Comments on: A Family Affair: The Studio of Artist & Graphic Designer Ricky Watts http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/a-family-affair-the-studio-of-artist-graphic-designer-ricky-watts/ Lifework Wed, 15 May 2013 16:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Perlmutt http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/a-family-affair-the-studio-of-artist-graphic-designer-ricky-watts/comment-page-1/#comment-5873 David Perlmutt Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:55:03 +0000 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=18855#comment-5873 I loved this story about two generations bonding over a space and a chair. In the mid-1960s, probably about 1966, my parents bought an Eames lounge chair knock-off, built by Ply-designs or a similar name. It sat in their den in Chapel Hill, N.C. for 30 years, the leather rotted by the sun and the mechanism that held the chair upright shot by my mother's constant reading and napping in the chair. About 20 years ago, my parents were going to throw it out, but I rescued that chair. I rebuilt the mechanism and had it recovered in a soft brown leather and it now sits in my den. Though it is not a genuine Eames, I still proudly hold onto it because of the memories it brings of growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C. And, though a knock-off, I still think it's a great-looking piece of furniture. Its comfort doesn't come close to an Eames. One day I will own the real thing. Thanks for Ricky Watts' story. I loved this story about two generations bonding over a space and a chair. In the mid-1960s, probably about 1966, my parents bought an Eames lounge chair knock-off, built by Ply-designs or a similar name. It sat in their den in Chapel Hill, N.C. for 30 years, the leather rotted by the sun and the mechanism that held the chair upright shot by my mother’s constant reading and napping in the chair. About 20 years ago, my parents were going to throw it out, but I rescued that chair. I rebuilt the mechanism and had it recovered in a soft brown leather and it now sits in my den. Though it is not a genuine Eames, I still proudly hold onto it because of the memories it brings of growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C. And, though a knock-off, I still think it’s a great-looking piece of furniture.

Its comfort doesn’t come close to an Eames. One day I will own the real thing. Thanks for Ricky Watts’ story.

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