Eames Chair Revisited

On February 21st I wrote a tragic blog posting called "The Eames Chair Saga" about how I broke Dave's Eames Chair.  In half!

As you may remember, Dave bought his chair in the 70s.  It's an icon and rock star of chairs among architects and others.

The Herman Miller Store is the place to buy Eames Chairs and, apparently, the only place to have them repaired.  Fortunately, there is an outlet around 30 miles from our place.  We took the chair to the outlet.  They, in turn, ordered a new shell from the Herman Miller Headquarters in Zeland, Michigan.  The chair was then reassembled. - good as new.  I hope!

This process took only two - maybe three - months.

Anyway, here it is.  As you can see, Dave is reading the Steve Jobs book.  Jobs was a complex man who helped change the world for the better but also had some disturbing personal habits (like not wearing shoes.)

But, to Jobs' credit, Dave's discovered, in reading the book, that Steve Jobs also loved his Eames Chair.

Here's a photo, from the book, of Steve and his (sometimes) buddy Bill Gates sitting in Steve's living room.  As you can see, Steve Jobs had very little furniture.  He's sitting in his Eames chair.  Bill's sitting on the ottoman.

I wonder how many psychologists have tried to analyze this photo.


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