How to choose a good replica of Eames lounge chair.
The Herman Miller Eames lounge chair this is the greatest share Norman in my opinion that exists know if you search for this video you obviously know a little bit about Ray and Charles Eames and their work with Herman Miller to bring this chair out in the 1950s and it’s still a hot item day you can walk in Herman Miller gallery or design within reach and pay 567 $10,000
for one of these chairs but you probably also know that there are a lot of pictures of these pairs floating around and have been for a long time and I come out of China you find them on Amazon Facebook marketplace in LIDL stores all over the place and really what the difference between the jr11 that cost $5,000 and some of the replicas well we’re going to talk about that right now so stay tuned well there is a my child know that I’ve already gone down the Rabbit Hole of some of these chairs and I have a black version of this at my other location and outside my home in Las Vegas were the living room because I got rid of all my powered recliners and all my modern furniture because I’m going to stage this whole living room around two of these chairs you can see that one of them is already been put together and I’m sitting in it now what I discovered looking for the replicas the lowest ended replicas
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little bit 45mm box of plywood they have a pu fake leather in the last couple of years they are not very good they have a soft honeycomb style foam little collapse and break down the little start to peel because that really leather you know the word is a little bit more flexible with your bigger person slightly better version that they sell on Amazon and other places that about 600 Bucks for those who just stapling on the gather you using Velcro to hold the cushions on and things and they’re pretty good and I’ll probably last you know maybe 5-years who knows
but if you seen a vintage Herman Miller Eames chair the one from the 15th of the 67 is there still in Fantastic shape I’m somebody who loves luxury items you like to collect cars in one of the cars I like to collect is the Rolls-Royce I have a 1967 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow the thing is wooden leather inside it’s still fantastic because things that are built well specially from that time period the last a long time
so just because something’s a replica doesn’t mean that is necessarily inferior look at the Herman Miller Eames chair to made of layers of the word that have been pressed together it’s made of top leather made of quality phone
so where are the differences so I went out on a journey to find the best possible version of a replica of the Herman Miller Eames chair without having to spend $5,000 on a chair I told you I like the Rolls-Royce but with my channel know that some of the cars that I have I got it rock bottom prices through depreciation or other means but I managed to get a good price I got phantom I was Silver Shadow I have a lot of great but I didn’t pay full price for him I paid a fraction of that price and I live luxurious seriously on a budget now we’re going to talk about this chair this one is the best that you could possibly get for the money without buying one of The Originals and we’re going to box-it we’re going to put it together we’re going to talk about what it is that makes it this one
so great so let’s get started
ok when you get your chair delivered it’s going to come into boxes and it doesn’t matter which version of the tree get cheaper one of the nice one it doesn’t matter what colour is going to come into boxes the first small box is going to contain the bass all of the chair bases all the metal staff the hardware the tools and those things the bottom section will have basically the the sea the ottoman in the address so you want to be very careful about using a knife when your opening this but they protected really well really impressed with the way these shift this one’s in a nice red burgundy colour my favourite colour is red to my channel now that I love things that are red this is part of a special alright and this is a much more premium expensive version and also the couple different kind of leather and get the reggae top green pebble leather this is a higher in a tie an aniline I hope I’m saying it correctly louder
which is a smoother it’s very supportive but it’s a very high quality of leather so some of the differences between some of the truth is out there and how these are made you know the using top grain leather which I mean that you can buy leather jackets for 100 box you can use letter use for everything but it’s just different kinds of leather this letter you can see is is very very perfect what makes these type of leather special is they have to go to Aldi’s he tries to find sections without any scarring you know where the carrot baby called itself got an injury something I know it’s terrible but the settee try to find a perfect smooth pied that they can work with the other thing is the cheapest chairs like I said they use a can of mahalo honeycomb
type of phone that will collapse and squishy overtime will begin to flat now the upgraded version of the chair is its known has a thicker density closed cell type of phone where it’s it for marine it’s going to last a lot longer without deteriorating the other thing about the cheaper ones is the form the rabbit with the letter in a staple in a place and then it’s held in with Velcro and the name side of the chair not finish their just Bearwood where’s these the Herman Miller chairs demonstrate how you can remove these sections which are held End by these metal clips so you can see that the interior of the chair is all finished just like the exterior is the cheaper ones out that way if you really care about this this this
