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I'm quite aware that while I appreciate something that looks nice, and am striving towards a nice coordinated house now that I'm moving, I'm very much function over form.

The Newegg building is fugly.

A good design should combine both. It's why the Eames lounge chair is still so desirable, it looks phenomenally good and it's comfortable.

It is very nice looking though

I'm not done with your first link yet :D It was nice as I've watched all the previous ones.

Edited, Apr 7th 2014 5:16pm by Xsarus

You're too posh for us, Aeth. I now imagine you wearing a scarf at all times.

Okay, I will grant that's a nice looking chair. The retro is JUST campy enough that it's actually quite chic.

Still, while there are plenty of $4k chairs I might want, I doubt I'll ever buy one. The same as I absolutely WANT a $2k gaming pc, but I'm not gonna purchase one (particularly as I do nothing for work I couldn't do on a $500 laptop, including light photoshop usage).

"If I were rich" is only a fun game if you limit the possibilities to purely theoretical. Once the line blurs into "well, maybe I could have that," it becomes much less fun.

Well, this Spoiler

is my desk chair. My wife thinks it's hideous. Sigh, she just doesn't understand me.


I see nothing has changed in 35 years. (It hasn't been that long since I've been to a gym, that's around when I first did though)

It's really not, the Eames chair is so well known and such an icon of design that second hand ones are not much cheaper than new (if they're in good condition anyway) and some older models are worth considerably more than new ones because they use rare wood. The more iconic designer furniture just holds it's value very well. Mies Van Der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, Martin Visser's sleeping couch for Gispen, Irving Harper's Marshmallow sofa etc. all still sell for a lot second hand because people have never stopped wanting them.

The Lazy boy chairs all look, for lack of a better word, obese. With examples like this leading the pack with a look like a fat guy wrapped in fake leather. It's honest to god one of the most depressing things I have ever seen.

Nope.

I'd realistically pay that.

If I'm buying a chair, I'm not planning on reselling it, so the resale value is really a low value feature.

If I spend money on something I need to evaluate how much I'm paying, what I'm gaining vs something cheaper and what I could get with that money.

I assert that you're not going to be gaining much over $1000 for a chair like this. If you spend $1000 you can get a very nice looking comfortable chair. With the extra $3500 I could buy a super nice bike, or two new very nice stoves, etc. I would have to have so much money in order for something like this to be justified. (I'm pretending for the argument that this is the pinnacle of what I would like in a chair in my room)

Even if you go to $2000 for a cheaper chair, you still have a huge gap. If order for me to pay money I have to be convinced that my money is buying something real. I appreciate good design, but how is this not just setting up a brand and then ripping you off?

Edited, Apr 8th 2014 10:05am by Xsarus

I think that Martin Visser's BR 02 looks terrible.