White Ash from Herman Miller  

picture:

randall and hopkirk
the ghost of Charles Eames?
http://www.retrosellers.com/features131.htm

I have a black ash
670 from the '70's. I think it looks great with its brown cushions. Sort of the reverse scheme of the ones everybody and his brother has.
I'd imagine the shells turning a honey-gold with age, like the "new" DCM's do, and the hides looking a bit grimey in pretty short order, too.

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YAY!

vitra has had this one out...
vitra has had this one out for two years i love it.

Supposedly
Supposedly the new ash is "frozen" in the freshly cut state, meaning it won't age and turn amber. Kinda sad since I think that the ash always looks kinda jarring unless its got some age to it.

In a weird kind of way
I think this white leather and white ash chair and ottoman will age more interesting than the black leather and darker wood, especially if the owner's a cigar smoker...imagine how nice they'll look with that slightly smokey creme color!! (partially kidding)

Northern White Ash
As used in Adirondack and Louisville Slugger baseball bats,not to mention vintage hockey sticks.This will look good in my sports memorabilia room.

If I asked him nicely...
... would Alfie reupholster it in my team's colors, with some baseball stitching across the seat and my favorite player's number painted on the back?

It does seem curious that they would want
to preserve the bland and rather pedestrian (unfinished) appearance of freshly-cut ash, especially when one considers Eames' choice of highly-figured and exotic rosewood for the originals. It's a departure, no?
It's Wonder Bread to my eye.
As for Hume, I'm sure he'd be more than happy to acommodate any request to customize a set in any way that would please a customer able to forward the appropriate sum. The craftsmanship would be top-notch, too.

The white ash
in the picture, quite honestly, reminds me of the light birch finish on most of the Alvar Aalto pieces....and I like it.