New Custom - Eames shell chair  

?
How much did you get for it?

No Offense, please
But I don't understand this thing where people take classics and draw on them. There was one womb chair on ebay for forever that someone bought new and covered it in colorful silly string looking stuff .... a 3K mistake!
What makes you want to use an Eames chair as a canvas? Why not make art that stands on its own, with no connection to some other successful designer?
Is there a statement being made here that I don't see?

Whitespike, can't you see...
Whitespike, can't you see the pun at play here......Ray Eames/ Ray Gun?
😉

to answer both of your...
to answer both of your questions:
I got enough for it to justify working on a few more of them : )
And, the reason for working on an eames shell is really very simple and i've talked about it numerous times before. It is the one classic mid century chair that is both widely recognized/loved AND is amazingly affordable because there are SO many of them around. That being said, there are quite a few individuals that want the classic design, but don't want the exact same chair that thousands upon thousands of other people have (and, not just eames shell, all classic designs that are EVERYWHERE). hence the market for customization... for a couple hundred dollars you can have a classic piece of americana, an original piece of art and a functional piece of furniture. I honestly can't believe more people aren't doing it (in total, i've seen less than a dozen eames shell customs over the course of the last couple yrs). I will surely be working on and commissioning fellow artists to do more in the future.
and to those that think that altering in any way a $50 eames chair is simply 'ruining a classic' I'd ask you to look at who the first person was to do it half a century ago.

Saul Steinberg. I have no pro...
Saul Steinberg. I have no problems with defacing such a mass produced item. It's yours.

I've seen about a dozen
In the past month.

As much as I love the Eames...
As much as I love the Eames shells I am just sick of seeing a million different ways to jump on the MCM bandwagon. Why not do something really creative as a statement?
Perhaps make a Marcel Wanders Knotted chair out of twizzlers or candied pretzels. A knock at consumerism and the mortality of man made design?

Im with Whitespike here
This isn't successfull. You're utilizing the classic shape of the Eames chair, but thats the strongest thing going for it. What I don't see is much of what is 'yours' about the piece. Even the graphic appears to be co-opted.
This isn't to say that icon's cannot be art, but it is a very difficult path to maneuver. So far the only piece that has really stood out amongst your art is the Bertoia chair with the twist ties. Part of it is the Eva-Hesse-on-acid vibe, but its real strenght lies in your confounding the utility of the original object - like a book with a padlock through the covers, or a bicycle with square wheels. And, the Bertoia piece, knowingly or not, relies the least on the iconography of the chair and more on the use of material.
As for selling the pieces, good luck. (sincerely - not sarcastically) but be careful, as it could simply become kitsch, schtick, and possibly many other Yiddish words.

If you think drawing ray...
If you think drawing ray guns on the Eames chairs is sacrilege, wait till you see what I'm doing to a Knoll Saarinen tulip armshell. 🙂
fm

Jeremiah-
Did this chair sell on Ebay? I'd seen it earlier in the week with some bids, yet when I look at your 'completed' listings, it looks to have NOT sold.
What gives? Do you end your listings early if you're not satisfied with the price?

Last
I saw it was bid up to around $300. Perhaps it was ended early to avoid having to pay final value fees.......

Confused
I am confused, Jeremiah. If you bought the unvarnished chair for 50 bucks and stenciled a rocket on it and sold it for 300 bucks, why did you pull it? I must be missing something here.

He is selling it on Craig's List now....
Check the thing out at:
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/fud/859931793.html
"Jeremiah" was a real jerk when my partner asked him some questions about it. That was when I found this string.
I agree that the chairs are not that valuable in their own right. However, mediocre art on a chair that is not that valuable is supposed to equal $425?
This is not Calder, Lichtenstein, or Fuchs working on the BMW art cars. This more aligned with designer decorated cows, mermaids, and other hunks of fiberglass that are scattered across various cities now.
Sometimes, the mediocre and short of stature try to stand on the shoulders of someone greater, like Eames. The result sullies the original and does not expand the vision of the original.
Try again, Jeremiah.

"Sometimes, the mediocre and...
"Sometimes, the mediocre and short of stature try to stand on the shoulders of someone greater, like Eames. The result sullies the original and does not expand the vision of the original."
I guess that's a mean way to say what I was saying. Good luck.