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What is the value of the original Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman?

Jun 07, 2008 by Wisdom | Posted in Sculpture

There is a set of the original Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman at my friend's home. She asked me if I know the value of it, but I had not clue! I found out the background and the history but nothing about the price. Could you please tell me? Thank you.

"The chair with Ottoman retail for around $3,200 or more, depending on the selection of veneer and leather... Prices for original rosewood chairs have recently reached as much as USD $7,000 in auction."

Eames Lounge Chair debut in 1956 on NBC [1/2]

PART 1 of 2 - Charles & Ray Eames show their then-new masterpiece on the Arlene Francis "Home" show broadcast on the NBC television ...

IBM creates an app that's nothing short of math porn

19.05.12

Be you right-brained or left-brained, this app has it all. You can view milestones and people in the context of their culture and history, and with detailed closeups. The Millennium view, captures a big picture view of the entire history of math, including the explosion of discoveries in recent times. View by century, with the ability to zoom on the interplay of ideas between math and culture. View the entire timeline, one object at a time. Consider the lives and biographies of these interesting men who’ve paved the path for what we have today in math and science. View the World’s Fair exhibit, as if you were there! Or check the “Men of Mathematics” poster rendition, which you, mom or dad might recall from display at school. MoMM brings all these traditions to the iPad, but now it’s paperless. Plus we have the benefit of nine original Eames educational videos and over 500 other hi-res images.

Source: Blast

In a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence this morning (interview starts at 45 minutes), former members of the Consultative Group on the Past, Denis Bradley and Rev. Lesley Carroll, made a passionate plea for people in Northern Ireland to begin the process of engaging with the substantive issues raised in the Group’s Report (the Eames-Bradley Report), which has been effectively shelved.

The past continues to make headlines in Northern Ireland, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that ignoring the consequences of the Troubles, particularly the incalculably high human costs, is neither a moral nor a politically astute option.

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