Aluminium group chair questions  

These chairs are available or offered in glides or rolling castors/wheels. Any of the online Eames chair parts or repairs sells these or check eBay too. Check in your local area first if you can find them, also these are still currently offered by Herman Miller or any of their dealers or retailers. Try them too.

I am not sure what is causing your chairs to wobble. You can try contacting the technical online help at Herman Miller.

Hope these helps.

this might be of help, unfortunately the glides & castors section is at the end.

http://www.hermanmiller.com/content/dam/hermanmiller/documents/pricing/P...

Thanks for the reply.

Any idea of how to extricate the castors? There is nothing to unbolt or unscrew. I wonder what holds them in place?

Some wheels/ castors just pull out without too much effort but sometimes you will need a flat tip tool to carefully pull them out being careful not to scratch anything or hurt yourself with the tool. If you are handy or comfortable doing this kind of work, you can try doing it yourself but if not, you probably know someone who can, just ask for their help or hire someone.

Thanks. I'm pretty handy so I will give it a go.

Hi.

Lovely chairs in one of my favorite textiles ( Ballistic), ... tough as steel! minimoma is correct as usual. Now my dear, to keep the dining room from looking like a conference room, consider removing the arms on 4 of the 6 chairs.

Just a thought, and hi,

Aunt Mark

I have a half dozen of these in a medium blue ballistic. They were side chairs used around my Saarinan kitchen table in another home ( white mica top). 5 are out in the barn. All are side. No wobbles. They were castorated at the Herman Miller showroom. Yup. Now they sport simple glides. No blood/ no mess/ no issues.

The bar is open,

Aunt Mark

Hi Aunt Mark, those & ScottB are great chairs. Although these had no problem making the switch to contact furniture, these had its beginnings for residential use. These was originally called the Indoor or Ourdoor Group and these were commissioned for the Cummins engines founder Irwin J. Miller residence in Columbus, IN (designed by Eero Saarinen with furniture by the Eameses & interior design by Girard) before becoming a part of the Herman Miller line.

My $100 lounge chair find at the first Modernica warehouse sale in LA made it to one of the cover of Dwell which also made a cameo at the last Eames documentary at PBS American Masters & in one of the blogs at the Eames Office website. (The LTR was a gift)

Sorry for calling those castors (casters I was told).

That's simply fabulous, minimosa.

yup,

Aunt Mark

Thanks for the replies - this place is great.

They are castors with an 'O' down here, but look a lot like casters.

That's a great chair, minimoma. What a find. Great to know a bit more about the history of that range, too.

Mark, I might take your advice on the arms as they aren't in great condition. Removing them leaves holes in the frame, though?

I also emailed Hume Modern yesterday about replacing the castors and Alfie responded within an hour. He told me it was easy and asked what 670/671s sold for down here.

This weekend I'm going to finish off the room where those chairs will live, so I will post some photos. You blokes (assuming you are blokes) will like it.

Scott

A few comments apropos of nothing in particular:

I guess it's a bit odd for dining chairs to tilt, swivel, and have arms. With that in mind, though, maybe adjusting the tilt limiter will help and the rubber T-molding edge on your table should protect it from damage from swiveling chairs. It's also nice that the chairs are adjustable for height to make up for lost elevation after removing castors.

Your suite may have been designed for a conference room, but I don't see why it wouldn't do as nicely for dining. The color and fabric on the chairs might be the most pleasing and appropriate for a domestic environment I've seen on these.

The price you paid is ridiculous by any standard. We're all jealous.

My limited interaction with Alfie revealed him to be honest, generous, practical, and vastly knowledgeable and experienced. He is the man when it comes to HM/Eames repairs, IMO.

Speaking of gender, it matters not on this forum. Yet, somehow, it got in my head that minimoma is of the fairer variety. I have no clue as to why and I'm likely wrong. I like their stuff either way.

Can't wait to see photos whenever you care to share any.

Correction noted, Mini. Thanks to your photo, I now need to get my mind out of the gutter.

Hi.

There have been many kind things written about gutters over the years...all types of gutters. Or was it butter? Anyhow, minimosa, I like 4 square architecture. Yours appears to have its original wooden clapboard. Very nice.

Hi,

Aunt Mark (bloke in pink)

ps my chairs have no tilt/nor height adjustment. Probably fakes. I should have kept the castors and the seatbelts.

pss once had the same chair with the tallest back (with head cushion) on a 4 star base. It tipped over a couple of times, so I gave it to a friend (who still has it in her living room). Moss green hopsack. and maybe an ottoman? My brain's getting fuzzy.

ScottB is correct for assuming blokes for me (the wife, nieces & nephews also post here using the same account)

miniMoMA is the name of our 100+ years old four square house that landed on our lap (like finding an Eames stuff on the side of the road) which is furnished & contains all kinds of useful functional objects we all acquired overtime that are included in the big MoMA (NY) permanent collection (as well as the other museums out there that collect 20th century modern designs.

The earlier photo was from 2009, the old siding has been replaced with vertical cedar with a charred finish.

I just realized our Aluminum Group lounge chair has one of the Girard wool textiles.