The Eames Lounge chair has created much debate among experts surrounding its place within the environment. It’s is argued that chair doesn’t sit well, if you pardon the pun, when grouped together with its brethren. Instead the chair is best seen as a solitary icon, standing proud without another to detract from its style.
As the Eames Lounge Chair is a furniture piece of such quality, it did suffer from being copied in the Nineties. The subject of plagiarism has since been addressed through legal measures; ensuring that its classic, iconic design is preserved so that is the sole domain of the Eames Lounge Chair.
The chair is actually very difficult to assemble anyway, which has made it very difficult to copy. To stave of future copies, the chair has been identified legally has having the following characteristics.
• The Eames Lounge Chair has smooth, moulded, curved shells
• The shells are visible from the underside, from the rear, the sides and below the chair.
• The edges of the shell are exposed from the front.
• The moulded shells are in the shape of a flattened ‘U’.
• The moulded shells have cushioned opholstery.
• The moulded shells come with buttons that form creases in the upholstery.
• The read of the chair has two moulded shells which are connected to two exposed bars, angled so that they tilt the upper moulded shell forward of the lower shell.
• The angled bars are spaced away from the moulded shells.
• The armrests are upholstered and they extend downwards into the chair itself, connecting the two back shells to the moulded seat.