silicone plastic backing inside here you can see that the cushion is held within a pillow and then if put together with a zipper ykk zipper you can actually reply you know you can have this reupholstered at some point you cannot buy a new coverings if you ever needed to just like on the armrest the cheaper version is just falling over and stapled in the place these are held together with the Royal high quality glue it’s just a little bit more seamless and just built a little better it’s one of those things like you know maybe you won’t really notice but you notice in about five years or a few years later and these are the kind of pieces of furniture that are really Legacy items that you’re going to own you know your entire life what colour goes together the cheaper ones don’t do that to have together with Velcro and staples and and
refine you know you can probably get one of them 500 hour once and
unless your few years who knows maybe much longer depending on how you said it but the bottom line is that the reason the Herman Miller Eames chairs that came out the 54 still around today because they were made in such a way that they could be repaired they could be taking care of this is a nice breathable form and just the way to put together is a much more higher quality more for this chair but you’re still paying much less than you would pay for one of The Originals know I get a Talia and full disclosure you know the deal that I made with this company is they let me buy two of these chairs for basically the cost of the listing cost of shipping this chair in this configuration with this letter upgraded version water version with the fine tops leather is almost $2,000 for this chair now you can spend half that much and get one of their other chairs
great quality but maybe not the same colour you know if you just get a plain black one with them you know the plane word and it’s just it’s the great chair you can get one of those for this money but if you really want to top up if I went into her and her gallery ok and I want to order this Keira this colour I would be spending probably 10 stars on one chair so Furniture if you care about good quality furniture and you really want impress people when they come over the people that no Modern design mid-century modern see these chairs are going to be impressed you put a nice one of those glass what is it called in the Gucci table next to it
they are going to be like oh wow you got like $25,000 worth to here
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so some of my dear is out there might be this too much money is like 19 box or something in this configuration quality is going to cost you some money I’m telling you that I recently paid a visit to the design within reach at northpark mall and Alice brother Herman Miller dealer and I was looking closely at their chairs that they had on there that they were selling for $6,000 and I look like an idiot layer and I go well this has 7 layers of veneer there’s a 7 layers of veneer catchment methods the types of leather ml leather what does would it’s just a way to put together in the factory that makes these you know I watch the videos of these being manufactured which I can show you when I can tell you that unequivocally as far as I can tell and I’m no expert but I can not tell the difference between this
play side to 100 gallery and you would have to be one heck of an expert to tell I crawled up on those chairs and I looked at the screws everything about it
and with the exception of not having the label on the bottom
I think that you know I Terence Cooper listening and somebody want to put those take labels on their you could really full people so let’s can’t get into unboxing this thing I think the watches this video who’s going to make your watching because maybe you just curious but if you think about buying one of these chairs and you really want to know what the experience is like and what you’re getting this video fuel leak in the description to the website to buy any one of these chairs in any one of the colours they offer the side of the way and then start on boxing this one
ok you going to see pictures on the back that says do not step on the box don’t dance on the box be careful don’t use a knife but I don’t know what to do you just need to be really careful about at the top box is only the hardware is really not anything you’re going to damage by opening its box like using a Switchblade mad because I’m like a badass for anything but because you can operate with one hand without having a flip it closer with two hands and costly opening boxes and things the so this double-edge and I’ve just to work right for me people ask me why have it and that’s why ok you’ve got a nice protective top here they do a great job of protecting the stop now the first thing you’re going to get is this large instruction panel here I’ll tell you to go to there YouTube page to you could see any videos of the videos
I dropped it on clumsy famous light for a drive from handy so I’ll put them here I think it’s a good idea to have a table at least that’s something I’m going to kill this this way she can see what’s happening here this is your hardware and I really like the way they do this over here what’s that this down you have your arm rests
I’m going to put these inside the brackets that hold a notice that the left and right we’re going to get into then just a sucker this is your chair based you’re not gonna do that for a minute so it’s put it over here we’re gonna want that this is I guess I should really a call this the chair based but this is the place to go to the for the chase that goes to the bottom of the chair seat
and then this here is a base of the Ottoman beds from the harder to get out the game of operation operation is that really like in there all over metal hardware you won’t need this box again but very well Pat right play well Park
set aside ok now we’re going to get another care now again it says not to use a knife don’t go stabbing into this thing but I’m going to show you why they do such a great job of protecting it
