decisions, On a 670/671  

greattttt!
the best thing about this is that they still have the discontinued (8) leather, which isn't by any means the best leather on the eames chairs, but its certainly better then the new stuff.
what are they feeding cows these days. damn,

Corn
Obviously.

All
All the leather looks like crap when you first get it. Mine (Leather 8 I believe) looked like charcoal grey cardboard. Felt fairly similar too. Not it is getting a deeper color in the worn in areas, and getting a pretty nice shine to it as well.
As for the veneer, the cherry is just boring. Like buying a Ferrari and painting it beige. The chair is good for a nap, but the veneer shouldnt put you to sleep.
The beauty of the chair has always been in the contrast of its volumes and materials: hard shells, soft leather, the uniform mass of the cushion against the riot of the rosewood veneer. In the 90s when the rosewood was discontinued they brought in walnut as an (albeit less riotous) substitute. The cherry, I'm sure, was offered as a concession to the odd breed of folks who equate cherry with quality. It's not a bad wood, just...boring (imho).

Cherry 670
Looks terrible, imo.
Which is weird because I have Cherry LCW and it looks awesome. #barrympls

Have to agree with Barry and Luc
The cherry shells have no grain, no no contrast, no depth. It's like the difference between a DCM and an EC127. Essentially the same chair, but with all the soul sucked out of it.

I like my cherry quite well....
I like my cherry quite well. DOn't know if it's natural cherry or normal. The grain isn't loud but it isn't lost either. I can take a photo if you like. It isn't the deep red cherry. I looks close to Walnut with a lighter red hue and lighter grain.

I agree with message above
the CHERRY does suck, but Natural Cherry, is alot nicer, its like a lighter tone of the walnut and has all the grains visible, im just tired of seeing it in walnut, and my last 670 was a walnut, so i figured id go for natural cherry...so i did.
cant wait, it will be here in a few days!
Regular cherry has no grains, its almost orange looking in the sunlight (ugly) and if it ever CHIPS you can notice it from a mile away.
the only time it looks nice, is if its a cherry with decent grain and ivory leather,
the red and white contrast is unique looking.

I still think
You should have gotten the gray one.

i was...
thinking of it, but then i thought hard, and dont think it would be that cool after a month, to weird looking.
cant go wrong with the black leather

Hah
Whitespike's is dark cherry.
Not natural.
Oh well...

I just saw a pic of my chair being shipped...
its really nice, the light natual cherry looks so close to the walnut, with a nice warm feel and some good grains in the wood, it looks Nothing like the Cherry regular!
Good for the modernist, wood look.
plus its the less chosen wood when an eames lounge is purchased.
its either walnut, cherry, or santos, that i always see.

Hindsight..
So..I guess mine must be the dreaded dark cherry? I've never been crazy about my leather choice (sable), as it seems to blend into the dreaded cherry far too much..and quite frankly looks rather dead. I most definitely should have ordered it in walnut/natural. At the time I felt it best to try to blend in with the FK credenza. Now...I hope that the goddamn image appears so that I can edit this part of my message.
Highball wishes to all!
Mark.

Mark...
I like spike's chair. schef went on a tangent of rationalization based on the fact that whitespike's chair was natural cherry, which it's not.
NATURALLY, I found that entertaining...

Don't be silly Lunchbox!
However, I've decided to temporarily leave the brown cow spun facing towards the corner(as in time-out time)...and fantasize about replacing the visually overseen, owner underused hunk- o -cherry and hide with something sweet.
ps. the way you slap at old Whitespike makes me laugh.