Herman Miller new LCW colors for Eames b-day.  

They're everywhere! The Serie...
They're everywhere! The Series 7 is sort of doubly iconic, at least in England, as a famous chair but most of all from the photograph of Christine Keeler naked in one....one of the most recognisable British images of the 60s.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/seeing/modern_icon/

paulanna
i guess you have read like i have read that is a repoduction not a real series 7 chair by jacobsen.... he never made that handle pull in his chair

paulanna
i just read the story thanks

LRF
D'you know I'm not so sure it was a fake....I once saw an interview with Lewis Morley who said that he and his assistant cut the slot in the chair themselves....I guess I'll just have to keep examining the picture to make sure...;)

Iconic 7
There is a reason why you see these (awful) colourfull 7 chairs all over - go to any Fritz Hansen retailer in Europe and find stacks and stacks of them - look closely, see the dust. They do not sell any more - and haven´t for quite a few years now... But if you are a Fritz Hansen retailer (existing or new) FH dictates what you have to order... And, correct, you cannot simply choose to go with the Poul Kjaerholm collection (or something else), nope you have to buy a pile of 7´s as well - even though you know and FH knows that nobody wants them....

my issue with Series 7's is...
my issue with Series 7's is the rubbish quality of the chrome used on the legs - rusting like an old Lancia after 5 years.....

paulanna Torres
Very intersting what you say about the series 7 chair that they have in the Fritz Hansen stores in Europe. As you both know we do not have that many stores in the USA that carry those chairs... of course we have the interent stores and i have seen the pictures.
I bought my chairs on ebay and they are a great set of series 7 in the original honey color. .
Why do you think that they have been rejected by the European community ??? The colors ? tired of them? too many on the market?

Greeg Vanderkooi speaks
"We collaborated with the Eames Office to choose a set of colors authentic to the period during which the LCW was designed," said Gregg VanderKooi, Product Manager - Classics for Herman Miller. "We looked to the colors Eames used for the Eames Storage Unit and the Eames Hang It All. And we also found inspiration in textiles designed for Herman Miller by Eames' contemporary and friend, Alexander Girard."
VanderKooi said the LCW will continue to be produced in ash, walnut and cherry veneers, and over time the stained birch version is likely to be available in even more colors.

LRF
Personally I'm not aware that they've diminished in popularity except maybe a little from a few years ago when a harlequin set in bright colours seemed to be the hottest ticket in town to judge from the style mags. I daresay FH have sold a lot more in the last ten years than in the previous ten. They're definitely still popular on the secondhand market, especially wood faced ones and they 'work' with practically anything. Maybe some mid-century buffs / snobs over here think that they're not quite exclusive enough given that FH obviously sell a lot to the contract market and there's a lot of lookalikes about. And they are expensive to buy new retail and the quality of the chrome is far inferior to that on older ones (not that that would influence anybody buying a new one).