It wasn’t THE EAMES OFFICE! Have you noticed that one office chair is appearing in many, many TV shows and movies? Just saw it in the movie “Welcome To Me.” Did you ever wonder why that happens? Did you ever wonder who makes the decision to use a certain chair and why one chair in particular who appear more often? The chair on the left has been appearing with great regularity recently in many TV shows and Movies. It is what I would call A BLATANT COPY OF The classic Eames chair on the right designed in 1954 by The Design Office of Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller. Originally designed with mesh seat and back. I assume the “fake” chair on the left was designed to take advantage of the millennial’s love of Mid-Century Modern furniture. Copying is bad for just about everyone involved especially the uninformed public who can’t see the differences. It clouds the issue and just makes everyone dumber about the history of design. Yes! Design history matters, because just like in politics, if you don’t history you are DOOMED to repeat it, which the illustrations below make perfectly clear. Or perhaps imperfectly clear! So […]
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