Shell RockerRocker ChairEames Rocking ChairEames RockerEames ChairsRar RockingFurniture Design InteriorHome FurnitureInterior DesignsForwardI found this Eames rocker on the www.stylist.co.uk 's website...I love the Eames rocker- it is so simple and intriguing. Imagine it with a sheep rug by the fire drinking hot chocolate? Own yours, visit www.chair.furnitureDuring a routine news broadcast moments ago, National Public Radio broke into its regular programming to alert listeners to the availability of something called the Herman Miller Aeron Chair, which was apparently in stock at several retail outlets called Sit4Less nationwide. "I had never heard of this thing," said Marilyn Strauss, a Nevada-based listener. "I'm just sitting there waiting for my favorite NPR program featuring breathy, vaguely disinterested-sounding contributors doing radio documentaries with short breaks of house music or an alternative folk act stuck in between to punctuate the emotional underpinnings of the story, and suddenly they break in with an update on the Herman Miller Aeron Chair.
They said Sit4Less has, I guess, every color of this chair that there is." "There was added urgency," observed Brian Costello, a Boston area NPR devotee, "because at that moment we learned that one of the colors available was Sit4Less True Black." For many, this was indeed a first exposure to the popular office chair introduced by Herman Miller, Inc., a Michigan-based furniture designer that was founded at the turn of the 20th century and is even credited with the 1968 design of the very office cubicle in which so many of the Aeron chairs are put to use. Perhaps even more inspiring is the fact that the chair is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. None of this was made immediately apparent, however, by the arresting bulletin about the product delivered by NPR, who, again, stressed only its wide range of colors, one of which was allegedly the exclusive province of Sit4Less. "I'm okay now," said Leslie Warren of Cincinnati, Ohio. "But it was pretty shocking to hear about this...this...chair, right as I was settling into my favorite program featuring glib, off-the-cuff goofballs reporting on financial issues in a very approachable way."
The chair was not available for comment. James Napoli is an author and humorist. More of his comedy content for the Web can be found here.The Stool 60 Giveaway. Sign up for our emails and a chance to win this ingenious stackable stool. We are Cincinnati’s original primer vintage modern furniture store voted and rated the best, by Cincinnati Magazine and other local publications. Nationally recognized by Travel and Leisure Magazine, Midwest Living, Chicago magazine, Antique and Arts and the New York Times, as the best Mid Century vintage store in the Midwest. We were also featured on the hit show American Dealers (see “About Us “page on the web site to view the episode). For personal sales contact us at (513) 378-8261 or Send us an Email! We sell vintage furnishings acquired from our travels throughout the U.S. to 20th Century events and furniture shows.In an interview in a 1960 issue of Home Furnishings Daily, Charles Eames explained that the Office was focused on “making designs better—more useful, more comfortable, and more lasting.”
This practice is exemplified by how Charles and Ray Eames approached not only their designs, but also by the ongoing improvements to products already in production, such as the Eames Fiberglass Chair. The Eames Fiberglass Chair was first introduced in 1950. Zenith Plastics was the original maker of the shell part of those chairs. By 1958, the Eames Office and Herman Miller were working with three different suppliers of fiberglass shells as part of the Eameses’ ongoing commitment to “making designs better.” You can read the entire Home Furnishings Daily interview, “Making Designs Better,” in An Eames Anthology: Articles, Film Scripts, Interviews, Letters, Notes and Speeches by Charles and Ray Eames (Yale University Press). Quality control was at the forefront of Charles and Ray’s practice. Very early on it was apparent that there was a high reject rate with Zenith shells, and for the ones that did meet the rigorous Eames and Herman Miller quality standards, there were issues of performance.
The Zenith shells had too many exposed fibers after very little use. In addition, the Zenith chairs were not colorfast. The red ones in particular faded so much that collectors now refer to their color as “coral.” At 901 Washington Boulevard, Charles and Ray kept on hand numerous production examples of every part of their designs for study and for testing. They were well aware of the quality issues at Zenith, because the Zenith plant was right next-door in Gardena, California. They engaged directly with the next two suppliers—the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company in Cincinnati, and the General American Transportation Corporation (GATC) in Chicago. They sent highly trained Eames Office staff members to work directly with the part suppliers. In 1956, they dispatched one of their most experienced, Don Albinson, to work with GATC. Keen-eyed collectors wonder about the double triangle logo embossed on some Eames shells. Triangles are the logo for the Plastics Division of the General American Transportation Corporation, one of the first three makers of Eames shells.
Today, the Eames Office continues to carry out Charles and Ray’s dedication to quality, with an ongoing commitment to bringing consumers the best for the most for the least amount of money. When the Eames rocking chair came back into production in 2006, it was the subject of an Elle Decor magazine story called The Ten Most Riveting Rockers. It is the most reasonably priced rocker on that list. In the picture gallery below, you can see more images of various GATC models that Charles and Ray kept on hand for color and quality approval checks, including a shell of a very unusual blue color. There is also a GATC advertisement from the Library of Congress’s vast archive of papers from the work of Charles and Ray Eames. we have an abundance of high quality Herman Miller cubicles. Our top Herman Miller products include Ethospace, Resolve and more. Buying used herman miller cubicles is a great way to spruce up your office environment while staying green and saving money on your used cubicle purchase.
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