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Display Name:	Gozer Pyle
Member Since:	9/19/07

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There are certain people who would tell you a broken lightbulb in the rectum was comfortable if it came from a name designer. Anyway, so far we have the pro-Eames crowd qualifying their claims of comfortableness as not being true for the tall, midgets, and fat people. Anyone else? Apartment Therapy - Eames Hacksn. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites Flag this comment	10/18/07 6:17 PM
Hello, son! Welcome to the least comfortable high chair ever.... The toilet looks about right, though. Eames chairs of all types are uncomfortable as chairs, but the armless fiberglass (now ABS) chair looks like an OK shitter. Apartment Therapy - Eames Hacksn. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites#comments Flag this comment	10/12/07 4:22 PM
"Let them eat cake!" I've been hearing that a lot lately. Bummer. I mean, somewhere between modfan's "should have" and everyone else's "want," there's a middle ground where mere mortals must make compromises between the ideal and the possible. I bid you best wishes on having money, modfan, or at least a non-stop stream of craigslist finds. I have this horrible fear that you sit in a studio apartment, with nothing but your $200 Eames chair and everything else K-Mart particle board. I really hope that's not the case. There's some pretty cool knockoffs at the Ikeas and Targets of the world--they aren't a quarter as good as the real things, but they're only a tenth of the price. Apartment Therapy - Good Questions: Do You Prefer the Eames Group's or CB's Office Chair? Flag this comment	9/19/07 6:00 PM
You know, this Eames estate business gave me a thought as to why their being dead matters to the situational ethics: Do you feel it is more important for Paul and Ringo to get their share of the $0.99 (iTunes) or for Yoko NOT to get John's (bittorrent)? Clearly, as long as Paul, Ringo, and/or Ringo's wife are still alive, the equities lie with them and iTunes is required. If those three were wiped out by the chicken flu, and Yoko lived, only a monster wouldn't steal the music. Their kids don't enter into it, except that if Yoko was dead, the pro-stealing argument is even stronger because it would be Sean getting the money. If a serendipitous set of circumstances led to Julian getting John's share, that would change things 180-degrees. Apartment Therapy - Good Questions: Do You Prefer the Eames Group's or CB's Office Chair? Flag this comment	9/19/07 12:40 PM
One more thing: one of the reasons Eames chairs last forever is that they are almost exclusively for looking at and not sitting on. If you want to know how a HM office chair that actually gets used in offices holds up, ask someone who works in a legal office or brokerage full of Aerons how many people he knows who have had broken seat frames. The only reason an Aeron chair has a service life of more than 6 months is that it has a 12 year warranty. Apartment Therapy - Good Questions: Do You Prefer the Eames Group's or CB's Office Chair?#comments Flag this comment	9/19/07 11:21 AM
I always wanted to post on one of these morality of knockoff threads while it was current!!! Anyway, if I remember correctly, Charles died in 1984, and was a widower (might be Ray--my point's the same). The licensing fees going to the estate are fringe benefits to members of the lucky sperm club. I'm not going to cry for them. And Herman Miller has made a business decision that they'd rather protect the brand than sell a lot of product--hence the outrageous markups and marketing almost exclusively to the trade. Lower the prices 60-70% or put your products in some regional high-end furniture stores. Voila! No more competition. There was a person singing the praises of the quality of the real thing. Get real! This isn't mirrors for the Hubble telescope--it's a f*cking office chair! And it's not aluminum group chairs are even comfortable--they are, in relative terms, rigid- and flimsy-feeling. You can get a way more functional from Costco for $100. YMMV Apartment Therapy - Good Questions: Do You Prefer the Eames Group's or CB's Office Chair? Flag this comment	9/19/07 11:14 AM