Office continues to this day. In 1960 Charles and Ray created an exhibition for a Los Angeles museum, MATHEMATICS: THE WORLD OF NUMBERS AND BEYOND. In 2011, material from this was turned into a free iPad App by IBM & Eames Office
That poor sofa survived all these years only to be mishandled on cam by captain flippy. Pro tip: never lean the compact on its folding side. I own four of these and they are great sofas. I sleep comfortably on them quite often. The oldest has no middle brace and a round Herman Milller badge - the other three are more recent and each has the middle brace. Does anyone know when this started and why? Paid $800 on average. All are from eBay. Unfortunately, they cost about $1k to reupholster, so
Daniel, I am amazed that the Kiosk, let alone any part of the IBM Pavilion survived!! Like yourself, I too spent many weekends at the NYWF And I know that IBM and The Hall of Science Had an effect on me as well!
Several viewers have advised me that these two SKATEBOARD DECKS were designed by Tony Larson. Still hoping to get positive confirm of that, on the Tony Larson website similar Eames design skateboards appear.
