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Benefits of Eames Knock off Lounge Chair

After a long tiring day at work, what feels better than a comforting chair to sit and relax on?

A good piece of furniture is all that we look for, the one that looks classy, is comfortable to lounge at, is cushiony, has good designs, and has all the features of an ideal chair. Eames’s knock-off lounge chair is a combination of aesthetics as well as comfort. 

While such chairs are original designs introduced by designers at large, they are quite expensive and unaffordable for the common mass, like an Eames chair.

To cope with such a problem, producers come up with replicas of these chairs. The replicas are not as comfortable as the original ones.  In this article, we discuss the various benefits of Eames knock-off lounge chairs.

An Eames chair refers to a type of chair that is made up of leather and a plywood mold. These chairs were designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1956 and were developed back then to provide comfort, affordability, and mass production.

While an Eames chair is very costly and can cost around $5000 to $6000, the production of its replicas is a very common phenomenon.

The knock-offs of an Eames chair are widely popular all around the world, the biggest edge that these knock-offs provide is the cost advantage to the consumers.

However, these replicas can not beat the quality of an original, they can copy the same design of the chair and the ottomans produced by Eames.

BENEFITS OF AN EAMES KNOCKOFF LOUNGE CHAIR:

BENEFIT OF A DIFFERENT DESIGN:

A replica of an Eames chair provides the user of the chair with the advantage of copying the design of the original Eames chair.

The original Eames chair provided the design of the 19th-century clubs, which can be merged with modern designs prevalent today.

COMFORT IN A LESSER COST STRUCTURE:

The authentic Eames chair costs somewhere around $5000 to $6000, while a knock-off of the chair can be bought at an affordable price.

Almost anybody can buy a replica of the Eames chair and the comfort that the original chair can provide can be replicated at a lesser cost rate as well.

REPLICATION OF THE FEATURES OF AN EAMES CHAIR IS POSSIBLE:

With the help of creating a replica, one can copy the features of an Eames chair. The features can not be entirely copies but to a large extent these features can be copied from the basic design of the original chair such as:

  1. The design of the chair;
  2. The angle of the legs of the chair;
  3. The lightweight of the Eames chair.

Along with this, the replicas can also have their own original features and can be released with a wide range of colors, in a wide range of materials such as different kinds of wood, plastic, sturdy steel, etc.

AN INVESTMENT THAT LASTS LONG:

Knock-offs of Eames chair quite nearly replicate all the features of the chair itself, the knock-offs may be cost-friendly and are an investment that can last for a long period of time.

Although the durability of the original Eames chair can not be entirely copied or competed with, it can closely be produced in the knock-off pieces.

Besides, the repair of the knock-offs is easy, it can be done by oneself.

NO EXTRA OR SPECIAL CARE REQUIRED:

Unlike the original Eames lounge chairs, the knock-offs do not require extra or special care and too much maintenance. One reason for this is that knock-offs are a little cheap in quality and can be roughly used for any purpose. They offer somewhat around the same comfort at a lesser price, thus, making the user of the lounge chairs be less careful about the use of the chair.

The replacement of the replica of the Eames lounge chair is easily available and feasible in general terms.

EASY REPLACEABILITY:

The biggest advantage of the knockoff is that it is really very cheap in comparison to the original product. This cost friendliness of the knock-offs provides the user the advantage of replacing the chairs without much hesitation and without giving it too much of a thought.

As an original Eames lounge chair is expensive yet very comfortable, knock-offs provide everyone the edge to access the comfort provided by the chair through the knock-offs.

These are 2 things that you should know before buying an Eames lounge chair replica:

  1. Before buying the replica of Eames chair you must check the size of the chair because replicas are either very large in size or too small.
  2. The material used in the chair is also one of the factors that you should check. The original Eames chair is made of leather and wooden material. Some of the chairs replicas also feature the same material. So material must be taken into account before buying. 

These were the few benefits that one can derive from a knock-off of an Eames chair. 

These knock-offs do offer good quality furniture since huge strata of the market can not afford the original Eames chair, but the substitute made by the knock-off is good enough to offer somewhat similar comfort.