k-aleks's Profile

WOW !
hi everybody, I'm a 20 yo french guy, who is fan of Charles and Ray EAMES. I'm doing studies in furniture design, and want to become a furniture designer.
so fiberglass or polypropylen ?!!
FIBERGLASS, not ecological... but who wants to recycle an EAMES chair... who want to recycle a Zenith or HM shell ???
not me ! thos chairs will last more than us !
moreover, those fiberglass chairs, were the first plastic chair to be produced in large serie... and when Charles and Ray worked with fiberglass, they were able to obtain shapes that a lot of designer and architects wanted to obtain... but it's fiberglass which allow those shapes. when we speak about "shell chairs", we cannot forget to quotes the work of Charles and Ray...
so FIBERGLASS FIBERGLASS FIBERGLASS the magic material !
when I see 40-50 years old shells, still shinny.. it's fantastic... and when I go on a modern design retailer, and when I see a large range of Polypropylen chairs... they all seem cheap, and bad quality, bad finish... and a lot of them remind me the work of Charles and Ray ! so polypropylen is maybe ecological, but Vitra's shells are not as beautiful as HM or Modernica's shells. they don't have shockmounts that was the answer that the Eames found to a problem... good designer work ! (I will not do a historic design course:) because I don't know all about the Eames)
polypropylen shells loose the magic aspect of the Eames HM shells. I think polypropylen shell is a stupid choice.
give me a polypropylen shell... nothing, poor material
give me a fiberglass chair...I will spend hours and hours looking at it, touching the material...
we can not compair ! I've seen Modernica chairs in London (there is a brand of coffee shop that put a lot of Modernica chairs in its shop... awesome !) and I've seen Modernica chairs in a shop... I was not seduce, they are better than Vitra chairs, but not as good as old funky Herman Miller chairs ! so HERMAN MILLER FOREVER !

soon I will receive a Vitra limegreen shell, and I will try to show us a pic of a HM chair and Vitra one. everybody will be able to compair both chairs.

and moreover, Vitra used to manufacture Eames chairs in fiberglass until 1993. I don't know if you (american people) have already seen some. I'm wondering something, and hope that you will help me :) do you think that american people will be interested in such chairs? maybe for you they are exotic ! I don't know, what do you think about that? please let me know.

I permit myself to put a small message:
I'm also looking for Eames stuff, so if you can have good stuff for me just tell me ! thanks
k_alessandro@yahoo.fr
also if you have old photos of interiors with Herman Miller stuff... I really like those fotos.

feel free to contact me !

à bientôt les amis !
alex