they just want to cover all the basics you know ok I say you’ll see that there is a nice big thick piece of cardboard on top to prevent you from into the back of the chair so if you win stabbing in this step pretty hard to really do any damage but I’m sure somebody has and that’s what they put those but I’m showing you that it’s a very well protected and very impressed with the way they pack these ok not as how they put these padded covers over all the metal parts to make sure there’s nothing happens now I like to just turn this off that way there’s no Knife involved no chance of cutting
yes please protective covers here they don’t want to take any chances on having to send it back and they do a great job of packing very well very high quality packing materials well now if you bought one of these from the Herman Miller gallery and set it up for you to do that this is what you want a little table because this is going to come in handy to start setting up I’m going to set my tools over here yet another layer of protection in between that cushion and the next again great packing job
this is really important to me when you’re getting something from overseas and by the way I don’t know if I got mine super fast simply because they doing this promotional thing with me but I get to Fedex now could be the day did that because I’m doing this promotion with them I’m not sure how long it will take you but I’m just very fast so see her taken literally ripped apart did you do not use an eraser on this just tear it apart it just comes right apart like that YouTuber ideally use a sharp object
I think this might be the moment it is ok I want to do the ornament first then I’m going to show you why but put the chair back on the ground this autumn it up because he’s going to understand cos I’ve done this before and get yourself your ultimate base it goes there
and let me open up a hardware and show the hard work now they’re gonna give you your rent to use however since I’m a professional I went out and got a 360 now if you use a drill something make sure that you put it on the lowest setting possible because if you go ripping into one of these things with impact you could tear out one of the lock nut that’s been better than the word in strip out that would be bad so it probably recommend you don’t do this I know buildings
I know how to do it ok basically you’ve got two screws stainless steel screws are the silver ones they go in the arm rests and a few other place may be visible whatever anyhow these longer black screws and they’re going to go in all the bases and things they have a little bit of threadlocker built into a man and you also have a water get a couple of little Rangers with you and now you going to take four of these you can pick it up plastic washers in the screws and then take one of their t handles with you the important thing to remember here is that the water go in between the metal and the bass right so if you just wrote careful about this
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this is why this table comes in handy this is lined up as you can and don’t go crazy and just type everything at once one of these tables and furniture in general I put together off a lot of like IKEA furniture and stuff especially recently just get things started and then everything looks like it’s a line then you come back in and get them all time down if you just do that you know get on start start doing by hand it first just getting started so the threaded properly because like I said you don’t want to cross the road these crossed reading it past you put one of these nuts the word you going to be sorry there’s not an easy way to fix it now on these chair since you can take the cushions off and things you could you know fix it and I guess that’s one of those differences that I was
between the cheap ones the other ones that is my drill and I’m going to get a close-up of this because you pretty much know how a screw goes together but like I said go gentle
now that rattling noise your hearing us because I’ve got it set on a lower selling so but I’m not going crazy it’s nice and tidy so the four-legged face goes on the Ottoman and you just give a little text and it does not restore anything that hold it because once it’s on it’s on their pretty tight and now you got yourself a finished
could I mean I said that there and you’ll see why now I’ve got the still rag here here and then I’m going to put the chair back
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I want to put
the side pieces on next left in the left
guitar screws together were using the stainless 12 the silver ones for goes on its side one of the things you’ll notice is the super cool about giving you extra they give you extra everything they give almost one of her even give you extra bit of a loser break a foot that’s really cool that’s the mark of a Great Comp really really appreciate that so what you want to pay attention to here
here’s how this is left Goes To Die outside
Annalise two holes that are going to hold armrest are going to go forward so I can kind of only go one way but we’re gonna just can’t get a pre Theatre dinner just get it ready again don’t don’t go crazy get it typed just get it just started this one’s not feeling I just realised that I just realised that on this particular one I think they gave different screws and this is a different size so that means it is probably doesn’t fit does it
eight interesting that’s weird on the two different tiers we are only consistency one chair came with different hardware and this one came with the French because he’s a different that’s weird ok so that’s kind of call it for this video because now I’m getting both versions of the screws and the wrenches do you know one of the things that I love about this design of the of the chair in Autumn and I think the chair and ottoman I’m going to make a comeback you know people have been so crazy but recliners powered recliners I know I was and now that I’ve experienced ottoman I like it much better I really do the reason is because you don’t you know I would always annoyed with my power recliner that I had to sit there and wait
