Eames LCW Molded Playwood Chair - age, type of wood, value?  

@mikeb you have a DCW and my guess is that its walnut. It's hard to make out the wood with the stain that someone has applied to the chair.

The label on this example is from a very short time period when Evans was still producing the chair and Herman Miller was distributing, 1948-1949.

Regarding repairs...there are shock mount repair kits all over the internet. I haven't done it myself, but it seems straightforward if you're detail oriented. Note that later versions of this chair have two shock mounts at the top of the backrest, whereas this has the single lozenge style mount. Whether or not you refinish the whole thing and strip it to get rid of the bad stain job is up to you.

I had this exact chair - DCW in walnut with an Evans/HM label - until very recently. I always really liked that versions from this time period had the whole history of this chair's production in it - Evans being the company that developed the moulded plywood technique for the Eames splints and Herman Miller producing Eames furniture to this day.

You know you're right...it is a DCW!

It always looked so much lower to me and maybe because the seat had come off, it was partly an illusion? Thanks so much for the information regarding the chair. Interesting you had the same one! Any idea of what it might be worth? Would it lose any value if its fixed, then refinished? 

Thanks again!

Mike

@mikeb everyone on this forum tries to avoid saying what something might be worth. In the end, it is worth what someone would pay you for it. You will find prices online that range from $1,000 to $4,000.

A recent auction estimated $700-900 and it sold for $2,750....so who knows!

https://www.wright20.com/auctions/2020/03/design/111?search=evans+products

Copy that, thanks again.

surely nobody would pay $1-4k for that chair? Doesn't seem realistic to me. Am I missing something beyond the importance of the label? 

Nobody that's ever frequented this place surely, Peter.

Another Prodigal Son! Nice to see some of the old gang stopping by.

I was surprised when the age of the wood made it split