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Parker Stephenson
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08/05/2015 12:30 am  

Hello All,I have just purchased these two fiberglass armchairs and I'm having a difficult time finding any details in respect to the manufacturer.  Any information that can be shared with me regarding thise two chairs would be much apprciated.  Please see several photos of the bottoms of the chairs.  Thanks for the help! 
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Parker Stephenson
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10/05/2015 6:20 pm  

Any thoughts would be much appreciated, thank you.


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toomanychairs
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10/05/2015 6:22 pm  

If you are in the USA, you almost surely have a chair made by Herman Miller designed by Charles and Ray Eames. The brown bit of paper on the bottom was once a sticker listing the patents. There should be a raised logo (looks like a stylized M) molded into the bottom of the shell, up toward the front lip, with the words Herman Miller beneath it.
Is it upholstered? That can sometimes help with a date.
The upper rubber stamp, which is hard to read, may be a manufacture date, but I can't make it out.  The round rubber stamp is most likely from a distributor or maybe of the contractors that made chairs for HM. Most of those companies included their own embossed logos in the fiberglass as well, and they're enumerated here:  http://www.designaddict.com/forum/General-discussion/Where-were-herman-m...
If you arein Europe, and there's no Herman Miller logo, this may have been made by Vitra, which had (and has) an overseas license. Not sure how those are marked; I'm in the US and haven't seen one. 


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Parker Stephenson
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10/05/2015 7:46 pm  

Thanks Toomanychairs.  I appreciate the information.  These chairs are not upholstered.  The upper stamp is i believe is a date stamp reading 91357 with additional charactors on either side that I can't seem identify.  I have yet been able to see a raised logo however it is possible that I missed it.  Thank you again for the help!!


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NULL NULL
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11/05/2015 9:52 am  

looks like "Summit Prime" to me. Summit was a fibergass manufacturer for Herman Miller chairs. They used to be caled Zenith.


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Parker Stephenson
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11/05/2015 8:42 pm  

Thank you bshop22!


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