I think part of it is the lagging effect of copycat manufacturing that keeps it up even longer. You can get a copycat 1950 eames chair at any big box store toda

I think part of it is the lagging effect of copycat manufacturing that keeps it up even longer. You can get a copycat 1950 eames chair at any big box store today. However it seems like those copycats only really emerged the last 10-20 years. So we are now in this period where you might see a 70 year old fiberglass chair someplace and think it to be a very modern design. It probably won’t last forever I expect, but it makes you wonder what would even qualify today to be the next eames chair. I’m not sure how many contemporary, truly seminal designers there are today akin to an eames. Many more players in the space today from around the world keeps the notoriety distributed.