in the beginning designed as cheap furniture after WWII , Eames Pressed Fiberglass Chairs are still made today — only now they ’re made of eco - friendly polypropene . Boo . Then the master was recreated from scratch . Think of it as the impossible project for Greco-Roman furniture .
You could buy an “ Eames Molded Plastic Chair ” fromHerman Millerfor $ 250 a soda water , or you could bribe the real thing . The LA - base furniture troupe Modernica bought the original crush used to make the stackable chairs and overturn engineered the fabrication outgrowth . fortunately , they had a little aid from Sol Fingerhut , the journeyman who invented high - pressure fibreglass mould and was contracted to make the chairs in the first place . unluckily , Modernica is sell out of the last run of the hot seat , but production will start at a new facility presently . [ ModernicaviaApartment Therapy ]
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