Fiberglass Diamond Chair?  

i'd much rather have a...
i'd much rather have a fiberglass diamond chair than an eames fiberglass armchair.
Jeremiah

to each his own
my interest in furniture is the link between the product itself and the design tendencies and principles of the designer. Fiberglass just seems so contrary to Bertoia, being that he considered himself a wire sculpture before anything else.
My thought is that Knoll (not Bertoia) made this option to compete in the contract market because Herman Miller was doing so well with their fiberglass offerings.

Here is one found on EBAY
They claim that it is Knoll
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&i...

I'm with Whitespike here
While the Eames were playing around with new materials - wire & fibreglass among then - Bertoia was devoted to metal. His was a world of form & space, mass & emptiness. The fibreglas version looks like an contradiction of Bertoia's process, and a material he would avoid.
In Bertoia's own words, "If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them."
Besides, if you've ever sat in a fibreglass chair in the middle of summer....ug... swimming in a puddle of sweat!

Hmmm
Is that why you have like 20 shell chairs?
jklololol.

woody
I used to have a shell chair as my desk chair...it was way too much. switched to a DCM. I've still got a bunch of the shells for the kitchen table, but no one sits there for more than 20 minutes at a time. Which is good, because in the winter time the fibreglas gets COLD!!

Tynell
Very interesting about the chair forms used for protection. I was positive that Knoll never produced the diamond in plastic, until I saw the blue one posted above. That one looked so real it threw me off!
Nice to know, but one does wonder why if they went to the trouble to make these forms, why didn't they offer it as a chair option? It does work, even though it isn't as handsome as the wire INHO.

I use a side shell on a...
I use a side shell on a contract base at my desk .... it's way too much in what regards? I haven't had any problems.

Shell chair
I've been using a poly shell chair (current Vitra issue) as my desk chair for the past several years and find it very comfortable.

Do you use an arm or side...
Do you use an arm or side version? I also find that the type base you use affects the comfort level dramatically. The contract base I use is the type that swivels and rocks. I had been using an "H" base that was okay .... the eiffel is much too upright and rigid for this application.

Eiffel
I guess it depends on your working posture (mine is probably horrible). The Eiffel base works fine for me. Especially the swivel glides which allow me to lean the chair up on two feet quite freely (terrible habit, I know).