Comments on: Eames shell chairs restored

By: maggie

maggie — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:35:07 +0000

very very useful information ! thank you, and your chairs look great ! !

By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:10:38 +0000

Ok thanks for your help.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:06:45 +0000

Hannah, Modern Conscience ships world wide, you will need to ask them about the issue with the wider mount. http://www.modernconscience.com

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:54:54 +0000

Hey. I’m in the UK where we can buy the dowel bases for the wider mounts, but they are prone to problems where the mounts come away (due to increased pressure on the mounts from the wide configuration dowel base).

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:52:41 +0000

Hannah, if you use the bases from Modern Conscience, you won’t have to change the mounts, they work for the wide as well. Email them to confirm that info, ask for Amanda tell them I sent you.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:40:17 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply! I have managed to track down my dream set of 8 lemon yellow chairs but they have the original wide mount stacking bases and I want the dowel bases. I’m not particularly confident about changing the mounts though

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:35:35 +0000

Hannah, there is a flat spot for the narrow and the wide on the base of the chair. Most of these were wide mount and changed to narrow.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:25:21 +0000

Hey there! Great chairs…May I ask, were these already the narrow shock mount style or the wide? If the wide, when you glued the mounts back on in the narrow position, was there already a narrow flat area for each chair i.e. do the chairs come with flat areas for both narrow and wide fixings? Thanks!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:15:59 +0000

Sanchez Design Studio, you should still be able to clean them. Don’t use something that will really scratch up the surface. Sealing them may be a different story. You could try some clear polyurethane? You could spot test some different products?

By: Sanchez Design Studio

Sanchez Design Studio — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:57:03 +0000

So, would I just be stuck with dirty looking white shell chairs or is there an alternative to penetrol for the back white section of an Eames shell chair?