Custom Eames
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- doesnotexist0
make a bean-bag model.
- dbloc0
not this design but this was obviously re-upholstered.....
- danthon0
@dbloc
Electric staple gun is a must. Nothing too heavy duty, but it will save your hands. Go to a leather shop and buy a full hide of top grain leather in the color you want. I got one on sale for under $200 (make sure its more than big enough for all pieces and left over for piping). Take apart the old one and use the old pieces as a template. The only tough part is the piping and buttons. I got the piping done by taking a scrap chunk of leather from the hide to an upholsterer and had him sew it onto some chord for a bottle of wine. Then the buttons. Buy some ultra thin glove leather that matches the hide you bought, the leather shop had a bin of chunks. I got one for $5. Once I found some heavy upholstery buttons I glued the glove leather on, stretched it over and they snapped together (regular leather is way too thick for this).
- dbloc0
I would screen on the leather before I stenciled on it.
- ********0
blim and ciggie burns are always classy
- benfal990
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
- CyBrain0
That is one awful site for such expensive stuff. Can't even get a decent size image of a $3000 chair.
- benfal990
because people dont buy a 3,000$ on interweb. they go in store.
- MSTRPLN0
Eames chair board I mocked up for Endeavor.
Nothing came about it however.
- szymon_k0
get the plycraft knock off and go wild. you can find them from $200 in crappy condition.
It's easy to do it yourself. all you need is a staple gun. whatever material you want to reupholster it in and time. if you dont like it, change it. you're not wasting thousands of dollars.