IDs for some chairs...  

The yellow chairs have me...
The yellow chairs have me intrigued. They look like they are on la fonda bases....but I don't recognize those split yellow shells. Its like Eames meets Girard meets Paulin......I feel like I should know what these are.......maybe Burke?

Yeah, we recognized the 'La...
Yeah, we recognized the 'La Fonda'-like base, but have been unable to find anything else out about them. I'm thinking I've seen something similar before. I just can't think of where.

these similar chairs are on...
these similar chairs are on Caig's list and Ebay right now
http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/fur/681779552.html

Yeah, those do resemble...
Yeah, those do resemble them, but I like them much better in the regular side chair style and not so much in the arm shell chair like the ones selling on Craig's list. Though it does seem likely that they are made by the same company.

Those yellow chairs are Burke
Burke knock-offs of Richard Schultz stacking chairs for Knoll.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290224293828

And it appears...
the knock-offs don't stack.

cloudburst
there's a bit of chair in the top of the first picture, seems a combination of chromed steel, ebonized wood and leather..
any idea (or a full image) what that is?
can't help you on the other ones, although the sling chair does look familiar.

The sling chair...
...and ottoman are very similar to some sling chairs that we bought in 1980 at Macy's. They were really comfortable in the store but not so much when we got them home, for some reason. The tubular chrome frame and exposed screw heads on the ottoman frame were identical. Ours had tufted cotton duck slings that were quite thickly padded.

BJ: the chrome/leather/black chair...
BJ: the chrome/leather/black "machine-look" chair is a 1950s design by Katavolos, Littel, and Kelley. You'll see a three-legged "T" version in the book "Mid Century Modern" by Cara Greenberg, p. 70. The arms and frame members are cast aluminum, powder-coated (or lacquered?) black. I'll post a picture when I get back to my desk.

The Katavolos Littell &...
Not sure about Katavolos Littell & Kelley...did they make an armchair version?

They are the rare original Schultz stacking chairs!
The Schultz stacking chair did make it into production at Knoll for a short time, but with solid fiberglass seats. The present lot was created using sisal fiber for the seat and an experimental foam and glue bonding process resulting in the discoloration in the seat. While the split seat seen in the prototype was key to Schultz's original design, it proved to be difficult to upholster and was changed to a solid seat.