A certain Chairfag staff member was seen not too long ago showing the rest of the world how to do a drive-in in style.

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This is my niece, Kalliope Matheos, we call her ‘Popi” she was born on August 9, 2010.

Today I gave her an Authentic Eames Rocker for her birthday gift. it’s lime green with maple runners. one  of those things I hope she has her entire life and maybe passes on to her own children someday.

Starting in 1948, The Eames Office and Herman Miller gave the RAR as a gift to employees having babies, The design proved so popular that they added it to the public line,  I’m very glad to have my family represent the timeless style and comfort of this great piece.

I love you Popi! Happy Birthday,

Uncle Zachary

Chairfag reader Eduard sent in this…

How cool is that??

Thanks so much Eduard!

Find his website here!

www.pixelking.be

The metal insert from inside a Eames shock mount. I had one that was old, cracked and just need to go in the bin.

I chipped away the remains of the rubber and wire brushed the disc, then shot it with flat black paint for the photo

the threaded insert in the middle holds the screw, the outer holes allow the moulded rubber to envelope the disc and give it mass

posted by an obviously bored Zachary.

From New York Times- Arts Beat:
By EVE M. KAHN

One of the largest private archives documenting the mid-20th-century furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames has been withdrawn from an auction scheduled for Thursday because of a lawsuit contesting ownership. The paperwork, which fills more than 100 binders, was to be the top lot at a sale at Wright auction house in Chicago, focused on furniture by the Eameses, known for their mass-produced contoured plywood and fiberglass chairs.

The files were consigned by John and Marilyn Neuhart, design historians in Southern California, who are in their 80s and who had collaborated with the Eameses on exhibitions and books. But on Monday Lucia Eames, the designers’ daughter, filed a lawsuit in an Illinois circuit court asserting that the family owns the material, which includes photos of Eames interiors and showrooms and scripts for corporate-financed movies.

The lot, with an inventory about 60 pages long, was estimated to bring $150,000 to $200,000.

Two weeks before the sale, Lucia Eames’s son Eames Demetrios wrote in an e-mail message that his grandparents had shared paperwork stacks with the Neuharts “with no intention that they become the Neuharts’ personal property.” But when asked March 31 if he would block the sale, he wrote, “It is our understanding that the auction is generally going forward” and he had “no further comment.”

On Tuesday, he referred questions to his lawyer, Andrew D. Manitsky, a partner at Gravel and Shea in Vermont. “We appreciate Wright’s cooperation,” Mr. Manitsky said. “It’s unfortunate that it came to this.”

Richard Wright, the auction house owner, said, “Trying to sell these items with a cloud over the title doesn’t make any sense.” He said he would still offer a four-foot-wide model that the Neuharts built of the Eames office in Venice, Calif. (estimated at $10,000 to $15,000), with tiny calendars posted on cubicle walls.