10 seconds or whatever for the thing that retract I mean I know a lot of time but when you want to just get up you can you know I’m never once I was sitting in my power recliner and there’s a power outage and I couldn’t get out of the damn thing because it was back all the way and crawl off of it and then it like thrown down because I was my weight on the edge of particulars and then it just there isn’t instantaneous sometimes the answers are just writing from your face you don’t need you no more technology always sometimes it’s right in front of you and you know you shouldn’t just left alone so what we need next is the seat bottom
I never and back yet this out again do not use a knife the stuff on the lips saying how does it comes right out there with the letter I want to find out again not as hell Dave
put these nice but they protected this thing to do it
but that’s why I put the protectors on the edges and I think it’s just an amazing thing right now you want to identify which under the chair because it looks pretty but I’ve got a backward to go this way now
do you want the holes toward the back towards the back of the chair
I think in the video they show you going for the bass on I found it easier to not do that and sometimes you need it does why you want to have these little loose because sometimes the meaning of the word as a little different so weiter
and so this is something that really if you had a friend to help I would recommend that but you want to get this in between here and this is the heart apart here and I can’t see this on video the way I want to but if you can just get one of these players that’s the weather table comes on
so this part is is quite the pain
just trying to get
did you get the one in there you’re golden
come on there we go get it started just enough so I won’t back out because single line up for that
so from that point and then
you can get this type okey-dokey I finally got those on now your notice their March left right on the package I don’t really remember that on the last why did the matter to the nearest show you the truth and this is one of the things that makes the you know graded hire in version better one of the things that pointed out to me is when you look at the inside of arm rest in particular version these are wrapped in blue together in a way that done will high quality the same as at the bottom it’s sleep well stitched and it’s going to be hidden from view you’re not as that it’s a little bit wider at the back now you know that the scene is going to go inside
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and so that would go
they’re like that
so the team is hidden from view and your notice that it’s officer on this side so will you see the same the water part of the that’s how you know we’re covers now
grab a couple of days longer screws here
which still use this t-handle or my drill
I’m going to bring my t-handle over just to get things started this is a little bit of a trick because I can assure you this on camera but you’ll see is going in at an angle hair like that and they pretty much find their way in I mean you just got a pic what helps is just the first one started you know I’m just glad you’re right there might have to push back against the chair just a bit because it’s a nice tight fit but if you just get it started it will resolve itself
Barcelona V use the grill on the sun just gonna do it by hand pull itself in Softly calmly this is one of those situations you don’t want to screw it up
I mean these locking nuts a pretty tough but you don’t want to strip on now no one will try again I’m just going to give us a little little pickle
then I’ll text handwriting this I like why do it when you’re sitting in one of these chairs it really is the perfect sitting position
now time for the bass
I’m gonna use the ultimate for this
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oh my gosh very well built
ok that you’re not serious and odd shaped base and you want a tilted towards the back here and remember your little water goes under the metal so we just want to get one of these in there just to get this morning started you know you’re tired
how long ago head use the drill just started your notice we will also notice that one debate O’Connell find a way into those holes
does 5-piece Fighter the five-sided base off it down on the this fair here we’re going to have to give help one Milwaukee drill
navigate to space to come off so they give you this large size water and another one of these screw which is unfortunate for me because that screw only be operated with this particular sideways right here that’s ok so we’re home I would have come in handy
because what’s going to happen as as I tighten the screw it’s going to draw that bass down onto the chef to tell it all the way down but this has been really easy so far
oh yeah perfect what that nice and try not to type but you can still spend that alright
smooth the start of the way
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household trash back in the box by the way I want to go back to this packing job I didn’t mention this before but this is a double walled box at these walls on the sides and these protective corner pieces
add packed and shipped the lot of stuff in the past and I’ll get it to you of all the things I’ve ever bought
from overseas and these kind of items this is one of the most well packed pieces of furniture that I’ve ever I’m not kidding they took a lot of time and here in the packing this properly and I’m really really impressed with how they did it a lot of thought into it
alright now I get to Lounge for the first time
I feel so good after all that work
look at the ceiling angle
you’re sitting back you got a little bit of Spring little bit of rock just a tiny bit natural spring of the word in the middle of it is you know that really rocking chair but just a little flex but not too much
and your feet are the perfect height
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whoever designed this was really into chilling
because there’s just something about it now I’m diabetic
right my brother is now this I’ve had a lot of foot and leg problems I need to keep my feet elevated as much as possible it’s imperative that I sit in a chair like this and feet up and I can just feel the blood coming back my legs when I sit back in the chair
