or you could hunt for one on craigslist and get an original fiberglass shell for $200-300

I bought a white one from Craigslist last year for about $250. It was oviously sold as a real one but honestly, I don't know how to tell. How do I know it's a real thing?
It's a great chair for a small nursery I have and it goes well with everything....but it's too cold to sit on in the winter months...

I'm looking for a faux fur throw similar to the one in this picture. Anyone have any good ideas for where to find?

@designadore Either One Kings Lane or the Foundary put up a sale of fur throws within the past few days. I can't recall which and I delete the emails.

Replica? This post is insulting to the intelligence. Modernica bought the original Eames fiberglass molds. I have one of their Low Rod fiberglass chairs. It is luminous and beautiful in a way that plastic will never be, and it is much to the original design than the plastic version sold by DWR.
http://modernica.net/fiberglass-shell-chairs/

http://blog.modernica.net/modernicas-history-and-a-brief-history-of-the-fiberglass-shell-chair/

Get educated Apartment Therapy editors.....I don't have any relationship to Modernica but this type of sloppy editorializing ("The quality [of the reissued plastic version] is definitely higher and the resale value will hold up better than a replica") really bothers me.

I agree with Snowdog. I've seen those DWR chairs, and they don't hold a candle to my (admittedly still expensive) Modernica fiberglass chair made from the original molds and the original fiberglass recipe. We had the fiberglass chairs growing up, too - they have such depth to the color AND they don't ding like those soft kinda gooey plastic-y ones. The DWR colors are nasty and lurid, too.

I bought a reproduction on craigslist a couple years ago for $80. Def one of my best CL treasures/deals!

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How in the world is Modernica a "replica" while the Herman Miller one is "authentic"???

^ From what I read, Modernica is a replica (after being the licensed version for 20 years) because HM decided in 2003 to cash in and reissue in plastic.

If AT editors are not totally lazy, they could always search their own website:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/good-questions-851-20805

Recently purchased a vintage eames herman miller FIBERGLASS rocker with the embossed logo.. think that's the most authentic tbh. tho dwr has the licensing rights to reproduce the plastic ones in the name of Eames for Herman Miller, nothing beats the look and feel of a fiberglass rocker.

@SnowdogMaine: It does strike me as a bit of insanity that even though Modernica uses the actual original materials for the chair; even though they use the actual original machines; and even though the chairs they make now are the ones they used to make for license-holder Herman Miller -- despite all of that, their chairs are now "replicas" because Herman Miller decided to vary the design and go with plastic. Apparently, the new HM design is the "authentic" and the original design is a "replica."

I am SO sick of this chair. It's the herpes of the MCM movement... just keeps popping up, can't get rid of it.

Amen, djt54! I l have started growling every time I see one.

Same here. It just looks so uncomfortable.

Hi designadore....I bought a luxe faux fur and placed it on my eames rocker and it fits pefectly...It is actually a stroller blanket from Restoration Hardware baby so it is the perfect size....http://www.rhbabyandchild.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=rhbc_prod364376

It's actually not uncomfortable. My son who is now 15 has been using the low rod armchair for his desk chair since he was 6...he now won't give up his gradeschool-height table and is comfortable sprawling every which way in his chair. Furniture is meant to be used and obviously, if you don't find it comfortable (or it's as tiresome to you as some trends are to me), don't buy one. But if you do like it, don't be fooled into thinking that the $525 DWR plastic version is in any way superior to that which is made in fiberglass to the original specificaions using the original Eames molds.

I agree with the whole sheepskin debate. I don't think it's needed, but the chair itself is a timeless classic.

Ones like this - http://www.mdmfurniture.com/blue-eames-style-rar-rocking-lounge-retro-rocker-chair.html or any other bright colour for that matter starts to look like a children's play toy. Neutral colours, well, I must admit I love this chair.