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Trends and fads move on, but great design is timeless. Great design solves a problem completely. The Eames Lounge Chair was designed in 1956. At no point sinc

Trends and fads move on, but great design is timeless. Great design solves a problem completely. The Eames Lounge Chair was designed in 1956. At no point since then has it looked dated. And it never will. It's timeless (and comfortable as well). http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/lounge-seating/eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman.html http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/lounge-seating/... Its difficult to make timeless work with software because the capabilities and mediums change so rapidly. But we'll get there eventually.

frogpelt 13y ago
"And it never will" I would never pay for a Picasso or a Van Gogh to hang in my house (because it's would be exorbitant and) because it doesn't evoke positive emotions when I look at it. Norman Rockwell does just that and he has since I was a kid, does that make his art better than Picasso's? Not to most people. Just because ideas about how a chair can be designed remain popular doesn't mean that it stops being subjective.
dublinben 13y ago
As great as the Eames Lounge Chair is, I think it looks like it was created in the 1950s. A better example of a timeless piece of design would be the Barcelona Chair, which predates even the Eames Chair. It still looks modern, nearly a century after it was created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair
- yofred 13y ago
  Add Le Corbusier's LC2 (to the eames and barcelona chair) and and you have a few timeless designs, all from mid-century. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a30HNuKeL.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a30HNuKeL.jpg To the people discounting timeless design: yes most of contemporary industrial design is disposable, but some pieces from Braun and Apple will be considered classics.

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Trends and fads move on, but great design is timeless. Great design solves a problem completely. The Eames Lounge Chair was designed in 1956. At no point sinc

by bobbygoodlatte 13y ago

frogpelt 13y ago
"And it never will" I would never pay for a Picasso or a Van Gogh to hang in my house (because it's would be exorbitant and) because it doesn't evoke positive emotions when I look at it. Norman Rockwell does just that and he has since I was a kid, does that make his art better than Picasso's? Not to most people. Just because ideas about how a chair can be designed remain popular doesn't mean that it stops being subjective.
dublinben 13y ago
As great as the Eames Lounge Chair is, I think it looks like it was created in the 1950s. A better example of a timeless piece of design would be the Barcelona Chair, which predates even the Eames Chair. It still looks modern, nearly a century after it was created. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair
- yofred 13y ago
  Add Le Corbusier's LC2 (to the eames and barcelona chair) and and you have a few timeless designs, all from mid-century. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a30HNuKeL.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a30HNuKeL.jpg To the people discounting timeless design: yes most of contemporary industrial design is disposable, but some pieces from Braun and Apple will be considered classics.