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whitespike
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04/06/2009 4:12 am  

Wow, interesting...
Maybe the seller would be better off consigning it to wright.


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Modern Love
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04/06/2009 4:21 am  

Unless Wright
turned him down.


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LRF
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04/06/2009 5:01 am  

this is the most ridiculous...
this is the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen
The owner making up a price of $29,000 with out any documentation or paper work.
He must of told his buddies that he is gonna kill a fat hog on this one.
anyone and everyone who ever buys any original pieces has a pretty good idea the history behind it. If it is a prototype, even more documentation is required.
as he is saying i am sure " good luck suckers,no returns."


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rockybird
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04/06/2009 5:49 am  

I agree
I agree with LRF. There is no documentation of its authenticity as a prototype and the seller admits that he doesnt know for sure that it is. For all we know, this was some kid's attempt to duplicate the chair for welding class many years ago. Anyone who would spend 29k on this deserves to be had, unless they can prove that it is indeed a prototype.


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Lunchbox
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04/06/2009 6:02 am  

Just won the auction...
So excited.


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FurnDesignStudent
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04/06/2009 6:27 am  

I like
how he's going to try and get 29k and then actually charge the sucker who buys this $50 for shipping!!!


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LuciferSum
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05/06/2009 4:05 am  

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Bertoia left the Eames Office in 46, immediately after the debut of the plywood chairs. The prototypes of the Eames' wire chairs show entirely different manners of creating a grid than Bertoia's chairs. EamesDesign states: "The possibility of making a wire chair was first considered at the time the Office was refining the fiberglass chairs" - 1949
So, why would a chair looking remarkably like the finished version of the Eames chair end up on a base which looks remarkably like the finished version of the Bertoia chair, when both designers worked separately on different chairs, at different time-periods, in different places? Not to mention little discrepancies, like this appears to be a chromed wire, not a zinc plated, and the edge wires are the same diameter as the mesh (Eames' were thicker).
IMHO this is the work of a design enthusiast with welding supplies.
(In other notes he describes a DCM with horribly re-glued shockmounts, re-covered with slunk skin as "exceptional")


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