"The Eames chair is basically meme status," said Joel Vanderveen, a 35-year-old from Minnesota who created a subreddit about a decade ago dedicated to all things Eames.
"Until the last 10 years, when people would say to me they had an Eames chair, I never knew which one they meant," Kirkham said.
The Eames chair is one of those rare luxury goods that checks all those boxes for novices and experts alike, in his view.
Not everyone with the Eames chair has a new one, an expensive one, or even a real one.
The Eames chair seems eco-friendly, too — they're not going to be tossing it out in two years.
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