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F First Edition edition (March 1, 2006) 10 x 10.3 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,111,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) in Books > Arts & Photography > Decorative Arts & Design > Furniture Design in Books > Arts & Photography > Individual Artists 5 star80%4 star20%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsLounging aboutThe Eames Lounge Chair reference book.The Eames Lounge Chair|Eames Lounge Chair book. Great Coffee Table book for a great American IconThe Book for the Chair Eames: Furniture 1941-1978 (Memoire)Online retail giant Amazon is celebrating the birthday of legendary designer Charles Eames with a pinboard that collects together replicas of his designs sold on the site. Amazon's roundup – titled Happy Birthday Charles Eames – is part of its Pinterest-style Beautiful Things stream, which features groupings of products curated by Amazon's product team. Clicking on the minimal square images on the pinboard takes visitors through to Amazon's sales pages for products including replicas of the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Molded Plastic Chairs and Hang it all coat rack.
The replica designs are being sold for between £30 and £350 ($45 and $499), well below the prices for authorised versions. For example, the Eames Lounge Chair – an iconic design with black leather upholstery and a bent plywood seat, backrest and arms – is advertised on Amazon's board for £350 ($499). An official version produced by Swiss design brand Vitra - which is authorised to make and sell Eames products in Europe and the Middle East - is currently for sale online via British retailer John Lewis for between £3900 and £5050. Herman Miller, which holds the US licence for Eames products, offers the same chair together with its matching ottoman for $4935. Also included in the Amazon collection are original items like Taschen's Eames coffee table book and a DVD collection of the Eames' pioneering short films. Charles Eames would have been 109 today. He was born on June 17, 1907, and died on 21 August, 1978. Together with his wife, Ray, he created some of the most well-known designs of the 20th century.
The designers' works are also some of the most widely replicated. Earlier this month, Dezeen reported that discount supermarket chain Aldi was selling pairs of replica DSW Eames Plastic Chairs for £39.99 – a fraction of the £339 it costs to buy a single authorised version by Vitra. In that instance, the similarity between the designs was flagged on social media, with furniture designer Rupert Blanchard sharing images of the Aldi version of the chairs from one of its stores in London. Blanchard's image was accompanied by the comment: "@AldiUK is selling #fake #Eames #eiffel chairs, not cool Aldi, not cool." Oliver Wainwright, architecture and design critic at the Guardian newspaper, then defended Aldi on Twitter. "Isn't this exactly what Charles Eames would have wanted?" he tweeted. "The licensing model that sees Eames designs elevated to luxury collectibles goes utterly against everything they stood for." The Eameses aspired to make design more accessible through their work, saying: "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least."
The debate over replica furniture has been heating up as the UK prepares for new copyright legislation to come into effect this summer. This will repeal section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988, extending the copyright period to 70 years from the designer's death. The change is a result of 2013 reforms to bring UK copyright law in line with the European Union, which has longer-lasting protections for artistic works. Charles and Ray Eames' grandson Eames Demetrios, who runs the Eames Office set up by his grandparents in Los Angeles, told Dezeen last year that developments in the music industry were partly to blame for the proliferation of designer furniture replicas. "If you had to ask your grandfather in 1950 to make a copy of a chair he would have said 'okay but it'll take me a week'," he said. "Now if you asked someone, the image in their mind of copying is to drag a file from one side of the desktop to another. They think of everything as cloneable."
01/12/2016 60 Years of the Eames Lounge Chair You may have noticed the prevalence of the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman here at Manhattan Home Design. Besides being one of our signature best sellers, the Eames Lounge Chair has endured quite a history�60 years of it to be exact! 2016 marks its 60th year in existence, having been revealed to the world by husband/wife designers Charles and Ray Eames via television in 1956. 01/19/2016 How to Spruce Up a Boring Office Space The morale of your workers, or your family/roommates if you have a home office may hit a sour note from time to time. To reduce this, it is important to keep in mind the importance of the environment in which they work. No one wants to see the same drab space day in and out. But how do you pepper up your workspace without going too crazy? There are many things to consider, including what look...Rove ClassicsDSW Molded Plastic Side Chair Wooden Dowel Base Reviews Financing available starting at $6.95/monthWhiteBlackOrangeRedBaby BlueGreenYellow Get FREE Swatches2942017-03-09.