Eames Fiberglass Chair Resource  

Your
picture is not showing up on my computer.

The reason why it never turns up on auction and vintage sites
is because HM never made it.
It's a Modernica-only color.

Riki
try this link:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tuGhKyaKBI8/R7pxqfb3SxI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/C0BwLNmRMT...

Celery Green
I have never seen one by HM and am not aware that they produced a similar color. But it is a very nice color. I have a Modernica arm shell in that color.

thanks.
yeah...it is a nice color. I didn't think HM ever produced it, but I thought I'd ask the pro's. It'd be cool if there was a page that listed all colors that were available.
I've seen
Red
Red-Orange
Yellow (lemon)
Yellow (Ochre/Mustard)
Kelly Green
Turquoise/Seafoam
Black
Greige
Parchment
Navy
Cobalt Blue
Elephant Grey
Purple (posted a few months ago about how rare it is)
and thats about it... what ones am i missing?
Was it an option for HM to do custom colors for larger/ commercial orders?

1962
There are 27 colors shown in the 1962 catalog. 11 standard, and 16 contract. In addition to those in that catalog, there is also white, true red, and lavender, at least. We believe that HM would have done custom colors, and there may be other colors that were offered in other years.

check it out.
exactly what i was looking for...it was on the Eames Office Website.
http://www.eamesoffice.com/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/images...

There you go
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It's odd
I have a dozen books on Charles and Ray Eames and wouldn't you think one of them would provide;
1) all of the colors produced over the years and how long they were in production
2) a timeline as to where they were manufactured
Right now there's a couple of threads asking just these questions, which really should be explained.
Heck, none of the Eames or Herman Miller books discuss when the EC127 chair came into existence...even though a number of the books show photographs of these beautiful plastic and upholstered chairs.
It IS odd that after all of these years, there's still some basic question about these Eames EC127 and plastic shell chairs!
...and then....there...the issue about the bases!

I wonder...
If Classic Herman Miller contains this info?

No, darnit
"Classic Herman Miller" has lots of pix of the EC127 chairs but no information about them.
The book has information about the molded plywood color and wood type options, but none on the plastic fiberglass chairs.

EC127
1971. Eames Design, pg. 363. A 'soft DCM' made with the same frame, using plastic shells designed by Sol Fingerhut of Century Plastics. Fingerhut had experimented with, and perfected a method of casting a plastic resin that allowed the shockmounts to be incorporated into the seat-back instead of being applied secondarily. (incidentally I see this as evidence that, had the Eames still been living in 1993, they would have approved the switch to polypropylene on the shell chairs)
And the colors of the fiberglass shell chairs are tricky. Millions were produced over the course of 43 years by various different subcontractors. Herman Miller has admitted that they have many holes in their record keeping, especially early on. Add to the plastic chair colors the hundreds of fabric options, as well as the 30+ bases and you've got not just a resource, but an entire books worth of material. the best resource so far for the shell chairs are old HM catalogs, as well as the slender volume: "Modern/Classic" put out by Neenah Papers.