eames shell chairs: modern minimalist classic or bourgeois cliche?

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egg chairs are austin powers/momus-level duds if you're over 11
-- rayovac (rccol...) (webmail), Today 11:57 AM. (Fritz) (later)

wrong

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I brought an exhibition of eames films to Oberlin college.

The egg chair looks like an egg, the round chair used in the Prisoner is the Globe Chair.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i've spent a lot of time looking at his (charles') architecture and the layman-level impression i got is that he wasn't as great an architect as you'd think (considering how much his case studies get talked about) but he made up for it with awesome interior design + landscape architecture skills.

― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

MOMUS-LEVEL DUDS?

Excuse me, I think you mean STEREOLAB. I live in an unfurnished water tower with none of this retro-90s retro-70s retro-50s nonsense going on in it.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Momus, wouldn't you rather live here:

http://gizmodo.com/images/2006/04/spheres.jpg

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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(Eryn style) 3200mm (10’ 6”) diameter

Well-appointed interior with galley and loft bed - Sleeps 4 in 3 beds.
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Microwave, sink and refrigerator
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Plumbed and wired for 20 amp, 120/240 volt AC
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Custom cast bronze door and window hardware
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Custom interior finishing - optional
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Prices from $150,000 US

http://www.freespiritspheres.com

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I think of this stuff as "library furniture" since that's the only place I see it. So, classic of course. Libraries have the best style by default.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I am in need of a nice eyeball, but not one strung up in the middle of nowhere. The nice thing about water towers is that they're handy for the art galleries. Sipping free wine at openings is better than eating probably-poisonous forest mushrooms.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

actually the Jabobsen Egg chair that Suzy referred to first is this very classic thing:

http://templatezone.com/rs/users/amy@spaziointeriors-com/egg.jpg

the one that is egg shaped and is usually refered to as the egg chair is pretty dud.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm my parents' house has a water tower and they're wondering whether to keep or demolish it cos it's just a lot of work to restore. Maybe I can change their minds....

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Momus, you could just hang it in between buildings in the city. You could rig up some kind of garage door opener to power lower the ladder. Swankest pad ever, mon ami!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, the spherical home people are really missing out on the non-ewok market with that hippy website. those things would be awesome in a city, hanging from elevated train tracks or just rolling around in alleyways.

― harry indiana, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd decorate mine like a katamari and build an addition.

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Where does the poop go?

― Bnad, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

on the clouds.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

did anyone see the last issue of vanity fair where they referred to brothers charles and ray eames?

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i did. i sent them an email telling them to proof articles.

― renee, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I just visited that wooden sphere with my family - I think it was the same one, though it may have been modified, because I don't remember the window being recessed like that. Maybe there was another covering added over top, like a tinted contact lens.

Also,

http://www.toymania.com/334archives/mork/mork_carded.jpg

― Pangolino 2, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Woah how did I never make the connection that the Eameses that made the chairs are the same Eamses that made the films!?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

So is it EEmes or AYmes? When I first heard about them I swear the pronunciation of their name rhymed with dames, but now all I ever hear is EEmes.

Also I think that power of ten film is seriously overrated, but I love the furniture/architecture.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link

EEmes.

― eames demetrios, Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Holy shit, 'real' Eames lounge chairs from Hermann Miller are almost $5k now.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 29 July 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link

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