Comments on: How Wrong Is It

By: An Eames Management Chair Straight Out of 1984, By Way of 1969 | Making it Lovely

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:33:57 +0000

[...] I declared my search on Twitter, I scored one for a tenth of the new model price without going the knockoff route. YES! It’s the chair that I was considering when I wrote my last office [...]

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:24:17 +0000

I can’t afford the original either so I bought a knock off and I don’t regret it. Mine is from Amazon – made by Zuo Modern. It’s really comfortable and looks fantastic. It required minimal assembly and arrived very well packaged.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UQ6ESU

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:49:56 +0000

My boyfriend just bought me a used original that used to be burgundy but has faded to… PINK!! I love it- it is old and worn and very comfy. I wish I had seen this post earlier, because he had purchased a “lot” of them (12) but sold 10 right away. The one he has left is kind of grungy…

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:02:47 +0000

Very, very wrong, especially coming from designers and design buffs.

Target should be ashamed of itself for producing a product from a design it doesn’t hold a design patent of, and also for ripping off naive consumers who think a knock-off is the same as an original and end up with a ill-conceived chair which breaks up easily and gets thrown in the trash in no time.

Regarding not paying the original price… I wouldn’t (and can’t afford to) pay for it either, but would prefer to look for a vintage one on eBay, or embrace the work of a lesser known designer, with a more agreeable price tag.

It’s a very sad world when someone can’t release their creation into the world without someone else wanting to make a profit out of it.
How would anyone here feel if every time they received their paycheck 30% or 60% of their hard-earned money went to a perfect stranger?

By: dawbis

dawbis — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:38:06 +0000

i don’t know if this is the same chair we purchased over the past weekend, but it looks like it. we found ours in a burnt orange leather at a store called motif and it is very comfortable. i did not know it was an eames knock off though!

By: Thy

Thy — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:40:11 +0000

How about an even cheaper knock-off that has casters at Staples? lol, it’s only in black though: http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?&langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&productId=193818&cmArea=SC2:CG32:CL161514

By: simplygrove

simplygrove — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:10:13 +0000

Gotta love a knockoff! Sometimes it is like buying a painting that someone copied from a real artist so in that case its a no no. But sometimes it is so worth and makes so much more sense!! Im not sure what it is in this case but I really like the chair.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:56:09 +0000

So pretty, and I can’t believe they ripped it off! But I want one! How comfortable are they though (that’s my only question).

Thanks for posting this!

By: Ryan Green

Ryan Green — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:49:08 +0000

I actually like the looks of the knock-off more than the original, but $300 is still a lot – specially when spending $3,000 on one chair seems like a fantasy :)

However, I always think about my grandparents when I am tempted to buy a pricey knock-off. They had the greatest pieces of furniture in their house. They still had the couch they bought as a wedding present 50 years later! It had been reupholstered a few times, but it looked and felt like it was brand new. All these pieces were expensive and it took time to fill up their house, but it’s so nice to be able to save up and buy something special that will last literally a lifetime.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:58:44 +0000

Until design is more affordable, the general public [and beyond] are forced to search for similar designs with smaller price tags. $3,000 for an office chair is beyond ridiculous. It is things like this that make many people in the overall population believe that good design is only for the elite and forces those of us individual designers to work even harder to prove we can take on projects of any size to make them work on time and on budget. I say, go for it! It’s about design, not name. [by the way, I'm Tammy...i stumble into your blog now and then. thanks for writing!]