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21/05/2010 5:42 am  

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21/05/2010 5:50 am  

I think I'd love it
if not for the pink skull...


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21/05/2010 5:59 am  

Oh there's plenty more!
Just search "EAMES INSPIRATION" on eBay. Listings end in a few hours. 🙂


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21/05/2010 6:40 am  

...more like "Eames desecration"
Oh,the things they do to nice stuff-never ceases to amaze


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21/05/2010 7:23 am  

the fact that people pay 2...
the fact that people pay 2 grand for them certainly amazes me.


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21/05/2010 11:49 am  

The website:
The website:
http://www.opdesign.org/eames-inspiration/


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21/05/2010 8:24 pm  

Other than this disjointed one
here being poor visual design, I am fine with this collection. The spirit of Saul Steinberg lives on.


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21/05/2010 9:36 pm  

Some of them are really...
Some of them are really great, but how high are these reserves set if $2k doesn't buy one? I love to support local and progressive art, but starving artists need to really take a retail sales course. For $2k I can buy a nice solid investment painting from a well listed artist that will appreciate in value over the years.


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21/05/2010 10:32 pm  

Agreed-
If he turns out to be another Keith Haring,then it's definitely well worth it.


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21/05/2010 11:44 pm  

Ugh. Still it's art attached...
Ugh. Still it's art attached to an icon. Cheap way to push yourself further. Saul's work on the chair was done bc Charles was his friend, and from what I understand it was just a random thing ... not a series.


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22/05/2010 12:09 am  

The artist's relationship to the designer is irrelevant.
If it's desecrating in one example then it's desecrating in ALL. I would argue that there is only ONE, which happens to be the one pictured, of those examples that actually compromises the actual design of the chair. If it's merely surface decoration, to me, the overall design is still intact. PRINCE CHARLES chair? Desecration. THESE? Decoration.


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22/05/2010 12:38 am  

Art vs. design
I really don't see the point in using a brand new chair as an artistic medium. Obviously, one is not going to use/sit on the chair if one believes it is a piece of valuable art. Hence, the function of the design object is lost.
Does putting the art on a chair increase the "value" of either one? I would argue no. So why not stick to the appropriate mediums, particularly for this genre of art.
A found old chair sitting in the street makes sense as a medium for graffiti and street art. A brand new LCM does not.
Finally, if the "art" is merely intended as "decoration", and the chair is still intended to be used, then the price of such a decorated chair should be considerably less than the price of a "work of art".


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22/05/2010 1:48 am  

Well, believe it or not,
but, makes since to whom? I'm not trying to be argumentative but was canvas or panel invented strictly for use to be painted upon? A similar loss in function could be said about canvas or masonite. Price is also relative to the purchaser. Someone, a wealthy someone perhaps, might see this chair as a slap in the face to all of us design snobs, love the irony, and buy a set and put them around a graffiti'ed Tulip Table. This piece has not lost it's function as a chair just since it has been painted or dyed, even if it is now considered by some as a piece of art. Besides, it's not like it's some crazy piece by the Campana brothers whose "chairs" have questionable function.


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22/05/2010 2:00 am  

And I suppose....
An even wealthier person could use a framed Picasso as a dinner tray.... for his/her butler to serve with, of course.


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22/05/2010 2:33 am  

LOL, sad but possible...
You know, I'm not a big history guy, but I've been enjoying "America: The Story of Us" currently on the History Channel, and the were just talking about the first oil men and such was the degree of their wealth that they were wrapping cigars in 100-dollar bills and smoking them. Decadent now, quite ostentatious then I imagine. Great wealth can, at times, only be eclipsed by great waste.


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