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Elizabeth, do you want to sell your Swag Leg Chair??

i like the bubble lamps also.

Does anyone know of a good place to get plastics made? I am looking to build a credenza with some sliding doors, and want to use almost opaque, but still semi translucent plastic as the doors. I have no idea where to go to have these made? it would just need to be sheet acrylic cut into the size i need. Thanks.

I really hate the term "Reproduction" when it comes to licensed product.

Really, the term came about once there licensing became an issue by the manufacturers.

The furniture that is made today by Fritz, Knoll, Cassina, and Herman Miller are the original designs, by the original designers, made by the original company that distributed it. The only way it is an "original" is if you are buying a 1956 Eames Lounge and Ottoman, or a 1958 Tulip table, or a 1958 Egg Chair. Anything after the initial dates are reproductions if you want to look at that. Even if the design has been out of production for many years and has been brought back recently, its still the original design - unless you look at someone like HM who changed the Eames plastic pieces to PP instead of fiberglass (a great move and I have no doubt Charles and Ray would have approved), same for the Swag leg series...these are reasons you may want to have an original -because of a material or finish change. However, an LCW is the same no matter what year you buy - the production has not changed nor have the specs. However, I will tell you if you buy a Vitra LCW that it is slightly different stance (not sure why they changed it).

Vintage can be cool - just because of the history of the piece, and the wear and tear - look at Artek's "2nd Cycle" program - more manufacturers should get into doing this. The product is aged and has a patina no one else can give it, plus it has a story to tell. How can a new one compete with that.

You may want to buy a new one though because you want it to grow along with the life you have.

Americans are obsessed with keeping things in perfect condition - always looking new...whereas Europeans know that things will age and enjoy the look of something that shows wear.

If you want to buy a vintage piece, buy a vintage piece - a new LCW is $700. Youll see them on Craigslist for typically $400-500.

If you want to buy a new one, buy the real thing - knock offs are shitty, not made as well, and most of the time do not have the same specs - usually having a bit more of an akward stance.

Hope this helped.

I was thinking about the 2 drawer low dresser of this series to use as a media stand. I hate the black, and had decided to paint it white. The piece is solid Pine, so you can easily sand these down and repaint with (my suggestion is an oil based paint, just because it will be tougher and wear better)oil or latex. I ended up going with a unit from somewhere else, but I was really set on this one for some time and studied it well. Any of the solid pine pieces from IKEA are pretty easy to refinish, its the ones that are laminate or veneer/foil that you dont want to mess around with. Good luck, I dont think you will have any problem.

if you want feel of an aeron and the look of an eames aluminum. do the eames aluminum in cygnus mesh. extremely comfortable and breathes well. (plus its the way the chair was originally designed to be). This lowers the cost of the chair to a little above 1000. Your eames chair will last a lifetime (not just saying it, it really will), and the cb2 will start falling apart within 5 years (not to say its an ikea chair, but quality wise its no where near made as good). hope i helped.

I learned recently if you microwave a sponge for 15 seconds it kills all the bacteria in it. Maybe that might help?

Joel knows what he is talking about. Just so you know, Herman Miller is the ONLY licensed manufacturer. Modernica did buy the machines after HM discontinued the use of fiberglass, but even while they use the same presses the originals were made on, they are unfortunately not authentic. The Eames foundation controls everything about C & R Eames collection, as well as some Nelson pieces. HM and the Eames' are/were very environmentally concious, and at the time when the original shells were made, molded plastic was not available for manufacturing (if it was even invented) at that time. Polypropylene is the material they are made of now, which is a Thermoplast material (which can be recycled) and fiberglass is a Thermoset material(which is here for eternity onces it is cast). When PP became a readily used material, the Eames foundation decided to change manufacturing to this material (because they believed it would have been the way C & R would have wanted it, had the material been available when the chairs were born). Herman Miller does not manufacture these chairs anymore, they are produced by Vitra (which manufactures all Eames furniture in Europe), and sold under the HM name in America. In my opinion (which is what i have done in the past)...get on ebay, and buy an original shell seat, and go to Modernica and buy a replacement base.