Modern Furniture Sunday - Eames Shell Rocker
I want to start talking about furniture. This is probably because I'm tired of all the lame Pottery Barn stuff my wife and I have. Tastes change, y'know. Time has come to redecorate. So I thought on Sundays, since I spend most of the day lounging on the sofa anyway, it would be okay to talk less about houses and give a little time to what you put in them.
For our first Furniture Sunday I have to give the nod to my all time favorite modernist piece: the Eames Shell Rocker from Herman Miller. Part of a large line of molded chairs, the rocker is my fave, though I like all the versions. I like the colors. I like that they are recyclable. I like that they were designed to be mass produced and to be affordable. Introduced in 1948, they're now iconic. They're versatile, casual, and as Herman Miller says, the materials are "expressed honestly and unselfconsciously."
You can buy them just about anywhere online. Try these places:
hive
retromodern
Design Within Reach
About $399. Not too bad for an all time classic.
Image credit - Herman Miller site
2 comment(s):
glad to see this new category on the site-- now my wife will become a regular reader as well. I've never loved this chair in particular but she does (admittedly she's always had much better taste than me).
My wife looks at me a little cockeyed when I show here some of the furniture I like. But she's comin' around. Domestic bliss is hard work. I try to realize that my wife is smarter than me, she's always right, and she's too good for me. Her fatal flaw is that she loves me. I exploit that relentlessly.
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