it’s very supportive very firm this is have a pretty big guy I wear size 36 pants and £210 I’ve got plenty of plenty of room here I got a good for the link between me so if you’re a bigger person you’re one of these just fine I’m not sure the weight limit is a 19526 whatever it was whenever making these that wasn’t necessarily a big issue but I’m very very happy with the quality and the production of these chairs
alright so you’re asking the question ok so I think it’s worth it well
I’m going to see how long are my cheapest $600 version of the chair to be sitting in that one as much I suppose if you’re going to have the chair mostly for decoration United actually sitting in it maybe go for the cheaper one you know you might have it as part of the monkey for the room and sitting it once in a while but I cannot be sitting in half the time and you know if you don’t have kids if you know that it’s not going to get where to get on it with the cheaper ones away to go and that’s why it’s actually use this year I think that the smartest thing there is a by the better one because when you start sitting in your going to realise you going to figure out with the hype is it doesn’t look like much but doesn’t tell me the chair will change your life I said one of these things one time and I was convinced
richest something about it it’s not just design but the way it’s made it just makes you feel good it makes you back for your good makes your feet feel good everything is just at the perfect angle it’s been well Thought Out and figured out for like half a century
the designers timeless and the materials that are using even though this is a replica in its design I use the word replica because someone who build replicas for a living a rubber come into effect simile and exact copy
I’m telling you
that I can do is take my word for it but if you could see one of these chairs and then go and check out the real Herman Miller Eames chairs that are fibre $6,000 blatantly went into the store and I said what’s the difference between your chair and other ones
so sometimes
the replicas really the thing and I got to say that if I spent 10000 hours of Peace on these custom red leather chairs I mean I would feel Polish if I came across one of these and realised there for only 20% of that price for less than $2,000 I could have the same chair so if you want to replicate this exact Millican just under 4000 box ok talk about $3,800 I think delivered highest version of the chair this is the highest grade leather the highest grade would the highest grade form the highest everything if you want to spend a lot less you can spend half as much you can spend much less and get just a regular black whatever these coming orange green white and settle in brown and I mean all kinds of different colours
so obviously I want the red your notice that like you don’t see a lot of furniture that it’s red red like this thing here because it kept looking so the usual you’re going to find words I found a great velvet couches I’m probably going to put here I think I’m going to go get the cash tomorrow that’s a red burgundy velvet couch solo back very mid-century modern I think it’s perfect for on here then get the negative I think it’s going to work out just fine so anyway I know that this was a long video but this video was really made not for purposes for my regular viewers but for the person who is willing to invest this kind of money into one of these chairs and it’s a big decision to make when you’re buying something site on scene when you can actually see it in person and sit in the chair people trust what I have to say because I’m a professional custom car builder and you know people like my work
and I can tell you that I recognise good quality when I see it
I know you’re taking out with a grain of salt because this is like a paid promotion pay me for this all they did was give me a discount and I would have made this video anyway because I’m in love with these things and I think I will probably definitely get more of these in other spaces I don’t think I ever want to live somewhere where I don’t have one of these it’s a life-changing chair it really is and it’s something that is an heirloom that you can pass down and because of the way visa made because you can easily take the cushions you can clean them you can treat them all of those different things I know that these are Gonna Last Forever so very happy with them thank you for watching all of the links to the chairs are in the description down below update that you’ve to links change in the future and I didn’t talk about
the brand the Maker because it’s one of those things where because it’s the Chinese company that sells different people they have a lot of different brands so it’s important that go in the video description to get the link to it so that you can go directly to these are the manufacturers is what they explain to me is the ones that you see on Amazon they’re making them they make the cheap ones and they make the good ones it’s just a matter of ok are we going to do the cheap one that’s got the unfinished bags that are stable with the cheapest yeah will do those put on down the line
are they going to be completely finished better letter you know better phone better everything it’s the same people make them folks
so I’m dealing with directly with the manufacturer this is a red video Bob edition I’m going to put the link in the description if you like this kind of can’t an obviously I’m somebody subscribe give me a like in going to the comment please and tell me your thoughts your experiences because I said and I read every one of them I really do so anyway thanks Rhian and I’m sorry videos so long but I hope you appreciate it much as I do because when I’m at the researching something like this I’m so grateful for videos like these so thank you so much for watching thank you for being a fantastic I am of the great controls Eames designs thanks guys I’m enjoyed sitting it today 60 years later anyway thanks catch you guys later bye