Repair your Herman Miller Eames lounge chair?
Herman Miller Eames Lounge Chairs suffer from poor shockmount design, and often fail when 10 - 25 years old. We have designed a more effective shockmount without the inherent flaws of the original and can repair them effectively. The plywood backs are also inherently weak, and most will tell you that they cannot be repaired. Our European craftsmen have also developed templates for effectively repairing broken "ears" from the lower shell of the Eames chair back. Our repairs carry a standard warranty for 5 years.
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Can we have some more...
Can we have some more information and see some pictures please?

Eames Lounge Chair Design Flaw
If you purchased a car in the 50's and drove it for 50 years then had a tire b--w out does that mean that the car has a design flaw?
If your Eames Lounge is used every day for 50 years and finally the shock mounts dry out and pull away from the plywood is that a design flaw?
No its called maintenance.
Our service includes the removal and then installation of new shockmounts using our formulated bonding system.
This repair retains the flexibility, integrity, strength and value of your treasured Eames Lounge Chair.
We can also perform the same service for the Eames DCM, DCW and Fiberglass chair series.
Over the last decade HumeModern has performed thousands of shock mount installations for customers all over the country and a few from abroad all of which are still going strong today.
For inquiries and estimates visit
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design flaw
I am not sure it is a fair analysis to equate a chair to a car tire. i am not sure a furniture manufacturer would lean on a crutch like that. That comparison would be better for fabrics and finishes on a chair, parts that are expected to have wear, i think. The standard i use is other high end chairs, either contemporary to the 670 or earlier. i can not think of any others that routinely fail like that from normal use. unless eames wanted to make a chair into a maintenance item (i seriously doubt it) then it is definitely a design flaw. But obviously the 670 has other redeeming qualities. i have no problem appreciating the innovative use of shockmount systems while at the same time rueing the fact that it causes them to be shorter lived compared to chairs made other ways. of course it is a design flaw, but no one seems to care enough to stop buying them. now that is the most brilliant part about them.

Few Things
First: 60 years of experience isnt that long in the grand scheme of things. The Eames lounge chair has only been around for 50 thus far.

Second: European craftsmen doesnt hold a lot of weight, especially since the chairs are American made to begin with.

And Third: Its not fair to say the shockmounts are poorly designed. What you have is a design based around a new technology. One that has encountered many incarnations over the development and history of the chair, and one that is still fairly solid. Generally speaking it isnt technically the shockmounts that fail but the glue that holds them. Herman Miller has admittedly used many different types of glue and has constantly tried to enhance the strength & durability.

Everything gets old, gets damaged, and needs to be repaired - everything. From cars to people. Why should a chair be any different?

I agree with Lucifersum,...
I agree with Lucifersum, it's unfair to criticize those designs from the point of view of today's technical possibilities. They're statements of the techniques of their time, if you buy such "oldtimers" you should embrace their spirit, including the construction which was progressive in their times.
Buying a jaguar xk120 nobody would criticize the suspension or the lack of ps compared to current cars, nobody would complain about the lack of insulation or ethernet hookups in a Frank Lloyd Wright-building. Just like with a vintage car restore it, if necessary, with nowadays means without ruining the patina and the character - they're pieces of design history! But in the end, some scratches or minor "damages" won't diminish the usability, if you want perfection, buy a new one.

Advertising Section
Isn't there an advertising section? I wonder why some people get censored and some don't. People used to give LRF hell for any comment that could be in some way related to his business. Jut days ago someone's link was removed. I'm just saying ...

Thanks, LRF.
Thanks, LRF. I have found music. It makes me happy. Always has. Now I just need a good tour manager and I'll be fine.

While we're at it. Use my graphic design services everyone.
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Thank you, thank you
thank you!

Maybe a good way of avoiding self advertising is the employment of profiles. If we all had a small text profile, then we could list our occupation and website. That would be neat-o for the future?

Patrick and Alix what do you think?

The music
You can find me at myspace.com/livingbetterelectrically. I am selling nothing here, so this should be okay to post. I will let you decide for yourselves, but we're just a bunch of Mississippi boys that were raised on British Invasion music, so whatever that means.

whitespike
funny you should ask .
as i speak i am working on redoing the rest of the crap orchard stone.
I just got 20 tons in from Tennessee so that should finish the front of the house and I am rerocking all of the flower gardens with a cool greyish flat rock the gardens are 12 inch
high in the back of the circle and 6 inches all around very cool.
This mason will be with me all summer and then i will use a nice clean flagstone for the front patio, I cant wait to see it as it will be most dramatic as i have to also replace 6 celestial windows 10 ft tall, and then have the home painted a good looking Taupe color.
The home will be on the National Preservation society for the National Historic Trust fall tour as the convention will be in Tulsa Oklahoma on October 25, and when i finish i will post pictures and it will be really cool, I guess you can say this is my summer project, and I am the General Contractor for all my work, so I am having fun.