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02/05/2008 7:32 pm  

Hi everyone, hope you can help me. I have been given an Eames side shell rocker in what is apparantely the original Alexander Girard red fabric hopsack. It was from an estate sale in switzerland and had been in the family from new. I have no reason to doubt its provenance but when I turned it over the other day I was curious as to the lack of HM marks on it. Instead there is a small embossed "V" at the base of the shell. I understand that the Zenith productions of these chairs were not embossed with the Herman Miller logo nor the paper stickers and wondered if anyone could help me date this chair or give me any more information about the V mark. The shell is thick and the fibres are really well formed and juicy, but I am thinking I may have to sell one of my chairs soon as we are overrun and this may be the candidate. I don't want to get ripped off as I was told that it is an early one and quite valuable but don't know how to tell.

In addition, the shockmounts do look like the larger ones but someone has been rather careless and glued them badly. There are also four "scars" to the base of the chair which looks like there may have been a different base to it at some point. I will post pics with this post and really hope someone can help me as it's been driving me mad! Many thanks!


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Modern Love
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02/05/2008 9:49 pm  

The V stands for Vitra
This has been discussed in a recent previous thread, click here:
http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th...


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Modern Love
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02/05/2008 9:51 pm  

And the rocker base on your chair
looks like a reproduction, based on the welding on those mounting tabs. I could be wrong.....


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02/05/2008 10:19 pm  

Saw That
Thankyou, yes, I saw that thread shortly after posting although noone seemed to know definitively if it *was* Vitra. Any idea of date, anyone? Or what the raised circles indicate on the shell base? I thought they were where other shocks may have been intended to go but forgot to say that as you can see on the pic they have never been touched and are one with the rest of the fibreglass shell.
Interesting point about the repro base - thanks for adding that, I had no idea. Can anyone else tell me for sure? Thanks.


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05/05/2008 9:07 pm  

Vitra Design Museum email
Thanks everyone. I sent the pics to the Vitra Design Museum to see if they could help and they have positively id'd the chair as a Vitra shell from around the early 60's. The base is a repro as suspected and the upholstery is a Girard so very happy.


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