Eames Aluminum Lounge Chair - Looking for ANY information!!!  

Did you do a search? (!!!)
Must be a dozen discussions on just the info you need...
Not only here but a quick search on google is a-plenty.
Nice chair.

To quote the Eames Office:
"Patent pending, a mark found on the earliest, first year of production examples."
You have a 1st year (1958) naugahide/vinyl version. It would be much more valuable if it was upholstered in Saran as the one shown below, but a nice find nonetheless.
See link below:
http://www.eamesoffice.com/eames-furniture-raisonne

The wishbone
connection is so much nicer than the recent abomination like mine.
I also find the lack of adjustment a problem.
It does look like vinyl but still a nice chair.

thanks
I had been googling and binging all over the place with every keyword I could think of... and I've found more information on this forum. Thanks a lot for the replies, I learned some! Does the Patent Pending make it more valuable? If the 50th anniversary chairs are going for $1,500 does that mean mine is more or less valuable? I'm still looking for a good antique appraiser in Atlanta.

I may also note that I had...
I may also note that I had no idea who Herman Miller or Eames were when I got the chair. I liked the way it looked. It was $25 and I even tried to talk them down, I'm a thrift store kinda girl and that was expensive for me, for a chair. Finding out what I have about it so far has been really neat... it may be the most expensive thing I own! LOL

Valuable
As often happens there are varying ideas of what value is. Monetarily your chair is worth a bit.
The 50th anniversary editions are recent productions - the chair currently retails for about 1500. Your chair could be worth more (or less) depending on age, quality, and of course the collector bidding on it.
The link below is to Wright20 auction house. Keep in mind as you look at the auction results that "pre-production" models are extremely rare, and therefore much more valuable than those which were mass produced.
And did anyone else besides me notice the oddly gold arms...again?
http://www.wright20.com/search/eames_aluminum/0

And Rockland
You can still get the collection with the fixed aluminum antler on all the chairs. Just no tilt mechanism on them.

I think that might be the arm's clear plastic coating
slightly yellowing with age.

Beware of who you help!
Turns out that this girl "Sinwonderland," who paid $25 for her chair, put up a Craigslist ad in Atlanta to sell her chair. She says that she is "really taking a hit" by asking $3000. So, she just bought it in March for $25, used y'all to price out her chair for her, and is now trying to turn a $2975 profit out of it. She even has the audacity to use the same pictures.
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1958 Pre Production Herman Miller Eames Executive Lounge Chair - $3000 (Douglasville, GA)
Date: 2010-04-01, 1:17PM EDT
Reply to: sale-qzwsh-1671799930 [at] craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
I have a 1958 Pre Production Herman Miller Eames Aluminum Group Lounge Chair. If you are a vintage or mid era furniture collector, this is an awesome piece. The chair is pre production with no patent number (a prototype before the chairs were actually produced). The pre production Herman Miller chairs are valued at $7,000-$9,000 so I'm really taking a hit with $3,000 but we all know how it is. If you're interested or you'd like to make an offer, please contact me. Thanks!
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Honey, you gotta be kidding me. You should probably modify your Craigslist posting. Saying that you're "really taking a hit" is amazing. -Jessica
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/atq/1671799930.html

Relax, Jessica.
Anyone in the market for a pre-production chair will know the difference between it and what Sinwonderland is selling.
Breathe.

Who cares, good for her.
I enjoy helping people ID truly "good" finds. And likewise, people here have helped me with things I couldn't ID, and for that I am thankful.
She made an effort to research her chair before she asked for more help, which makes a difference.

Strange
Looking back at my posts, I clearly told her "first year production", not "pre-production".
Perhaps I wasn't "used" after all!
Oh well....

::amused::
Everything comes out in the wash anyway. I think the only thing that galled me was the "really taking a hit" verbiage. Now that's a stretch of the imagination! -Jessica

that chair is worth what...
that chair is worth what someone would pay for it,
No big Deal chair at all.